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Pace University New York City Dyson Professor Kelley Kreitz answers the question “Why Study English?” Nathan Heller documents what may be the demise of the traditional English major as it once thrived in the wood-panelled seminar rooms of élite universities (“The End of the English Major,” March 6th). But schools of that kind make up less than five per cent of the country’s institutions of higher learning. At the other ninety-five per cent, the humanities are already combining traditional pedagogy with newer approaches. At my private, midsize university in lower Manhattan, enrollment in our English department has grown by forty-seven per cent in the past two years, to about a hundred and fifty majors. Our courses incorporate archival research and community collaboration.

The day after switching to daylight saving time, suicide rates were found to rise by 6% by Eric Osborne-Christenson, an assistant professor of economics and associate chair of the Economics Department at Pace University, as published in the journal Health Economics. While it’s still up for debate on which time will be used, research suggests that a change needs to be made.

"People are considerably more resilient than is commonly assumed, so I did not anticipate substantial mental health effects," said Anthony Mancini (opens in new tab), a clinical psychologist at Pace University who was not involved in the current study but who published similar findings in the journal Psychological Medicine (opens in new tab) in 2021. Lockdowns may have cut both ways on mental health, Mancini added. Although they ripped people from their daily routines and increased isolation, they also cut down on stressful day-to-day hassles like commuting.

Hayley Piazza, a sophomore Health Science major at Pace University was interviewed about her work to support student voters at Pace. Hayley has been working with CCAR since her first semester. Hayley discusses her passion for getting STEM students civically engaged. She also discusses her and her peer's reactions to climate change, the lack of gun control laws, and safe access to reproductive services.

Internet users shared the most confusing and hair-pulling examples of kids doing things they really shouldn’t have. We also reached out to Brenna Hassinger-Das, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pace University-NYC to learn a bit more about children’s creativity. So scroll down and upvote the stories that made you feel happy it wasn’t your kid and comment if you have any tales of your own.

“If they look at the nypd, what they are going to look at are the arrest statistics, the number of complaints, such as civilian complaints, internal affairs complaints, excessive force that was applied officers within the department,” Darrin Porcher. Pace University Professor and former NYPD Lieutenant Darrin Porcher says it's still unclear if the justice department will include the NYPD in its new review of specialized police units.

"These instances are simply the latest chapters in the recurrent global novel of white men publicly exhibiting racist behaviors and being positively rewarded," says Melvin Williams, associate professor of communication and media studies at Pace University.