“To engage in honest dialogue across difference is rare, and precious, and essential. It is what connects us through the common thread of our shared humanity. Because we don’t grow just by living in echo chambers. We grown through conversation, through disagreement, through curiosity, and through compassion. You have done that. Now you need to carry it forward.
You are stepping into a world that is complicated and often very divided. A world that will ask hard questions of you and that is your opportunity because the world needs people like you who know how to listen, who know how to learn, who know how to lead.
Our motto is “opportunas” it’s more than tradition. It’s a truth that education your education will open doors that hard work matters and that no one rises alone but everyone deserves the chance to try.”
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Pace University Commencement was one of seventy campuses participating in From Campus to Community a new national campaign to champion civil discourse and democratic engagement in this year’s commencement season. More from President Marvin Krislov.
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