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Fordham University

Latin: Universitas Fordhamensis

Former names
St. John's College
(18411907)
Marymount College, Tarrytown (absorbed 2002 dissolved 2007)
Motto
Sapientia et Doctrina (Latin)
Motto inEnglish
Wisdom and Learning
Type
Private, independent, coeducational[1]
Established
1841
Affiliation
Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Endowment
$665.5 million (2015)[2]
President
The Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J.
Academic staff
1,569 (833 full-time)(2015)[3]
Students
15,286 (2015)
Undergraduates

8,855 (2015)[3]
Postgraduates
6,431 (2015)[3]
Location
New York City, New York, U.S.
405139N 73534W
Coordinates:

405139N 73534W

Campus
Rose Hill (The Bronx):
urban, 85 acres (34.4ha);
Lincoln Center (Manhattan):
urban, 8 acres (3.2ha);
Westchester (West Harrison):
suburban, 32 acres (12.9ha)[4]

Colors
Maroon and white[5]

Athletics
NCAA Division I
Atlantic 10 Conference Patriot League (football)
ICSA
ACHA
USA Rugby
NCLL
Nickname
Rams
Mascot
The Ram
Affiliations
AJCU ACCU
MSA NAICU
Website
www.fordham.edu

Fordham University (/frdm/) is a private, nonprofit, coeducational

research university[6] in New York City, United States. It was founded by the
Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St. John's College, placed in the
care of the Society of Jesus shortly thereafter, and has since become an
independent institution under a lay board of trustees, which describes the
university as "in the Jesuit tradition."[7]
Fordham is composed of ten constituent colleges, four of which are for
undergraduates and six of which are for postgraduates. It enrolls
approximately 15,000 students across three campuses in New York State:
Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan and Westchester in West
Harrison. In addition to these campuses, the university maintains a study

abroad center in the United Kingdom and field offices in Spain and South
Africa. Fordham awards the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and
Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees, as well as various masters and doctoral
degrees.[4]
The 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report lists Fordham as a "more
selective" national university and ranks it tied for 60th in this category.[8]
Fordham University School of Law is currently ranked 37th in the United
States, while Fordham's graduate programs in business, English, history,
social work, education, and sociology are ranked among the top 100 in the
nation.[9] The university has been historically renowned for its humanities
programs, with its alumni ranking among the top 5 highest-paid humanities
graduates of any university in the country.[10] Fordham University has
produced at least 102 Fulbright Scholars since 2003.[11]
Contents [hide]
1
History
1.1
18411900
1.2
19011950
1.3
19512000
1.4
2001present
2
Academics
2.1
Core curriculum
2.2
Colleges and schools
2.2.1
Undergraduate colleges
2.2.2
Graduate schools
2.2.3
Medical education
2.3
Libraries and museums
2.4
Research
2.5
Honor societies and programs
2.6

Study abroad
2.7
Admissions
2.8
Rankings
2.8.1
U.S. undergraduate rankings
2.8.2
U.S. graduate rankings
2.8.3
World rankings
3
Campuses
3.1
Rose Hill
3.2
Lincoln Center
3.3
Westchester
3.4
Other facilities
3.5
Town-gown relationships
4
Student activities
4.1
Global Outreach
4.2
Athletics
4.3
Publications
4.4
WFUV Radio
4.5
Performing arts
4.5.1
Theater at Rose Hill
4.6
Speech and debate
4.7
Campus ministry and social activism
4.8
Military education
4.9
Fraternities and sororities

5
Traditions and symbols
6
Alumni and faculty
6.1
Notable alumni
6.2
Notable current and former faculty
7
In the arts
8
Sustainability
9
Affiliations
10
Notes and references
10.1
Notes
10.2
References
11
External links

History[edit]

18411900[edit]

St. John's College, 1846.

