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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.

That was one of the points of Sarah Blackwood’s essay in The New York Review of Books, “Letter From an English Department on the Brink.” Blackwood, who teaches English at Pace University, in New York City, reports rising enrollments despite systematic underfunding.

Some schools are seeing the rise of student-led mental health classes that look more like group therapy. At Pace University in New York, one such four-week elective is called Radical Health, which doesn’t just teach about mental health basics but encourages students to talk openly about what they’re struggling with. For many of them, it’s the first time they’ve done so in a group setting. And that can be a powerful life skill to learn at a formative time. They also learn about positive self-talk, the importance of understanding their emotions, and finding out how to seek help.