Pace College

Pace University

Motto	Opportunitas
Type	Private, nonsectarian, co-educational
Established	1906
Endowment	$156.7 million (2015)
Chairman	Mark M. Besca
President	Stephen J. Friedman Marvin Krislov (incoming)
Academic staff	1,238
Administrative staff	1,527
Students	12,772
Undergraduates	8,928
Postgraduates	4,471 (778 law)
Address	1 Pace Plaza, New York City, New York, U.S.
Campus	New York City: Urban 950,000 square feet (88,000 m2) Westchester: Suburban 243 acres (98 hectares)
Colors	Blue      &      Gold
Athletics	NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)
Sports	19 varsity teams
Nickname	Setters
Mascot	Setter
Website	pace.edu

Pace University is a private institution that was founded in 1906. It has a campus in Manhattan, New York City, and two campuses in Westchester County, New York, in Pleasantville and White Plains. The school also operates other properties, including a women's justice center in nearby Yonkers, city public school Pace University High School, and two business incubators.

Pace University was founded by brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace in 1906, initially as a business school for men and women. It operated out of the New York Tribune Building in New York City, and spread as Pace Institute, operating in major U.S. cities. In the 1920s, the school divested the other facilities, maintaining its Lower Manhattan location. It purchased its first permanent home there in 1951, and opened its Pleasantville campus in 1963. Pace opened its largest building, 1 Pace Plaza, in 1969. Four years later, it became a university. Its White Plains campus opened in 1975 upon Pace's merger with the College of White Plains. Briarcliff College was purchased two years later. In 1994, Pace moved its law school to the White Plains campus, consolidating Westchester undergraduate programs between Pleasantville and Briarcliff. In 1997, Pace purchased the World Trade Institute at One World Trade Center. The school put the Briarcliff campus up for sale in 2015.

In 1906, brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles Ashford Pace founded the firm of Pace & Pace to operate their schools of accountancy and business. Taking a loan of $600, the Pace brothers rented a classroom on one of the floors of the New York Tribune Building, today the site of the One Pace Plaza complex. The Paces taught the first class of 13 men and women. The school grew rapidly, and moved several times around Lower Manhattan.