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Report to the Board of Trustees, Development and Alumni Relations/GCR Subcommittee – November 21, 2019

FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Congressional Higher Education Act (HEA) On October 15, 2019, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), chair of the House Committee on Education and Labor, introduced a comprehensive reauthorization proposal for the Higher Education Act: the College Affordability Act. Also, the Committee provided both a bill summary and a section-by-section analysis, which are instructive on how they see the intent of the bill’s provision and their overarching goals. The 1,165 page legislative proposal affects nearly every aspect of campus life. Importantly, the bill continues the longstanding commitment to federal student aid by increasing Pell Grant funding, reinstating Perkins Loans and continuing the SEOG and Federal Work Study programs, including a new supplemental emergency grant program within SEOG. It also makes student loans less expensive through such long sought after features as the elimination of origination fees, as well as simplifies loan programs by consolidating loan repayment options and increasing public service loan forgiveness. Republican members of the Committee on Education and Labor issued a statement critical of the plan. The bill, which passed the Committee on a party line vote, has now been referred to the Ways and Means Committee to help find ways to pay for its hefty price tag. College Affordability Act Details The markup started with the adoption of several changes to the original legislation, including an additional increase in the Pell Grant maximum award to $625, from $500. Additional changes included the reinstatement of subsidized loans for graduate students, safe harbors for credit-rated institutions in the financial responsibility metrics, clarification that foreign gifts do not include tuition payments, and clarification that the list of federal benchmarks is optional for accreditors. The tenor of the markup was collegial, but partisan. Democrats on the Committee argued that the bill makes the biggest investments in Pell Grants, student loans, and work-study in the 54-year history of the Higher Education Act, while holding schools accountable, ensuring student safety, and expanding access by allowing Pell Grants to be used for short-term job training programs and providing free community college. Republicans argued that the bill is overly political and aims to aid the 2020 election cycle by throwing money into programs while increasing the administrative burden on colleges, limiting academic freedom, violating student privacy, and increasing government intervention – all actions that will increase the cost of college. Progressives laud the bill’s program for free community college tuition (known as America’s College Promise), the expansion of Pell Grants, the reformed student loan repayment programs, and Public Service Loan Forgiveness as vast improvements over current law. Conservatives lament the bill’s seeming coercion into two-year programs of students who would be better served by other postsecondary programs, its limitations on the institutions that can participate in short-term Pell, the onerous requirements for the federal-state partnership for community colleges that resemble “No Child Left Behind” for colleges, and the introduction of federal “bright line” standards for accreditation that completely ignore the skills gap and the need for increased workforce training.

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Over the course of the markup, a few Democratic amendments were adopted to tweak existing language, including:

Assisting Federal Work Study recipients with SNAP eligibility. Making changes to the net-price calculator. Requesting a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on state licensing restrictions and student loan

defaults. Republicans offered almost 40 amendments, many of which reflected provisions included in last year’s PROSPER Act, and only a few that were adopted with bipartisan support. Those include:

Supporting capacity building for career technical education. Allowing Title III funds to be used for dual-enrollment programs. Adding disclosure requirements regarding background checks of employees and volunteers. Requiring institutions to report when non-instructional spending increases more than five percent.

Before the bill can come up for a vote on the floor of the House, it must be paid for. At the opening of the markup, House Education & Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) mentioned that the bill costs roughly $400 billion over 10 years, and has been referred to the Ways and Means Committee to find offsets. This is a very unusual move for the HEA which historically has been paid for by savings within the legislation. It would be very difficult to waive the budget rules to pay for such an expensive bill without offsets, and would make getting a majority vote for passage very difficult. Once the bill is scored by the Congressional Budget Office, and paid for with offsets, it can be prepared for a floor vote. The Committee hopes to bring the College Affordability Act for consideration by the full House of Representatives by the end of the year. FUTURE Act Details Democrats in the U.S. Senate continue to apply pressure to Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to allow passage The Future Act to extend an annual $255 million funding stream to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The bill passed the House of Representatives by voice vote in September, yet has been blocked in the Senate on multiple occasions by Sen. Alexander who hopes to use it as a means to jumpstart broader negotiations on the reauthorization of the HEA. Recently, 36 senators penned a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calling on the Senate to immediately pass the FUTURE Act. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) held a press conference attended by several high-ranking Senate Democrats, the presidents of several HBCUs and their representative associations in order to continue highlighting the importance of the issue. It is unclear at this time whether Sen. Alexander will continue to use the FUTURE Act as a bargaining chip, or whether he will allow the two-year funding extension to eventually pass. The passage or failure of the FUTURE Act will continue to have broader implications for HEA reauthorization and will be watched very closely. GCR will continue to monitor HEA reauthorization and provide updates as needed. FY2020 Appropriations There continues to be bipartisan interest in Congress funding FY2020 in its entirety, as opposed to a series of short-term funding measures. Current funding ends on November 21, 2019, and it appears that Democrats and Republicans are coalescing around a continuing resolution that would fund the federal government through December 21, 2019. In theory, this one-month funding extension would provide enough time for both sides to negotiate funding through the end of the fiscal year.

