Media Relations – News Coverage & Releases
The Epoch Times’ article on the Lunar New Year celebration held at Pace University with members of the NY City Council and Pace’s Confucius Institute for learning Chinese language and culture quoted Pace President Stephen Friedman who spoke to the audience “about Pace’s ‘pursuit of commitment to provide the Lower Manhattan community with cultural entertainment.'”
Pace, the Confucius Institute at Pace University, and the New York City Council celebrated the Lunar New Year together in the company of many VIPs and Very Important Performers.
Read the full article in The Epoch Times.
Visit the Confucius Institute at Pace!
Pace’s new scholarship fund for black music pioneer Sydney Small was covered by New York Daily News online.
Pace’s new scholarship fund for black music pioneer Sydney Small was covered by New York Daily News online on September 16. Click on the link or read the excerpt of the text below.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/09/16/2010-09-16_black_pioneers_legacy_to_live_on.html?r=entertainment
“A scholarship fund has been established at Pace University for the late Sydney Small, who ran WWRL (1600 AM) and was a lifelong advocate for minority voices in the mainstream media.
Small died Aug. 8 while cycling in Central Park. He was 72.
The Brooklyn native founded the National Black Network (NBN) in 1972. NBN evolved into Access 1, which owns WWRL and other radio stations.
He was a founding member of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) and a prominent spokesman for minority media ownership.
When ratings for minority stations dropped under Artbitron’s new Portable People Meter (PPM) system, he was among the station owners asking Arbitron to reassess the system.
He also helped press Madison Avenue to give minority media a greater share of advertising dollars and led NABOB’s efforts to get federal distress loans for minority broadcasters threatened by the recession.
To contribute to the Sydney L. Small scholarship fund at Pace, go to pace.edu/givenow.”
Dr. Chris Malone’s participation in an upcoming New Orleans fund-raiser is mentioned in the New York Times’ list of upcoming events.
On Aug 29th, Associate Professor of political science, Christopher Malone, Ph.D., orchestrated a New Orleans fund-raiser in Lower Manhattan to benefit those hit hardest five years ago by Hurricane Katrina. He sold his personal photographs of the devastation and all proceeds benefit the Louisiana Environmental Action Network.
The event was mentioned in the Arts section of The New York Times on Aug 26th. Read the listing here.
For the third year in a row, the Corporation for National and Community Service has honored Pace University with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bill Caldwell, Office of Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu
Note: photos are available of Pace service activities
For Third Year, Pace University is Named to Presidential Honor Roll For Community Service
Raising reading, modifying mice, monitoring munificence
New York, NY, February 23 – For the third year in a row, the Corporation for National and Community Service has honored Pace University with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
The Honor Roll is “the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to service-learning and civic engagement,” according to the corporation.
Pace was honored for the scope and innovation of its service projects, the percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent of its academic service-learning courses.
Explaining the University’s commitment, Mary Ann Murphy, Ph.D., the professor of communication studies who directs the Pace Center for Community Outreach, said “We believe thinking about larger social issues benefits the future professionals we educate.”
For example:
• The Pace core curriculum has required public service by all undergraduates since the fall of 2003, earlier than universities like Columbia and Tulane, which the New York Times recently reported are now considering it. In 2008, 1,742 Pace students contributed over 14,000 hours of community work through more than 80 three-credit courses in “Civic Engagement and Public Values.”
• With support from the federal AmeriCorps program, in 2008 72 people, most of them students from Pace and other city colleges, devoted more than 34,000 hours to programs Pace coordinates near its campus in downtown Manhattan. Those in the Community and Volunteer Mobilization program taught English to immigrants and provided training in disaster preparedness, public health and safety, and the use of computers for basic communication; Jumpstart members worked with underprivileged preschoolers to develop literacy and language skills.
• Pace’s School of Education since 2007 has trained nearly 3,860 Teach for America teachers and New York City Teaching Fellows for their work with at-risk students in “high-need” schools.
• The best first-time showing by any higher education institution in the country was turned in last year when Pace student volunteers raised more than $70,000 for the American Cancer Society’s “Relay for Life” event. Dozens of other volunteer activities by Pace student organizations, teams, fraternities, and sororities, some required by their organizational charters, included fielding over 100 students for the “Paint a School” project in New York City and Westchester County.
• Three Pace students recently were chosen for the Lipper Internship Program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in which they help public middle and high school students learn about the Holocaust.
• Two Pace double majors, in adolescent education and English and adolescent education and math, modified a computer mouse so it can be used by people with limited sight and limited hand and arm mobility. They were one of four New York State winners of the award for “Academic Service Entrepreneurship” created by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and administered by the New York state chapter of Campus Compact.
• Because of its activities in the curriculum, outreach, and partnerships, Pace is one of 119 higher education institutions in the US that meet the criteria of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s for classification as a “community engagement” institution.
