Welcome back for the Spring 2023 semester.
I hope you’re all as excited as I am to embark on a new semester and new year of ambition and accomplishment. Across our campuses, we’re gearing up for great things—and counting down to Commencement 2023, to be held on Monday, May 15, once again at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens.
We have big plans underway for 2023. We’re moving full-speed ahead on our plans to reinvent our New York City Campus, preparing to move into 15 Beekman Street in the fall and finalizing our plans to renovate One Pace Plaza East. We’re continuing to add new programs and initiatives in Pleasantville, like the new Center for Excellence in Healthcare Simulation we opened last semester and the Cyber Range for cybersecurity training currently in development. Haub Law remains an environmental law powerhouse, and we’re continuing to build its Access to Justice Program, like with the new partnership with Legal Hand for a call-in legal services clinic, launching this month and staffed by students.
A new priority starting this semester is our PaceWorks project to improve student administrative processes. This is a major, two-year initiative that will make it easier for our students to reach their goals, and easier for faculty and staff to support our students, by digitizing and simplifying things like tracking progress, degree audits, and applications for graduation. Nicole Thompson, senior vice president for operations, will be sharing much more information on this soon.
But more than anything else, we remain focused on student success. We’re building new plans for student retention. We’re doubling down on wellness initiatives across our community. I’m so appreciative of the hard work and commitment from everyone in the Pace Community, and I ask you all to take advantage of the resources available to you.
I look forward to discussing all of this—and much more—at the annual State of the University speech, set for February 22. Thank you again for all that you do.
