Pace’s NYC Campus community is invited to join us for our annual Wellness Week, where you can take advantage of classes and resources to help you to de-stress, refresh, and feel great.
Wellness Week is an annual initiative where Pace students can join classes and utilize resources aimed at improving their mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. From yoga and meditation classes, to relaxing artistic workshops, this year’s lineup of in-person and virtual offerings will empower you to take control of your wellness.
Self-Love and Body Positivity
Tuesday, February 22 | 9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
One Pace Plaza, Student Center West
Join us for a beautiful, body positive experience. Learn to love your body through body affirming exercises, enjoy inspirational talks, and connect with other students. Light refreshments will be served.
Wake Up and Meditate with Greg Weil
Wednesday, February 23 | 10:00 a.m.
One Pace Plaza, Student Center West
Open your mind and ground yourself with an early meditation experience, where you can learn strategies to practice mindfulness and self-care. Light refreshments will be served. Can’t make it in-person? Attend virtually via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 915 0441 1030
Passcode: mindful
Writing to Heal Workshop
Wednesday, February 23 | 11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
One Pace Plaza, Student Center West
Unlock the power of writing to tap into deeper reflection, holistic healing, and richer self-expression. Light refreshments will be served. Can’t make it in-person? Attend virtually via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 995 2148 1046
Passcode: 587406
Glowing from the Inside Out: Nutrition for Pace University Wellness Week
Wednesday, February 23 | 3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
One Pace Plaza, Student Center West
Two Pace alumni from the NYC Campus, one a registered dietician and one a therapist, share simple steps to empower, motivate, and create self-sustaining, healthy eating patterns for those who have full schedules and a tight budget. Light refreshments will be served. Can’t make it in-person? Attend virtually via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 963 8502 5847
Passcode: GlowUp
Healing Through Creative Arts
Thursday, February 24 | 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
One Pace Plaza, Student Center West
Create cards of encouragement for others, de-stress with coloring and crafts, and practice guided gratitude exercises in this workshop geared towards healing. Light refreshments will be served.
Yoga Healing
Thursday, February 24 | 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
One Pace Plaza, Student Center West
Learn about benefits of yoga and foster a deeper mind-body connection. Can’t make it in-person? Attend virtually via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 954 8552 0549
Passcode: 946485
Yoga with Shannon Haick
Thursday, February 24 | 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
One Pace Plaza, Student Center West
Relax with this engaging yoga and meditation class through deep breathing techniques and healing stretches. Yoga mats are provided for in person attendees, if needed. Can’t make it in-person? Attend virtually via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 954 8552 0549
Passcode: 946485
Social Justice Week at Pace University is designed to offer an ongoing memorial for DJ Henry and further commit Pace to social justice and anti-racism. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to apply to this year's Social Justice Week planning committee. Applications are due by Friday, March 11.
College of Health Professions Associate Professor and occupational therapist John Damiao is leveraging technology to make substantial improvements to the lives of wheelchair users through research, aiming to increase comfort and reduce injuries.
Get ready, because the career fairs are coming. See what Career Services has on the docket for the Spring 2022 semester. Current Pace students and recent graduates are welcome to attend.
The pandemic has disrupted so many ways we’re used to leading our lives. It has changed the world of work, as more and more of us work in remote and hybrid forms. As an educator focused on career preparation—and as the parent of three kids in their 20s—I know that recent grads have always relied on connection and camaraderie to help them establish a career and build a life. In our new and changed world of work, I want to ensure that they’re still seeing the wide-open world of opportunity they’re entitled to expect as they start their lives and careers.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Rockefeller Jr., longtime residents of the Hudson Valley, philanthropists, and supporters of the arts, have donated a beautiful oil painting by a celebrated contemporary Chinese artist to Pace University. The painting, entitled Sunflower by Huang Yue, will be on display in a secure location at Pace’s Mortola Library. It was presented to President Marvin Krislov on Feb. 10, 2022 at The Choate Art Gallery on the Pleasantville campus.
PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Mr. and Mrs. Steven Rockefeller Jr., longtime residents of the Hudson Valley, philanthropists, and supporters of the arts, have donated a beautiful oil painting by a celebrated contemporary Chinese artist to Pace University.
The painting, entitled Sunflower by Huang Yue, will be on display in a secure location at Pace’s Mortola Library. It was presented to President Marvin Krislov on Feb. 10, 2022 at The Choate Art Gallery on the Pleasantville campus.
“This fine contemporary Chinese oil painting is a wonderful addition to our collection,” said President Krislov. “We are grateful to Steven and Kimberly Rockefeller, appreciative of their philanthropic leadership throughout the region, and very pleased that our students will now have the chance to admire this fine artwork and learn about its significance.”
“Huang Yue’s Sunflower has brought years of joy to our offices and then in our home,” said Steven Rockefeller. “Kimberly and I are delighted that it can now shed its good fortune on those passing through the distinguished halls of Pace.”
