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"Diverse Issues in Higher Education" featured President Marvin Krislov's piece "Protecting the Dreams of Immigrant Students"
June is Immigration Heritage Month. It’s a time to celebrate American diversity, to celebrate the stories of those — like my mother and my grandparents — who came to this country and worked hard to succeed here, and to admire the bravery and perseverance of today’s immigrants, striving to achieve the American Dream.
It’s also time to redouble our efforts to support the roughly 700,000 young people, called Dreamers, who were brought to America as children and are protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It’s a program the Trump administration is trying to end.
Three federal courts have prevented the administration from stopping the program, and the Supreme Court earlier this year let those rulings stand. But Congress and the administration have been unable to reach an agreement on its a future, and a new case in Texas threatens to bring DACA back to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, student recipients are stuck in limbo — protected for now but uncertain how long that will last, and, even worse, ineligible for federal financial aid programs. State and college-based aid programs vary.
At Pace, we are, as we always have been, dedicated to providing access to the power of education for students from all backgrounds. We value immigrant students, and we provide them financial aid — including merit-based aid to Dreamers.
At a time when other countries are increasing their R&D spending and investing more and more in STEM students, many Dreamers are highly educated, ambitious young people who are interested in these fields. They inject talent and entrepreneurialism into today’s job market. They help expand our economy — on the whole, immigrants don’t take jobs away, because it’s not a zero-sum question. They keep the United States internationally competitive. And while international students earn nearly half of U.S. engineering and computer science degrees, those numbers are shrinking. We need to make these students more welcome, not less.
Beyond that, in a time when business is global, a student body composed of many cultures and nationalities helps all students learn how to operate in a global economy. This kind of exposure and understanding is a central part of education today. Even if a student graduating into the workforce this spring doesn’t leave the United States for the rest of their life, they’ll still have to deal with international customers, international vendors, or the global supply chain at some point in their careers. Immigrants help prepare fellow students for today’s workplace.
Pace was founded more than a century ago as an accounting college, to help aspiring business-minded students work their way into the middle class. Our fields of instruction have expanded — today we’re producing nurses and physicians’ assistants, app developers and cybersecurity experts, educators and lawyers, actors and writers, and, yes, still plenty of accountants — but our mission remains the same. We provide access to a quality education for ambitious young strivers, regardless of background. Pace does not ask about immigration status of prospective students or their parents, but we know that almost half of this year’s first-year students say they’re the first in their families to attend college.
A U.S. Department of Education study found that first-generation immigrant students make up 13.5 percent of domestic undergraduates in New York State, and second-generation immigrants make up another 22 percent. That means that more than a third of the state’s undergraduates are immigrant students — and that doesn’t include undocumented immigrants. Additionally, the Department of Homeland Security says that more than 43,000 Dreamers have applied and been approved for DACA in New York State. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 25 percent of them were in post-secondary education, meaning that there around 11,000 Dreamers in New York’s colleges and universities.
I see what immigrant students and alumni at Pace can accomplish. I see what Dreamers at Pace can accomplish. I think of Lisdy Contreras-Giron, a Pace undergraduate who “came out” as Dreamer after President Trump announced his attention to end the program last September. “With me choosing to come out, it’s because I am proud,” she said at a campus event. “Being a Dreamer, as we are identified, is not just being a Dreamer. We are your neighbors, we are peers, we are your classmates, we are your children’s babysitters, your nurses.”
Like the best of Pace students, Lisdy is smart, striving, and ambitious. She’s a valuable addition to the Pace community, and she’s a valuable addition to this country. We need students like her, both Dreamers and immigrants, and the country, needs them, too. Let’s hope that Congress and the president can use the time afforded by the Supreme Court’s move this week to find a way forward that is inclusive, fair, and beneficial — not just for Dreamers but for the country.
Marvin Krislov is president of Pace University.
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"Broadway World" featured Lubin alumni in "Pace University Gets A Seat At The Tony Awards"
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Pace Goes to the Tony Awards
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"Politifact" featured Dyson Professor Andy Crosby in "Is CPS the most understaffed district in Illinois?"
"Broadway World" featured Lubin alumni in "Pace University Gets A Seat At The Tony Awards"
Two Pace University graduates have been recognized for their work by the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee will present the 2018 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry and among them is Pace alumnus Bruce Barish and his wife, Sarah Barish. Bruce earned a management degree from Pace's Lubin School of Business in 1986.
The story goes back more than a century. In 1908 Ernest Winzer was the Master Drycleaner and Dyer to the Broadway stage productions of the day. Family folklore has it that Winzer began by handling the costumes worn by Broadway greats like George M. Cohan, Helen Hayes, Laurette Taylor, the Barrymores and Billie Burke. Today, Bruce Barish, is the third generation of the Steinhorn family to preside over Ernest Winzer Cleaners. In keeping with his grandfather's service philosophy, Bruce takes personal responsibility for seeing to it that Winzer always satisfies demands of its most discriminating customer. He takes particular joy in indulging his personal passion for garment restoration work, an expertise he shared with his grandfather, Al.
