Call for Proposals: Social Justice Week 2023

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Want to host an event during Pace’s fourth annual Social Justice Week? Apply by Tuesday, September 26. Read the article to learn more about the origins of Social Justice Week and how to get involved.

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construction paper hands reaching for a globe

Pace’s fourth annual Social Justice Week is taking place the week of October 29. This week of learning and reflection is designed to offer an ongoing memorial for Pace student Danroy “DJ” Henry, and to further commit Pace University to social justice and anti-racism.

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A community-driven effort, the week aims to offer original programming that adheres to values of equity and justice and engages the campus community in learning activities and dialogue centered on the issues of social justice. Social Justice Week seeks to create brave spaces that challenge white supremacy among other forms of oppression and to create a starting point from which meaningful dialogue and action can be created for the entire Pace Community.

See last year's events for inspiration.

Get Involved!

This week consists of events hosted by the Pace Community, including students, staff, faculty, departments, and student organizations across the three Pace campuses. If you are interested in hosting an event, you can learn more and apply here. The deadline to apply is September 26. If you would like to be considered for funding for your event, please apply by September 22.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please email socialjusticeweek@pace.edu.

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Professor Margot Pollans appointed James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for 2023-2025

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The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Professor Margot Pollans has been appointed as James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023-2025 term.

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Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Professor Margot Pollans

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to announce that Professor Margot Pollans has been appointed as James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023-2025 term.

The title of James D. Hopkins Professor of Law is awarded to a member of the faculty for a two-year term in recognition of outstanding scholarship and teaching. The designation is considered to be among the Law School’s most significant faculty honors. The Hopkins Professor is selected by the Dean in consultation with the former holders of the Hopkins Chair. During the holder’s term, the James D. Hopkins Professor delivers a lecture that is open to the entire law school community and members of the public.

“Since joining the faculty in 2015, Professor Pollans has been a leader in building the national reputation of the Pace Food Law Center. Her scholarship in food and agriculture law, administrative law, and social justice, has been published in prestigious law journals and recognized by her peers including with Haub Law’s distinguished Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship in 2022. We are honored to have her serve as our next Hopkins Professor,” remarked Dean Horace E. Anderson Jr.

From 2021 to 2023, Professor Pollans was the Shamik and Adrienne Trivedi Faculty Scholar at Haub Law. Her scholarship in food and agriculture law, administrative law, and social justice has appeared in a variety of journals including in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review. She is also the co-author of a casebook, Food Law: Cases & Materials.

At Haub Law, Professor Pollans is the Faculty Director of the Pace Food Law Center and teaches Agriculture Law and the Environment, Food Systems Law, Property Law, and Administrative Law. She is also part of the Farm Bill Law Enterprise, a national partnership of law school programs working toward a farm bill that reflects the long-term needs of our society, including economic opportunity and stability, public health and nutrition, climate change mitigation and adaptation, public resources stewardship, and racial and socioeconomic justice.

Before joining Haub Law, Professor Pollans was the inaugural academic fellow at UCLA School of Law’s Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy. Previously, she was a Staff Attorney and Clinical Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation, where she worked on a range of environmental litigation and supervised student clinicians. Following law school, Pollans clerked for the Honorable David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In 2017, she was named “40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Food Policy” by the NYC Food Policy Center.

The James D. Hopkins Professor of Law is an endowed chair, which was established with contributions from alumni of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and members of the legal community in honor of Judge James D. Hopkins, who served as Interim Dean of the Law School from 1982 to 1983. His distinguished service to society and to the legal community was a shining example of the life one should live in the law.

Immediately prior to the appointment of Professor Pollans, Professor Noa Ben-Asher served as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law. Learn more about the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law chair and its past recipients.

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Important Information Regarding the MOVEIt Data Breach

As recently reported, a major data breach is affecting millions of people. The breach involved exploiting a security vulnerability with the file transfer tool MOVEit, which is used by several organizations that work alongside Pace University.

As recently reported, a major data breach is affecting millions of people. The breach involved exploiting a security vulnerability with the file transfer tool MOVEit, which is used by several organizations that work alongside Pace University.

Pace does not use the MOVEit software, however, we have been notified by our service providers, National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA), and PayFlex that personally identifiable information may have been exposed due to the use of the MOVEit software by the providers and/or their third-party vendors and partners.

Based on the information that we’ve received to date, the breach has only impacted a small portion of the Pace Community.

What Should You Do?

Those who were directly impacted by the breach will be contacted by the service providers with more information about next steps. Regardless of whether your data was exposed, it is good practice to institute the following steps to manage your personal data:

The Pace team—which includes members from ITS, Human Resources, the Office of the Registrar, University Counsel, among others—is actively monitoring the situation. The service providers will be notifying those who are affected by the breach by US Mail.

For more information, please view the more detailed information NSC has posted on their website. TIAA participants who would like additional information on safeguarding their account can contact TIAA directly at (800) 842-2252 or via email at abuse@tiaa.org. Additionally, if you have received notification that you are involved, please call the phone numbers included in the notification, as they have the most up-to-date details of the incident.

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