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  Wagner Graduate School of Public Service - Slider (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (often truncated to NYU Wagner or simply Wagner) is a professional school of public service at New York University.
Wagner is the largest school of public service in the United States.
Wagner is housed on the second and third floors of the Puck Building, a well-known New York City landmark, in the city's SoHo neighborhood.
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 Grad Profiles - New York University: Wagner School of Public Service (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Admission to the Wagner School is open to all qualified women and men who hold a bachelor's degree or its equivalent from an accredited undergraduate institution or a first professional degree from an accredited professional school.
She is also analyzing segregation and racial disparities in the New York City public schools and undertaking a national study of changes in residential integration during the 1990s.
In her position as Dean of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, she is poised to grow Wagner into the flagship school of public service education and research by creating enterprising models of public service education, advancing original concepts of leadership development, and inspiring the next generation of public service professionals.
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 NYU School of Law - Special Degree Programs
NYU School of Law created the first-ever LL.M. in Public Service Law as part of the Global Public Service Law Project.
After graduation, scholars are eligible to apply for one of a limited number of graduate fellowships to work at a public service organization.
service law and practice; or institutional, practical, and managerial issues in public interest law practice.
www.law.nyu.edu /depts/publicinterest/special/index.html   (305 words)

  
 PPIA Consortium School Profiles
NYU Wagner is committed to the highest ideals of public service, and embraces diversity in all its forms as an essential component of this commitment.
Wagner’s MPA and MUP degrees require that all students begin with a strong foundation of basic knowledge and skills taught through a common core curriculum of five courses.
Wagner’s competitive admissions process seeks to identify those applicants who have the potential to make significant contributions to the leadership of nonprofit, health, and public organizations.
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 NYU > CAS > Bulletin > The Schools and Colleges of the
The School of Law is one of the oldest law schools in the United States.
The school's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine is one of the world's leading medical research centers, with research emphasizing the biomolecular roots of disease.
The school is committed to training students to be not only outstanding clinicians and scientists but compassionate individuals who also serve science and society.
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 Civic Bulletin 26 | School Choice and Government Reform: Pillars of an Urban Renaissance, by Emanuel Tobier
Emanuel Tobier is a professor emeritus of economics and planning in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, where he served as chair of the program in urban planning.
Within New York State itself, the gap between what is spent on the average public school pupil in New York City and in the balance of the state has been widening over the past few decades to the City’s disadvantage.
Conceivably, the problem with the schools might lie not in the aggregate sums of money involved—or not just in the size of these sums—but in the ways in which they are used.
www.manhattan-institute.org /html/cb_26.htm   (1786 words)

  
 Newswise
Soot particles spewing from the exhaust of diesel trucks constitute a major contributor to the alarmingly high rates of asthma symptoms among school-aged children in the South Bronx, according to the results of a five-year study by researchers at New York University’s School of Medicine and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
The schools in the study were: PS 154, MS 302, CS 152 and MS 201.
Ten elementary school children with asthma from each of the four schools were followed for a month.
newswise.com /articles/view/524365   (700 words)

  
 The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service... - Science Blog (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wagner defines itself as a school of public service, not public administration, management or policy, and is committed to reframing public service education.
At a more granular level, the School made a top ten ranking in six of the ten subcategories in which schools like Wagner are evaluated.
The best candidates will bring to Wagner a grounded and informed view of public service education, as well as an ability to work as a member of a dynamic team.
www.all-science.net.cob-web.org:8888 /node/173   (334 words)

  
 KIDS NEED SENSE OF STRUCTURE TO FEEL SAFE AT SCHOOL
The students were asked about their general sense of safety at school and whether or not they had felt unsafe the day before.
Children who had attended school the day before the interview had 46 percent higher odds of feeling unsafe on that day than children who did not attend school.
“School disorder increased with increasing student age and was almost twice as prevalent in public as in private schools — 33 percent vs. 18 percent.”
www.cfah.org /hbns/news/school09-09-03.cfm   (580 words)

