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News & Events

The Research Center for Leadership in Action explores and broadly shares new knowledge and ideas about public service leadership. We invite practitioners, researchers, scholars, students, and the public to participate in our full slate of convenings, inquiries, panels, dialogues, seminars, and other learning opportunities. Visit the calendar for a list of recent and upcoming events.

Compassionate Leadership - Cultivating the Leaders of Tomorrow

The escalating crises in the world today offer two choices: continuing violence and conflict, or finding a way to move forward towards peace and greater understanding.  Never before has the world needed more capable leadership than we do now, and no generation will be more affected by these choices than the generation emerging into political maturity.

In a groundbreaking dialogue held at New  York University on Wednesday, September 24, 2008, three influential leaders -- Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan; Rabbi Irwin Kula, author of the award winning book, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, and President of The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership; and the Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist lama -- addressed the challenge in a public talk on the power and practice of compassionate leadership  Probing their own traditions and experiences, they examined how their different paths can contribute to a shared vision of interdependence and global connection.  

To view the webcast, please visit NYU Wagner's Research Cenrter for Leadership in Action (RCLA) at http://wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/news/compassionate_leadership.php

Irshad Manji Speaks on the Meaning of Moral Courage
NYU Wagner's Irshad Manji engaged an audience of 500 people at the University's Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life in a discussion on the dynamics of Islam and faith in the modern world. She focused her remarks on her work as a woman who prominently questions interpretations of established religion.

NYU Wagner Ranks in Top 10 According to US News & World Report

The U.S. News & World Report rankings of policy schools, which come out only every three or four years, were released March 28, 2008 -- and out of 269 master's programs across the country, NYU Wagner ranks in the top 10 overall this year!

RCLA to Co-Host Action Research Conference with CARPP at the University of Bath
At the 2008 Action Research Conference, the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) and the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice (CARPP) will seek to explore some of the issues researchers in both Centers have noticed as we have engaged with varieties of qualitative and action research approaches including co-operative inquiry, narrative inquiry and learning history.

NYU Wagner and RCLA welcomes Irshad Manji, Director of the Moral Courage Project
New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) welcomes Irshad Manji as the Director of the Moral Courage Project and RCLA Visiting Scholar.