We would like you to give a warm welcome to the Center for Community Action and Research’s new Marketing Intern, Jenny Marbella! Please give her a high five when you see her around campus this summer while she works as…
Each year, Pace University students, faculty, and staff contribute over 85,000 hours of service to their local and global communities through volunteering, service-learning (Civic Engagement and Public Values courses), advocacy, activism, and non-profit internships. Pace’s commitment to service and civic…
For the #EVERYDAYACTIVISM challenge, I spent the last six months with one focus: purchase only recycled clothing. It is estimated that Americans buy more than 80 billion new items of clothing each year, and we are throwing away 13 million…
Roberto C. Chavez (“Berto”) is an educator, activist, and poet with a background in history, theatre, and social justice. Roberto has a love for letter-writing and journaling, as well as examining how we document the past and present, how do…
By Dr. Sue Maxam – check out her first week on our Instagram! Week Two For the second week of my e-activism, I focused on the famine in Africa; LGBTQA discrimination in Chechnya; animal abuse; and environmental issues, among other…
This week for my daily activism challenge I helped the environment, donated and made sure to include others. At the beginning of the week I spoke with CCAR and made a video about helping the environment. On Tuesday, I left…
For the month of April, I’ve been taking on VEGETARIANISM as a part of the Center for Community Action and Research’s #EverydayActivismChallenge. I actually wanted to go a step further and do VEGANISM, and over the course of 20 days,…
My commitment this April is to eliminate meat from my diet. My view of eating meat changed drastically after seeing the documentary COWSPIRACY on Netflix. Did you know that it takes nearly 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound…
My first week of my everyday activism challenge went wonderfully. I created a Facebook page dedicated to promoting positivity in life and within the Pace campus. I committed to a single act of kindness every day for the month of…
April is Earth Month, and I’m excited to be partaking in #EverydayActivismChallenge this year. My pledge will be changing to a plant based (vegetarianism) diet for the month of April. When I think about the fact that by going vegetarian, I can…