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There are a few factors complicating the funding negotiation efforts. First, although there is bipartisan will to work together, there has been no progress nor conversation on how that would actually work. Second, there is no agreement or movement on the funding caps for each of the 12 individual appropriations bills, commonly referred to as 302(b) allocations. It is nearly impossible to negotiate funding for each subaccount in an appropriations bill when there is no agreement as to how much total money has been set aside for each bill. In addition, there are numerous issues with the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS-Ed) Appropriations bill needing to be resolved. First, there are no real proposals of how to deal with border wall funding. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY2020 has not passed yet, and the House Armed Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over the NDAA, is considering including language that would punt the wall funding to the Labor-HHS-Ed appropriations bill. The Administration had already taken funding from Labor-HHS-Ed funds for border wall funding. That gap now needs to be filled. Lastly, there is an approximate $11 billion difference between Senate and House Labor-HHS-Ed bills. The Vice Ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), publicly suggested that the negotiated amount for the bill would end up close to $8-9 billion, but has not proposed any specifics on how the House and Senate would bridge the difference. News surrounding FY2020 appropriations changes daily. GCR will continue to monitor this issue and will provide updates when appropriate. Letter to Senator Gillibrand on Veterans Monthly Housing Allowances (MHA) issues On November 8, 2019, Pace University sent a letter to Senator Gillibrand’s office asking for the Senator’s assistance in fixing a sharp decrease in the Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA) provided to student veterans by the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Over the past two years, the MHA has decreased 18% in New York City, instead of the scheduled 4% decrease. This decrease has created a significant financial challenge for student veterans in NYC and their universities. The letter also requested Senator Gillibrand introduce H.R. 2230 - BREAK PAY for Veterans Act in the Senate, which would authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay educational assistance or subsistence allowances to certain individuals during school term, quarter, or semester breaks, and for other purposes. GCR drafted the letter and secured the following universities as cosigners: St. John’s University, St. Joseph’s University, St. Francis College, Fordham University, and the Columbia School of General Studies. GCR is continuing to work with Senator Gillibrand’s office to resolve this issue, and will update the Board as needed. *Letter attached Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and immigration visa issues for students and faculty The Trump administration has tried for more than two years to “wind down” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, announced by President Barack Obama in 2012 to protect from deportation qualified young immigrants who are undocumented. Nearly 800,000 people over the years have participated in the program, which provides a chance for enrollees to work legally in the United States as long as they follow the rules and have a clean record. More than 90 percent of DACA recipients are employed and 45 percent are in school, according to one government study. Letter to Congressional leadership On September 16, 2019, President Krislov joined more than 600 college and university presidents in signing their institutions on to a letter urging Congressional leaders to act now to pass long overdue bipartisan legislation providing permanent protection for Dreamers. The presidents state that Congress should not wait for the Supreme Court hearing in November and decision on DACA to take action to protect Dreamers. Letter to NYS Congressional Delegation On October 10, 2019, President Krislov joined the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) and 56 college and university presidents from throughout New York State in a letter to the New York State Congressional delegation outlining “serious and shared concerns about increased barriers we face in attracting and retaining