• Pace is the only multi-campus, comprehensive university participating in Project Pericles, a national organization of 22colleges and universities committed to making socially responsible citizenship an essential part of a college education.
• Pace recently became one of the first US colleges and universities to participate in the Jefferson Awards for public service, annually recognizing not only students but staff and faculty members who do public service.
Red Cross. The Civic Engagement and Public Values courses are one of the strongest components of Pace’s service orientation. This fall they included an economics course in which students evaluated 20 years of trends in giving to the Westchester Chapter of the American Red Cross, a calculus course where student tutored their subject in local schools, and a psychology course in which students and the local Salvation Army created a conference for several hundred people to raise awareness of human trafficking.
The goals of such courses and students who are “involved and responsible” in the community, who “act with informed awareness of contemporary issues in their historical contexts,” who develop leadership abilities, and who “understand and value diversity within American culture.”
Energy pool. “In this time of economic distress… college students represent an enormous pool of idealism and energy to help tackle some of our toughest challenges,” said Stephen Goldsmith, vice chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees the Honor Roll.
The Corporation collaborates on the Honor Roll project with the federal departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development, and the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. The Honor Roll is presented during the annual conference of the American Council on Education. Overall, the Corporation recognized 635 schools in various categories. A full list is at www.nationalservice.gov/honorroll
In 2006, 2.8 million college students gave more than 297 million hours of volunteer service, according to a 2007 study of volunteering in America by the Corporation.
The Corporation is a federal agency that administers Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America. www.nationalservice.gov.
Thinking professionals. For 102 years Pace University has produced thinking professionals by providing high quality professional education resting on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, Pace has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. www.pace.edu
Bank of New York Mellon CEO Kurt Woetzel will be honored at Pace University’s Leadership and Service in Technology Award Reception on June 3rd.
Contact: Bill Caldwell, Office of Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu
May 14, 2008
MEDIA ADVISORY
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CIO KURT WOETZEL
TO BE HONORED AT PACE UNIVERSITY’S
LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE IN TECHNOLOGY
AWARD RECEPTION, JUNE 3
Award recognizes not only leadership in information technology but also innovation in “application of technology to serve people”
WHO: This year’s honoree is Kurt D. Woetzel, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for The Bank of New York Mellon.
WHAT: 13th Annual Leadership and Service in Technology Award Reception, celebrated by Pace’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. The award honors individuals and companies not only for “leadership in the field of technology,” but also for “innovation in the application of technology to serve people, and commitment to community service and education.”
The annual award reception serves as the primary fund-raiser for the school. All proceeds are used to support the school’s Endowed Scholarship Fund and various initiatives.
WHEN and WHERE: Tuesday, June 3, 6 pm, JPMorganChase, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, NY. Media admission by press card.
BACKGROUND ON WOETZEL: Woetzel is responsible for the company’s Information Technology organization worldwide. In this role, he oversees the technical infrastructure, software development and business processes of an IT organization that is supported by over 5,000 technology professionals. He is also responsible for the company’s Office of Innovation, where he directs company resources and establishes processes in support of accelerating new product development and innovation across global markets.
He held the same position at The Bank of New York Company, Inc. prior to its merger with Mellon Financial Corporation in July 2007. Before that, Woetzel headed up the software development process at that company, developing the technical architecture governing the integration of numerous and complex, large-scale acquisitions involving extensive client portfolios.
Woetzel is a member of the company’s Executive Committee, the organization’s most senior management body, which oversees day-to-day operations. He is a former director of the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications and the Government Securities Clearing Corp, and a current member of the advisory board of Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems.
Jack Ribeiro, managing partner of the Global Financial Services Industry (GFSI) practice at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, will be honored at Pace University’s 15th Annual Lubin Alumni Achievement Award Luncheon for his outstanding professional leadership achievements and demonstrated contributions in the areas of community service and social responsibility.
MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Bill Caldwell, Office of Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu
Deloitte Global Managing Partner Jack Ribeiro
to Receive Highest Honor from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business, Friday, December 7
New York, NY – November 29, 2007 – Jack Ribeiro, managing partner of the Global Financial Services Industry (GFSI) practice at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, will be honored at Pace University’s 15th Annual Lubin Alumni Achievement Award Luncheon for his outstanding professional leadership achievements and demonstrated contributions in the areas of community service and social responsibility.
Ribeiro, a Pace alum (BBA ’78), has over 28 years of experience working with financial services clients and has played a prominent role in the management of some of Deloitte’s key practices around the world. In addition to this leadership role, he also serves some of Deloitte’s most high profile clients. He currently serves as advisory partner for Credit Suisse, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Bear Stearns and Bank for International Settlements, and has leveraged his broad-based banking, securities, insurance, and investment funds experience to serve leading financial services companies.
