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One Million Strong
Education
Opposite: Dean Horace Anderson
Top: The Elisabeth Haub School of Law has more than 8,500 alumni around the world. Below: Pace Women’s Justice Center provides free legal services to victims and survivors
of domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse.
“We make lawyers out of first-generation students, immigrant students, and students from a range of underrepresented groups.” —Horace Anderson, Dean of PACE University’s Elisabeth Haub School
of Law
A HIGHLY-EDUCATED WORKFORCE
Nearly half of Westchester residents over the age of 25 hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with 33 percent state- wide and 28 percent nationally
– and nearly a quarter of those residents hold advanced degrees.
With 30 post-secondary educational institutions located across the County, Westchester has public and private two-year institutions, as well as fully accredited universities that offer bachelors or advanced degrees across multiple disciplines.
clerkships while they study for their degrees. The practical experience they get in the County makes them some of the best-prepared law graduates in the country when they enter the job market. Many of our graduates choose to practice in Westchester, which feeds a virtuous cycle of the County’s both nurturing and benefitting from the talents of our young lawyers.
What’s coming up on the horizon for the school in 2022?
So many things. We’re re-launching our Health Law & Policy Certificate, to be offered to attorneys and healthcare administrators/professionals. We’re also
The College of Westchester is a private for-profit college in White Plains, New York. It offers Bachelor’s degrees and Associate degrees along with certificate options during the day, evening, Saturday, and online with programs
in business, accounting, allied health, digital media and technology.
Fordham University has named Tania Christina Tetlow its president. Tetlow is the first woman and non-Jesuit to preside over the Catholic university of 16,000 students.
Iona College and the US Small Business Administration joined in late 2021 to highlight a $5 million grant for veteran and military spouse entrepreneurs. The college’s Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship was selected by the Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families to support their Community Navigator Pilot Program, funded by the U.S. SBA.
Manhattanville College recently launched its Center for Design Thinking, which is a systematic approach to solution-finding that promotes empathy, collaboration, creativity, action and iteration.
Mercy College was named as a
partner in a federal grant to extend vaccinations into Westchester’s poorer
launching the Haub Sustainable Business Law Hub, providing thought leadership in ESG/business sustainability. We are recruiting for accelerated (3-yr) JD/MBA program, and we are expanding the Pace Access to Justice Project. The course is structured as a legal design “lab” and students are taught to implement a human-centered problem-solving (design-theory-driven) approach to legal problems and innovation.
communities by the Westchester County Department of Health
(WCHD). This team reaches out to underserved—and under-vaccinated— communities in an effort to get more people protected from COVID-19.
Monroe College in New Rochelle features six academic buildings, including a Culinary Arts Center, which opened in 2006, and houses a critically acclaimed student-run restaurant called The Dining Lab.
Pace University is poised to transform Lienhard Hall, home to its College of Health Professions on the Pleasantville campus, into a modernized Healthcare Hub with the help of $1 million in
state funding. Pace will add important programming for students preparing for careers in the region’s burgeoning healthcare and biotechnology sector.
SUNY Purchase – Dr. Milagros “Milly” Peña was selected to be the president at SUNY Purchase last May and has been serving in the position since then.
Westchester Community College
will expand its current space at
Cross County Center in Yonkers. The college will occupy the third floor of the new Target building to allow for more extensive classroom operations, including additional degree and certification programs.
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© Courtesy of Elisabeth Haub School of Law
© Courtesy of Elisabeth Haub School of Law