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international students, faculty, and scholars.” The letter details examples of factors that contribute to these increased barriers, including the 2017 travel ban, the elimination of DACA, and common immigration visa issues, such as: administrative processing delays, processing delays for Optional Practical Training (OPT), and increased Requests For Evidence (RFEs). Supreme Court hearing On November 12, 2019, the Supreme Court heard arguments on a trio of cases asking whether the Trump administration acted properly when it decided to wind down the DACA program. The three cases are: Trump v. NAACP, McAleenan v. Vidal, and Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California. A decision is expected in summer 2020. Final Rules on Accreditation and State Authorization Published On October 21, 2019, the Department of Education published its final regulations governing federal recognition of accrediting agencies, state authorization, and other student assistance general provisions. During the negotiated rulemaking, a broad array of higher education stakeholders debated a massive package of Title IV regulatory changes sought by the Department. Like the proposed rules, the final regulations hew closely to the consensus agreement reached during negotiated rulemaking. The numerous accreditation-related changes in the final regulations would:

Clarify the roles of the program integrity triad. Allow more flexibility for accreditors and institutions to innovate. Reemphasize the importance of institutional mission. Establish a definition of religious mission. Simplify the federal recognition process. Create a new category of “substantial compliance” for accreditors who have minor deficiencies in their

recognition applications. Streamline the accreditation review process for certain types of substantive changes. Establish new transparency requirements for accreditors to meet. Permit accreditors to apply alternative accreditation standards to institutions. Allow institutions additional time to become compliant with accreditation standards. Modify institutional disclosure requirements. Strengthen requirements governing the teach-out process.

Changes to the state authorization requirements include provisions that would:

Eliminate the requirement that institutions offering online education in another state must document that the state has a process for reviewing complaints against the institution or that the state participates in a reciprocity agreement.

Clarify that institutional disclosures should be based on the state where students are located, as opposed to their state of residence.

Amend the definition of state authorization reciprocity agreements to clarify that such agreements “cannot prohibit any member State of the agreement from enforcing its own general-purpose State laws and regulations outside of the State reciprocity agreement.”

The final rules will take effect on July 1, 2020, although the Secretary of Education has exercised her authority to designate several portions of the regulations for early implementation. The regulations that institutions may, at their discretion, implement early are the provisions governing state authorization, including the new definition of reciprocity agreements, removal of distance education disclosures, and new disclosures for all institutions. The accreditation and state authorization regulations are the first of several sets of rules that the Department intends to publish in order to address all of the regulatory amendments that were agreed upon during negotiated rulemaking.

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Forthcoming rules are expected to contain changes affecting TEACH grants, faith-based institutions, and other Title IV requirements. Federal Student Aid Update Pell Grants: Pell Grants are awarded to undergraduate students who display financial need. The maximum Federal Pell Grant award is $6,095 for the 2018–19 award year (July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019). For the 2018-19 academic year, Pace has 2,533 students receiving Pell Grants. Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG): Once a Pell Grant has been awarded, any additional financial needs for students in exceptional financial need may be met through a Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG). These are funds awarded by the school, not by a government agency. Each year certain schools receive FSEOG funds, and must use them or face the reduction or even elimination of the grant the following year. Pace has 1,214 students receiving FSEOG funds. Federal Work Study: Federal Work Study provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses. There are 569 students participating in Federal Work Study at Pace. Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans – Also Known as Stafford Loans: Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loans are federal student loans for eligible students to help cover the cost of higher education at a four-year college or university, community college, or trade, career, or technical school. The U.S. Department of Education offers eligible students at participating schools Direct Subsidized Loans and Direct Unsubsidized Loans. (Some people refer to these loans as Stafford Loans or Direct Stafford Loans.) Pace University has 3863 students who have taken out subsidized Stafford Loans and 5964 students who have taken out unsubsidized Stafford Loans.

Perkins Loans: The Perkins Loan Program, which provided low-interest loans to students through a partnership with the federal government and participating higher education institutions, including Pace, officially expired on September 30, 2017. No students are receiving Perkins Loans at Pace. For the past eight years, Congress has appropriated funds to reimburse colleges and universities for certain borrowers working in public service, such as teaching and nursing, or those enlisted in the armed forces. Those payments have stopped. American colleges and universities are owed over $300 million for their share of cancelled loans that have not been reimbursed, as required by law; according to the Office of Finance and Administration, Pace is owed $281,960. The Education Department will issue guidance regarding the repayment of those funds.