Fordham was founded as St. John's College in 1841 by the Irish-born

coadjutor bishop (later archbishop) of the Diocese of New York, the Most
Reverend John J. Hughes. The college was the first Catholic institution of
higher education in the northeastern United States. In September 1840,
Hughes purchased most of Rose Hill Manor in Fordham, New York, for
slightly less than $30,000 with the intent of establishing St. Joseph's
Seminary following the model of Mount Saint Mary's University of which he
was an alumnus. "Rose Hill" was the name originally given to the site in 1787
by its owner, Robert Watts, a wealthy New York merchant, in honor of his
family's ancestral home in Scotland. The seminary was paired with St. John's

College, which opened at Rose Hill with a student body of six on June 21,
1841. The Reverend John McCloskey (later archbishop of New York and
eventually the first American cardinal) was the school's first president, and the
faculty were secular priests and lay instructors. The college presidency went
through a succession of four diocesan priests in five years, including the Rev.
James Roosevelt Bayley, a distant cousin of Theodore and Franklin D.
Roosevelt and a nephew of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. In 1845, the seminary
church, Our Lady of Mercy, was built. The same year, Bishop Hughes
convinced several Jesuit priests from the St. Mary's Colleges in Maryland and
Kentucky to staff St. John's.[12]
In 1846, the college received its charter from the New York State Legislature,
and roughly three months later, the first Jesuits began to arrive. Bishop
Hughes deeded the college over but retained title to the seminary property,
about nine acres. In 1847, Fordham's first school in Manhattan opened. The
school became the independently chartered College of St. Francis Xavier in
1861. It was also in 1847 that the American poet Edgar Allan Poe arrived in
the village of Fordham and began a friendship with the college Jesuits that
would last throughout his life. In 1849, he published his famed work "The
Bells." Some traditions credit the college's church bells as the inspiration for
this poem.[12] Poe also spent considerable time in the Fordham (then St.
John's) Library, and even occasionally stayed overnight.[12]

Collins Auditorium before its renovation.

St. John's curriculum consisted of a junior division (i.e. the preparatory

school), requiring four years of study in Latin, Greek, grammar, literature,
history, geography, mathematics, and religion; and a senior division (i.e. the
college), requiring three years study in "poetry" (humanities), rhetoric, and
philosophy. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, famed commander of the all-black
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry American Civil War regiment, attended
the junior division. An Artium Baccalaureus degree was earned for completion
of both curricula, and an additional year of philosophy would earn a Magister
Artium degree. There was also a "commercial" track similar to a modern

business school, offered as an alternative to the Classical curriculum and

resulting in a certificate instead of a degree. In 1855, the first student stage
production, Henry IV, was presented. The seminary was closed in 1859, and
the property was sold to the Jesuits in 1860 for $40,000.[12]
A Congressional act creating instruction in military science and tactics at the
college level resulted in St. John's bringing a cadet corps to campus. From
1885 to 1890, a veteran of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Lt. Herbert C. Squires, built a
cadet battalion to a strength of 200, which would provide the foundation for
the modern ROTC unit at Fordham. The college built a science building in
1886, lending more legitimacy to science in the curriculum. In addition, a
three-year Bachelor of Science degree was created. In 1897, academic
regalia for students at Commencement was first adopted.[12]

19011950[edit]

St. John's College, c.1905

Woolworth Building at night c.1913, site of Fordham schools in Manhattan at the time.

The Administration Building, Rose Hill c. 1935.

With the addition of law and medical schools in 1905, St. John's College
became Fordham University in 1907. The name Fordham refers to the village
of Fordham, in which the original Rose Hill campus is located. The village, in
turn, drew its name from its location near a shallow crossing of the Bronx
River ("ford by the hamlet"). When Fordham and several other Westchester
County towns were consolidated into the Bronx at the turn of the twentieth
century, the village became the borough's Fordham neighborhood. Still in
existence today, it is located just to the west of the Rose Hill campus.[12]
In 1908, Fordham University Press was established.[12] In 1912, the university
opened the College of Pharmacy, which offered a three-year program in
pharmacy. Not requiring its students to obtain bachelor's degrees until the late
1930s, the college had a mainly Jewish student body, and in recognition of
that, the students were exempted from the then-required course in Catholic
theology. The school's longtime dean, Jacob Diner, was also Jewish.[12]
The College of St. Francis Xavier was closed in 1913, and various Fordham
colleges were opened at the Woolworth Building in Manhattan to fill the void.
Some divisions of the University including the law school were later moved to
"the Vincent Astor Building" at 302 Broadway,[13] This commenced an
unbroken string of instruction in Manhattan that became what is now
Fordham College at Lincoln Center, where all of Fordham's Manhattan
academic operations are centered today. .[12]
The university closed its medical school in 1919, citing a lack of endowment
and reduced university funds overall due to the First World War.[12] The Gabelli
School of Business began in 1920 in Manhattan as the School of Accounting.
[12] In 1944, the School of Professional and Continuing Studies was
established, largely bolstered by returning veterans taking advantage of the
GI Bill.[12]
Though first established in 1882, Fordham gained a significant amount of
national renown from its football program in the early 20th century. Fordham
football played on some of the largest stages in sports, including games in

