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Time Thieves: A New Computer-Driven Traffic Model Reveals the “Time Costs” of Traffic… "crackdowns" on double-parking, even provision of transit service all tend to attract new vehicle trips that soon …
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Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High Performing Public Schools?A family’s housing unit provides more than simply shelter. It also provides a set of neighborhood amenities and a package of local public services, including, most critically, a local school. Yet housing and education policymakers rarely coordinate their …
Capstone Projects
The Institute for Urban Family HealthThe Institute for Urban Family Health is a not-for-profit health care organization whose mission is to improve the quality and availability of family practice services in response to the needs of medically underserved populations. The resident was …
Capstone Projects
Cost-Benefit Comparative Analysis Between Incarceration and Alternative-to IncarcerationThe Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) is the largest nonprofit alternative-to-incarceration agency in New York State. CASES is interested in demonstrating its cost-effectiveness as a strategy for securing adequate public …
Capstone Projects
A Study in Retention and Employee MoraleLeake & Watts, a private, nonprofit agency based in Yonkers, provides social services to vulnerable children and families in New York with the goal of preserving familial relationships and connectedness to the community. Leake & Watts is experiencing …
Capstone Projects
RETHINKING COMMERCIAL REVITALIZATION STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT AN EQUITABLE RECOVERY OF SMALL BUSINESSESThe New York City Department of Small Business Services’ Neighborhood Development Division (NDD) pursues commercial revitalization projects across the city to support small businesses and commercial corridors and enhance community resilience. Prior to the …
Capstone Projects
Strategies for West Farms Technology and Career Center… staff members to generate recommendations for improving service processes. The Capstone team also created a data …
Faculty Profile
Julia Lane… Emerita at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a NYU Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics. …
News
NYU Wagner ranks high in U.S. News & World Report… Wagner is one of the leading graduate schools of public service and is gaining momentum (up from #11 overall in the …
Alumni In Action
Mery Arcila… I have always felt a powerful desire to work in public service. Before joining the State Department, I worked for an … me about the public diplomacy track of the U.S. foreign service, I thought it was a perfect fit. I could also create … find a master's program emphasizing a commitment to public service while reinforcing the need to arm our public leaders …
Faculty Profile
Allen Zerkin… Allen J. Zerkin has been an Adjunct Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service since 1988, teaching courses on negotiation and …
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Student Spotlight: Shannon Flores (MPA 2024)… of Public Administration student and Bloomberg Public Service Fellow, Shannon is drawing from her personal … and what motivated you to attend a school of public service? I am a second-year Master of Public Administration student and Bloomberg Public Service Fellow at NYU Wagner. I came to New York from …
Capstone Projects
Pathways to Politics: Analyzing Motivations and Enabling Factors for Women in Politics in Chittagong Hill Tracts, BangladeshThe Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is an area characterized by a complex social and political environment and located in the south-eastern corner of Bangladesh. CHT has remained largely outside the mainstream of development assistance for more than 25 years …
Capstone Projects
Financial Sustainability Plan for the Community Computing ProgramFounded in 1877, Inglis is a private nonprofit organization that enables people with disabilities, and those who care for them, to achieve their goals and live life to the fullest. Inglis enlisted a Capstone team to provide a financial sustainability plan …
Alumni In Action
Julian Metcalf… job? I had a great call with an alumna at Moody’s Investor Service. She told me about a new team they had created for …
News
NYU Wagner President's Service Award Recipients for 2016… organizations were honored at the 32nd Annual President's Service Awards . The ceremony, held at the NYU Kimmel … and outside the classroom, showcased through community service, civic engagement, leadership, and excellence in … NYU Wagner proudly announces its 2016 President’s Service Awards recipients: Wagner Diversity Council - For …
Capstone Projects
ANALYZING FACTORS FOR SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION TO PERMANENT HOUSINGThe Fortune Society has been a leader in rehabilitating incarcerated individuals and reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals into society. The Fortune Society facilitates reintegration by providing housing, including emergency housing for homeless …
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Your Education… To be an effective public service leader, you'll need a broad foundation in finance, …
Capstone Projects
CREATING AN ACTIONABLE PLAN TO LOWER MUNICIPAL EMISSIONS The Village of Ardsley is a small municipality in Westchester County serving a population of just over 5,000 people. The Village seeks to reduce its environmental impact by lowering the emissions produced by its municipal transportation fleet without …
Capstone Projects
IDENTIFYING CAMPAIGNS TO MITIGATE CAPITAL COSTS IN THE WAKE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMICRiders Alliance is a grassroots organization founded in 2012, dedicated to providing New Yorkers with a more affordable and reliable public transit system. It organizes subway and bus riders to support policy goals and campaigns that will improve train …
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Reimagining Governance in Practice: Benchmarking British Columbia’s Citizen Engagement Efforts… variety of democratic governments to re-imagine public service and governance. At the beginning of 2013, BC’s …
Stories
NYU Wagner alumni selected as Excelsior Service Fellows… graduates of NYU Wagner have been chosen as Excelsior Service Fellows in New York State government. The Excelsior Service Fellowship Program brings alumni of graduates school of public service and law into state government service. Participants … disparities, “fueling,” she said, “my passion for public service. “Wagner armed me with both the soft and hard skill …
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Our Community… values of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in public service and to bringing an EDI lens to the various domains … to equity, diversity, and inclusion. As a school of public service, we embody these values through four domains: …
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Impact in HealthImproving Healthcare in the US The US healthcare system is the most expensive on the planet. We spend more on operations, tests and pharmaceuticals than other developed countries. And yet, the quality and equitable distribution of healthcare services do …