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NYU Wagner honors 375 graduating students at 2018 Convocation… headlines, and partisans of all stripes shout ‘fake news!,’” the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public …
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Message From the DeanWelcome to the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service! I am delighted to serve as the Dean of NYU Wagner during this time of tremendous change and opportunity. I often say, as public servants, we run to the fire. At NYU Wagner, we …
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PADM-GP.4322
Data and AI Strategies for Social Impact OrganizationsData plays an increasingly important role in powering today’s enterprises, governments and society as a whole. With the rapid pace of innovation, data science, advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are becoming increasingly central and …Webpage
Incoming International StudentsWelcome to Wagner! As you prepare for the upcoming academic year, we hope the curated information below will help you prepare for your arrival to New York City and NYU Wagner. Visa Requirements Review legal and academic requirements to maintain your …
Faculty Profile
Shantae EdwardsShantae J. Edwards is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. As a social entrepreneur, empowerment speaker and impact coach for the last 11 years, Shantae J. is committed to …
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Sharmistha ChakrabartiSharmistha Chakrabarti (she/her) is a doctoral student at Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and a fellow in the Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training program. Prior to starting her PhD, she completed a …
Capstone Projects
Gentrification in New York CityThe process of gentrification is composed of the physical improvements, demographic transformation, and socio-economic tensions and conflicts created within a community as new residents of higher income and education levels enter and settle in large …
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Small Schools, Large Districts: Small School Reform and New York City’s StudentsHigh school reform is currently at the top of the education policy making agenda after years of stagnant achievement and persistent racial and income test score gaps. Although a number of reforms offer some promise of improving U.S. high schools, small …
Alumni In Action
Coco Lim… financial and narrative reports, providing regional news updates, and supporting project monitoring and …
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a DayAbout forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would …
Capstone Projects
The Business of Child Care in Mississippi: Helping Providers Become More Efficient Through Improved Business PracticesThere are approximately 1,800 licensed child care providers in Mississippi. While some of these providers serve more affluent clients and/or receive federal funding from the Head Start and Early Head Start programs, many low income providers struggle to …
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School Efficiency and Student Sub-groups: Is a Good School Good for Everyone?State and federal accountability reforms are putting considerable pressure on schools to increase the achievement of historically low-performing groups of students and to close test score gaps. In this article, we exploit the differences among the large …
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PHD-GP.5913
Urban Research Seminar IIThis course, taught jointly by faculty members across the university, offers doctoral students an opportunity to learn about the latest theoretical and empirical research on critical urban issues. The course is not taught in a lecture format. Rather, the …Course
PHD-GP.5912
Urban Research SeminarThis course, taught jointly by faculty members across the university, offers doctoral students an opportunity to learn about the latest theoretical and empirical research on critical urban issues. The course is not taught in a lecture format. Rather, the …Capstone Projects
Echoing Green Fellowship Program EvaluationSince its inception in 1987, Echoing Green has provided first-stage funding and support to nearly 400 visionary nonprofit leaders with bold ideas for social change. With this support, Echoing Green Fellows have created innovative organizations in urban …
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The blind leading: Power reduces awareness of constraints… constraints that would prevent the protagonist of a story from completing his goal. However, there was no …
Alumni In Action
Arden LevineWe'd love to learn more about your journey in affordable housing and what drew you to this field. So, there I was, a teenager in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s, watching 60 Minutes with my parents (born-and-raised New Yorkers with careers in community …
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Primo LasanaCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? What were you doing before starting your current position? Reading Partners is a national nonprofit focused on literacy intervention for students in grades K-4. I lead our New York region, overseeing …
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Brooklyn is the New ManhattanMitchell L. Moss, Professor of Urban Planning & Policy at NYU Wagner and Director of the school's Rudin Center for Transportation, has written a new op-ed describing Downtown Brooklyn's dramatic emergence as "the new model of urban redevelopment." "In …
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Just Give People Money. But How and When?Just give people money. The idea is as simple as it is radical. At least it was radical until the coronavirus pandemic. With sluggish wages and household savings eroded by the pandemic, many struggling households simply need cash. Giving cash has turned …
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Alumni ALUMNI IN ACTION More stories NYC Transportation Accessibility Quemuel “Q” Arroyo (MPA 2020) joined the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in 2021 as the organization's first agency-wide Chief Accessibility Officer. In this capacity, Arroyo leads …
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Reshaping Social EntrepreneurshipSocial entrepreneurship has come to be synonymous with the individual visionary - the risk taker who goes against the tide to start a new organization to create dramatic social change. The problem with focusing so much attention on the individual …