GCR will continue to advocate for sustained and increased funding for these vital financial aid programs and share news about Perkins Loan reimbursement if/when it becomes available.

NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

The State Legislature recently released the 2020 Legislative Session Calendar. The upcoming Legislative Session is scheduled to end on June 2nd of next year, which is about three weeks earlier than normal. This schedule change is because Legislative Primaries are being held on June 23rd and members want to be campaigning in their districts. Despite the early end, the Legislature still has scheduled 57 session days, which is about the same as previous years. The Legislature has adjusted the schedule by adding days in January and February, which was expected, as we have heard that the Legislative Leaders are planning to vote on issues earlier in the session. Student Privacy Issues/NYSED Proposed Regulations on Protecting Personally Identifiable Information On September 16, 2019, President Krislov submitted comments to the New York State Education Department (NYSED) on proposed regulations regarding the release and use of personally identifiable information tied to test scores. Students taking college entrance exams (SAT, ACT, PSAT) can opt-in to have their information, including their scores, sent to colleges and universities, allowing the institutions to send those students informational material that helps them

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understand and navigate the college application process. Under the proposed regulations, if a student is under the age of 18, (which is the vast majority of test takers) parental consent rather than student consent would be required before information from entrance exams is shared with colleges and universities and scholarship organizations.

It is Pace University’s position that the proposed regulations would place insurmountable barriers for high school students to learn about their range of college and university options. We believe the proposed regulations would severely circumscribe a high school student’s access to information about college. In addition, we believe that these regulations will disadvantage students from New York, as they will not receive the same level of outreach as students in other states across the country.

GCR also shared President Krislov’s comment letter with Regents Mead and Johnson, who represent the New York City and Pleasantville campuses as well as Regents Cashin and Collins, Co-Chairs of the Regent’s Committee on Higher Education. Regent Cashin responded that she was also concerned by these proposed regulations.

Senator Shelley Mayor introduced legislation this past summer that would address some, but not all of the concerns we have with these proposed regulations. GCR is working with CICU to address these outstanding issues.

Collegiate Athletic Compensation The California Legislature recently passed a bill that will allow college athletes to earn compensation from the use of their name, image or likeness. Governor Newsome is expected to sign it into law and it will go into effect in 2023. In September a very similar bill was introduced by New York State Senator Parker. This bill would allow:

Student athletes to earn compensation from the use of their name, image or likeness;

Allow student athletes to seek professional representation;

Require colleges to establish an injured athlete fund to provide compensation to athletes for career ending or long-term injuries; and

Require that at the conclusion of each school year, each college shall take fifteen percent of the revenue earned from ticket sales to all athletic events and divide and pay such amount to all student-athletes.

This bill makes no distinction between the different division levels, other than community college student athletes. The requirements to create an injured athlete fund and to divide and pay fifteen percent of revenue earned from ticket sales to student athletes were NOT included in the California bill. The New York State bill would also go into effect 2023. On October 15, 2019, a few pieces of legislation were introduced regarding the topic of compensation for student athletes. The main bill we are focused on is S.6722-A by Senator Parker which now has a same as in the Assembly. . This morning Assemblymember Solages introduced the same text in the Assembly (A.8620). Other Legislators have introduced bills on this topic, including:

Senator Griffo (S.6761)/ No Same As. This bill contains similar language to the bill introduced by Senator Parker except it does NOT include any language on the creation of an injury fund or the requirement to share revenues earned from ticket sales. It also does NOT have any language that would create a community college working group. This legislation would go into effect immediately. Assemblymember Ryan (A.8612)/ No Same As. This bill specifically states community college athletes are not included. It does NOT include language on the creation of an injury fund or the requirement to share revenues earned from ticket sales. This legislation would go into effect immediately.

Senator Bailey (S.6729)/ No Same As. This bill solely focuses on allowing student athletes to earn compensation for the use of their name, image, or likeness. It does NOT include any other language on how scholarships can be used, what the NCAA can or cannot do, professional representation, injury funds, sharing of revenues earned from ticket sales, or a community college working group. This legislation would go into effect immediately.

