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Dejian (Ken) Zeng Worked in an iPhone Factory in China to See How Workers Were Treated… student Dejian (Ken) Zeng (MPA 2017) spent his summer working undercover at an iPhone factory. Now he vows to hold …
Stories
NYU Wagner Capstone Team works with alumna to improve education in Nicaragua coffee fields … students to stay in school and to prevent them from working in the coffee fields with their families. … Mery Arcila, and Carlos Sosa Lombardo—spent six months working with Project Alianza to create a logic model, … “This was an opportunity to reconnect with Wagner by working with Mery, Carlos, and Julia as they advise us on …
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Wagner Career Services and International Student Society speak on the future of workOn February 3, 2023, the NYU Wagner Office of Career Services (OCS) partnered with the Wagner International Student Society (WISS) to host a networking lunch and workshop for Wagner students. Students from across NYU Wagner’s diverse degree programs …
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Re-creating Street Level Practice: The Role of Routines, Work Groups and Team LearningAmple research documents the ubiquity of routines in street-level practice. Some individual-level and organizational-level research has explored how to break street-level routines, but little has looked at the work group level. Our study observed teams of …
Capstone Projects
Designing and Implementing a Program Measurement SystemNonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW) is a nonprofit organization located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, focused on building management capacity and developing solutions for other nonprofit organizations. A small, but robust, organization in a period of growth, NEW …
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NYU Wagner alumnus Yusef Freeman is honored for his work in affordable housing finance… $56 million in tax credit equity. In 2010, he began working on the revitalization of the Alice Griffith public …
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A new methodology for assessing social work practice: The adaptation of the Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (SW-OSCE)The Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) methodology was originally developed to assess medical students. OSCE is a carefully scripted, standardized, simulated interview, in which students’ interactional skills are observed and assessed. Here …
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An Evening with NYC Government: Wagner Alumni working in NYC Government Share Career Insights with Current Students… allowing Wagner students to connect with alumni currently working in New York City government. The event featured: … for more updates. Resources for those interested in working in NYC Government: American Society for Public … An Evening with NYC Government: Wagner Alumni working in NYC Government Share Career Insights with Current …
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Bringing Opportunity Back In: Organizational Inequality and the Study of Work AttitudesOspina, S. …
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Prof. Robertson Work is out with a book, A Compassionate Civilization, on the urgency of sustainable development and mindful activismA newly published book by NYU Wagner Professor Robertson Work, A Compassionate Civilization , deals with the urgency of sustainable development and mindful activism. It focuses on six areas of social transformation and how to address those as innovative …
Capstone Projects
Informing Strategic Decision-Making Through Sales and Staffing Data AnalysisHousing Works, a nonprofit dedicated to helping those affected by HIV/AIDS, operates Thrift Shops around the New York City area. Housing Works requested the Capstone team to analyze existing sales, staffing, and customer survey data in order to inform its …
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HPAM-GP.4841
Financial Management for Health Care Orgs - II: Capital Financing and Advanced Issues… costs of capital in making financial decisions. -Issues in working capital and investment management activities of …Video
WAGTalk Rajeev Dehejia, “Children and Mothers’ Work: Two Centuries of Evidence”Labor force participation of women has declined over the last ten years in both the United States and the developing world. Are these phenomena linked? And what can we do about …
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Student Dejian Zeng Worked in an iPhone Factory in China to See How Workers Were Treated… and board. Rather, he went there to find out about the working conditions first-hand. In the summer of 2016, Zeng …
Faculty Profile
Julia Watt-Rosenfeld… 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 …
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URPL-GP.1620
Data Analysis, Mapping, and Storytelling… The course will help students build a strong foundation in working with data that will allow them to learn and master …Landing Page
Impact Lab… to expand the reach of non-partisan organizations working to strengthen our democracy. The Project also serves …
Publication
Does Special Education Work? A Systematic Literature Review of Evidence from Administrative DataKaitlyn O’Hagan and Leanna Stiefel …
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Weaving Color Lines: Race, Ethnicity, and the Work of Leadership in Social Change OrganizationsOspina, S. …
Capstone Projects
Strategies to Engage a Wider Constituency… more about the workplace and potential future careers—working with schools, companies, and community organizations … what children learn at school with the actual working world. Since its founding in 1993, an estimated …
Capstone Projects
An Evaluation of Arizona Drug Treatment and Education Fund: How is it Operating and Does it Work?This study utilizes administrative data from the Arizona Drug Treatment and Education Fund from 1997-2003. The Capstone team utilized a combination of qualitative and quantitative strategies to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the program at the …
Capstone Projects
An Evaluation of Arizona Drug Treatment and Education Fund: How is it Operating and Does it Work?This study utilizes administrative data from the Arizona Drug Treatment and Education Fund from 1997-2003. The Capstone team utilized a combination of qualitative and quantitative strategies to conduct a preliminary evaluation of the program at the …
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PHD-GP.5901
Seminar in Research in Progress… for a degree. A weekly seminar for doctoral candidates working on dissertation proposals, conducting research, …Capstone Projects
EXPLORING MIDWESTERN LABOR LAWS AND HOUSING POLICY DURING THE GREAT RECOVERYSix states passed Right-to-Work (RTW) statutes between 2001 and 2017 that made it illegal for employers to require their workers to pay union dues. The team theorized that the loss of union benefits such as regular wage increases, health insurance, and …