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Forbes featured President Marvin Krislov's latest column "Why Higher Education Is All In On NYC"
Starting today, businesses, organizations, and people across New York City are gathering together to announce that they’re All In on NYC.
It’s a marketing slogan, but it’s one that serves an important point. The pandemic hit New York State hard in its early days. Tragically, we lost more lives here than in any other state. But then we successfully battled back. Our world-class hospitals and healthcare workers learned how to treat the disease, and how to save lives. Our smart and savvy people took lockdown rules seriously, staying home, staying distant, and wearing masks. And New York City remains a great place for education.
The New York City region is and always has been an amazing place to go to school. As we always say at Pace University, when you come to Pace, New York City is literally your campus. City Hall is across the street from us, the Brooklyn Bridge is next door, and something like a dozen subway lines, which can take you anywhere in any borough, are within a few blocks. There are research opportunities and professional connections, and world-class avenues for channeling your passions, be they creative or entrepreneurial or political or scientific or all of the above. There are passionate, motivated people everywhere.
In the wake of the pandemic, we feared some students might be reluctant to come back to the New York City region. In fact, domestic enrollment numbers have been impressively stable, although we’re enrolling fewer international students this year than usual because of the difficulties in international travel.
They know that New York City is as fantastic a place to go to college as it has always been—and now, in fact, perhaps even better than before. Our recovery can and should be a model for the rest of the country. New York City is always where things happen first.