front of sellout crowds at the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium, a Cotton
Bowl appearance and a Sugar Bowl victory, as well as producing the famed
Seven Blocks of Granite (including Vince Lombardi). On September 30, 1939,
Fordham participated in the worlds first televised football game, defeating
Waynesburg College, 347. The university discontinued the program during
World War II, reinstating it in 1946. However, it proved much less successful
and too expensive to maintain, and was again discontinued in 1954, though
would revive yet again as a NCAA Division III team in 1970 and Division I
team in 1989.

19512000[edit]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower unveils the Lincoln Center project, including the Fordham
campus seen on the upper-right of the image in the foreground.

In 1961, the Lincoln Center campus opened as part of the Lincoln Square
Renewal Project. The School of Law was the first to occupy the new campus,
but the academic programs at 302 Broadway were moved to the new location
in 1969. At Rose Hill, the all-female Thomas More College began instruction
in 1964.[12]
In the late 1960s, Fordham became a center of political activism and
countercultural activity. At the Rose Hill Campus, the Fordham branch of
Students for a Democratic Society organized opposition to the existence of te
ROTC and military recruiters.[14] During this period, students routinely
organized protests and class boycotts and used psychoactive drugs on
campus open spaces.[12] In response to internal demands for a more
liberalized curriculum, the university created Bensalem College in 1967. An
experimental college with no set requirements and no grades, it was studied
by a wide array of educators and reported on by such large-circulation
publications of the day as Look, Esquire and the Saturday Review. The
school closed in 1974. In 1969, students organized a sit-in on the main road
leading to Rose Hill in response to an announcement that President Richard
Nixon would be speaking on campus.[12] As a result of the sit-in, Nixon was
forced to cancel his plans to speak.[12] A year later, students stormed the main

administration building, occupying it for several weeks, and set fire to the
Rose Hill faculty lounge.[12] It was during this period of activism that the
universitys African and African American Studies Department, one of the first
black studies departments in the nation, as well as the paper, the leftist
student newspaper on campus, were founded.[12] While political activism has
diminished considerably at the Rose Hill campus, it remains strong at the
Lincoln Center campus, where students frequently organize protests and
events in support of various political causes.[12]
In 1969, the board of trustees was reorganized to include a majority of
nonclerical members, which officially made the university an independent
institution. The College of Pharmacy closed due to declining enrollment in
1972. Fordham College at Rose Hill merged with Thomas More College in
1974, becoming coeducational.[12]
Fordham Preparatory School, a four-year, all-male college preparatory
school, was once integrated with the university and shares its founding. It
became legally independent in 1972 and moved to its own facilities on the
northwest corner of the Rose Hill campus; however, the school remains
connected to the university in many ways.[15]
In 1993, a twenty-story residence hall was added to the Lincoln Center
campus to house 850 students. In 1996, the campus's undergraduate college
changed its name to "Fordham College at Lincoln Center," having been called
"The Liberal Arts College" and later "The College at Lincoln Center" since its
creation in 1968.[12]

2001present[edit]

Assumption Hall, Marymount College.

Marymount College, an independent women's college founded by the

Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1907, was consolidated into
Fordham in July 2002. The school had been steeped in financial hardship
since the 1970s. Located 25 miles (40km) north of Manhattan in Tarrytown,
New York, the college remained open, and its campus received a branch of
the School of Professional and Continuing Studies as well as extensions of
the graduate schools for education, social service, and business
administration.

