Winter 2021
When Roz told her high school guidance counselor that she was planning on attending college, he dismissed the idea as a pipe dream. He believed she wouldn’t be accepted, and even if she was, wouldn’t be smart enough to earn a degree. But she succeeded despite her guidance counselor’s worry. Not long after graduation, she was studying at Pace University.
Roz excelled at Pace. She earned her AAS in accounting at Pace in 1967, then her BBA in finance in 1973. Not only did she graduate college, she...
Spring 2020
The Pace Proud Tour hit the road this year, visiting some of our more than 150,000 alumni across the country! We finished the year off here in NYC at our annual Alumni Holiday Party.
After retiring from Blackstone in 2018, Pace University trustee David Z. Hirsh ’84 expanded his focus on the communities and causes dear to him by investing more of his time and energy into his philanthropy. In addition to his support of THANC (Thyroid, Head and Neck Cancer) Foundation, CaringKind, and NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, Hirsh deepened his impact through a greater commitment to his alma mater by not only providing continued financial support but also by being generous with his...
By Jillian Gorry ’11, ’21
These Pace women in STEM are rockin’ it in the labs, in the field, and in the industry. They’re collaborating across disciplines and pushing the limits on cutting-edge research—not to mention, they’re helping young women follow in their footsteps.
Quick! Picture a scientist in a lab.
Now, picture a web developer.
Next, picture a researcher.
Pop quiz: were the people you pictured men?
If you said yes, you wouldn’t be alone. And don’t worry, we won’t hold it against you. We promise.
These stereotypes, while pervasive, are far from the reality—especially at Pace.
STEM (read: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields are social fields. Across industries, STEM fields comprise a deeply...
By Alyssa Cressotti ’08, ’18
Many of us claim we’ll “keep in touch” after graduating, not entirely sure if it will really happen. For these Setters, however, keeping in touch isn’t simply a social nicety—it’s a major component of their lives, and by reconnecting in style, they’ve continued to reinforce and strengthen lasting bonds first made during their college years. Meet a few alumni who, through trips, rituals, and serendipitous run-ins, have extended their collegiality well beyond graduation.
Girls Trip
“I had never been to Jamaica, and our friend—who was from there—asked if I wanted to come along and I said yes,” recalls Gina Caro ’96. “And then, before you knew it, all five of us were going to Jamaica.”
For Caro and fellow Pace alumnae Raquel Muñoz ’95, Nicole Phillips-Moody ’96, Diana Reyna ’96, and Nadine Wallace ’96, this first trip was the start of something magical. “That first trip, we were just out of college, and we were in a suite, but jam-...
This spring, Pace University added three new members to its Board of Trustees.
1. The Winner’s Circle
Lubin School of Business graduate students Hifza Rahim ’19, Sushmitha Mudda ’20, and Manushi Dave ’20 won the A+E Networks’ 2019 Interactive Case Competition! Their innovative new streaming model, which capitalizes on ad skipping, beat out the competition. They qualified as one of the top four teams in the first round, and in the second, they beat out the likes of Carnegie Mellon, NYU, and Drexel. By the end, all three Setters swept the competition and won first prize.
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Pace University welcomed gutsy women to the Pleasantville Campus on December 18, as Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton shared stories from their new book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience, a celebration of more than 100 trailblazing women throughout history who stood up to the status quo, asked hard questions, and got the job done. The last stop on the Gutsy Women tour for 2019, the event was moderated by acclaimed singer and actress and...