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Again, these bills do not make any distinction between divisions (D1, D2, D3). If the bills are passed as written, it would impact every division. GCR is working closely with Pace’s Director of Athletics Mark Brown and CICU, no action can be taken on this measure until the Legislature reconvenes in January. Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) The Tuition Assistance program helps eligible undergraduate New York State residents pay tuition at approved schools in New York State. TAP funding for the 2018-19 academic year is $5,165/year. For the 2018-19 academic year, Pace has 1,572 students in the program. The Office of Government and Community Relations and CICU have identified TAP as a major issues for the upcoming legislative session. TAP has not seen an increase in over a decade and GCR will continue to advocate for a three-year phase-in to increase the maximum Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) award to $6,000, the minimum award to $1,000, and the maximum income eligibility to $95,000. Higher Education Capital (HECap) Matching Grant Program HECap provides matching grants to finance capital projects and equipment purchases by independent institutions of higher education in New York State. The program is administered by the Dormitory Authority for the State of New York (DASNY) and governed by the HECap Board which reviews applications that have received the minimum scoring requirement (70/100) and ultimately approves or denies them. In the last round of funding Pace received a $1M award, the maximum amount. The request for new funding is expected to be announced before the end of the calendar year. GCR is working with Facilities to identify a suitable project to submit once the new round of funding goes live. “Bundy” Aid The Aid to Certain Independent Colleges and Universities, also known as Bundy Aid, is a program that provides direct unrestricted financial support to certain independent postsecondary institutions located in New York State. The program is funded from an annual appropriation of the New York State Legislature and funding is awarded based on the amount of degrees awarded annually. During the 2018-19 Academic Year, Pace received $842,538 through this program. State and Municipal Facilities (SAM) Program The capital spending bill passed during this year’s legislative session also included $385 million for State and Municipal Grants, which provide legislators and the Governor with discretionary funding to support capital projects in their communities. Private, not-for-profit colleges and universities are eligible for these grants, and many of our member institutions have benefited from them in the past. GCR has successfully secured $700,000 previously through this funding stream and recently secured a $200,000 grant from Senator Pete Harckham to create a dedicated Student Veteran Center in Pleasantville. For more information about the press conference announcing this grant see below in the Westchester Update.

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Incentive Scholarship The STEM Incentive Scholarship remains open to students attending private, not-for-profit colleges and universities for the 2019-20 academic year. The scholarship funding was continued in the state budget thanks to the advocacy of CICU and its member campuses. However, the Division of Budget (DOB) has informed us their plan is to cap the funding for the second cohort to about $338,000 per year for four years thus giving only about 50 students the ability to receive the scholarship. GCR and CICU plan to have discussions with DOB and the Governor’s office about this as it is unclear if this was the intent of the Legislature. Enhanced Tuition Award Changes The Enhanced Tuition Awards (ETA) program was a compromise made by the state as a result of the Excelsior Scholarship Program (“free college tuition”). The ETA Program provides tuition awards to students who are New York State residents attending a participating private college or university located in New York State; recipients receive $6,000 through a combination of their TAP award, ETA award and a match from their private college.