"We see stuff the average cleaner would never know what to do with - beaded stuff, hand-painted stuff," Barish told the New York Post. Their busiest time is Sunday night, when their trucks pick up the costumes after the shows. Barish and his crew get up at midnight to begin cleaning and mending.
Recent graduate, Reilly Hickey has been nominated for a Tony for her work as a producer on the Broadway show "Once On This Island." The whimsical show is up for a total of eight Tony Award nominations including "Best Musical Revival." Hickey was an honors student and worked on the show while she was a student. She graduated last week with her Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Entertainment Management from Pace's Lubin School of Business. The ceremony took place at Radio City Music Hall.
"One of the unique opportunities that comes with getting a business education in New York is the exposure to theater and the opportunity to apply what you learn to something you love," said Lubin School Dean Neil Braun. "It's exciting to see Lubin alumni leveraging their education to fulfill their career aspirations. Lubin business majors also have the advantage of being able to specialize in specific areas of interest such as Arts and Entertainment Management."
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"Broadway World" featured Lubin alumni in "Pace University Gets A Seat At The Tony Awards"
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"Inside Higher Ed" featured Pace University in "Let’s Focus Innovation on Social Mobility"
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"Politifact" featured Dyson Professor Andy Crosby in "Is CPS the most understaffed district in Illinois?"
Press Release: Pace University Goes To the Tony Awards
Two alumni from Pace’s Lubin School of Business recognized for their work in the theater industry; Reilly Hickey nominated for a Tony Award as a producer, and
Bruce Barish to be awarded an “Excellence in Theatre Award”
Two Pace University graduates have been recognized for their work by the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards®.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee will present the 2018 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre to outstanding contributors to the Broadway industry and among them is Pace alumnus Bruce Barish and his wife, Sarah Barish. Bruce earned a management degree from Pace’s Lubin School of Business in 1986.
The story goes back more than a century. In 1908 Ernest Winzer was the Master Drycleaner and Dyer to the Broadway stage productions of the day. Family folklore has it that Winzer began by handling the costumes worn by Broadway greats like George M. Cohan, Helen Hayes, Laurette Taylor, the Barrymores and Billie Burke. Today, Bruce Barish, is the third generation of the Steinhorn family to preside over Ernest Winzer Cleaners. In keeping with his grandfather’s service philosophy, Bruce takes personal responsibility for seeing to it that Winzer always satisfies demands of its most discriminating customer. He takes particular joy in indulging his personal passion for garment restoration work, an expertise he shared with his grandfather, Al.
“We see stuff the average cleaner would never know what to do with — beaded stuff, hand-painted stuff,” Barish told the New York Post. Their busiest time is Sunday night, when their trucks pick up the costumes after the shows. Barish and his crew get up at midnight to begin cleaning and mending.
Recent graduate, Reilly Hickey has been nominated for a Tony for her work as a producer on the Broadway show “Once On This Island.” The whimsical show is up for a total of eight Tony Award nominations including “Best Musical Revival.” Hickey was an honors student and worked on the show while she was a student. She graduated last week with her Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and Entertainment Management from Pace’s Lubin School of Business. The ceremony took place at Radio City Music Hall.
“One of the unique opportunities that comes with getting a business education in New York is the exposure to theater and the opportunity to apply what you learn to something you love,” said Lubin School Dean Neil Braun. “It’s exciting to see Lubin alumni leveraging their education to fulfill their career aspirations. Lubin business majors also have the advantage of being able to specialize in specific areas of interest such as Arts and Entertainment Management.”
The American Theatre Wing’s 72nd Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, will air on the CBS Television Network on Sunday, June 10, 2018 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET) live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Tony Awards, which honors theatre professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway, has been broadcast on CBS since 1978. The Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
About the Lubin School of Business at Pace University: Globally recognized and prestigiously accredited, the Lubin School of Business integrates New York City’s business world into the experienced-based education of its students at Pace’s suburban and downtown campuses, implemented by one of the region’s largest co-op programs, team-based learning, and customized career guidance. Its programs are designed to launch success-oriented graduates toward upwardly mobile careers. www.pace.edu/lubin
About Pace University: Since 1906, Pace has educated thinking professionals by providing high quality education for the professions on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, Pace has campuses in Lower Manhattan and Westchester County, NY, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, College of Health Professions, School of Education, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. A 2017 study by the Equality of Opportunity Project ranks Pace University first in the nation among four-year private institutions for upward economic mobility based on students who enter college at the bottom fifth of the income distribution and end up in the top fifth. www.pace.edu
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"Broadway World" featured Lubin alumni in "Pace University Gets A Seat At The Tony Awards"
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"Inside Higher Ed" featured Pace University in "Let’s Focus Innovation on Social Mobility"
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"Politifact" featured Dyson Professor Andy Crosby in "Is CPS the most understaffed district in Illinois?"
