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EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF CASH BAIL REFORM AND SUBSEQUENT
ROLLBACKS ON OVERALL CRIME RATESIn 2019, New York State lawmakers approved legislation eliminating the use of cash bail for the majority of misdemeanors and select lesser felonies. Politicians and other government officials have vocally opposed the legislation since its implementation …
Faculty Profile
Patrick J. Egan… major offered jointly by Wagner and NYU’s College of Arts and Science. Egan holds a Ph.D. in political science …
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Social Change LeadershipJennifer Dodge, Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Angela Beard and Caitlin Murphy, February 2013. Beyond Foundation Funding: Revenue-Generating Strategies for Sustainable Social Change. Ospina, Sonia. Leadership for Social Change: Contributions for a Contemporary …
News
A US-Colombia university collaboration launches the Colombian Studies: Past, Present, and Futures initiative… de Santa Marta and Chorrera in the Amazon, founded upon arts-based and female indigenous knowledge as crucial tools …
Capstone Projects
The Impact of Remittances on Crime Rates in M?xicoIn Mexico, remittance flows represent the second most important source of external income, which amounts to approximately 2.2 percent of the Gross National Product. Recent studies have suggested that not all of the earnings from remittances are spent on …
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Introducing 105 East 17th Street105 East 17th Street will be NYU Wagner’s new home. In the bustling hub of New York City’s Union Square, the renovated building will house brand new state-of-the-art classrooms, a beautifully designed multi-purpose event space, dedicated student life …
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The Disruptive Power of RCTsTwo very different kinds of RCTs are used by economists, although they often get lumped together. The first kind is evaluative, used to assess whether a policy or intervention worked or not. Critics worry that privileging these RCTs over other evaluation …
Alumni In Action
Nora Abramson… School Development at Lincoln Center’s Institute for the Arts in Education (LCI), which is in the process of developing a middle and high school with an integrated arts curriculum that will open in the Bronx in September, … staff to manage its charter school project. Because the arts are something deeply important to her, “it seemed like …
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Social justice revisited: Psychological re-colonization and the challenge of anti-oppression advocacyIn this article, we describe the principles of anti-oppression advocacy (AOA), an intervention model that is informed by ideals of social justice and by an emphasis on promoting psychological weilness in immigrant communities. We argue that the AOA model …
Capstone Projects
Process Evaluation For Opening Act's District 79 ProgramOpening Act provides innovative, high-quality, and free theater programming to students at under-resourced NYC high schools, giving them opportunities to develop leadership, community, and commitment. In addition to its after-school programming in …
Capstone Projects
The Impact of Freeplay Radios on Flood Affected Areas in MozambiqueThe Capstone team was commissioned to perform an impact evaluation of the use of Freeplay wind-up radios in the flood-affected areas of Mozambique. The General Board of Global Ministries funded a large portion of the 7,500 self-powering radios, which were …
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URPL-GP.2680
Urban Design… new housing developments, new parks and open spaces, arts organizations, workforce development initiatives, …Publication
Three-Part HarmonyThis is a commentary to an article in Public Administration Review about Danish public service employee motivation. The piece that we commented on noted that there are two dimensions for how Danish public service employees can choose to do their work, and …
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City and Party PoliticsWe should not let the prospect of filling hotel rooms and restaurants overshadow the real benefit of hosting the Republican National Convention one year from now. The true value of the convention is that it will allow the city's leaders to forge a direct …
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Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain AreasAlthough there is strong evidence that living in high-opportunity neighborhoods can improve the long-run educational and economic outcomes of children, translating this into practical advice for planners is difficult. There is little consensus about how …
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High Stakes in the Classroom, High Stakes on the Street: The Effects of Community Violence on Students’ Standardized Test Performance… to violent crime reduces performance on English Language Arts assessments, and no effect on Math scores. The effect of …
Capstone Projects
Environmental Sustainability Project… Museum in Manhattan and the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Sullivan County. Through extensive telephone …
Faculty Profile
Paul DiMaggio… Political and Social Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Paul …
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Career Events… connect graduate students, postdocs, and alumni from STEM, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences fields, to employers …
Alumni In Action
Lauren Stewart… provides funds and technical assistance to transformative arts organizations working to provide social change for …
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NYU migrationThe NYU Migration Network brings together NYU faculty and affiliated researchers whose work engages with questions of migration and mobility. The network seeks to build connections across disciplines, thematic areas, and publication media in order to …
Publication
ADORE: A Framework for Community Building to Dismantle anti-Black Racism in AcademiaIn higher education, power structures, including anti-Black racism, perpetuate whiteness and thwart the full capability of human potential for Black Americans. The aggregate impact of anti-Black racism, a specific form of racism, potentiates the …
Capstone Projects
Beyond Classroom Diversity: How Community Context Conditions Student Achievement in New York State… proportion of students who pass the State English Language Arts exam. The findings have important implications for how …
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2024 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum — October 10, 2024On Thursday, October 10, 2024, NYU Wagner hosted the annual Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum, featuring guest speaker Vishaan Chakrabarti, founder and creative director of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). Read the full recap. …