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Pathways to Politics: Analyzing Motivations and Enabling Factors for Women in Politics in Chittagong Hill Tracts, BangladeshThe Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is an area characterized by a complex social and political environment and located in the south-eastern corner of Bangladesh. CHT has remained largely outside the mainstream of development assistance for more than 25 years …
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Breaking the Barriers: How Do State Policies Impact HIV Testing Rates?In September 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released their ?Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings.? These revised recommendations encourage routine HIV …
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Assessing and Improving EGA?s Efforts in Diversity and Inclusive PracticesThe Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) provides its more than 220 member organizations with networking and learning opportunities to make them more effective in their work supporting environmental organizations and issues. For the past 10 years, …
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Analyzing the Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Field of National Social Justice PhilanthropyConcerned that the full impact of the 2008 financial crisis has not yet been felt in the field of social justice philanthropy, Cricket Island Foundation (CIF), a New Yorkbased foundation supporting youthled social change, partnered with the Social …
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Preparing for Congestion Pricing: Improved Access at Identified Subway StationsThe New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) is tasked with providing safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible transport options and developing infrastructure for pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles. In 2021, New York City will implement a …
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NYU Wagner student and alumna awarded fellowship by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and ManagementJustin Campos (MPA 2023) and Sih-Ting Cai (MPA 2017) have been honored as 2022 Equity & Inclusion Fellowship Student Recipients by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). APPAM is a professional association dedicated to …
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Elective CoursesJanuary 2025 EXEC-GP 2113 Building Effective Teams - Advanced Strategies Spring 2025 ( Grid View ) EXEC-GP 2170 Performance Measurement & Management for Public, Nonprofit, & Healthcare Organizations EXEC-GP 2413 Strategic Philanthropy EXEC-GP 2430 …
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Studying collective leadership: The road aheadIn the concluding article, we move from providing a map of the collective leadership (CL) research field that has been conducted to date to providing a travel guide that we hope can inspire both experienced and novice travelers to push out the frontiers …
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Season's Greetings from NYU Wagner (2018)Season's Greetings from Dean Sherry Glied and the entire NYU Wagner community. Special thanks to Koloina Andriambolason, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan, and Alexander Fiorille. … Season's Greetings from NYU Wagner …
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Salo Vinocur CoslovskySalo Coslovsky's research analyzes how governments in developing countries build legal authority and use it to influence routine business practices. He is particularly interested in the enforcement of labor, environmental, food safety, and similar …
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Alumni Spotlight: Claudia Espinosa (MPA 2013)Founding a nonprofit organization was not the direction Claudia Espinosa (MPA 2013) thought that her life would take when she moved to New York City from Colombia in 2000. Espinosa always wanted to have a career that would allow her to help others, and …
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Program Requirement ChecksheetMUP: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING I. DEGREE CORE COURSES [21 CREDITS] Students must complete or waive all schoolwide core courses … II. TRACK COURSES [6 total credits] Students must complete the following 2 courses [6 credits]: … III. CAPSTONE …
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Population Health and the Academic Medical Center: The Time Is RightOptimizing the health of populations, whether defined as persons receiving care from a health care delivery system or more broadly as persons in a region, is emerging as a core focus in the era of health care reform. To achieve this goal requires an …
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NYU Wagner Announces Future Home at 105 East 17th StreetIn a significant milestone for NYU Wagner, we are thrilled to announce our upcoming move to 105 East 17th Street, a dynamic space situated in the heart of Union Square, New York City. This carefully renovated building will serve as the center of NYU …
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Natasha IskanderNatasha N. Iskander, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service, conducts research on the relationship between migration and economic development. She looks at the ways that immigration and the movement of people across …
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Strategic Collaboration with NYU-Universidad del Rosario Fellowship WinnersThe Colombian Studies Initiative is pleased to announce the recipients of the first round of Strategic Collaboration Fellowships between New York University (NYU) and Universidad del Rosario (UR), offered to members of both universities. This fellowship, …
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Forum Explores Financial Squeeze Facing Nonprofit Human-Services SectorMore than 100 leaders of nonprofit organizations, along with state and city social services officials, gathered at NYU Wagner on Feb. 24 for the release of an exhaustive report calling for urgent reforms to shore up the nonprofit human-services sector in …
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About the Capstone Program Do you have a current or upcoming project within your organization that would benefit from the critical thinking and analytical skills of next year’s NYU Wagner graduates? Does your project fall within one of these areas? Advocacy and Political Action …
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Learning by working in big cities.Individual earnings are higher in bigger cities. We consider three reasons: spatial sorting of initially more productive workers, static advantages associated with workers' current location, and learning by working in big cities. Using rich administrative …
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“What is the Effect of Statutory Discretion on Agency Loss? Evidence from the U.S. States”What is the effect of state charter school authorization, renewal, and revocation statutory discretion on charter school growth? Advocates suggest that charter school authorizer type and authorizers’ statutory discretion account for charter school growth. …
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Spatially heterogeneous effects of a public works programMost research on labor market effects of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme focuses on outcomes at the district level. This paper shows that such a focus masks substantial spatial heterogeneity: treated villages located near …
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Evaluation of Community-Academic Partnership Functioning: Center for the Elimination of Hepatitis B Health DisparitiesTo conduct a process evaluation using surveys and interviews of the B Free CEED partnership coalition, a community–academic partnership created to address hepatitis health disparities in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities … Van Devanter, N., …
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Beyond big versus small: assessing spatial variation of urban neighborhood block structures in high-density citiesA striking feature of urban formation has been the deployment of mega-blocks, often on the order of sixteen hectares or more. On the other hand, recent urban policies give strong suggestions for smaller and finer-grained neighborhood block and grid …
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A Plan for Organizational IndependenceFounded in1990, as an incubator project of Bronx Community College (BCC), Health Force has grown into a $2.5 million peer-based health prevention and education program that trains adults and youth in the South Bronx to serve as AIDS and Asthma peer …