"Education Dive" featured a video of President Marvin Krislov speaking about his first year at the helm of Pace University in "Video: Presidents reflect on proudest moments from 2018 commencements"
Commencement represents the culmination of a journey for students, but few realize it represents the same for the administrators who walked with them. For first-time presidents, the magnitude of the responsibilities they carry to ensure the success of future generations may hit them as they look out on the sea of faces. For others, new and seasoned, recognizing the individual triumphs of the students who walk across the stage, knowing their stories and what they had to overcome to get to that moment is validation of the importance of their work — it's easy to get bogged down in meetings and administrative tasks, but graduation exercises are the most glaring reminder that the job is really about the students and their success.
We asked four university presidents to reflect on their commencement exercises and share the moments that most stuck out to them. Here's what they had to say:
Trinity University President Patricia McGuire excitedly reflected on the accomplishments of the college's first class of graduating Deferred Action for Child Arrivals.
Marvin Krislov and Pareena Lawrence just finished their first year at the helm of Pace University and Hollins University, respectively. Krisolov said he was particularly moved by the stories of individual students at his institution as well.
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"Inside Higher Ed" featured Pace University in "Let’s Focus Innovation on Social Mobility"
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"Politifact" featured Dyson Professor Andy Crosby in "Is CPS the most understaffed district in Illinois?"
"CNN" featured Pace Law School Professor Paul Rafelson's piece in "Why Amazon Prime should be free to everyone"
Paul Rafelson is a tax attorney representing online merchants. He is an adjunct professor at Pace Law School in New York and the executive director of Online Merchants Guild. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
If you were looking for proof that Amazon is leveraging its ever-expanding shipping and distribution capacity to clobber every last competitor and become the go-to seller of everything, here is some: The tech giant announced in April that Prime, its $119-per-year subscription service that offers unlimited two-day shipping on most orders, has surpassed 100 million members.
At the same time Bed Bath & Beyond, among the major retailers buckling under the online competition led by Amazon, saw its stock hit a nearly 10-year low in April.
How did Amazon's delivery-on-demand subscription service get so big so fast?
The answer: taxpayer dollars and the decimation of our local economies.
State governments have diverted vast sums of money from local education initiatives, infrastructure projects and small businesses to help Amazon build warehouses, data centers and just about every other pillar of the Prime network.
After more than a decade of states fueling Prime's expansion, helping Amazon pad its coffers and protecting its price advantage, it is time to explore whether the Prime shipping and distribution network should be open to all without fees.
Since it was launched in 2005, Prime has become the retail equivalent of the "Death Star," capable of obliterating decades-old businesses. The platform is under the exclusive control of the Amazon empire, a remarkable feat for CEO Jeff Bezos, who cut his teeth on Wall Street. But while many like to attribute the growth of Prime to Bezos' business acuity, the true story of its success is the unprecedented taxpayer support Amazon has gotten from all levels of government.
Prime was able to spring into existence because states and even the federal government allowed Amazon to be the exception to seemingly every rule. For example, the publicly subsidized US Postal Service had a rule that it would not deliver mail on Sundays -- that is, until 2013, when Amazon cut a deal with the post office to get the Sunday delivery restriction lifted, at least for Amazon and Priority Mail Express parcels.
At the state level, Amazon has scored a staggering $241 million in subsidies since 2015, according to research done by Thomas Cafcas and Greg LeRoy for Good Jobs First, an advocacy group that tracks public subsidies. These have come in the form of property tax abatements, corporate income tax credits and, perhaps most importantly, sales tax exemptions.
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"Inside Higher Ed" featured Pace University in "Let’s Focus Innovation on Social Mobility"
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"Politifact" featured Dyson Professor Andy Crosby in "Is CPS the most understaffed district in Illinois?"
"The Atlantic" featured Pace University's President Marvin Krislov in "The Schools That Are Bringing Poor Kids Into the Middle Class"
The evidence is clear: A college degree is, in most cases, the key to more money and a more comfortable standard of living. But that pathway to higher earnings is more available to some than others: A lot of elite colleges do not enroll a lot of low-income students, and as a result they’re not boosting very many students from low-income households into the middle and upper classes. Dozens of top colleges and universities have more students from the top 1 percent of the income scale than the bottom 60 percent, as The New York Times pointed out last year. And that’s a problem if colleges hope to escape the common critique that they are little more than a finishing school for the elite. But there are institutions—a lot of them—that have strong track records of improving the socioeconomic fortunes of students. If higher education is supposed to be the great equalizer, these institutions—from community colleges to public regional four-year colleges like Cal State and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County—are the ones that are doing the most work.