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Prior to this year, an institution could not use already awarded institutional aid to meet the ETA program’s “match” requirement. During last year’s legislative session, the enacted state budget changed that provision, permitting colleges and universities to use already awarded institutional aid as part of the match, a positive for the independent sector. Pace University has opted in to the program for another year even though the requirement that tuition be frozen for ETA recipients remains unchanged. GCR will continue to work to restore the authority of private colleges that participate in ETA to set our own tuition rates. NYS Clinical Preceptor Tax Credit Act (CPTCA) GCR has been working with Dean Feldman and Professor Sonnenberg in the College of Health Professions on a statewide initiative to address the shortage of professionals, known as preceptors, who accept health education students as part of clinical education. This legislation would provide a tax incentive program to preceptors to accept students in the form of a $1,000 tax credit for each 100 hours of training. GCR was able to get 25 institutions of higher education, the Nurse Practitioner’s Association of New York State and the Associated Medical School of New York, to support these efforts. On November 20, 2019, GCR Director Rachana Shah, CHP Professor Andrea Sonenberg, and three doctoral nursing students traveled to the State Capitol to educate legislators and the Governor’s staff on the need for the legislature to pass CPTCA during the 2020 legislative session. The group met with: David Perino, Assistant Counsel to the Governor, Joelle Foskett, Chief of Staff, Senator Harckham, Jennifer Best, Assembly P&C, Health, Maria Volpe McDermott, Assembly P&C, Higher Education and Sabiel Chapnick, Legislative Director for Senator Stavisky. New Acting Commissioner at the New York State Education Department (NYSED) The Board of Regents appointed Shannon Tahoe as Acting Commission of the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and announced several more top leadership changes within the agency. Tahoe, whose appointment is effective Nov. 16, has served in various legal and administrative capacities in NYSED since 2006. Other appointments include John D’Agati as Senior Deputy Commissioner for Education Policy; Elisa Alvarez as Associate Commissioner for the Office of Bilingual Education and World Language; Jason Harmon as Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Accountability; and Lesli Myers-Small as Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Innovation and School Reform. Final Published Student Loan Servicing Regulations The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) published final regulations to implement the state’s new student loan servicing law, which became effective on October 16, 2019 upon the publication by the NYDFS of a Notice of Adoption in the State Register. The new law, known as Article 14-A, was enacted on April 1, 2019. In addition to imposing new licensing requirements, even servicers that are exempt from licensing or deemed licensed must provide notice of their loan servicing to the NYDFS and comply with certain provisions of the law including those pertaining to nonconforming payments, credit reporting, prohibited practices, and recordkeeping. University Counsel is reviewing the final published regulations and will determine whether Pace would be considered a servicer of student loans under these rules.

WESTCHESTER UPDATE Communiversity Day & CODA Walk On September 28, 2019, Pace University held it’s first-ever Communiversity Day on the Pleasantville campus. The day commenced with the 2nd Annual Co-Occurring Disorders Awareness (CODA) Walk Out of the Shadows, organized by the Harris Project. The Pace Dance Team kicked off the walk activities. Opening remarks were provided by President Krislov and many of our elected officials including:

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State Senator Peter Harckham

Westchester County Deputy Executive Ken Jenkins

Westchester Legislators MaryJane Schimsky and Nancy Barr

Greenburgh Town Councilmembers Ellen Hendricks and Ken Jones

Pleasantville Mayor Peter Scherer

Local 102.7 radio DJ Mike Allen emceed the event. The walk highlighted various campus focal points and circled through campus, ending at Shirley Beth’s Way where there were food trucks stationed, selling food to attendees. It is estimated that over 300 people attended the walk, an increase from last year. Stephanie Marquesano emceed the opening of Communiversity Day and spoke about the significance of a university building its community day around mental health issues. She thanked Pace for making such a bold and public statement about the importance of bringing attention to mental health issues. Marquesano worked with Pace Athletics to raise awareness of co-occurring disorders during the Pace football game that day by organizing announcements to be made throughout the game

educating attendees on mental health issues and assisting in getting NCAA’s approval for the players to wear the Harris Project decals during the game. Staff, faculty, and students also volunteered their time to provide community residents with family-friendly activities, including a drone demonstration, carnival booths, environmental center demonstrations, and more. Families came from communities around Westchester, as well as far as Putnum County and Greenwich, CT. Positive feedback was received from attendees that they will be coming to more Pace student athletic games now that they realize how much is available on our campus. Student Veterans Center GCR secured a $200,000 SAM grant from Senator Peter Harckham to help build a Student Veterans Center within the Kessel Student Center on the Pleasantville campus. The center will serve as a one-stop resource site for student veterans and their dependents that will offer a central location on campus to connect, socialize and utilize resources provided by Pace University. Pace has an Office of Veterans Services located on the Downtown Manhattan campus dedicated to helping students with their veteran and educational benefits. The staff often commute to the Pleasantville campus for events, meetings, and more. This new student veteran center in Pleasantville will complement the investment made in the recent hiring of a new Director and Assistant Director of Veteran Services. The press conference announcing this event took place on September 28, 2019 during Communiversity Day. Mayor Scherer and Westchester Legislators were in attendance in addition to Pace staff, faculty, and Student Veterans.