Huang Yue is an artist of international renown, in part, because of ways in which he depicts Chinese bird and flower motifs while fusing the ancient Chinese brush form that was developed hundreds of years ago with oil painting techniques, and blends influences from artists of the West.
The artist was born in Beijing in 1960 and graduated from the Beijing Film academy in 1982 with a degree in fine arts. He subsequently had an opportunity to continue his art studies in the United States. A selection of his paintings was exhibited in 2017 at the Grand Palais in Paris, which has a long and storied history of exhibiting artists such as van Gogh, Picasso, and Monet.
“This inspirational painting bridging Asian and Western European art traditions could not come to Pace at a more meaningful time,” said Professor Kim de Beaumont, curator of the Pace University permanent art collection. “The picture's vibrant colors emerging from a somber background suggest a world that is gradually returning to life and hope. Pace students--and the entire Pace community--will have a chance to reflect on the poetic possibilities every time they emerge from the Mortola Library into the natural surroundings of the Pleasantville campus.”
Pace University has a proud history of preparing its diverse student body for a lifetime of professional success as a result of its unique program that combines rigorous academics and real-world experiences. Pace is ranked the #1 private, four-year college in the nation for upward economic mobility by Harvard University’s Opportunity Insights, evidence of the transformative education the University provides. From its beginnings as an accounting school in 1906, Pace has grown to three campuses, enrolling 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in more than 150 majors and programs, across a range of disciplines: arts, sciences, business, health care, technology, law, education, and more. The university also has one of the most competitive performing arts programs in the country. Pace has a signature, newly renovated campus in New York City, located in the heart of vibrant Lower Manhattan, next to Wall Street and City Hall, and two campuses in Westchester County, New York: a 200-acre picturesque Pleasantville Campus and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law in White Plains. Follow us on Twitter or on the Pace News website
It was Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman who said, “It’s a cover-up of a cover-up,” adding ““They don’t want the truth to come out, because if the truth comes out, it’s very embarrassing. And maybe even worse, it’s criminal.”
In celebration of Black History Month, we asked Dyson professors, whose specialties or areas of interest include Black or African American history, art, or culture, to share their thoughts on poignant moments, figures, and initiatives.
In celebration of Black History Month, we asked Dyson professors, whose specialties or areas of interest include Black or African American history, art, or culture, to share their thoughts on poignant moments, figures, and initiatives.
Assistant Professor of Public Administration
What improvements would you like to see in public policy as we continue to battle COVID-19?
COVID-19 has shed a light on existing health and social inequities among people of color, veterans, low-income earners, people with disabilities, and adults older than 65. We can achieve health equity through public policy by focusing on the social determinants of health. More specifically, we can move toward a more equitable society by allocating resources to established programs to train low-wage earners in high demand careers, expanding Medicaid in states that have not adopted Medicaid expansion, addressing barriers to health care services related to cost, access, and quality of care, investing in mental health services through benefits and infrastructure, creating opportunities for affordable housing and home ownership, and eliminating systemic racism and discrimination.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Co-founder of the Black Excellence Initiative
Why is it important to celebrate Black excellence?
There are many reasons to celebrate Black excellence. From a practical perspective, such recognition benefits us, as a society. This country has long ignored the brilliance, inventiveness, and significant contributions of Black individuals, thereby minimizing their potential for positive impact. By making a concerted effort to course correct this blind spot, we are better positioned to learn from and advance the progress begun by these individuals. From a normative perspective, the honoring of Black excellence is a positive way to counter problems that result from implicit bias and racism. This does not negate the need for policy responses to problems such as police brutality, housing discrimination, and disparities in healthcare and education. Instead, it acknowledges that the root cause of these issues can be attributed to the systemic denial of Black humanity. The celebration of Black Excellence challenges that narrative and creates space for a joyful recognition of Black accomplishment.
Assistant Dean of Diversity and Equity in the Arts
Tell us about an artist who inspired your activism.
“Good, better, best, never let them rest, until your good is better, and your better is your best!”
It is on the shoulders of my ancestors, who are a part of history both Black and American, I stand in my new role as Assistant Dean of Diversity and Equity in the Arts here at Dyson. First, I want to acknowledge, my great-great-great-great grandmother, Mrs. Jane Morris Chester, who was a slave and ran to her freedom at the age of 30 years old. In turn, she became an abolitionist, contributed to the Underground Railroad, was a well-respected restaurant owner in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and became known to the world not only for her world-famous taffy, but for her son, my great-great-great uncle, T. Morris Chester, a soldier in the civil war, who went on to be the first African-American in history to write as a correspondent for a major American newspaper, The Philadelphia Press. And, my great aunt, Leona K. Baylor, also a direct descendant of Jane Chester, was a respected educator in the City of Philadelphia. She and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talked about civil rights on his only visit to Philadelphia as seen in the photo below.
