As we wrap up the Fall 2023 semester, I wanted to take a moment to wish you a happy holiday season and a wonderful new year.
This has been a remarkable year at Pace University. It feels like we’re fully back in the swing of things, with the pandemic behind us and our focus on the future. We launched the Sands College of Performing Arts this year. We opened 15 Beekman this year. Our women’s lacrosse team brought home our first-ever national championship, and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law was ranked as the best environmental law program in the country for the third consecutive year. We brought our retention and graduation rates back up to pre-pandemic levels, and kept our career placement rates well above national averages.
We are doing what we must do to continue delivering on our historic mission of Opportunitas.
To our faculty and staff, I say thank you for your hard work and commitment. It is thanks to your efforts that we’re able to achieve such great things.
To our students, I say thank you for your dedication and your ambition. Everything we do here is for you, and you continue to inspire me and all of us on a daily basis.
At a time of such challenges in the world, I take comfort in being part of this caring and supportive community. And in these final days of the semester, I send you all my best wishes.
Happy holidays, happy new year, and I’ll see you in 2024.
