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Columbus Day isn’t on Pace’s academic calendar this year! However, notes Professor Stephanie Hsu, neither is Indigenous Peoples' Day. At Pace, decolonization starts with our curriculum. Read more from Professor Hsu and learn about the Antiracist Education (ARE) core undergraduate requirement,currently in development, to address the educational gaps created by legislation banning critical race theory in a growing number of states.

October 11, 2021
In the Media

Pace University's Actors Studio Drama School Master of Fine Arts Program today announced the return of its emblematic Repertory Season featuring the acting, directing, and playwriting Class of 2020 with five consecutive weeks of live performances, beginning Oct. 20, 2021.

October 8, 2021
Broadway World
In the Media

Pace University professor and former NYPD lieutenant Darrin Porcher told Kramer things have got to change. “A lot of the law breakers feel as if they can act with impunity because the NYPD has been more regressive, as opposed to proactive, in targeting these gun violence crimes that have happened,” Porcher said.

October 8, 2021
CBS New York
Press Release

Pace University’s Actors Studio Drama School (ASDS) Master of Fine Arts Program today announced the return of its emblematic Repertory Season featuring the acting, directing, and playwriting Class of 2020 with five consecutive weeks of live performances, beginning October 20, 2021.

October 5, 2021
In the Media

“Pace University’s Dr. Darrin Porcher tells Maria Bartiromo the Manhattan District Attorney's directive not to ask for bail in many nonviolent cases is "purely political."

October 5, 2021
Fox News
In the Media

If the main responsibilities of correctional facilities are care, custody, and control, the New York City jail complex on Rikers Island can’t currently fulfill them. Staffing deficits have worsened many problems, including rising violence, that Rikers had already been struggling to curtail. Without enough staffing, the safety of everyone who enters Rikers’s gates—inmates and officers alike—is in jeopardy.

October 5, 2021
City Journal Online
Faculty and Staff

Born out of a national movement and a course taught by Assistant Professor Kiku Huckle, PhD, political science department, an initiative has taken root. The Black Excellence Initiative works to counter the endemic effects of racism and to create space to cultivate well-being and a mindset for success for Black students and communities.

October 1, 2021
In the Media

Legg, a professor of psychology at Pace University, reflected on her schooling... “Redemptive narratives are the life stories we make when we face adversity,’’ Legg wrote. “There are many stories I could tell about the 24 Hours at the Pawling Trail Running Festival. I’m choosing the story that Jeff Wilson’s amazing photography captured — one of community, solidarity, joy, motivation, focus, struggle, friendships, love, and ultimately, success.”

September 28, 2021
Poughkeepsie Journal
Press Release

The Pace University Art Gallery opened the in-person exhibition, “Substance,” on September 27, 2021 which will run through October 30, 2021. The gallery is located at 41 Park Row with the entrance on Spruce Street, across from City Hall in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition brings together four abstract artists—Diego Anaya, Liz Atz, Linda Ekstrom, and Alberto Lule—who express meaning via their materials rather than through representational imagery.

September 27, 2021
In the Media

The debate shouldn’t be either cotton totes or plastic bags, because when we do so, “we end up in an environmental what-about-ism that leaves consumers with the idea that there is no solution,” Melanie Dupuis, a professor of environmental studies and science at Pace University, told The New York Times.

September 24, 2021
Scary Mommy