Public Affairs and Government

The School of Public Affairs presents the Peter F. Vallone, Sr. Seminars in Government 2007-2008 Lectures Series. This program provides a forum for leading policymakers, scholars, and influential personalities in city government to debate hot issues on politics and government. This seminar focuses on how to deal with declining revenues in New York State and the City. Panelists include E.J. McMahon...

The School of Public Affairs presents the Peter F. Vallone, Sr. Seminars in Government 2007-2008 Lectures Series. This program provides a forum for leading policymakers, scholars, and influential personalities in city government to debate hot issues on politics and government. This seminar focuses on the issue of congestion in New York City and the New York congestion pricing - one component of Ne...

The School of Public Affairs presents the Peter F. Vallone, Sr. Seminars in Government Lectures Series. This program provides a forum for leading policymakers, scholars, and influential personalities in city government to debate hot issues on politics and government. This seminar focuses on youth media, mainly the Internet and its impact on politics and civil engagement. Panelists include Jon Auer...

The School of Public Affairs presents the Peter F. Vallone, Sr. Seminars in Government, 2007-2008 Lectures Series. This program provides a forum for leading policymakers, scholars, and influential personalities in city government to debate hot issues on politics and government. This seminar focuses on the role of lobbying at the State and City levels and the fine line between providing information...

Sponsored by the Baruch College School of Public Affairs (SPA), Newman Library, and the New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC), the 2nd Annual Census Workshop Series focus on mapping and spatial analysis. This is the third workshop of the series. Glenn Deane, Department of Sociology, SUNY, Albany, gives a non-technical overview of geospatial statistical methods. Robin Leichenko, Department...

Sponsored by the Baruch College School of Public Affairs (SPA), Newman Library, and the New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC), the 2nd Annual Census Workshop Series focus on mapping and spatial analysis. This is the first workshop of the series. Deborah Balk, Associate Professor, SPA, Baruch College, delivers a keynote presentation on "Insights from Spatial Analysis and Exploration of Data...

The Center for Innovation and Leadership in Government presents a panel discussion on "A Post Election View: New Coalitions, New Politics, Race, Gender, Youth & More". Professor Sonia R. Jarvis, Director of the Center on Equality, Pluralism and Policy (CEPP), moderates the discussion. Panelists include: Micheline Blum, Distinguished Lecturer, Director of Baruch College Survey Research, Baruch Coll...

The New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC) provides academic researchers with a unique opportunity to access selected confidential Census microdata in physically secure facilities at Cornell University and Baruch College. The NYCRDC is a consortium of 15 universities and research institutions in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. This is the second workshop of a series sponsored by the N...

The New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC) provides academic researchers with a unique opportunity to access selected confidential Census microdata in physically secure facilities at Cornell University and Baruch College. The NYCRDC is a consortium of 15 universities and research institutions in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. This is the third workshop of a series sponsored by the NY...

The Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management of the School of Public Affairs presents the seminar "Using Research and Evaluation to Improve Services and Operations." Tony Hannigan, Executive Director, Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS), and Aaron Levitt, Director of Research and Evaluation, CUCS, discuss how CUCS uses research and evaluation to reduce chronic homelessness and assist lo...

The Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management of the School of Public Affairs presents the seminar "Mergers and Acquisitions In a Nonprofit Context". Michael Rochford, Executive Director, St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corporation, and Stephan Russo, Executive Director, Goddard Riverside Community Center discuss their organizations' strategic alliances with merger partners. Other speake...

Baruch College School of Public Affairs presents the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series on Equality and Justice in America: "Religion and the Law: The Virtue of Tolerance." Religious leaders address urgent questions such as to what extent government should regulate or intervene in the activities of religious organizations or individual members of diverse religious groups to promote civic ha...

Baruch College School of Public Affairs presents a series of events at the Fourth Annual Public Affairs Week. At the first night of the Week, two panelists speak on "Keeping New York City Affordable": Susan Fainstein, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Design School; and Peter D. Salins, Professor of Political Science, SUNY at Stony Brook. Susan Fainstein is a Professor of Planning i...

Felix Rohatyn, Former U.S. Ambassador to France (1997-2000) is interviewed by Dall Forsyth, Professor of Public Policy at New York University. Ambassador Rohatyn reflects upon New York City's 1970s financial crisis thirty years after and discusses his perspectives and views on the fiscal crisis and related topics. The interview is conducted on July 10, 2007 at Baruch College.

"Baruch College School of Public Affairs presents a series of events at the Fourth Annual Public Affairs Week. At the second night of the Week, two panelists speak on ""Closing the Educational Achievement Gap"": Herman Badillo, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; and Richard Rothstein, Research Associate, Economic Policy Institute. Herman Badillo is a former U.S. Congressman, D...

"Baruch College School of Public Affairs presents a series of events at the Fourth Annual Public Affairs Week. At the fourth night of the Week, two panelists speak on "" The 2008 Elections: Can the Winning Strategy include 'Real' Debate? "": Ed Rollins, Former White House Political Director and Republican Strategist, The Rollins Strategy Group; and Robert P. Zimmerman, Democratic Strategist and Fu...

The Career Service Office (CSO) and Alumni Chapter of the School of Public Affairs (SPA) present " Woman and Work: Addressing the Issues ." Cynthia Thompson, Professor of Management, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, discusses her 30 years of research on work and family. Other panelists include Westina Matthews Shatteen, Ph. D, Managing Director, Community Business Development, Merrill L...

"The New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC) provides academic researchers with a unique opportunity to access selected confidential Census microdata in physically secure facilities at Cornell University and Baruch College. The NYCRDC is a consortium of 15 universities and research institutions in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. This is the first workshop of a series sponsored by the N...

Gale A. Brewer, New York City Council member - District 6, and Chair of City Council Committee on Technology in Government, speaks about how to make better use of technology to save money, improve public services, make government information more accessible to the pubic, and bring residents, businesses and non-profits closer to government and their communities, etc. A Q&A session follows. James Kr...

A panel of administrators and executives in nonprofit organizations discuss the role of the nonprofit board in strengthening organizations, and strategies of organizational transformation through board and staff partnerships in strategic planning and changing the board's culture. Panelists include Robin Bernstein, President and CEO of Educational Alliance; Michael Davidson, (Chair) Principal, Nonp...

Lorie Slutsky, President, New York Community Trust, speaks at the Nonprofit Seminar by School of Public Affairs (SPA), Nonprofit Group. Topics cover how donor intent be ensured and interpreted by foundations and grantees, and the special roles community foundations such as New York Community Trust play to make it easy for people to be philanthropists and to meet changing community needs over time....

"A panel of current and former leaders from New York City and State Government discuss the city/state relations at the Peter F. Vallone, Sr. Seminar in Government. Titled ""'Odious and Oppressive': New York City/State Relations"", the panel draws its name from former New York City mayor (1855-1858, 1860-1863) Fernando Wood’s description of frictions between city and state government, explore the r...

The Fund for the Advancement of Social Services (FASS) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) New York City Chapter co-sponsor a forum on the reassessment of the Safety Net, a collection of services provided by the state such as welfare, unemployment insurance, universal healthcare, homeless shelters to prevent any individual from falling into poverty beyond a certain level. Panelis...

"Baruch hosts a wide-ranging discussion on politics and policies with Representative Charles Rangel, senior member of New York’s Congressional delegation. Rangel is introduced by Baruch President Kathleen Waldron, and interviewed by Professor Douglas Muzzio of the School of Public Affairs about the effect of recent House and Senate elections on domestic and foreign policy. The event takes place on...