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.
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.
NYU Wagner Co-sponsors Albany Briefing on Performance-Based Management
NYU Wagner faculty experts framed a two-hour discussion on performance-based management on Tuesday, October 23, 2007, at the New York State Museum, Terrance Gallery, Albany, N.Y. The dialogue before about 110 state commissioners, deputy commissioners and other high-level government officials marked the first NYU Wagner/ Accenture Executive Briefing Series for senior state officials in Albany ; it was entitled “Supporting High Performance Government: Leading Large Scale Change in New York State Government.”¯ NYU Wagner’s Professor Dennis
Smith, an expert on performance-based management in public safety and other realms of government responsibility, presided over the discussion along with Jeffrey Mullins, Senior Executive, Accenture. NYU Wagner Professor Dall
Forsythe, who formerly served as New York State budget director, moderated the main discussion among four state commissioners, among them Gladys Carrion (Children and Family Services), David Hansell (Temporary and Disability Assistance) David Swarts (Motor Veh
icles), and Denise O’Donnell (Criminal Justice Services).
