Pace University News

Spend some time with Kathy Winsted, director of the Center for Student Enterprise at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business, and you’ll walk away impressed with her enthusiasm for the new Pace Business Poll and its potential to bring unique learning experiences to her students while enabling the school to carve out a niche for itself in the crowded field of polling.

At Pace University, we’ve long prioritized preparing our students for the workforce, giving them the skills, tools, and experiences they need to hit the ground running in their careers after graduation. As part of that commitment, our remarkable Career Services office works intensively with students to prepare them for the job market, coaching them on resumes, interviews, and other parts of the application process. Our efforts deliver: Our placement rates are consistently above national averages.

The president of Pace University, Marvin Krislov, has an op-ed in the Daily News about the importance of requiring vaccination for students. “The numbers are less impressive among the college-aged. Statewide, only about 55% of those aged 16 to 25 have received one dose, and only about 49% are fully vaccinated. Colleges and universities have a unique role as educators, as community leaders, and frankly as good neighbors to help ensure everyone around us is protected.”

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.