In 2005, Fordham announced that Marymount College would be phased out;

it awarded degrees to its final undergraduate class in May 2007. University
administrators indicated that the campus would remain open for Fordham
graduate programs in several disciplines.
In the autumn of 2007, however, the university announced its intention to
seek buyers for the Marymount campus. Administrators stated that the
expenses required to support the programs at the campus far exceeded their
demand. University officials estimated that the revenue gained from the
proposed sale would not be greater than the expenses incurred maintaining
and improving the campus since the merger with Marymount. President
McShane stated that the university's decision was nonetheless a "painful"
one. Fordham then indicated its intention to move the remaining programs
from the Marymount campus to a new location in Harrison, New York by the
autumn of 2008. On February 17, 2008, the university announced the sale of
the campus for $27 million to EF Schools, a chain of private language
instruction schools.[16] In 2014, Fordham University has successfully
completed a five-year, $0.5 billion campaign, surpassing expectations by
raising more than $0.54 billion over the five-year period.[17]
The university is currently in the midst of a renovation and expansion of its
Lincoln Center campus. It recently completed a new building for The Law
School, as well as an undergraduate dormitory. The former law school
building is being renovated to give the Gabelli School of Business a home in
Manhattan, and long-term plans are under consideration for a new library
building, as well as buildings to house the Graduate School of Social Service
and the Graduate School of Education.

Academics[edit]

Fordham's academic ideals are drawn from its Jesuit influences. The
university promotes the Jesuit principles of cura personalis, which fosters a
faculty and administrative respect for the individual student and all of his or
her gifts and abilities; magis, which encourages students to challenge
themselves and strive for excellence in their lives; and homines pro aliis,
which intends to inspire service among members of the Fordham community.
[7]

Core curriculum[edit]

Tognino Hall, a common guest lecture venue at Rose Hill.

All undergraduates at Fordham are required to complete the Core Curriculum,

a distribution of 17 courses in nine disciplines: English, mathematical/
computational reasoning, social science, philosophy and ethics, history, fine
arts, religious studies, natural science, and modern or Classical languages.
Based on the curriculum established by the Society of Jesus in the sixteenth
century, the Core is shared by Jesuit schools all over the world and is
intended to provide a sound liberal arts education.[18]
Students are expected to fulfill most of the Core requirements prior to the
completion of their sophomore year; a wide variety of courses can be applied
to this endeavor.[19] Those students pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree
complete a modified version of the Core.[20]
Upon the completion of the Core Curriculum, students choose from
approximately 50 major courses of study, in which they will receive their
degree.[4] One option is the personalized interdisciplinary major, which allows
students to create their own course of study across various disciplines.[21]

Colleges and schools[edit]

The university is composed of four undergraduate and six graduate schools,
[22] which are as follows:
Undergraduate colleges[edit]
Fordham College at Rose Hill (also known simply as Fordham College),
1841
Fordham College at Lincoln Center, 1913 [23]
Gabelli School of Business, 1920
School of Professional and Continuing Studies, 1944
Through its undergraduate schools, Fordham offers a number of special
academic programs for undergraduates, a selection of which are below:
Pre-Medical and Health Professions Program[24]
Pre-professional programs in law, architecture, and criminal justice[25][26]
[27]

32 Engineering Program, in conjunction with Columbia and Case

Western Reserve Universities[28]
Five-Year Teacher Certification Program[29]
Applied Public Accountancy (CPA certification) program[30]
BFA program in dance, in conjunction with the Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater[31]
Cross registration opportunities with the Juilliard School for advanced
music students[32]
Graduate schools[edit]

Keating Hall at the Rose Hill Campus in winter.

School of Law, 1905

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1916
Graduate School of Education, 1916
Graduate School of Social Service, 1916
Gabelli School of Business, 1920
Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, 1969
Fordham participates in the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium, which
allows its doctoral students to take classes at a number of schools in the New
York metropolitan area.[33]
Medical education[edit]
With the closure of its medical school in 1919 and its College of Pharmacy in
1972, Fordham ceased direct medical instruction on its campuses.
Nevertheless, the university continues its tradition of medical education
through a collaboration with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at
Yeshiva University. The partnership allows Fordham undergraduate and
graduate science students to take classes, conduct research, and pursue
early admission to select programs of Einstein. In addition, it involves a
physician mentoring program, which permits students to shadow an attending
physician at Einstein's Montefiore Medical Center.[34]
In 2009, Fordham began negotiations with New York Medical College
regarding the possible merger of the two institutions.[35] While the merger

ultimately did not occur, the two schools maintain a close academic
relationship in such ways as the provision of joint courses.[36] This relationship
is expected to grow in the coming years.[37]

Libraries and museums[edit]

Duane Library, Rose Hill.

