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Design of a Pilot Educational ProgramWestchester Coalition for Legal Abortion – Choice Matters (Choice Matters) is a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization that strives to ensure that all women, regardless of age, race, class, status, geography, or ability to pay, have full access to reproductive …
Publication
The Impact of Residency Training on Physicians’ AIDS-Related Practice Behavior: A Longitudinal Panel Study… from medical school. Questionnaires sought information about AIDS-related practice behaviors, including avoiding … to teaching, tolerance of varied viewpoints), cynicism about patient care (p < .001), social biases (homophobia and …
Stories
Alumnus Helps Set Up COVID-19 Testing Site… than 100,000 people have been tested to date. Read more about the testing site via USA Today. …
Course
URPL-GP.2452
Public-Private Partnerships, Public Spaces, Politics, & the Press… at in depth. Explicit theories and implicit assumptions about the economic life of cities will be illuminated through … Through specific examples we will examine how ideas about urban economic development shift across time and place, …Faculty Profile
John ManginJohn Mangin is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is also head of the Housing Division at the NYC Department of City Planning. Prior to that, he was a teaching fellow at …
Capstone Projects
Making the Case for Environmental Sustainability Among Small Businesses… mind, the Capstone team interviewed a range of businesses about their motivations and influences, where they obtain information about sustainability, and how decisions are made. The team … to suggest how the EPA can help disseminate information about sustainable business practices among SMEs. …
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PADM-GP.2444
Gender & Sexuality in U.S. Policy Formation… the United States; 2. Think analytically and strategically about policy formation and opportunities for pragmatic and …Stories
To become a better writer, it’s the thought that counts… down, write repeated drafts, and avoid worrying too much about grammar. He encourages them to dig deeper into their …
Publication
A Deficit Model of Collaborative Governance: Government-Nonprofit Fiscal Relations in the Provision of Child Welfare Services… to assume that there is something highly problematic about this relationship. Although rarely articulated in these studies, the concern about the negative effects of government funding turns on a … how public funds constrain private action, we inquire about how government deploys private organizations, via the …
News
Professor Paul Light Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee Professor Paul C. Light of NYU Wagner, a nationally recognized scholar of government reform, offered testimony Aug. 5 before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the U.S. Inspector General Office and the boundaries of its access to the records of government …
Stories
Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Richard Buery in Conversation with NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray… of mental health and why it can be difficult to talk about. In particular, Ms. McCray stressed that most elected officials did not grow up learning about mental health, think about the issues through their own experiences, and do not …
Stories
Student Spotlight: Lenny Cabral (MPA 2023)… Capstone started last semester, can you tell us a bit about your client and what excites you about this project? I am excited to be a part of a Capstone …
Alumni In Action
Julissa Soriano… Can you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? In the U.S. Department of …
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Volunteer Opportunities… Vote Forward To chat with one of our team members about volunteer opportunities and more ways to get involved, …
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5 takeaways: What Americans want from government reform… has increased in recent months with rising public concerns about testing shortages and the economic effects of the …
Capstone Projects
Unrepresented Litigants' Bill of Rights for New York City Family Court… the Capstone team researched how much litigants know about their rights, and whether the Litigants' Bill of Rights …
Publication
Open Payment for Regional Public Transportation TravelThe use of open payment standards allows fare interoperability across a set of transit systems without requiring a single design or a single vendor. Each system can proceed on its own schedule and with its own fare policies and processes. Interoperability …
News
Alumni Spotlight: Hunter Blas (MPA-PNP 2023)… communities the most. These classes, while they may be about planning for natural disasters and emergencies, are … team, bringing our funders on a learning journey about all the different innovative climate solutions that … dollars are. It's really a treat; I've learned so much about different climate technology solutions, from energy, …
Alumni In Action
Sally GreenspanHow did being in New York impact your professional journey? Virtually everything that happens in the classroom is tied explicitly to current events and topics within the NYC area. It is absolutely true that Wagner uses the city as a laboratory for almost …
Faculty Profile
Valentina Melikhova… the designer is communicating.” Val is also passionate about teaching and the language-learning field, and has …
News
Alumni Spotlight: Jake Peña (MPA-PNP 2025)… What does your role entail and what motivates you most about the work you do? My role is primarily to support …
Publication
Are hospitals “keeping up with the Joneses”?: Assessing the spatial and temporal diffusion of the surgical robotBackground : The surgical robot has been widely adopted in the United States in spite of its high cost and controversy surrounding its benefit. Some have suggested that a “medical arms race” influences technology adoption. We wanted to determine whether a …
News
Financial Access Initiative (FAI) Launches Research on Small Firms in the United States … challenges that small firms face. Researchers will learn about business owners’ aspirations for their business, their … contractors in Atlanta. “There are plenty of platitudes about entrepreneurship in the United States, but wrestling … manage uncertainty and volatility, how they make decisions about employing workers, and how those decisions affect the …