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MPA-Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy Program Overview at NYU Wagner Admitted Student Day - YouTube
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Welcome everybody I am completely delighted to welcome you to NYU Wagner. I'll add my
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welcome along with the many others that
I'm sure you've been receiving today. My
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name is Erica Foldy. I lead PNP I also
lead the management specialization and I
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co-direct the capstone program. And I'll
be talking with you today about PNP.
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Before I do that I want to ask some
people in the audience to stand up.
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So along with me here to kind of tell you
all about the school, we have faculty--I
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could ask the faculty to stand up. Should
be roughly one per yeah okay thank you
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and we have alumni coming up. Can I ask the alumni to stand up lovely thank you so much for
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coming and joining us today and we have
current students can I ask them to stand
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up. all right fantastic thank you so much
for coming. The way this is going to work
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is that we're going to spend
approximately half an hour I'll do some
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talking
there will be time for Q&A and then
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we'll have some more mingling at the end
and we actually encourage you to switch
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tables and to meet some new faculty, new
alums, new admitted students and just
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have a different group of people to
speak with. So I want to congratulate you
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for getting into the Wagner program with
the longest name. We don't even try to
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spell it out anymore it's just too long
for us but it does stand for Masters of
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Public Administration in Public and
Nonprofit Management and Policy so we
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just we've given up and we just call it
PNP. Along with having the longest name,
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it's also the it's the biggest program
about 55% of students are in PNP. It's also the
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broadest program and so you have a lot
of choice in this program and that's a
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great thing and it also means that the
program can be a little bit more complex
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than some of the other programs and I'm
here to try to untangle some of that
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complexity for you. I'll go through the
slides but I actually encourage you to
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stop me at any point if you have
questions I think it always makes it
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more interesting if it's interactive and
I
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also want to invite the the faculty the
current students and the alums to chime
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in. some of you know more about what I'm
talking about than I do, so please
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feel free to chime in, clarify you know
in help in whatever way. so you've been
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oops
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"Why Wagner" there we go. so I think people have been talking with you about "Why Wagner" all morning.
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I'm gonna add my particular version of this so the first
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thing is that Wagner is all about impact.
You've seen the home page you know it
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says, "How will you make your impact in
the world." This is one of the things I
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love about being at Wagner and so as a
student you're doing more than
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accumulating knowledge and learning
skills--both very important--but you're
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actually learning how are you gonna make
your mark on the world, how are you gonna
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make a difference. That's to me that's
one of the things that that makes Wagner
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special. Theory and practice--you've been
learning probably a lot about
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this as well. In order to make your mark
or certainly to make it in a way that
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makes a positive difference, it helps to
have both theory and practice. so you'll
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be learning a number of different
frameworks in all of your courses and we
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need frameworks to make sense of the
enormous complexity that is public
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service work. but then you will also be
you can also be immersed in practice and
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that happens in a variety of ways it
happens through case studies, through
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field trips to various organizations,
certainly through capstone, guest
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speakers. it also happens a lot with the
student groups and a variety of other
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programming that we have for you.
Wagner is about both breadth and depth
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that's particularly true of PNP it's a
very broad program has a lot under its
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particular umbrella. all PNP students and
all MPA students are required to take
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five core courses because we believe
there is a very broad foundation that
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everyone needs. and we believe that
because people wander across sectors,
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they go in and out of public nonprofit
and private organizations,
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different roles, different issue areas,
different communities and for that
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reason we think a broad foundation is
really helpful but after those core
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courses are--actually even as you're
taking those core courses--you're
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also choosing a specialization and going
very deep and gaining expertise in one
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particular area. flexibility: you can move
from part-time to full-time back again
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that's important. multidisciplinary
approach so I love the fact that I get
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to work my degrees in organization
studies I came out of a business school
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but I get to work with economists,
political scientists, psychologists,
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sociologists--people with degrees in law,
public administration, Health
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Administration. I get tremendous richness
in my own for my own teaching and my own
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research through that
multidisciplinarity
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and I think it also really adds to the
student experience and then finally
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equity diversity and inclusion. those are
those are you know very common buzzwords
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these days I like to think that we
actually grapple with these issues in
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ways that many other places do not. EDI
is at the absolute heart of public
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service and therefore it is at the heart
of Wagner as well. so we look at we keep
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this in mind when we think about
learning and curriculum, student events,
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and programming. our research
bringing in students bringing in new
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faculty and staff it's always in our
minds. all right so let's talk a little
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bit about the student journey. you'll
start with the new student retreat in
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August you could meet people there that
will be lifelong colleagues and friends
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you'll learn you'll learn more details
about Wagner the courses the programs
