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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Oct. 31 in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the latest cases to look at the legality of the limited use of race and ethnicity in college admissions. Pace University President Marvin Krislov and ACE General Counsel Peter McDonough join host Jon Fansmith for a preview of the hearing and what to watch for. Krislov was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan during the landmark 2003 admissions case Grutter v. Bollinger.

President Krislov pens a column about the Supreme Court’s hearings on race in the college admission process as justices consider abolishing the practice...

Writing for the majority in the 2003 Supreme Court decision Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor looked back at precedent: “It has been 25 years since Justice Powell first approved the use of race to further an interest in student body diversity in the context of public higher education.”

Not too long after the 2006 ballot initiative, Marvin Krislov left Michigan to become the president of Oberlin College, in Ohio, and later took the same role at Pace University, in New York City—a school that is less than fifty per cent white and admits more than eighty per cent of its applicants. Working at a school that’s not hyper-focused on élite admissions has not changed his belief in the importance of diversity. But his latest gig has changed his perspective. “I wouldn’t say that I’m running away from the notion that affirmative action can be an important tool for college admissions,” he said. These days, though, he spends more time thinking about everything that happens before kids apply to college, and how debates about diversity in higher education have obscured the many barriers that students face in getting to college in the first place. “The majority of Americans are not going to go to the University of Michigan or Harvard,” Krislov said. “And that’s just fine.”

Pace Hosts Governors Debate
Pace University will live-stream the first and only debate for candidates Governor Kathy Hochul and Representative Lee Zeldin tonight starting at 7:00 p.m. for one hour on NY1. The debate will be moderated by Susan Arbetter and Errol Lewis. There will not be a live audience.

Republican candidate for New York governor Lee Zeldin and Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul debate on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at Pace University in New York.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Rep. Lee Zeldin met Tuesday at Pace University in Manhattan for their first and only scheduled debate for governor ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

In the past few years, the use of e-bikes, e-scooters, battery-powered mopeds and other two- or three-wheeled vehicles has grown ... Even more disturbing, said Pace University criminologist and former NYPD lieutenant Darrin Porcher, PhD, is that more serious crimes involving perpetrators on e-scooters and e-bikes are becoming more frequent. Those crimes, include a shooting in Sunset Park, Brooklyn last week by an e-scooter driver who hit multiple unoccupied cars, are becoming higher in number. A man on an e-scooter of some kind also allegedly attacked and sexually assaulted women last month in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan. Porcher called for greater NYPD action. “Carve out an additional unit that can have the sole focus of looking at these people that are on these e-bikes, scooters and dirt bikes,” he said.

John Durham is no exception. Bennett L. Gershman is a distinguished professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and is the ...