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Student Veterans Association meets with Senator Harckham On November 4, 2019, the Pleasantville Student Veterans Association (SVA) met with Senator Harckham at his district office in Peekskill, NY. The purpose of the meeting was for the SVA to thank Senator Harckham for SAM grant funds being used to build a Student Veterans Center. The students also had the opportunity to further educate the Senator on some of the issues they face as student veterans. Senator Harckham invited all of the student veterans to join his Veterans Advisory Group so that he can continue to receive valuable perspective on policy affecting veterans in New York State. Safety & Security for Faith-Based Institutions

On October 17, 2019, Pace and the NYS Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES) co-hosted a second conference, titled Safety & Security for Faith-Based Institutions. More than 125 clergy, community leaders and law enforcement from the region convened to learn about ways to keep their institutions safe including available free trainings. Attendees came primarily from Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, and Orange counties, as well as New York City and Long Island. The featured keynote speaker was Rev. Anthony Thompson, a South Carolina-based pastor whose wife was among nine people murdered in the Charleston church shooting in 2015. He had a simple and direct message about forging ahead after tragedy: Forgive, unite and work together.

The conference was emceed by Vanessa Herman and President Krislov provided welcome remarks. Len Mitchell, Dean of Pace Honors College, moderated a law enforcement panel discussion, and Vincent Beatty, Pace’s Executive Director of Safety and Security, participated as a featured speaker on the Law Enforcement Panel. Additional featured speakers represented the following agencies and organizations:

Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services

Federal Bureau of Investigation – New York

New York State Police Service

Westchester County Police Department

Putnam County Police Department

Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

Westchester Medical Center Pace and DHSES hosted the first conference this past June on the downtown Manhattan campus. Following the success of both conferences and continued interest in this topic, Pace and DHSES are exploring the possibility of making this conference an annual event.

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Constitution Day On September 16, 2019, NYS Assemblyman Tom Abinanti spoke to students at a Constitution Day event on the Pleasantville campus, hosted by the Student Government Association. Constitution Day celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. In honor of this theme, Assemblyman Abinanti discussed first amendment issues and led a thought-provoking discussion on how these rights are exercised on college campuses. He also spent a significant amount of time discussing student loan debt and forgiveness, which was the policy issue foremost on the students’ minds. In addition, the Department of Media, Communications, and Visual Arts announced a design contest for a First Amendment-themed mural. The mural will be on the Pleasantville campus, on the western side of Willcox Hall and measure 8’ x 12’. The contest is open to currently registered Pace students, and submissions are due December 15, 2019 (Bill of Rights Day). A winner will be announced January 27, 2020 (first day of the spring semester). The mural will be painted during the spring by volunteers, and dedicated in May. Westchester Community Impact Report Press Conference On October 7, 2019, President Krislov announced the release of the Westchester Community Impact Report, which shows that Pace University contributed $359.9 million to the regional economy and was responsible for more than 1,500 jobs in Westchester County during 2018. President Krislov was joined by Westchester’s Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins, Pleasantville Mayor Peter Sherer and key business leaders, all of whom emphasized the significant economic, educational and cultural impact that the University has on the region. Westchester County Association After 15 years as the President & CEO of the Westchester County Association (WCA), William M. Mooney, Jr. will be retiring at the end of this year. John E. Ritacco, a financial services executive who was the former President and CEO of CMS Bancorp Inc., a publicly traded financial institution, will be appointed as Interim President/CEO of the WCA, effective January 1, 2020. He will remain in the position until a successor to William M. Mooney, Jr. is found. WCA has restarted a new version of its Workforce Development Committee, this time focusing on connecting employers to colleges and universities to determine the priority workforce development issues facing Westchester County. WCA is using this Committee as a platform to help plan a ‘summit’ on these issues in January 2020. GCR and Career Services are members of this Committee and attend the monthly meetings. Lubin Business Association – Pleasantville On October 30, 2019, GCR Director Rachana Shah spoke to students from the Lubin Business Association at a ‘Politics and Public Service’ event. Students who attended were eager to hear about career trajectories in politics, government, and the public sector. In particular, students wanted to hear about new career opportunities that have emerged in the past decade with a heavier reliance on technology and data, as well as the type of job positions that do not make headlines. Students also asked questions about how to obtain internships and get involved in local politics.