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etc but what you'll really learn is
you'll learn who we are what's our
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identity who are we as a school that's a
really important piece really important
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beginning to your journey and that's
also the place where you start where
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actually it's the place where you become
a Wagnerd. I don't know if you've heard
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that term your Wagnerds it's yes Wagnerds
it's so we're very proud of being
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Wagnerds and really basically once you
enter that retreat you're an honorary
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Wagnerds right then okay that's a new
student retreat there are five core
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courses that everyone takes you can see
them listed here I'm not going to go
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through them I will say that you're
going to be going to some court some
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course tables after this session you're
going to explore lots of different
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courses
none of the core courses are going to be
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there but we do want to emphasize that
they're super important and and they do
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provide this very strong foundation for
for the rest of your work all right
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so many of you have already indicated an
interest in a specialization you'll
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you'll later in your first semester
you'll either confirm that or you can
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change that as I was mentioning to
someone at the table if you're kind of
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on the fence between two different
specializations it's very helpful to
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take courses related to those
specializations in your first semester
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because that'll help give you a lot of
information to make that decision but so
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once you've chosen that specialization
then you start working on the core
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courses for that specialization two
three four required courses you have to
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take then you take what are called
constrained electives so you have a
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choice but within a relatively limited
number of courses and then finally you
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have your full electives and you can
take anything at Wagner and you can also
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take dozens if not hundreds of courses
around the university so you have a huge
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kind of buffet of courses to choose
from for that then you will be part of
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capstone I'll tell you more about that
in a moment and we also you know in many
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of our students are doing internships
while they're at Wagner some of them are
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working doing internships and going to
school that seems really complicated to
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me but people have different ways of
kind of assembling the different
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components but we really strongly
encourage students particularly those
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with less work experience to also do
internships just for a moment I'm gonna
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stop here and see if anyone has anything
to add any questions at this point okay
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all right I'll keep going okay so our
specializations these are getting more
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complicated when I arrived here in
2003 we had four specializations and
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that was the case for 12 years
or so and then the last couple of years
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we've just added two more and so and
we're really excited but then we're excited
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about all our specializations so I'm
going to go through and describe these
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but there are people in the room who
know more about some of these in I do so
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I really encourage you to to chime in
okay so this is our newest
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specialization is advocacy and political
action and this is students who are
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interested in this particular
specialization want to push very
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directly and openly and loudly for
social change political change social
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justice you combine coursework in
advocacy organizing policy formation
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communications several other several
other kind of foundations to this work
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and the kinds of students who are
attracted to the specialization imagine
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themselves post graduation and and may
already be actually organizers activists
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advocates and lobbyists campaign staff
right so people who really want to get
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into the scrum of you know political and
social change the financial management
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and public finance includes these two
pieces financial management is more about
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you know managing within an organization
being that you know the CFO or the
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budget officer whatever within an
organization public finances about how
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public institutions raise money and
spend money and the kinds of students
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who are attracted to this are imagining
careers as budget analysts chief
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financial officers business or
investment analysts finance directors
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those kinds of those kinds of jobs the
international program is one of our
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specializations they get their own room
and their own table so I won't go into a
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lot of detail here I'll just say that it
tends to focus focus on International
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Development there's becoming somewhat
there's something of a change a little
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bit more in the area of International
Affairs international relations if you
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end up having questions about that we
might be able to help you or we can send
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you over okay management management and
leadership so we just changed our name I
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lead the management specialization so
we've been management for years but we
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realized that we were teach
both management and leadership and we
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also really feel that people need to
learn both sets of skills so we decided
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to rename ourselves in the and we are
training people to be managers in public
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and nonprofit organizations some schools
have separate programs and nonprofit
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management separate and public
management we believe that people are
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probably going to be crossing those
lines a lot so we prepare people for for
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actually for management jobs in
for-profit organizations as well so the
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idea is you get a set of skills that you
can take anywhere and the kinds of
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students who are more likely to be in
this in this specialization they imagine
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themselves as being executive directors
or CEOs a lot of them are in fundraising
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and development program directors
consulting consulting is an increasing
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area of interest for our students across
the board including in management
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foundation staff those are some of the
some of the roles that that management
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student may play public policy analysis
often not always but often attract
