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NYU Wagner Alumni Named to City & State's 2025 Above & Beyond: Women ListCity & State ’s 2025 Above & Beyond: Women list honors trailblazing leaders whose work has significantly impacted New York communities. Among this year’s honorees are two NYU Wagner alumni, Elisabeth Wynn and Lourdes Zapata, who have made remarkable …
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Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland SecurityGovernment's Greatest Achievement's: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security was designed to understand what the federal government has most actively endeavored to do since World War II, identify the top achievements among its goals, and use its agenda …
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"Not Like Us": Removing the Barriers to Recruiting Minority FacultyOffers suggestions on how to remove the barriers to recruiting minority faculty. Obstacles to recruitment; Position description; Search for the position; Making a short list; Evaluation of criteria to be used in reviewing specific files; Interviews; Extra …
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Improving Virtual Education in Nepali and Indian High SchoolsEk Kadam Aur, Hindi for “One Step Ahead,” is a nonprofit organization that provides education and health resources to economically disadvantaged children in India and Nepal. The client enlisted a Capstone team to help improve its virtual learning program, …
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NYU Wagner Voices: Lisibeth Payano US Air Force Veteran and Women’s Rights ActivistBy: Sakura Miyazaki What did you do three days after your high school graduation? You maybe took some time to take your mind off of school or started working a job to save up for college. However, Lisibeth Payano (MPA-HPAM 2021) decided to immediately …
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Lateefah Simon Social Justice Leadership Fellowship Lateefah Simon is the US Representative for the 12th district of California. She has spent her career fighting for justice — fighting for folks without a voice. Lateefah began her career in advocacy at age 16 as an outreach coordinator for the Young …
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Evaluation of LIFTs Information ServicesThe Capstone team focused on evaluating the information services provided by Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT) at tables positioned in five Family Court locations in New York City. The project was centered on helping LIFT improve this process by …
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Evaluation of LIFTs Information ServicesThe Capstone team focused on evaluating the information services provided by Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT) at tables positioned in five Family Court locations in New York City. The project was centered on helping LIFT improve this process by …
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Hayes Prize recognizes three recent NYU Wagner graduates for their High-Impact InitiativesThe Frederick O’Reilly Hayes Prize , established in 2005, is awarded annually to individuals relatively early in their careers in New York City government who have led outstanding, high-impact project work. At the 2019 awards ceremony, three NYU Wagner …
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Through the Roof: What Communities Can Do About the High Cost of Rental Housing in AmericaHousing affordability continues to be a major concern for residents across the country. In this report, the authors look at what local governments can do to mitigate rising costs of rental housing in the U.S. The report reviews the root causes of high …
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Beyond big versus small: assessing spatial variation of urban neighborhood block structures in high-density citiesA striking feature of urban formation has been the deployment of mega-blocks, often on the order of sixteen hectares or more. On the other hand, recent urban policies give strong suggestions for smaller and finer-grained neighborhood block and grid …
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Do Housing Choice Voucher Holders Live Near Good SchoolsThe Housing Choice Voucher program was created, in part, to help low income households reach a broader range of neighborhoods and schools. Rather than concentrating low income households in designated developments, vouchers allow families to choose their …
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Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It"The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point, the spring must break." America’s nonprofit organizations face a difficult present and an …
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The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged YouthThis paper examines whether participation in religious or other social organizations can help offset the negative effects of growing up in a disadvantaged environment. Using the National Survey of Families and Households, we collect measures of …
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Alternative Approach to the Care of Chronically Ill Patients at the End of Life in the Intensive Care UnitChronically ill patients in the final six months of life spend on average more days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at New York University Hospitals Center (NYUHC) than nearly every highly ranked academic medical center within the United States. The …
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Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s HealthWe examine multigenerational impacts of positive in utero health interventions using a new research design that exploits sharp increases in prenatal Medicaid eligibility that occurred in some states. Our analyses are based on US Vital Statistics natality …
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Alumni Spotlight: Lisa D'Oyen (MPA 2014)In the Spring 2024 Global Public Service Newsletter, the Wagner Office of International Programs connected with Wagner alumna, Lisa D'Oyen (MPA 2014) . Where do you work? Describe your current job. I am currently the Executive Director of two corporate …
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Evaluation of Product Line ManagementThe Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) has 311 hospital beds and 120 nursing home beds, and provides a broad range of inpatient and outpatient health care services for our nation’s veterans. It is currently one of the few VAMC’s in the …
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Where Youth Live: Effects of Urban Space on EmploymentThis paper synthesises a series of empirical analyses investigating the role of urban space in affecting minority employment outcomes. It broadens the focus beyond transport and the 'friction of space' and expands the data available for spatial research. …
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ADDRESSING HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR WOMEN IN PUNJAB, INDIAIn Punjab, current employment rates for women are historically low, hovering at around 14 percent, while overall rates for men are approximately 55 percent. Factors that contribute to this employment gap include restrictive cultural norms, limited and …
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MPA-MBAMBA-MPA students can "double count" some coursework between degrees. Your MBA coursework will reduce the total number of credits you need for the MPA to 33 (from the standard 45), and your MPA coursework will reduce the total number of credits needed for …
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Reshaping Internship Registration and Matching City-As-School High School (CAS) is an alternative high school built on the idea that all children learn differently—some by seeing, some by hearing, others by doing. CAS allows students the freedom to create their own class schedules and select their …
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Comparative Metrics and Policy Learning: End-of-Life Care in France and the U.S. Comparative policy analysis sometimes relies on the use of metrics to foster policy learning. We compare health care for patients at the end of life (EOL) in the U.S. and France. The analysis aims to enable policy makers in both nations to re-examine …