As president of Pace University, I’m deeply committed to our traditional mission of Opportunitas—providing all students, regardless of economic background, access to the transformative power of education. I’m proud that Opportunity Insights at Harvard University ranked us the nation’s top four-year, private college for driving economic mobility. Before coming to Pace, I served for 10 years as the president of Oberlin College, where I led efforts to make the college more rigorous, diverse, inclusive and accessible to students from every socioeconomic background. Before that, I was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan, where I led the legal defense of the university’s admission policies that resulted in the 2003 Supreme Court decision recognizing the importance of student body diversity. I earned a bachelor’s degree at Yale University in 1982, and I was named a Rhodes Scholar. I earned my juris doctor degree at Yale Law School in 1988.