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students who have a passion for a
particular area criminal justice the
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environment education health care often
those students end up in the policy
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specialization and they take courses in
policy formation policy development they
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also take additional statistics courses
as part of that specialization and they
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often go into positions as advocates for
a particular policy area but also
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analysts people public policy analysts
who who try to determine the impact of
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particular policies compare the impact
of multiple policies these folks may
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also end up as the staff of legislative
legislators legislative aides they may
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also work in you know various city
departments or you know kind of agency
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staff and then finally we have our
longest the most the longest named
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specialization Social Impact innovation
and investment we call it SI cubed
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because again we can't really say these
words all at the same time and this is
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also one of our newer specializations
we're really excited about it and it
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combines students there are required to
take coursework in
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entrepreneurship policy formation finance
operations many and several other areas
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as well and these folks are going to end
up in a few different places they may be
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very interested in creating a startup
and we have a couple of startups more
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than more than a couple of startups that
have come out of Wagner that we're very
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proud of these students might want to be
intrapreneurs meaning they may want to
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start a new program but within an
existing organization and some of them
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want to use the tools of investment and
finance to you know advocate and push for
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social change and not just for their own
for their own profit so those are the
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specializations I'm gonna stop here
again see if anyone wants to add
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anything
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ok that's exciting
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Thank You Kathy thank you okay that's
good that's good
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all right so let's talk a little bit
about capstone I'm sure you've been
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hearing about it
capstone is the end event for all our
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MPA students students work in teams of
three to five and you work on a project
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for a client organization virtually all
students do and you work you know the
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class starts in September it ends in May
so you're working for a full academic
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year on a project and that means that
the projects are very substantial very
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substantive and that's why you know
capstone is really at the heart of
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bringing our students together with
theory and practice and so you can see
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the the projects and the students these
are the numbers for this year but this
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is roughly what we have every year
here's a you know a handful of clients I
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chose some to kind of give you a sense
of the range of the kind of clients that
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we have some of them will be familiar to
you I can imagine the World Bank a
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number of different New York City
departments our clients. Achieve Mission
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Consulting is a small boutique
consulting firm for nonprofits they work
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in talent development and leadership
development and Empatico is a really
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interesting organization it was started
by the guy and I should know his name it
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was started by the guy who created Kind
bars you know those bars that are now
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ubiquitous like they're absolutely
everywhere the nuts you know so he's he
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got obviously made lots of money decided
to use some of it to create an
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organization called in Empatico which is
about it's a start-up it brings together
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students in US classrooms with students
in classrooms in other countries and
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uses you know a variety of virtual
technologies to bring them together
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legal services here in New York City and
elsewhere Outward-bound Peacebuilding
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you probably imagine you've heard of
Outward-bound you know people I was
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always terrified to do it but I really
was very impressed by the people who
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chose to do it you go off into the woods
and you have to spend three days not
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eating anything so they use lots of
there's a lot like very serious
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team-building techniques and and and and
great stuff and so they've started
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taking those techniques and applying
them to peacebuilding so they go into
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areas areas you might imagine in the
Middle East, northern Ireland areas and
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bring together people in conflict and
try to use those same tools Rocky
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Mountain Institute is does research
consulting convening around issues of
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sustainability and especially the energy
and Urban Strategies Council you know
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very proudly proclaims that it's it's
about economic political social racial
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justice so again just a just a
smattering of our of our capstone
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clients so we um so I co-direct capstone
very proud of capstone and very very
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proud of the quality of the work that
our capstone students do so we ask our
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clients to evaluate the students work at
two different points we do it right at
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the end of the when the product is
handed over to the client in May and
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then we do it again six months later so
we have a really good sense so these are
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these are the numbers from last year so
this is on the clients on receiving
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their project you know and they're
immediately upon completion and you can
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see how highly they ranked the quality
of the project whether the students were
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responsive to their organization really
nice numbers there oops and then this is
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six months later so six months later
people are saying 80% saying that works
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having at least summit lasting impact
83% we're implementing at least some of
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the team's recommendations 90% the work
is having at least some lasting impact
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on my organization and I have to tell
you those numbers compare very favorably
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with the work of paid consultants
our great numbers so I'm gonna leave
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things there mostly I just want to say
again we're thrilled to have you and we
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really hope that we'll see you in August
and our new student retreat
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