Pace Now

Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean for Students Jeff Barnet offers fresh insights to Leadership Exchange about setting agendas and his unlikely path to becoming Vice President of Student Affairs.

This year, I’m happy to report, it really feels like we’ve turned a corner. As I see students on campus and run into faculty in hallways, as I chat with colleagues between meetings and hear from students in the class I teach each fall, I’m getting a different feeling than I have in some time. It’s a sense of cautious optimism. A sense that things are different. A sense that we’re all ready to put all the challenges and difficulties behind us, shake off the malaise of the past few years, and dive into something new.

After a stint at LSU, 29-year-old Pavon earned her degree in Commercial Dance at Pace University in New York City, then moved to Los Angeles, and has since been performing in movies, commercials, music videos and with female artists like Pink, Avril Lavigne, Dua Lipa, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Shania Twain and of course Beyoncè.

Pace Alumna Brianna Pavon takes the stage for Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’ tour, after earning her degree in commercial dance she's been performing in movies, commercials, music videos, and with the biggest female artists like P!nk, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, and of course Beyonce.

Professor Jill Gross is quoted by Financial Advisor IQ regarding pressure on the SEC to loosen the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s control of securities-industry arbitration from Thrivent, a Finra member firm.

Pace University Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman was featured on the Voice of America podcast discussing bribery and conspiracy charges against U.S. Senator Robert Menendez.

This decision "signals the end of Trump's financial empire," Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. "The judge declared that Trump and his family are guilty of a massive, staggering fraud in overvaluing his properties," Gershman said. "The only issue left to be decided is the penalty to be imposed on him."

"Trump's ability to do business in New York State has pretty much ended by this ruling," Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman told AFP.

"The overseer can now manage the properties, basically Trump and his organization will not be allowed to manage these properties anymore," he said.

Lisa Bertrand, Director of Admissions at Pace Law School, was featured in the Best Colleges article "Law School Application Resources for Women" discussing challenges faced by women in the legal profession and strategies to empower them.

Construction is complete on 15 Beekman Street, a 27-story campus expansion for Pace University in the Financial District. Designed by Manish Chadha of Ismael Leyva Architects and developed by SL Green Realty, the 338-foot-tall tower yields 213,084 square feet for classrooms, administrative and faculty offices, common spaces, suite-style dorm rooms, a dining facility, a library and learning center, and the three-floor Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. New Line Structures & Development was the general contractor for the project, which is alternately addressed as 126-132 Nassau Street and located at the corner of Beekman and Nassau Streets.