Student Life and Resources

In the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, we know we need to walk the walk if we want to support our students. That’s why we don’t just teach about advocacy, feminism, discrimination, hierarchy, equity, and rights. We partner with communities, create open and safe spaces, advocate for change, strive for accessibility, and encourage empathy in our students as they work with others.

Dyson Women's Leadership Initiative

The Dyson Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) is a four-year program for female and female-identified students enrolled in Dyson College. Professors Emily Bent, PhD, and Marcella Szablewicz, PhD, will work with peer leaders who are student campus leaders to ensure that WLI Fellows receive academic and social support.

Center for Community Action and Research

For more than a decade, the Center for Community Action and Research (CCAR) has supported civic engagement, social responsibility, and reciprocal partnerships with the community, resulting in enriched learning for positive change. Housed within the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, the CCAR’s programs serve the entire university through curricular and co-curricular initiatives, coordination of national civic engagement programs, and support of ongoing community partnerships.

LGBTQA+ Center

The Pace Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Asexual and Ally (LGBTQA) Center exists to create campus environments that are inclusive and supportive of student, staff, and faculty diversity in the areas of sexuality and gender identity and expression. The office promotes identity expression, self-determination and exploration on all levels for all members of Pace University through advocacy, education, activism, programming and a commitment to social justice.

Office of Multicultural Affairs

At the core of Pace’s Office of Multicultural Affairs (ōMA) mission is the commitment to provide opportunities and venues for Pace University and external communities to examine, discuss, debate, collaborate and develop partnerships around themes that perpetuate (un)checked power, privilege, marginalization and social injustices.

Office of Sexual and Interpersonal Wellness

Pace’s Office of Sexual and Interpersonal Wellness provides support and resources for current Pace University students who are or have been impacted by sexual assault and develops on-campus violence prevention initiatives, trainings, and events.

Peer Advocates Against Sexual Assault

Pace’s Peer Advocates Against Sexual Assault is a peer education program on the New York City Campus. Peer educators offer programming, workshops, and other learning opportunities throughout the year and are a non-confidential resource for Pace University students.