Ribeiro also has significant international experience, most recently serving as the GFSI Regional Leader in Asia Pacific.
He is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Hong Kong Society of Accountants, and Macao Society of Accountants. He earned his BBA in accounting from Pace University, an MBA in finance from New York University, and completed the Executive Program at Columbia Business School in New York.
The proceeds from the luncheon are used to provide important scholarship support to Lubin students who demonstrate outstanding academic achievement, financial need, and service to the University and/or community.
The luncheon is sponsored by JPMorganChase and Deloitte. It takes place on Friday, December 7 at One Chase Plaza, New York City, 11:30 a.m. Admission by press card.
Service here is linked to classes from math to media. Subject areas run from holiness to hemlock; service venues from gritty urban courts and AIDS centers to the church that wanted help with a museum about work done there by the first American-born Roman-Catholic saint, Mother Seton. Students have to analyze and reflect on the implications of what they are doing.
June 15, 2004
Required Service for College Students
You may have seen the Sunday op-ed in the New York Times calling for campuses to consider a “service requirement for graduation.” It’s by the novelist Dave Eggers, author of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” He says “some” colleges now do this.
Indeed. I’m writing just to make sure you know that a year ago Pace University was among the few major universities to make community service a full requirement for all students.
If you follow up on the trend to service requirements, or on the still-increasing trend for students to do collegiate service in general, we’ve got not only examples, but also evaluations.
Service here is linked to classes from math to media. Subject areas run from holiness to hemlock; service venues from gritty urban courts and AIDS centers to the church that wanted help with a museum about work done there by the first American-born Roman-Catholic saint, Mother Seton. Students have to analyze and reflect on the implications of what they are doing.
The requirement reflects Pace’s encouragement of participatory citizenship under President David A. Caputo, a Yale-trained political scientist who took over in July 2000. Additional impetus comes from Pace’s role as one of the 10 private colleges and universities that a year ago founded Project Pericles, a nationwide, nonprofit consortium of campuses that are increasing their students’ readiness for participatory citizenship. The project was envisioned and initially funded by the foundation set up by the industrialist and philanthropist Eugene M. Lang, creator of the “I Have a Dream” project.
Christopher T. Cory, Director of Public Information, Pace University 212-346-1117, cell 917-608-8164, ccory@pace.edu
On Thursday, April 29, 2004 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., an art exhibition will open at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at 1 Pace Plaza that will showcase the work of artists and members of Club Access, an affiliate of Community Access, Inc. (CA), a not-for-profit organization that helps people with psychiatric disabilities make the transition from shelters and institutions to independent living.
Contact: Bill Caldwell, Office of Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu or Jim Lawler, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University, 212-346-1013, jlawler@pace.edu .
March 30, 2004
PACE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SET NEW STANDARD
FOR SERVICE-LEARNING IN NEW YORK CITY
WITH ART EXHIBITION, WEBSITE
FOR PEOPLE WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES
On Thursday, April 29, 2004 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., an art exhibition will open at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at 1 Pace Plaza that will showcase the work of artists and members of Club Access, an affiliate of Community Access, Inc. (CA), a not-for-profit organization that helps people with psychiatric disabilities make the transition from shelters and institutions to independent living.
CA identifies needs, facilitates solutions and advocates for and with mental health consumers to provide affordable housing, education and employment opportunities. Pace University’s School of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) has been working in collaboration with the members of Club Access for two semesters to create an art gallery website (www.clubaccess.us) with a vision to reach out to a greater audience.
The exhibit of works drawn from those on the website will be open to the general public. Sales will benefit the Community Access agency in Downtown New York.
As one of the artists explained, “This is our opportunity to bring our creativity out into the world.”
Seventy-nine students from New York’s Pace University will donate a day of their Jamaican spring break vacation to participating in a service project at the Whitehall Basic School in Negril, Jamaica on Tuesday, March 16.
Contacts
(for Pace) Christopher T. Cory, Director of Public Information
212-346-1117, cell 917-608-8164, ccory@pace.edu
(for Manna, Inc.) Cathy Yi, 202-832-1845, cyi@mannadc.org
(for Jamaica) Melissa Stephenson, Information Attaché,
Jamaica Information Service/NY, Consulate-General of Jamaica
212-935-7506 jis_nyc@yahoo.com
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“ALTERNATIVE SPRING BREAK” TAKES PACE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
TO SERVICE WEEK IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND VOLUNTEER DAY IN JAMAICA
NEW YORK, March 11, 2004 — Seventy-nine students from New York’s Pace University will donate a day of their Jamaican spring break vacation to participating in a service project at the Whitehall Basic School in Negril, Jamaica on Tuesday, March 16.
At the same time, in Washington, DC, 12 other Pace student volunteers will work from Tuesday through Friday on transforming the once-derelict William Syphax School in Southwest DC into 12 affordable, loft style condominiums and 29 affordable townhouses, in a project directed by Manna, Inc., a nonprofit community development organization.