Last week in Los Angeles, at the Education Writers Association’s annual seminar, I moderated a panel featuring a handful of people who are thinking a lot about the socioeconomic mobility of students, and more fundamentally, the purpose of higher education. The panel, which included Marvin Krislov, the president of Pace University; Dianne Harrison, the president of California State University, Northridge; and Allan Golston, of the Gates Foundation, had a few recommendations. Colleges should be actively recruiting and enrolling low-income students—and that means more than targeting ads to prospective students on social media. It means a commitment to going where they are—areas that a lot of schools do not typically recruit—and demystifying the process of going to college. Then they should be supporting students with resources when the students get to campus—whether it’s writing centers, generous financial aid packages, or simply empathetic academic advisors who perhaps came from low-income backgrounds themselves. And it is also preparing students for jobs after college and building relationships with businesses that ease the process of finding post-graduation employment for students, especially for those whose parents don’t have their own professional networks.
Pace ranks first among private colleges in catapulting its students from the lowest rungs of the income scale and into the middle and upper class, according to data from the Equality of Opportunity Project, a massive research undertaking on social mobility led by the economist Raj Chetty. “We know that there are a lot of ways in which people of privilege benefit from their college years or having unpaid internships or having the social capital to get certain jobs,” Krislov said. But colleges can fill those gaps, particularly for low-income students, helping students get jobs, or buoying them with programs that help them land paid internships with top companies. “We provide strong networks, not only through alumni, but through faculty and staff as well. And that way we help a new generation, a new, socioeconomically diverse generation, achieve the American dream.”
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Press Release: Pace University’s School of Education and College of Health Professions Launch New Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs this Fall
Pace University is launching a Bachelor of Science program in Early Childhood Education in lower Manhattan and in Westchester as well as a new Master of Science program in Nutrition and Dietetics at its campus in Pleasantville.
The Early Childhood Education program prepares students to support the learning and development of all young children and includes a cultural competence component to prepare students to better serve children who come from diverse backgrounds. The program works with family and community partnerships but also focuses on using developmentally effective approaches to build a meaningful curriculum for young children.
The Early Childhood Education program leads to a bachelor’s degree and the New York State initial teaching certificate in Early Childhood Education (birth - grade 2). The program is full-time, and students advance through the program as a cohort, with required education courses offered in specific semesters which helps support graduation in four years.
“This new undergraduate program underscores the importance of Early Childhood Education,” said Xiao-lei Wang, PhD, Acting Dean of Pace’s School of Education. "High-quality early childhood education is a powerful means to promote continued success in school and in life, and the School of Education is pleased to add it to our academic programs.”
“Our aim is to prepare teachers who will support the development of the whole child, by promoting learning, growth, and social connections,” said School of Education Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator Raquel Plotka, Ph.D.
For students with a taste for food science and health, Pace University’s College of Health Professions (CHP) is launching a new coordinated Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics program. The program will offer concentrations in culinary nutrition and food policy while also fully preparing students to practice nutrition in a clinical setting.
The two-year, full-time coordinated program is the only one in the area where students are matched with and complete their internship of 1,200 required dietetic hours while attending classes. This model allows students to immediately apply their skills and knowledge in real life environments, including local food and hunger organizations, restaurants, hospitals, markets and farms.
Students in the program will be trained to serve as responsible practitioners, leaders, and innovators who will make positive impacts on nutrition outcomes. Students will share CHP’s Inter-professional Center for Healthcare Simulation with other health professions disciplines. Graduates of this program will be eligible to take the Registered Dietitian exam.
Dr. Christen Cupples Cooper, EdD, RDN, a Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist (RDN) food and nutrition researcher is the Assistant Professor who founded the program. Dr. Cooper says: “Our aim is to educate a group of students who go into the workforce with the skills to help people to make healthful food choices, cook affordably and deliciously and lead happy, productive lives. We emphasize hands-on learning, enjoyment of food and promoting lifelong good health.”
“We are delighted to add Nutrition and Dietetics to our growing academic programs in the College of Health Professions,” said Harriet R. Feldman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean of Pace’s College of Health Professions. “This program offers great opportunities for inter-professional collaboration across our College.”
Both programs are accepting applications for Fall 2018. To learn more about the programs or to apply for fall, visit Early Childhood Education or Nutrition and Dietetics.
About Pace University: Since 1906, Pace has educated thinking professionals by providing high quality education for the professions on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, Pace has campuses in Lower Manhattan and Westchester County, NY, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, College of Health Professions, School of Education, Elisabeth Haub School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. A 2017 study by the Equality of Opportunity Project ranks Pace University first in the nation among four-year private institutions for upward economic mobility based on students who enter college at the bottom fifth of the income distribution and end up in the top fifth. http://www.pace.edu