The Fordham University Library System contains approximately two and a

half million volumes, subscribes to over 65,000 periodicals and electronic
journals, and is a depository for United States Government documents.[38] In
addition, the university's Interlibrary Loan office provides students and faculty
with virtually unlimited access to the over 20 million volumes of the New York
Public Library System as well as to media from the libraries of Columbia
University, New York University, the City University of New York, and other
libraries around the world.[39] Fordham's libraries include the William D. Walsh
Family Library, ranked in 2004 as the fifth best collegiate library in the
country,[40] and the Science Library at the Rose Hill campus, the Gerald M.
Quinn Library and the Leo T. Kissam Memorial Law Library at the Lincoln
Center campus, and the Media Center at the Westchester campus. In
addition to the university's formal libraries, several academic departments,
research institutes, and student organizations maintain their own literary
collections.[41] The Rose Hill campus's Duane Library, despite its name, is no
longer a library, though it still contains reading and study space for students.
[42]

William D. Walsh Family Library at the Rose Hill campus, as viewed from Fordham Road.

Fordham maintains several special collections that are housed in various

museums and galleries on campus. The Fordham Museum of Greek,
Etruscan, and Roman Art is located at the Rose Hill campus and contains
more than 200 artifacts from Classical antiquity. A gift from alumnus William
D. Walsh, it is the largest collection of its kind in the New York metropolitan
area.[43] In addition, the university maintains an extensive art collection, which
is housed in exhibition spaces at the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses
and in galleries around New York City.[44] The collection will eventually be on
permanent display at the Fordham University Art Gallery, which is currently
under construction at the Lincoln Center campus.[45] Finally, the university
possesses a sizable collection of rare books, manuscripts, and other print
media, which is housed in the O'Hare Special Collections Room at the Walsh
Library.[46]

Research[edit]
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching currently
classifies Fordham as a doctoral university with high research activity (RU/H).
[6]

Facilities on campus for this type of research include the Louis Calder Center,
an 114-acre biological field station and the middle site along a 81-mile
(130km) urban-forest transect known as the Urban-Rural Gradient
Experiment; the William Spain Seismic Observatory, a data collection unit for
the US Geological Survey; and other facilities.[47][48] It is a member of the Bronx
Scientific Research Consortium, which also includes the New York Botanical
Garden, the Bronx Zoo, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva
University, and Montefiore Medical Center.[49] Furthermore, Fordham faculty
have conducted research with such institutions as the Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other
organizations around the world.[50]
The majority of the university's research endeavors involve the humanities
and social sciences.[clarification needed] As a result, Fordham University Press, the
university's publishing house and an affiliate of Oxford University Press,
publishes primarily in these subjects.[51]
It hosts an Undergraduate Research Symposium every year during the spring
semester and publishes an Undergraduate Research Journal in conjunction
with the symposium.[52][53] In addition, it facilitates research opportunities for
undergraduates with such organizations as the National Science Foundation,
The Cloisters, and the American Museum of Natural History.[54][55]

Honor societies and programs[edit]

Fordham's undergraduate schools all offer honors programs for their
students.[56] The programs' curricula are modified versions of the Core
Curriculum; for example, the Fordham College Honors Program offers a

Great Books curriculum with seminar-style classes and a senior research

thesis in each student's major. Most honors students are inducted into the
programs upon admission to the university, though some are invited at the
end of their first year. Each program has a designated study space for its
members, including Alpha House for the Fordham College Honors Program
and the honors wing of Hughes Hall for the Global Business Honors Program.
Upon graduating from the university, honors students receive the designation
of in cursu honorum on their diploma and transcripts.[57]

Alpha House, Rose Hill.

