Get involved with Election 2020: Opportunities from Community Partners
By Chloe Hwang, CCAR Student Projects Coordinator We know a lot of Pace students are excited about Election 2020 and want to get more involved! Check out the below volunteer and job opportunities from our non-partisan community partners! And as…
CCAR Anti-Racism Action Plan
We understand that transparency and accountability are crucial to anti-racism work. Taking the lead from NYC SGA’s Diversity Ambassadors who recently urged departments to share their commitment to anti-racism work, we are sharing our plans to ensure that all of…
COVID-19 and BLM: Ten Actions You Can Take Right Now
By Heather Novak, Interim Director of CCAR Between COVID-19 and its disproportionate impacts on low income communities and communities of color and recent instances of police brutality against the black community that highlight a long and violent history of systematic…
2019-2020 SERVICE & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT RECOGNITION
Each year, Pace University students, faculty, and staff contribute to their local and global communities through volunteering, service-learning (Civic Engagement courses), advocacy, activism, and non-profit internships. Pace’s commitment to service and civic engagement has earned recognition through the Carnegie Classification…
The CARES Act: Pace University Advocacy in the Time of COVID-19
On Tuesday, April 28th the Center for Community Action and Research (CCAR) teamed up with Government and Community Relations (GCR) to discuss the CARES Act and answer student questions about this legislation. Part of CCAR’s Everyday Activism Challenge, this event enabled…
Recapping #EverydayActivism2020
It is April 30th which means it is time for our 2020 Everyday Activism Challenge to come to a close! Every April, we at the CCAR organize an Everyday Activism Challenge in which Pace students, staff, and faculty pledge to…
Ten Things You Should Know About Masks in a COVID-19 World
April 22, 2020 By Heather Novak Heather A. Novak is the Interim Director of the Center for Community Action and Research, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pace University and is currently obsessed with mask making. You can reach…
CE Course Spotlight: the Parenting, Prison, & Pups Program
Have you always wanted to know what it is like to work in a jail? You can gain real world experience working in a corrections setting with Dr. Kimberly Collica-Cox, who directs the Criminal Justice department’s jail-based services. Students can…
Recapping Weeks 1 and 2 of #EverydayActivism2020
Every April, we at the CCAR organize an Everyday Activism Challenge in which Pace students, staff, and faculty pledge to commit personal actions to have a positive environmental impact. This year, in light of COVID-19 and Pace’s move to remote…
As a college student, why should I care about the #2020Census?
By Laurianne Gutierrez, CCAR Student Projects Coordinator Every 10 years, we are bestowed the unique opportunity to exercise an essential civic duty. That is, the Decennial Census comes to the fore, giving us the opportunity to make ourselves count. Many…
