Our signature program, the Pace Path, empowers students to succeed in their fields by combining powerful academics, dedicated mentoring, and immersive experiences including, research, clinicals, civic engagement, study abroad, and internships.
Pace University has one of the largest internship programs of any college in the New York metropolitan area. Last year, Pace students engaged in more than 8, internships, co-ops, field experiences, and clinicals with more than 1, different employers. Founded as a one-room accounting school in , Pace now offers a diverse selection of learning and living experiences.
More than 50 cutting-edge centers, institutes, labs, and clinics serve as the training grounds for future leaders. Each program and experience is enhanced by our metropolitan New York location. The New York City Campus in Lower Manhattan recently renovated with ultramodern facilities, collaborative learning spaces, and residence halls is within walking distance to Wall Street, South Street Seaport, and the Brooklyn Bridge, and a subway ride from all that the city has to offer.
Pace must find a way to build in this bustling community. New offices mean more people in evening classes, and expansion to meet the increasing demand will be inevitable. That Pace College needed additional room in lower Manhattan was undeniable.
Enrollment was at a post-war high and the 41 Park Row building was bursting at the seams. The long-term solution was an impressive new building but, in the interim, the classroom shortage problem had to be solved. One way out of this dilemma was to lease space at Nassau Street.
The College attempted to secure 15, square feet of sublet space from an insurance company which, in the early s, occupied several floors of the Nassau Street building, but Pace ended up buying the entire building, renovating part of it for use by the College and leasing the remainder to outside tenants. By the start of the spring semester in , twenty-three classrooms, a student lounge, and faculty and counseling offices were in use at Nassau Street.
The previous year Pace had rented space at Broadway for use by the Graduate School. Renovations at 41 Park Row, in addition to the utilization of space at Nassau Street and 38 Park Row, both of which were purchased in , and Nassau Street, enabled the College to function efficiently through the early s. The Civic Center Building was much more than a structure designed to house classrooms, offices and a dormitory.
Even before ground was broken for its construction, the building was envisioned as an integral part of a major urban redevelopment project for lower Manhattan. The South Bridge Towers middle income housing complex remained part of the project, however, as did a new Beekman Downtown Hospital. For a time, hospital and college officials considered the possibility of jointly undertaking construction of a parking facility.
In December a gala ground-breaking ceremony was held. The principal speaker at the ceremony was Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, who didn't seem to mind the fact that the temperature had plummeted from a balmy 60 degrees the day before to 29 degrees with frigid winds. Addressing a crowd of 1, seated under a green tent on William Street, just across from Nassau Street where the New York Tribune building was being demolished to make way for Pace, Mr.
Humphrey said that Pace was "where it ought to be - where the action is. A wrecking ball and bulldozers were busily demolishing the Tribune building while, at the same time, providing some less than desirable background noise for the ceremony. A block and a half away from the speakers' platform, 35 placard-carrying antiwar protesters were being held back by the New York City police as they demonstrated against the bombing of North Vietnam.
Lindsay from completing their remarks. When the platform party descended to participate in the actual ground breaking, Lindsay playfully held reporters at bay by threatening to shower them with dirt for having climbed onto chairs, while almost knocking people over, in order to get pictures of the historic event.
Quite aside from the fact that Pace's new Civic Center complex would include the first student dormitory built in lower Manhattan since the eighteenth century when Columbia University, then known as Kings College, was located in the area, the ground breaking was historic because of the nature of the new building which would rise on Nassau Street.
A construction industry publication described the structure in glowing terms:. The horizontal five-story "teaching element" structure will be so constructed as to block city street noises from filtering into classrooms Corridors along the perimeter of the building will serve as a "sound moat" to exclude the noises of surrounding city streets. To become a full-fledged university, however, Pace had to augment academic programs on both campuses.
One way of accomplishing this was to secure State Education Department approval to offer, on the Pleasantville campus, beginning in , such existing degree programs as the Bachelor of Business Administration, already well-established in New York.
The Lienhard School of Nursing was also established in In , graduate Education degrees were offered on the New York campus. Within two years of realizing this long sought goal, the affiliation with New York Law School was terminated, by mutual consent, and in Pace University opened its own law school on the campus of The College of White Plains, which a year earlier had consolidated with the university.
In , Pace acquired the assets of Briarcliff College. Expansion continued during the s. The west wing of the Civic Center building in New York was completed and the new Lubin Graduate Center in downtown White Plains opened while, in Pleasantville, Dyson Hall was expanded and townhouse dormitories were erected.
Just as programs and campuses evolved, so, too, did upper administration. In Dr. William G. Sharwell who, in , assumed the title President and Chief Executive Officer. In , Dr. The decade of the s was characterized by the establishment of the Midtown Center, accreditation of the Lubin School of Business by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, a Capital Campaign to increase the University's endowment, and buildings and grounds enhancement in New York and Westchester.
Given the lure of Wall Street, only a stone's throw from Pace's lower Manhattan campus, the University was poised for expansion downtown as the prosperous decade of the s drew to a close. The University maintained its belief in the viability of lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11, terrorist attacks which demolished the World Trade Center, a few blocks from the campus. In view of its strategic location near the World Trade Center and across the street from the only hospital in downtown Manhattan, Pace became a triage center in the immediate aftermath of the horrific incident.
As the area surrounding Pace struggled to recover physically and emotionally, the University, under the leadership of David A. The University also entered into an agreement with the National Actors Theatre for the utilization of a newly refurbished Schimmel Theatre in the Civic Center building for NAT rehearsals and performances. Another important development was the establishment of the Pforzheimer Honors College on both the New York and Pleasantville campuses in During the administration of Stephen J.
Friedman , who succeeded Dr. David A. Caputo in , a new University Center for Excellence on the Environment was established. The University Center for Excellence on the Environment was a logical progression for a university whose law school, where Dr.
Friedman had served as Dean prior to becoming President, was a recognized leader in environmental education with an environmental law program that is ranked third in the United States by U. News and World Report. During the administration of Michelle Simon, who succeeded Dr. In the U.
Building upon its success, Lienhard, which marked the fortieth anniversary of its founding in , established a clinical Doctor of Nurse Practice program. Dean Harriet Feldman not only guided the progress of the nursing school during this period but she also served as interim Dean of the School of Education beginning in Responding to new challenges and opportunities in public education, the School of Education, which celebrated its fortieth anniversary in , introduced new programs.
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