In addition to its honors programs, Fordham has chapters of several honor

societies on campus, including but not limited to the following:
Phi Beta and Phi Phi
Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit)
Beta Gamma Sigma (business)
Sigma Xi (scientific research)
Psi Chi (psychology)
Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish)
Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics)
Lambda Pi Eta (communications)
Alpha Sigma Lambda (non-traditional students)
The Campion Institute is the university's office for academic fellowships and
scholarships. Its function is to raise awareness of fellowship opportunities
among students, counsel interested students about their eligibility for various
programs, and advise fellowship candidates during the application process.[58]
The work of the Campion Institute helped make Fordham one of the top
producers of U.S. Fulbright students of 2012.[59]
The Matteo Ricci Society is an honor society for Fordham students who are
likely candidates for academic fellowships. Students are invited to join based
on academic success and other factors. The society assists its members in
preparing applications for fellowships, coordinating internships, and obtaining

funding for research endeavors.[60] The Rev. William E. Boyle, S.J. Society is a
parallel organization for business students.[61]

Study abroad[edit]
Through its International and Study Abroad Programs (ISAP) Office, Fordham
provides its students with over 130 study abroad opportunities, one of the
most extensive foreign study networks of any American university. The
programs range in duration from six weeks to a full academic year and vary in
focus from cultural and language immersion to internship and service
learning. Some of the programs are organized by Fordham itself, such as
those in London, United Kingdom; Granada, Spain; and Pretoria, South
Africa; while others are operated by partner institutions like Georgetown
University, the University of Oxford, and the Council on International
Educational Exchange (CIEE).[62] In addition to the ISAP programs, the
university's constituent schools offer a range of study abroad programs that
cater to their specific areas of study.[63]

Admissions[edit]
For the undergraduate class of 2019, Fordham accepted 20,366 of the 42,811
applicants (47.6%) and enrolled 2,211.[3] The middle 50% range of SAT scores
for enrolled freshmen was 580-670 for critical reading, 590-680 for math, and
590-680 for writing, while the ACT Composite middle 50% range was 2731.[3]
The average high school GPA of incoming freshmen was 3.64.[3]

Rankings[edit]

Keating Hall during spring commencement

Fordham placed as follows in the most recent university rankings:[64]

U.S. undergraduate rankings[edit]
60, America's Best Colleges: National Universities, U.S. News & World
Report, 2017.[9]
42, High School Counselor Rankings: U.S. News & World Report, 2017.
[9]

8, Undergraduate International Business Rankings: U.S. News & World

Report, 2017.[9]
145, America's Best Colleges, Forbes, 2016.[65]

76, Best Values in Colleges and Universities: Private Universities,

Kiplinger, 2014.[66]
27, Best Undergraduate Business Schools, Bloomberg Businessweek,
2016.[67]
Included in The Best 377 Colleges, The Princeton Review, 2013.[68]
Included in The 25 Hottest Schools in America, Kaplan/Newsweek,
2008.[69]
Fordham participates in the National Association of Independent Colleges
and Universities' University and College Accountability Network, which was
created to counter the emergence of formal college rankings.[70]
U.S. graduate rankings[edit]
37, America's Best Law Schools, U.S. News & World Report, 2016.[9]
2, America's Best Law Schools: Part-Time, U.S. News & World Report,
2016.[9]
83, America's Best Business Schools, U.S. News & World Report,
2016.[9]
55, America's Best Business Schools: Part-Time, U.S. News & World
Report, 2016.[9]
45, America's Best Education Schools, U.S. News & World Report,
2016.[9]
22, America's Best Social Work Programs, U.S. News & World Report,
2016.[9]
63, Best English Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2016.[9]
74, Best Clinical Psychology Programs, U.S. News & World Report,
2016.[9]
141, "Best Psychology Programs," U.S. News & World Report, 2016.[9]
209 "Best Biological Sciences Programs,"U.S. News & World Report,
2016.[9]
94 "Best Sociology Programs," U.S. News & World Report, 2016.[9]
80, Best History Programs, U.S. News & World Report, 2016.[9]
72, Best Full-Time MBA Programs, Bloomberg Businessweek, 2015.[71]
39, Best Executive MBA Programs, Bloomberg Businessweek, 2013.[71]
79, Best Executive MBA Programs in the World, Financial Times, 2015.
[72]

World rankings[edit]
Paris School of Mines' listing, which reviews over 3,000 educational
institutions around the world, selects some 700 schools and ranks them
according to their ability to place their graduates in Fortune 500 CEO and
leading positions, ranked Fordham University 63rd on the list in 2009 but the
research has been updated and Fordham is now listed as 16th.[73] Fordham
ranked 93rd amongst the Worlds top 100 universities for producing
millionaires, as compiled by THE.[74] QS ranked Fordham 701+ in 2015.[75]

Campuses[edit]
Fordham has three main campuses, which are located in and around New
York City: Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and
Westchester in West Harrison. In addition, it maintains and utilizes various
academic, extracurricular, and residential facilities throughout New York City
and New York State and around the world.[4]

Rose Hill[edit]

The University Church, Rose Hill.