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NEW YORK CITY UPDATE 2020 Census Job Fair On September 25, 2019 Pace University hosted the first Manhattan CENSUS 2020 job fair. The event was organized by AM Deborah Glick in collaboration with the entire Manhattan Assembly delegation. The job fair was open to the public and focused on the vast number of well-paying jobs currently available at the U.S. Census Bureau. GCR worked with AM Glick to organize and run the event. Pace donated space and provided 10 laptops for attendees to apply for jobs onsite during the fair. NYPD Build the Block On October 223, 2019 GCR hosted a quarterly “Build the Block” forum in partnership with the NYPD 1st Precinct. Pace’s Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs), Giocardo Bernabe and Francis Ford, were on hand to answer questions and discuss ongoing quality of life issues in the neighborhood. Both officers are Pace alumni and appreciated being welcomed back to campus. They were extremely responsive to students, staff, and faculties concerns that were voiced during the meeting.

Seidenberg’s Women in Tech GCR partnered with Seidenberg’s “Women in Tech” student group to bring Elana Broitman, Senior National Security Advisor to Senator Gillibrand, to a campus lunch and learn on November 4, 2019. Elana spoke about her career, work life balance as well as opportunities for women in STEM at the Federal level.

AARP On October 10 and November 14, 2019, Pace hosted an AARP meeting on the downtown Manhattan campus for volunteers. GCR welcomed the group of volunteers to campus. Joy Yagman, Program Coordinator for Pace’s Active Retirement Community (PARC), presented about membership for PARC. About 20 volunteers expressed interest in joining PARC. The Center for Professional Studies (CPS) at Pace has organized a membership group rate for any AARP volunteers who wish to join PARC. GCR is working with AARP,CPS, and CHP to discuss additional opportunities for partnerships.

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NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital Government & Community Relations has continued its regular Health & Wellness Lecture Series with NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital (NYPLMH) and Weill Cornell Medicine; dates and topics for the Fall lecture series included September 24 – Community Tele-Paramedicine, October 15 – Peripheral Neuropathy, and November 12 – Hands Only CPR (see photo.) On December 19, 2019, AVP Vanessa Herman and President Krislov will be meeting with NYPLMH’s SVP and COO, Juan Mejia, and Project Lead for Business Administration, Mathew Volpe, to address the issue of the increase in the homeless population in the neighborhood.

Spruce Street Safety On November 8, 2019, GCR followed up with Jennifer Leung from NYC DOT regarding the current traffic studies being done in the Financial District to see if Spruce Street and where it intersects with both Park Row and Nassau Street are included. Jennifer is confirming that a traffic study of Spruce Street is being done. She will also be following up with GCR regarding next steps in the process of having the crosswalk lights timing adjusted appropriately and getting speed cushions installed on Spruce Street.

MISCELLANEOUS

Barin Masoud in Media Relations secured coverage for Pace University’s UNV 101 for Veterans class that was highlighted in a special NY POST Veterans Day story. AVP Vanessa Herman and Office of Veterans Services Director Peter Riley co-teach this class which focuses on assisting Student Veterans who are transitioning into college. UNV 101 for Veterans focuses on career readiness, translating military experience into civilian terms and mental and physical wellness.

The Science Coalition On November 6, 2019, AVP Vanessa Herman joined some NYS members of The Science Coalition (TSC) to meet with Leader Schumer to thank him for his continued efforts to support federal science research funding. Leader Schumer was previously named a “Champion of Science” by The Science Coalition, and members are continuing to engage with the Champions to ensure our federal funding priorities are heard. Pace has been a member of TSC since 2013 and both AVP Vanessa Herman and former GCR Director Bill Colona have held positions on the TSC Board.

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CUMU Annual Conference Seidenberg Dean Jonathan Hill and AVP Vanessa Herman presented at the annual Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) conference in Philadelphia on October 22, 2019. Their best practices presentation proposal, entitled “Pace University & One Hundred Black Men of New York: Junior 100 Pathways to Success Program Overview and Assessment” was well received by the more the standing room only crown. Only 37/90 best practice proposals CUMU received were invited to present at the annual conference.