Capstone is learning in action. Part of the core curriculum of the MPA and MUP programs at NYU Wagner, it provides students with both a critical learning experience and an opportunity to perform a public service. Over the course of an academic year, students work in teams - either to address challenges and identify opportunities for a client organization or to conduct research on a pressing social question. Ultimately, Capstone contributes not only to the students' education, but also to the public good.
In architecture, the capstone is the crowning piece of an arch, the center stone that holds the arch together, giving it shape and strength. NYU Wagner's Capstone program plays a similar role, by integrating and enhancing student learning in several different arenas: a content or issue area; key process skills including project management and teamwork; and methods for gathering, analyzing and reporting data. Interweaving learning in all these areas is necessary for successful project completion which serves the client's mission and contributes to the public welfare.
04/28/2008
Bringing Back A Historic African-American Community
- Capstone Team in WLOX-TV (Gulfport, Miss.)
12/17/2007
How to Find a Career in the Nonprofit Sector
05/21/2007
Capstone Study in the News
12/05/2006
Planning for a Sing-Sing Museum
Amirav DavyThe Wagner School acknowledges the following donors for their support for Capstone: An anonymous donor through FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds, the Independence Community Foundation, and The Moody's Foundation.
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The Impact Schools Initiative Report for the Prison Moratorium Project
In our process of envisioning new opportunities for knowledge sharing that
could help to strengthen the school reform community in New York City and
nationally, our Capstone team's research was an invaluable resource. 
New Visions for Public Schools
Palladia has been a Capstone client for five years. The highly professional
teams of students have produced products of incredible significance and
importance in furthering Palladia's work on policy and practice issues
affecting some of New York's most vulnerable families.
Palladia, Inc.
Erica Waples
Andrew Murray
Sidney Povall