Pace University News

Pace University has been awarded more than $3 million from the New York State Department of Health’s Healthcare Education and Life-skills Program (HELP) to establish the College of Health Professions Pathways to Practice Initiative (CPPI.

Pace President Marvin Krislov writes a piece in Forbes calling on higher education to help close the nation’s growing workforce gap. He highlights Pace’s leadership in experiential learning—pointing to 9,000+ student internships and career-readiness programs as a model for preparing graduates to meet labor market demands in fields like health care, education, and management.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Imre Szalai provides a legal analysis to Bloomberg Law on a closely watched case testing whether bakery delivery drivers qualify for the Federal Arbitration Act’s transportation worker exemption, which would allow them to bring wage-and-hour claims in court instead of being required to arbitrate. Professor Szalai opined that the Second Circuit could “create an exception of very limited scope” for similar delivery drivers.

Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman provides expert commentary to The Hill on the Supreme Court case over President Trump’s dismissal of independent agency officials. Gershman explains how the outcome could significantly expand presidential authority and weaken oversight protections.

In Roll Call, Professor Gershman further cautions that President Trump’s own public calls for prosecution could backfire legally, providing potential evidence for claims of selective enforcement in any future cases involving political opponents— and Union-Bulletin has the story.

Haub Law Professor John Bandler speaks to Spectrum News NY1 on a major telecom threat recently dismantled by the Secret Service. Bandler discussed the technical and legal dimensions of the breach, shedding light on how evolving cyber vulnerabilities intersect with public infrastructure and investigative authority.