The students are part of a campus trend to “alternative spring breaks” that respond to and encourage student interest in community activities instead of, or in addition to, traditional spring break recreation.
In both cases, the University is subsidizing some of the costs so that students from a full cross-section of Pace’s highly-diverse student body can afford to participate.
Washington: Project Pericles
In Washington, from March 16 through the 19th, instead of sleeping in, the students will set forth from their youth hostel at 8:15 a.m., donning hard hats for construction-site cleanup and landscaping. On Monday the 15th they will spend the day on Capital Hill, learning about connections between hunger, homelessness, service and the political process during discussions in the offices of
·Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton and
·Representatives Eliot Engel, Sue Kelly, Nita Lowey, Carolyn Maloney and Gerald Nadler.
Their project was organized by the Pace chapter of Project Pericles, a two-year-old consortium of ten campuses that actively encourage their students to be active citizens. The University’s Center for Community Outreach also is backing the project, along with the Provost’s Office, Office of Student Life, and Dyson College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Jamaica: Blazin’ Entertainment Activities Team
In Jamaica, Pace students and staff members will spend March 16 with Jamaican students and teachers. In cooperation with local professionals, they will paint the entire exterior of the one room, 150-student school, install a fence, read to the children from books they have collected to bring with them, and learn local hand-slapping games and songs. The students will arrive in Jamaica on Saturday March 13.
The Jamaica initiative was organized by a student group on Pace’s suburban campus in Pleasantville called Blazin’ Entertainment Activities Team. They too are being supported by the University’s Center for Community Outreach, plus its Center for Student Development and Campus Activities, the Jamaican Consulate in New York and the Jamaican Ministry of Industry and Tourism. If you are wondering what bingo we are talking about, have a look at the list of top 10 us bingo sites from here.
Giving back, learning more. Guinevere Welch, a representative from the Center for Community Outreach, typified the views of many who have worked with both groups of students when she spoke of their positive response to the Jamaica trip.
“The students are very excited because not only will they get to spend their spring vacation in a place as wondrous as Jamaica, but they have also taken the time to give something back and learn more about the world in which they live,” Ms. Welch said.
Janet Madden, Community Relations Officer at the Jamaican Consulate in New York, lauded the students’ effort.
“It is inspiring to see that these students have decided to spend some of their vacation involved in community-building endeavours,” Mrs. Madden said.
Pace is a comprehensive, independent university committed to opportunity, teaching and learning, civic involvement and measurable outcomes. It has eight campuses, including downtown and midtown New York City, Pleasantville, Briarcliff, White Plains (a graduate center and law school), and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport near Newburgh, N.Y. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School. Www.pace.edu.
The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) has awarded Pace University the 2003 Institutional Service Award for its innovations in “lifelong” learning for adults.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bill Caldwell, Office of Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu
PACE UNIVERSITY RECEIVES 2003 INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE AWARD FROM COUNCIL FOR ADULT AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING (CAEL)
Telecommunications industry program cited
Award recognizes innovations in online learning
New York, NY – November 24, 2003 – The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) has awarded Pace University the 2003 Institutional Service Award for its innovations in “lifelong” learning for adults.
Pace received the award on Friday, November 14 at the 29th annual CAEL International Conference in San Diego.
The award pointed to:
· A collaboration between Pace’s computer school and the telecommunications industry on an online associate’s degree program designed to train network technicians. The collaborators on the Pace University/NACTEL program are led by Dean Susan Merritt, Dr. David Sachs and Professor Nancy Hale of Pace University’s School of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS) and by the National Coalition for Telecommunications Education and Learning. Visit http://csis.pace.edu/nactel .
· Online learning opportunities that include supplemental courses for Pace students already enrolled in a degree program; individual courses and degree programs for students who wish to pursue higher education but are either unable to attend classes on campus or need the flexibility of online learning; and continuing education programs for adults and professionals that include non-degree related courses and programs. Visit http://www.online.pace.edu
“This award recognizes the historical ongoing commitment of Pace University to adult learners as well as its more recent leadership and innovation in the field of online learning,” said Pamela Tate, President and CEO of CAEL.
“Pace’s ever changing and advancing technology allows us to explore new learning environments and innovative teaching opportunities,” said David A. Caputo, President of Pace University. “This award goes to the many faculty members, administrators, and adult learners at Pace who are taking advantage of these new opportunities and meeting the challenges of online teaching and learning.”
Pace is a comprehensive, independent university committed to opportunity, teaching and learning, civic involvement and measurable outcomes. It has campuses in New York City, Pleasantville, Briarcliff and White Plains, N.Y., and a Hudson Valley Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, N.Y. More than 14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing and Pace Law School. www.pace.edu