  
 Steven A. Finkler
At the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, our student body consists primarily of future managers and policy makers for the government or public, health care, and not-for-profit sectors.
The text is scheduled for publication in October 2000, for use in classes beginning with the Spring 2001 semester.
the services require specialized skill, are provided by individuals with those skills, and they would typically need to be purchased if they were not donated.
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 Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (often truncated to NYU Wagner or simply Wagner) is public policy school and one of 14 schools and divisions at New York University and the largest school of public service in the United States.
Established in 1938 as the Graduate School of Public Administration, the school was named for the three-term New York City mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr.
NYU Wagner is considered one of the nation's premier graduate schools for public policy and administration and is regularly ranked among the top programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wagner_Graduate_School_of_Public_Service   (553 words)

  
 NYU School of Medicine - Center for Immigrant Health
She holds a B.S. in Biology from Yale University, and M.D. from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and an M.S. in Health Policy from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
She is presently a candidate for an MPA in Health Policy and Management from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service.
Cristina is currently working toward her Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology of Microbial diseases from the Yale School of Public Health.
www.med.nyu.edu /cih/about/people.html   (1918 words)

  
 National Poverty Center - The University of Michigan
Amy Ellen Schwartz, Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics, New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Specifically, we have a unique data set containing demographic, socioeconomic, and academic information on the census of students in the NYC public elementary and middle school system in each of the years 1995-96 to 2001-02.
We propose to further incorporate U.S. Census data on the social and economic characteristics of immigrants in NYC by country as well as data from the United Nations statistics division (and other comparable sources) on the economic and social conditions of the source countries.
www.npc.umich.edu /opportunities/research_grants/funded11   (393 words)

  
 Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies | Student Activities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Prior to entering graduate school, she worked as the volunteer program coordinator at The Wonder of Reading, a local nonprofit in Los Angeles that renovates school libraries, advocates for increased state spending on school library facilities, and trains adult literacy volunteers to work with struggling student readers.
Thalia graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English.
She is currently a community activist on educational issues relating to public schools and a strong advocate for arts-education, as well as programs for Gifted and Talented students.
w4.stern.nyu.edu /berkley/social.cfm?doc_id=5714   (2253 words)

  
 Mayor's Graduate Scholars Program ~ Scholarships for City Employees
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) administers the Mayor's Graduate Scholarship Program (MGSP), an opportunity for full-time New York City government employees with undergraduate degrees to study at accredited colleges/universities in the metropolitan area.
The scholarships are for employees' study, on their own, in areas such as business and public administration, policy analysis, law, education, engineering, nursing, public health, computer science, and social work.
Participating MGSP schools are interested in awarding NYC government employees with graduate scholarships, but awards are competitive.
www.nyc.gov /html/dcas/html/resources/mgsp.shtml   (643 words)

  
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But the Wagner report found that the program has also increased expulsions and that many students in these schools get criminal records for incidents that would not be treated as criminal offenses if they were committed in schools with less police presence.
The sight of armed police officers in schools, however, is not a sign of safety for students, said Kate Kyung Ji Rhee, executive director of the Prison Moratorium Project (PMP), a Brooklyn-based organization that hopes to end mass incarceration and the expansion of prisons.
The Impact School Initiative topic was proposed by PMP and the research was conducted by a team of five graduate students in 2005-2006.
www.citylimits.org /content/articles/weeklyView.cfm?articlenumber=1922   (634 words)

  
 Boufford, Jo Ivey
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., senior program advisor to The Commonwealth Fund, is a professor of public service, health policy, and management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and clinical professor of pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine.
She has just completed five years of service as dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
She is on the executive board of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) and is president of NASPAA for 2002—03.
www.cmwf.org /profiles/profiles_show.htm?doc_id=228400   (249 words)

  
 Latino Students in Health Care Win $16,000 in Scholarships From National Hispanic Health Foundation
This year, the winners were selected by a prestigious panel of health care officials from the Wagner Graduate School, the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, the Latino Caucus of the American Public Health Association, the Hispanic Dental Association, and the NHMA.
· Liliana Diaz, Wagner School of Public Service, NYU.
Liliana Diaz, Wagner School of Public Service, NYU.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/11/prweb484431.htm   (1721 words)

