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“Pace University’s Dr. Darrin Porcher tells Maria Bartiromo the Manhattan District Attorney's directive not to ask for bail in many nonviolent cases is "purely political."

If the main responsibilities of correctional facilities are care, custody, and control, the New York City jail complex on Rikers Island can’t currently fulfill them. Staffing deficits have worsened many problems, including rising violence, that Rikers had already been struggling to curtail. Without enough staffing, the safety of everyone who enters Rikers’s gates—inmates and officers alike—is in jeopardy.

Legg, a professor of psychology at Pace University, reflected on her schooling... “Redemptive narratives are the life stories we make when we face adversity,’’ Legg wrote. “There are many stories I could tell about the 24 Hours at the Pawling Trail Running Festival. I’m choosing the story that Jeff Wilson’s amazing photography captured — one of community, solidarity, joy, motivation, focus, struggle, friendships, love, and ultimately, success.”

The debate shouldn’t be either cotton totes or plastic bags, because when we do so, “we end up in an environmental what-about-ism that leaves consumers with the idea that there is no solution,” Melanie Dupuis, a professor of environmental studies and science at Pace University, told The New York Times.

Pace University Public Administration Professor Sheying Chen was invited as part of a global expert panel in a live show discussion aired by China Radio International (CHINA PLUS) about a growing concern regarding China’s youth nowadays. Can China’s Generation Z be called Generation Nationalists? Listen to the World Today podcast.

“We know kids in Western countries spend only 20% of their time at school, so where are they for the other 80%?” Hassinger-Das said. “They’re at home, or in the grocery store, or the park. How can we transform those everyday spaces to encourage playful learning and promote conversations between caregivers and children? We wanted to maximize these spaces and turn them into places that are fun but also support the kind of learning you do in school.”