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Student Spotlight: Ceinna Little (MUP 2024)Ceinna Little (MUP 2024) embarked on her urban planning journey fueled by a profound personal experience that sparked a keen interest in housing, the impacts of gentrification, and the policies influencing city planning. This catalyst not only inspired …
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NYU Tandon and Wagner project to look below the surface to make NYC more resilientRecent storm-related flooding in New York City from Ida and Henri demonstrates the need for comprehensive, quickly accessible data about the spatial relationships between utility conduits, water and waste systems, fuel transit pipelines, transportation …
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NYC AND NYUThe university, the city, the world: NYU Wagner is at the intersection. We're a school of public service in one of the world's most complex urban ecosystems—the place where local meets global. At Wagner, you'll interact with this environment in countless …
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Federal Public Service Loan ForgivenessGot Debt? We know that debt matters when you are considering graduate schools and the types of jobs you take after graduating. The Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) and the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan are two options that will …
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The Global Public Service: Taking on the Challenges of the 21st Century.This paper's first goal is to evaluate the evolution and state of scholarship in public administration. It begins with a question: How far have public administration theory and research advanced since 1940, when the self-aware study of public …
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Working Together: Meeting the Challenges of Workforce DiversityThis collection of original manuscripts-representing a cross-section of the timeliest scholarship in public personnel administration-explores the theme of "problems and prospects" in public personnel administration. The contributions are organized into …
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Creating Neighborhood Typologies of GIS-Based Data in the Absence of a Neighborhood-Based Sampling: A Factor and Cluster Analytic StrategyThis article describes an innovative means of identifying a neighborhood typology that can be used for analyses of individual-level data that were not obtained through neighborhood-based sampling. A two-step approach was employed. First, exploratory …
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Diagnostic Tools to Estimate Consequences of Terrorism Attacks Against Critical InfrastructureDiagnosing historical incidents of terrorism events within a risk management framework is an important tool for understanding the likelihood and form of future terrorist attacks and their consequences, particularly for critical infrastructure. Critical …
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The Rules of the Intergovernmental Game in East Asia: Comparing Decentralization Frameworks and ProcessesAlthough political forces have largely driven decentralization in East Asia and most countries face similar reform challenges, their decentralization experiences are far from uniform. Countries have adopted different intergovernmental structures, …
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Public Infrastructure Service Flexibility for Response and Recovery in the September 11th, 2001 Attacks at the World Trade CenterAfter the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, the ability to rapidly restore transportation, power, water, and environmental services to users was absolutely critical, especially to those involved in the …
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"Portfolios of the Poor," co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Morduch, Helped Inspire a New App to Address Income Volatility: NY Times Magazine“Want A Steady Income? There’s an App for That,” a piece published Sunday, May 3, in The New York Times Magazine , focuses on a Silicon Valley app-in-development partly inspired by Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day , the …
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Residential Street Parking and Car OwnershipProblem, research strategy, and findings: Local governments’ minimum street-width standards may force developers to oversupply, and residents to pay excessively for, on-street parking in residential neighborhoods. Such oversupply is often presumed to …
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In the Heat of the Summer: Lessons from the Heat Waves in ParisClimate change and human health are intertwined. The heat waves in Chicago, in 1995, and in Paris, in 2003, followed by Hurricane Katrina_s destruction of New Orleans, raised awareness of the risks faced by vulnerable older people. Many cities have …
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Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in AmericaWhat is more important--race or class--in determining the socioeconomic success of the blacks and whites born since the civil rights triumphs of the 1960s? When compared to whites, African Americans complete less formal schooling, work fewer hours at a …
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DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICES FOR TENANT ENGAGEMENT AND RIGHTS ADVOCACY IMPACCT Brooklyn, also known as the Pratt Area Community Council, is a community development corporation that owns over 1,000 units of affordable or supportive housing. Since 1964, IMPACCT Brooklyn has advocated for Central Brooklyn residents and …
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The growth of cesarean delivery in China the focus of health policy discussionProfessor Jian-meng Liu of Peking University visited NYU Wagner on April 3 to talk about the growth of cesarean delivery in China, and the consequences for long-term child health. Professor Liu, who directs China’s Office of National Maternal & Child …
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Joanna SimonPlease describe what you were doing before you came to NYU Wagner? Before coming to Wagner I worked in environmental advocacy and education. I worked for Hudson River Park as well as a nonprofit organization and I knew that I was interested in pursuing a …
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New York University School of Medicine, Planning and Business InitiativesThe Resident was involved in numerous projects within Planning and Business Initiatives (PBI), which functions as an internal consulting unit to the executive leadership at the School of Medicine (SoM). Supported by the department, the Resident was …
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New York University School of Medicine, Department of MedicineThe Resident worked on several projects with the Administrator of the Department of Medicine, as well as with Administrators of the various Divisions within the department. The Resident created monthly financial reports of the various Faculty Group …
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Mount Sinai Hospital of QueensThe Resident was involved in a number of projects originating from the office of the Chief Operating Officer. The Resident played a key role in the preparation and analysis of the annual budgets for various operations departments including Radiology, …
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"Understanding Decentralization in Political and Institutional Context: Motives, Opportunities and Constraints ""The World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PRMPS) group has done considerable work on public sector decentralization and has recently become interested in exploring the historical, political, and institutional context in which …
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An Analysis of Best Practices for International Financial Policies and ProceduresFounded in 1915, Helen Keller International (HKI) provides eye health and nutrition programs in 22 countries to the worlds most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. The Capstone team worked with HKI to analyze its financial processes and determine …
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Ambulatory Care Unit AssessmentLong Island College Hospital (LICH) is a 516-bed teaching hospital located just over the Brooklyn Bridge in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill. The senior management at LICH charged the Capstone team with evaluating the operations of …