  
 Collaborating "Parent" Organizations
The Statistics and Services Research Division of the Institute is the component of the Institute participating in the Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health.
Established in 1938, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is one of thirteen schools that comprise NYU.
The Center for Health and Public Service Research is the primary focus for collaborating with the Center for Issues in Public Mental Health, serving as the vehicle for connecting academic research with policy making and program development.
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 Public policy school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Public policy schools offer Public affairs degrees and teach students policy analysis, public policy, public administration, and public affairs.
A public policy school is an institution where prospective public policy analyists obtain degrees in public policy, such as the Master of Public Policy (MPP) and the Master of Public Administration (MPA).
3) School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington (4.4 of 5.0)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Public_policy_school   (461 words)

  
 Keker & Van Nest LLP
Steve graduated cum laude from the School of Law at New York University in 2001.
After graduating, he clerked for the Honorable Robert S. Lasnik of the United States District Court of the Western District of Washington (Seattle).
Prior to going to law school, Steve was a journalist, working for a variety of publications for approximately six years.
www.kvn.com /attorneys_bio.php?id=65   (208 words)

  
 Academic Careers Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We seek applicants who are excited about working in the multidisciplinary environment of the Wagner School and in an evolving NYU environmental studies community that spans the human and natural sciences.
The Wagner School, which was established in 1938, offers both masters and doctoral degrees.
The School’s nearly 40 full-time faculty members are trained in a wide variety of disciplines, but they share a commitment to addressing issues of public importance in their teaching and research.
www.academiccareers.com /cgi-win/jobsite/sendjob.exe/ACO/?14854   (513 words)

  
 Selected Papers in School Finance 1995 (NCES 97-536)
Berne served as executive director of the New York State Temporary Commission on New York City School Governance, also known as the Marchi Commission, from 1989 to 1991 and was the director of policy research for New York State's Temporary Commission on the Distribution of School Aid (Salerno Commission) in 1988.
Leanna Stiefel is professor of economics at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University where she directs the public and nonprofit program for M.P.A. students.
In her education finance research, she focuses on the equity of state and intra-district level finance systems, the efficiency of school-level allocations and budgeting, and public finance issues in K-12 education.
nces.ed.gov /pubs97/web/97536-4a.asp   (319 words)

  
 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University seeks to make two tenure-track faculty appointments for the 2006-2007 academic year in the area of financial management with a focus on government, not-for-profit organizations, healthcare institutions, or public finance.
The Steinhardt School of Education New York University seeks a renowned and creative scholar both to direct its newly founded Institute for Human Development and Contextual Change and to join its faculty.
Qualifications: outstanding and internationally recognized scholar in one of the core social, behavioral, developmental or policy sciences; history of intellectual and organizational leadership in interdisciplinary research, prepared to assume fiscal and administrative responsibilities of directing a growing research institute at a major research university.
www.aeaweb.org /joe/0510d/html/joe108.html   (560 words)

  
 National Hispanic Medical Association
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University and the Office of Minority Health U.S. DHHS are supporting the project.
This endeavor will provide an assessment of community-based information and linkages with community-based organizations and leaders that could be utilized in the development of cultural competence curriculum focused on the Hispanic populations of New York City for graduate medical education programs that could be replicated across the nation.
In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recognized the importance of the bias of physicians based on the "culture of medicine" that has been shown by recent studies to impact the quality of care provided to minority patients.
www.nhmamd.org /hispaniccurriculum.htm   (1157 words)

  
 Gifts of Speech - Alice M. Rivlin
I am delighted to be part of this joyous occasion marking the graduation of the class of 1998 from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
By the time I was in graduate school and beginning a professional career, there were also exciting new analytical tools to be tried out.
So, I am happy that you have chosen to study public service and delighted to have had the privilege of sharing this happy occasion with you.
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John is a Public Service Scholar studying for an MPA in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy with a concentration in International Public Administration at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in New York City.
He is President of NYU Wagner Graduate School's International Public Service Association.
This course examines the critical and rapidly changing role of the state at the beginning of a new millennium as a result of internal and external factors, paying special attention to the state as a central player in ensuring the provision of public services in varied environments around the world.
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