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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.

"Bragg has shown himself to be flexible and pragmatic," former prosecutor Bennett Gershman told AFP, praising Bragg for an "aggressive investigation" of Trump.

Pace University’s Haub Law Professor Alexander K.A. Greenawalt speaks with Scripts News about the International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Siblings Danielle and Michael Tallman grew up in a tight-knit multigenerational Hispanic household in Sacramento, California, along with their siblings where they were homeschooled until college. After their oldest sibling was accepted to college in Texas, their entire family moved with her to support her dreams.

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.