The Rose Hill campus, established in 1841 by bishop John Hughes, is home
to Fordham College at Rose Hill, the Gabelli School of Business, and a
division of the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, as well as the
Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences and Religion and Religious
Education. Situated on 85 acres (34.4ha) in the central Bronx, it is among the
largest privately owned green spaces in New York City, situated just north of
the Belmont neighborhood on Fordham Road.[4] At one time spanning over
100 acres, the university sold 30 acres east of Southern Boulevard to the
New York City government to become part of the New York Botanical Garden
(NYBG).[76] The NYBG is now an independent organization; however,
Fordham students and staff have virtually unlimited access to the garden
during its normal operating hours.[77] Rose Hill is located just to the north of
the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, also known as the "Real Little Italy of
New York."[78] Its Collegiate Gothic architecture, expansive lawns, ivy-covered
buildings, and cobblestone streets were featured in MSNBC's 2008 edition of
"America's Prettiest College Campuses".[79]

Rose Hill campus in the fall

Rose Hill is largely made up of nineteenth-century architecture with some

contemporary buildings. The campus is home to several structures on the
National Register of Historic Places.[80] One such building is the University
Church, which was built in 1845 as a seminary chapel and parish church for
the surrounding community. It contains the altar from the Old St. Patrick's
Cathedral, as well as stained glass windows given to the university by King
Louis Philippe I of France. The windows are particularly notable for their
connection to a workshop in Sevres, France, where the earliest stages of the
Gothic Revival took place.[81] There are eleven residence halls on campus,
including a residential college and nine Integrated Learning Communities that
each cater to a particular year (freshman, sophomore, etc.) or area of study
(science, leadership, etc.).[82] In addition, the campus contains two residences,
a retirement home, and an infirmary for Jesuit priests.[83]
Rose Hill is served by the Fordham station of the Metro-North Railroad, which
ends at Grand Central Terminal. Public transit buses stop adjacent to campus
exits, and three New York City Subway stations are within walking distance.
The university also provides a shuttle service between its three main
campuses (the "Ram Van"), which is headquartered at Rose Hill. About 7,000
undergraduates and graduates are enrolled at the campus.[4] The Bronx Zoo
and the New York Botanical Garden are both adjacent to the eastern edge of
the campus.

Lincoln Center[edit]

The Peter, Fisher of Men statue at the Lincoln Center campus.

In March 1958, Mayor Robert Wagner signed the deeds transferring the
Lincoln Center campus to Fordham University.[84] The Lincoln Center campus
is home to Fordham College at Lincoln Center and a division of the School of
Professional and Continuing Studies, as well as the School of Law, the
Graduate Schools of Education and Social Service, and the Fordham School
of Business. The 8-acre (32,000m2) campus occupies the area from West
60th Street to West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam
Avenues, placing it in the cultural heart of Manhattan.[4] It is served by public
transit buses; the A,B,C,D, and 1 Subway trains, which are accessed at the
59th Street/Columbus Circle station; and the university's Ram Van shuttle.
Approximately 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at
Lincoln Center, of which about 1,000 reside in University housing.[4] The
campus currently consists of the Leon Lowenstein Building, McMahon Hall,
the Gerald M. Quinn Library, and the Doyle Building. In Fall of 2014, the new
Freshman residence dormitory Mckeon Hall was opened, along with the new
Fordham Law School. Lincoln Center has two grassy plazas, built one level
up from the street atop the Quinn Library. The larger expanse was once a
barren cement landscape known as "Robert Moses Plaza;" the smaller is
known as "St. Peter's Garden" and contains a memorial to the Fordham
students and alumni who perished in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Fordham's Lincoln Center campus, viewed from Columbus Ave. in Manhattan

The Toward 2016 Strategic Plan prescribes a complete reconfiguration of the

Lincoln Center campus, to be completed by 2032.[85] The first phase of the
project, which includes renovations of the Lowenstein Building as well as a
new Law School building and residence hall designed by the distinguished
architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, were completed in 2014.[45][85]
In 2014, Fordham University bought a building located at 45 Columbus
Avenue and incorporated it in its Lincoln Center campus. The nine-story
building is located directly across from the former Law School building.[86]
Fordham University at Lincoln Center also shares a parking lot with New York
Institute of Technology, which is located just across the street from Fordham
University's Lincoln Center campus.

