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Evaluation of outcome measurement tools for college and career readiness curriculumOver the last decade, The Opportunity Network (OppNet) has successfully driven post-secondary success and employability for low-income public school students. Their curriculum has four components that maximize outcomes for college graduation and career …
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NYU Wagner alumnus elected Mayor of Silicon Valley cityNYU Wagner alumnus Rich Tran (MPA 2014) is poised to make a major impact on the future of his Silicon Valley city of Milpitas , population 76,000, where he was just elected as its mayor. With experience as a member of the Air National Guard and a Social …
Capstone Projects
Higher Education Research Project: Do College Characteristics Predict Student Success?The Capstone team studied the relationship between college characteristics and student success, both in completing college and in the job market. Three dependent variables were tested: job salary, job satisfaction, and the time taken to graduate. The …
Capstone Projects
Financial Modeling of the Cost of Poor Credit in Massachusetts… programming, is launching a credit building initiative called Boston Builds Credit (BBC). BBC aims to help 25,000 …
Faculty Profile
Katie Magoon… works at an adolescent community center in Manhattan called The Door–A Center for Alternatives, and previously …
News
City & State Tabs Three NYU Wagner Community Members for 2024 Hudson Valley Power 100The Hudson Valley is a dynamic region with influential leaders shaping its future, and City & State has acknowledged three NYU Wagner alumni among the movers and shakers in its 2024 Hudson Valley Power 100 list. 16. Steven Otis (MPA 1982), New York State …
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Gary Freilich… consultant for several clients with his partnership agency called Wellcrafted Branded Partnerships and is the Executive … to lead the massive education career rebranding project called TEACH; conceived by Arne Duncan, the US Education … as reward and recognition for positive behavior’ charity called Most Valuable Kids where he was board chair for 10 …
Stories
Information, Access, Mentorship: Three Key Components that Lead to Success for First-Generation College StudentsBy Liz Hensler (MPA-PNP), Manager of Corporate and Community Engagement, iMentor Growing up as a public high school student in semi-rural Pennsylvania, I saw firsthand the difference that information and support can make in college enrollment and …
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Melissa BeckMelissa M. Beck is the inaugural executive director of the Sozosei Foundation. She has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, having managed and grown large-scale nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. Before she joined the Sozosei …
Capstone Projects
Care Consultants: Improving Communication and Collaboration for the Allen Hospital and its CommunityThe Capstone team was engaged by New York Presbyterian (NYP) to develop a strategy to improve communication and collaboration at Allen Hospital. There are approximately 5,000 nursing home beds and a substantial elderly population in the local community …
News
Student Spotlight: Santana Kavanaugh (MPA-PNP 2025)… experience as a student leader. I used to lead a club called the Association of African Development, and there I …
Publication
Do Good High Schools Produce Good College Students? Early Evidence From New York CityWe examine variation in high school and college outcomes across New York City public high schools. Using data on 80,000 students who entered high school in 1998 and following them into the City University of New York, we investigate whether schools that …
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Leveling the Playing Field: The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and Tax-Exempt Borrowing by Nonprofit Colleges and UniversitiesAs part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, non-hospital nonprofit organizations were subject to a $150 million cap on tax-exempt debt outstanding. This federally-imposed constraint was lifted by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. This paper examines how this …
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Debates of the Century: Should Public College be Free?Debates of the Century: Should Public College be Free? …
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Online MHA AdmissionsApply Now The Online MHA degree program is now accepting applications for our Fall 2026 cohort. Our Early Action deadline for Fall 2026 is December 1. If you’re ready to gain the critical knowledge and skills you need to make a significant impact in the …
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PADM-GP.4115
Contracts: What the Non-Lawyer Should KnowThis is a course in Contracts for the non-lawyer. Every day we see contracts and may have to read them, sign them and/or perform them. Many organizations are not large enough to have their own in-house counsel and calling outside counsel is expensive. …Faculty Profile
Julia Watt-RosenfeldJulia Watt-Rosenfeld has been a community organizer in New York City for 20 years, working to preserve affordable housing, improve schools, prevent displacement of working class BIPOC New Yorkers and, most recently, pass climate legislation. She has …
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FRENCH HEALTH CARE SYSTEM… water, and immunizations... all improvements in what's called public health. And nowhere is the impact of public …
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Curricular ResourcesBringing salmon back to the Columbia river: How Native American tribes are implementing a wa- tershed-wide plan. Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission. The Electronic Hallway and Research Center for Leadership in Action . By Jennifer Dodge and …
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The centre cannot hold: Arrival, margins, and the politics of ambivalence introduction to ‘arrival at the margins’, a special issue of migration studiesThis special issue calls on scholars to simultaneously centre and unsettle the margin: to recognise the multiplicity of margins as politically generative spaces, frequently contoured by sustained and varied forms of mobility. Taken together, the studies …
Stories
Richard Buery Chosen as Public Service Fellow at NYU Wagner… and led a speaker series. His course last semester was called Topics in Urban Studies—and it explored the challenges …
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Bachelor's-Master's TracksWhen you know that a career in public service is calling you, why wait? NYU Wagner’s accelerated bachelor’s -master’s tracks allow you to complete your undergraduate and graduate degrees in five years instead of the traditional six. That means less time …
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Book Review of Inclusive teaching: Strategies for promoting equity in the college classroomBook Review of Inclusive teaching: Strategies for promoting equity in the college classroom …