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Dyson Professor Kim Collica-Cox and the her program Puppies on the Block, an extension of the Parenting, Prison & Pups Program, will soon extend to more incarcerated young men ages 18 to 25, Corrections1 reports.

Professor Katrina Kuh speaks with E&E News about Montana’s pro-environment constitution trial:

“We definitely looked to Montana as a model,” said Katrina Fischer Kuh, a law professor at Pace University, who chaired a New York bar association task force that examined constitutional environmental issues.

Skoufis said earlier that the bill emanated from a recent report by Pace University's Land Use Law Center on reforming the state's village formation rules. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins of Yonkers requested that study, and sponsored a separate bill that would create a state commission to make decisions about new villages.

Haub Law students who completed a study on New York’s rules for creating villages are mentioned in News12 as their work and findings are being utilized by state lawmakers who are interested in reforming the law:

The state senator said he was “buoyed by findings of a recent report from Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law on the need to reform and refine the process of village incorporation.”

Professor Claudia Li speaks with South China Morning Post about Asian-Americans having mixed views on the use of race in college admissions:

Chunyan Li, a professor at Pace University in New York and board member of the non-profit Asian American Coalition for Education, described how SFFA’s data models have led to students of Chinese heritage trying to obscure their backgrounds and de-emphasise their pursuit of stereotypically Asian activities like math competitions. As an educator and immigrant, Li said that she valued classroom diversity – particularly “diversity of thought” – but that interventions to address racial disparities should happen earlier, not at the college level.