Pace University Announces Wilson Center Faculty Fellows

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Pace University's Wilson Center has announced its four faculty fellows for the upcoming school year. Founded in 2005, the center was created to serve the nonprofit and social enterprise community and Pace University.

Pace's Helen and Grant Wilson Center For Entrepreneurship has announced its four faculty fellows for the upcoming school year.
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John Haffey

Content Partner: Pace University

The 2015-2016 Wilson Center Faculty Fellows are:

Casey Frid, Assistant Professor of Management, Lubin School of Business
Lijun He, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences
Carol Roye, Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Professor, College of Health Professions
Jason Whitesel, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences

Professor Frid’s case study will explore the emergence of a collective identity among individuals in a rural area in Brazil, known as the Reserva do Ibitipoca. Through field observations, tracking local news, interviewing local entrepreneurs, residents and other relevant stakeholders, Professor Frid will gather insights into the socio-cultural, environmental and economic challenges this community is confronting as a result of the exponential growth of tourism in the region.

Professor He’s study seeks to contribute to the scholarly research on impact investing through two main objectives: to identify the involved actors; and to analyze the sequence of changes a foundation experiences as they make a strategic shift from traditional grant making to impact investing.

Professor Roye’s research will investigate how a small nonprofit organization, Promoting Health in Haiti (PHH), founded by a group of nurse faculty, established partnerships with key entities in Haiti and created a sea change in nursing education after the catastrophic Haitian earthquake of 2010. The proposed case study will examine and report on the steps taken by PHH to collaborate and produce desperately needed changes in nursing education.

Professor Whitesel’s research will focus on a global nonprofit, the Prime Timers. With chapters throughout the United States and abroad, this organization’s mission is to support a disenfranchised group within gay society–older gay men–many of whom may live in social isolation.