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Leading change is a topic of paramount importance. But a missing ingredient for many leaders has been how to translate concepts into actions, continuous improvements and sustainable results.

Now, the Wallace Foundation has just published NYU Wagner Adjunct Professor Jody Spiro's "Leading Change Handbook: Concepts and Tools."

This toolkit by Dr. Spiro, who is the Wallace Senior read more...

     Sewin Chan, Associate Professor of Public Policy at NYU Wagner, has been sworn in as a member of the U.S. Departmetn of Labor's Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Plans. The panel was established under the ERISA Act, and Professor Chan will be one of 15 members on a three-year term. Her read more...

In a Convocation speech to Wagner's Class of 2009, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan said he attended the 1977 World Series game when sports commentator Howard Cosell, observing a column of rising smoke in the vicinity of Yankee Stadium, told a national television audience, "Ladies and gentleman, the Bronx is burning." The read more...

Paul C. Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, and author of the 2008 book A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It, has launched a partnership with the Washington Post during the presidential read more...

In a letter dated June 23, 2008, the noted government reform expert Paul Light — a professor at NYU Wagner — has urged John McCain and Barack Obama to use their influence and unique position as sitting senators running for president to pass bi-partisan legislation that would reform the appointment process read more...

Paul Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, has written a timely and compelling new book, "A Government Ill-Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It." The book is receiving a raft of attention and plaudits from the media, and was the focus of a read more...

Dr. Paul Light, a Professor of Public Service at NYU Wagner, recently completed a national survey measuring public confidence in charitable organizations -- detecting a downward trajectory.

The survey results are included in the April 3, 2008 edition of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, along with an article summarizing the findings. According read more...