Pace Now

Roughly 3 million students across the country will earn college degrees this spring. Just under another million will complete master’s degrees. At Pace University, where I’m president, we’re awarding about 3,700 associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, and on Monday we put on a truly wonderful series of commencement ceremonies celebrating our Class of 2023 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, the home of the U.S. Open.

Lower Manhattan has a brand new performing arts college. Pace University is expanding its nine-year-old School of Performing Arts (until now a branch of the University’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) into the Sands College of Performing Arts, which will launch this September as part of the 2023-24 academic year.

Professor Bennett Gershman speaks with Forbes about Chief Justice John Roberts’ wife making over $10 million as Legal Consultant.

In addition, federal courts have already shown a willingness to brush aside Chevron, said Josh Galperin, an assistant professor of law at Pace University. The Supreme Court hasn’t relied on the doctrine since 2016. “Chevron has become less of a rule of law and more of a loose standard that the courts don’t feel obligated to adhere to,” Galperin said.

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bridget Crawford co-wrote an op-ed in The Hill about Clarence Thomas and his potential gift tax implication.

Pace University will launch the Sands College of Performing Arts this fall, named in recognition of a $25 million gift from Pamela and Rob Sands.

Pace University is part of a winning collaboration chosen by New York City Mayor Eric Adams and The Trust for Governors Island that will create a world-leading climate solutions center on the 172-acre island in the heart of New York Harbor.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul will deliver remarks to graduates of New York Law School on May 25, while U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren will speak at the May 15 ceremony for the Pace University Elizabeth Haub School of Law.