Inaugural Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award

The Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to the full-time faculty member who has demonstrated exemplary dedication to teaching, service, scholarship, a long-standing commitment to excellence in their discipline, and has made an indelible impact on Pace University.

Joseph Morreale, PhD Distinguished Professor, Economics Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Joseph has 51 years of experience in academia as a teacher, scholar, and administrator at 7 major universities and colleges in the US and abroad: Pace University, Bard College, University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Western Michigan University, University of Lancaster (UK), and University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in China. He received tenure at two different institutions. He is presently a full professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Pace University and was recently recognized as a University Distinguished Professor of Economics.

He has 21 years of experience in higher education administration including such positions as provost, senior associate provost, vice president, associate vice president, vice provost, division chair, and department chair. He has extensive administrative experience in strategic planning and assessment, academic program design, faculty development and vitality and multicampus management. He has recently served a full-term on the Executive Board of the International Atlantic Economic Society (2018–2020).

He is a dynamic and effective professor at the graduate and undergraduate levels in Economics, Master of Science in Applied Quantitative Economic Analysis and Public Policy, Master of Public Administration, Pforzheimer Honors College, and business degree programs. He redesigned numerous existing courses, introducing high-impact educational practices and innovative pedagogical methodology. He developed new courses that emphasize experiential learning, including a short study-abroad course to China taught three times and a senior capstone research course in economics. He mentored hundreds of students, many of whom presented their research at internal and external conferences, went on to prestigious graduate schools, and built lucrative careers.

Professor Morreale is an active researcher with wide-ranging scholarly experience in public finance and administration, health care economics, environmental economics, faculty development and evaluation, and program development in higher education. He is the author of six books, numerous book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles. He also has extensive consulting experience in budgeting and financial analysis, assessment, statistical analysis, management information systems, and distance education.