Pace University News

A bank executive and the leader of the oldest bank in the United States, and one of the world's largest financial institutions, has joined Pace University's Board of Trustees, the University today announced. Thomas "Todd" Gibbons, chief executive officer at BNY Mellon based in New York City, was recently elected to the board. Gibbons earned an MBA from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University in 1986.

Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer writes about the Supreme Court decision Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., which raises the issue of whether the First Amendment prohibits public school officials from regulating off-campus student speech.

Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman says that courts “firmly” say that it is not an infringement on civil rights. “The state has the power to protect the public health, the public welfare, the public safety by requiring people to get vaccinated,” Gershman says.

The answer, one lawyer tells The Washington Post, is because the former president never did what he said he would do – which is to give up control over his companies. As Pace University law professor Bridget J Crawford put it, "The fact that it's (the company is) in a revocable trust means nothing. That's the equivalent of passing something from the right hand to the left hand."

We are at a tipping point. For cognitive science to support broader societal change, a paradigm shift in the way that we think about research and communities is required.

Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University, says that the department concluded that "no foul play" happened.

We want to get back to in-person learning and in-person living, to working together, eating together, socializing together. We want to bring back college sports. We want to bring back big, celebratory commencements. We want to do what we always do: Help transform young people’s lives through the power of a college education. But for that to happen, they need to stay healthy. We need to make sure they’re vaccinated.

“The fact that it's in a revocable trust means nothing,” in terms of ceding power, said Bridget J. Crawford, a law professor at New York's Pace University.

Westfair online – The Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journal -- publishes an op-ed about business sustainability from Craig Hart, executive director Pace University’s Energy and Climate Center, and Westchester County Association CEO Michael Romita.

"This is, in effect, a chance for the attorney general to learn what the governor has to say, he may give answers that are ambiguous, he may suggest that he doesn't have a recollection of something," says Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman. Saturday's deposition is under oath. "If he lies, he can be charged with perjury," Gershman says.