I write and activate my art through activism because it is in my blood! American history is Black history!
Associate Professor of History
What do you think has been the most defining moment in US history for Black Americans?
The defining moment was when the decision was made, during colonial times, to adopt African slavery as a labor force for producing agricultural goods, such as tobacco and later cotton. Despite emancipation and the later civil rights laws, we have been grappling with the legacy of this colonial decision ever since, because it supported two notions: the racist notion that people of African descent were somehow less deserving of basic human rights, and the notion that economic profit was more important than human lives. The struggle against those notions has shaped the Black American experience up to this day.
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Who in media and/or communications has been or is your inspiration?
Dr. Joan Morgan is my greatest inspiration as a Hip Hop feminist and communication culturist. She is an award-winning author and the “Mother of Hip Hop Feminism,” whose groundbreaking text, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, birthed a generation of Hip Hop feminist scholars in and outside of the academy. Coined by Dr. Morgan, Hip Hop feminism is concerned with cultural and feminist inquiries that examine issues rooted in the aesthetics and politics of Hip Hop culture. As a result of Dr. Morgan’s scholarship, I gained a greater understanding of the complexities of the lived experience of Black women, and the gendered and racialized oppression they face as they try to survive and thrive in Hip Hop’s intersectional, yet misogynistic space. Furthermore, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost prompted my creation of the COS 296B: Hip Hop Feminism and the Media course in the Department of Communication Studies.
“It’s a cover-up of a cover-up,” said Bennett Gershman, the Pace University law professor, adding: "They don’t want the truth to come out, because if the truth comes out, it’s very embarrassing. And maybe even worse, it’s criminal.” ‘It’s a cover-up of a cover-up.’
Leora Trub, a professor of psychology at Pace University in New York, explains how this could also enable the projection of fears.
Adam Klein is an associate professor of Communication Studies at Pace University, whose most recent book is Fanaticism, Racism and Rage Online. He told The Daily Beast that he listened to Bannon’s podcast the previous week recounting his version of the events at the butterfly center. The episode was titled, “Sex Slaves at the Border,” fueling the conspiracy theory swirling around the butterfly center.
... one more reason why the justices might reconsider whether they should hear the case at all, says Katrina Kuh at Pace University Law School.
It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of Pace student Jordan Robinson, a sophomore on our Pleasantville Campus. Please read on for information about the upcoming vigil, open counseling sessions, funeral information, and resources available to the Pace Community.
We are deeply saddened to share that Jordan Robinson, a sophomore on our Pleasantville Campus, passed away on February 13, 2022. Jordan was a proud brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and involved with many student organizations, including the Black Student Union and Students of Caribbean Awareness. He was a former member of our Setters football team. He was a beloved son and brother. He was an aspiring entrepreneur who owned his own design business. And he was a supportive friend and classmate and a valued member of our Pace family.
Many in our community have asked how we lost Jordan. The Mount Pleasant Police Department, who are in charge of investigating such matters, and who responded to our campus along with EMS, has advised that they are classifying what happened as a medical emergency, awaiting the medical examiner’s determination.
Jordan’s death is devastating and he will be deeply missed. Please join us in extending all our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to Jordan’s family and friends during this extraordinarily difficult time.
Join the Pleasantville Student Government Association and the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., for a vigil honoring the life and legacy of Jordan Robinson. This is a space for sharing memories of Jordan and the impact he had on the Pace Community. Join us in-person or virtually.
Wednesday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m.
Gottesman Room, Kessel Student Center
Pleasantville Campus
The Counseling Center invites the Pace Community process this loss and discuss how grieving and coping affects the classroom on campus experiences. Additionally, this is an opportunity to grieve our own loss together. There will be a virtual and in-person option for attendees.
Monday, February 14, at 7:00 p.m.
Butcher Suite, Kessel Student Center
Pleasantville Campus
Zoom Meeting ID: 947 6983 9418
Zoom Password: 015470
Wednesday, February 16, at 12:00 p.m.
Butcher Suite, Kessel Student Center
Pleasantville Campus
Zoom Meeting ID: 967 7899 6256
Zoom Password: 390913
Friday, February 18, at 1:00 p.m.
Butcher Suite, Kessel Student Center
Pleasantville Campus
Zoom Meeting ID: 937 5740 0281
Zoom Password: 597958
Pace University students, faculty, staff, and alumni are invited to attend services for Jordan.
Monday, February 21
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
New Hope Baptist Church
12 Dr Aaron B. Samuels Blvd.
Danbury, CT 06810
Tuesday, February 22
Viewing: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Funeral: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
New Hope Baptist Church
12 Dr Aaron B. Samuels Blvd.
Danbury, CT 06810
You can find the full letter to the community here. In the meantime, should you need support or just someone to talk to, the Pace University Counseling Center is available, as is the Dean for Students Office.