Westchester[edit]
The Westchester campus is home to divisions of the School of Professional
and Continuing Studies, the Martino Graduate School of Business
Administration, and the Graduate Schools of Education and Social Service. It
consists of a three-story, 62,500-square-foot (5,810m2) building on 32 acres
(12.9ha) landscaped with a stream and pond. Fordham signed a 20-year
lease for the facility, which includes 26 "smart" classrooms, faculty and
administrative offices, a media center, a food service facility, and indoor and
outdoor meeting areas. In 2008, the university spent over $8 million
renovating the building in order to increase its sustainability.[87]
The campus is served by the Ram Van as well as the White Plains station of
the Metro-North Railroad, approximately 4 miles (6km) away in White Plains,
New York. The train station and the campus are connected by the
Westchester County Bus System ("The Bee Line").

Other facilities[edit]
Fordham operates the Louis Calder Center, a biological field station 30 miles
(50km) north of New York City in Armonk, New York. It consists of 114 acres
(0.46km2) forested with a 10-acre (40,000m2) lake and 19 buildings. The
structures house laboratories and classrooms, offices for faculty and
administrators, a library, and residences.[47]
Outside the United States, the university maintains a small campus at
Heythrop College, the Jesuit philosophy and theology school of the University
of London. The campus is home to several undergraduate business and
liberal arts programs as well as Fordham College at Lincoln Center's London
Dramatic Academy.[88] In addition, Fordham operates field offices in Granada,
Spain, and Pretoria, South Africa; which house undergraduate study abroad
programs.[62] Finally, the university provides faculty for the Beijing International
MBA Program at Peking University in China. The program has been ranked
#1 in China by Fortune and Forbes Magazines since its creation by Fordham
in 1998.[89]

Town-gown relationships[edit]

Relations between Fordham and its surrounding neighborhoods vary

according to campus. At Rose Hill, the University actively recruits Bronx
students from disadvantaged backgrounds through the Higher Education
Opportunity Program.[90] In addition, about 80% of students participate in local
community service.[91]
The relationship between the Lincoln Center campus and some of the Upper
West Side community residents were strained over campus development in
recent years. Recently, the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a
lawsuit against Fordham brought by the Alfred Condominium Complex. The
suit was filed in response to the Universitys expansion plans at Lincoln
Center and their expected visual and auditory impact on the surrounding
community.[92] The Lincoln Center campus does, however, have a lively
connection to the artistic scene in Manhattan through its dance and theater
productions and visual art exhibitions.[93]

Student activities[edit]

Fordham sponsors over 200 clubs and organizations for its undergraduate
and graduate students, of which about 100 are based at the Rose Hill
campus and the rest are based at the Lincoln Center and Westchester
campuses. Some of these organizations are described below:[94]

Global Outreach[edit]
Global Outreach (GO!) is a cultural immersion and service program under the
auspices of the Office of Mission and Ministry at Fordham University, where
students learn about various issues of social, economic, political and
environmental injustice while living a simple lifestyle that fosters communal
and spiritual growth.[95]
Teams consist of approximately 10 students, one student leader, and one
chaperone to live, work, and learn with partnering organizations. Building on
the Jesuit tenets of Men and Women for Others, Magis, and Contemplatives
in Action, GO! has grown over the years to include more than 30 projects
throughout the United States and countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin
America.[95][96]
Global Outreach teams travel during winter, spring, and summer breaks. The
projects vary in both length and scopesome projects are one week in
duration, while others are more than two weeks long. In addition, some of the
projects focus on service-related experiences, such as working with Habitat
for Humanity in Waynesburg, Pa., while others are immersion experiences,
such as living with host families in Johannesburg, South Africa.[95]
GO!'s roots stretch back as far as the 1950s, when Fordham students were
participating in various service and immersion projects. In the 1970s and
1980s, it became known as the Mexico project. In 1988, students coined the
name Global Outreach.[95][96]

Athletics[edit]

Main article: Fordham Rams

The Rose Hill Gymnasium.

The university supports 23 men's and women's varsity athletic teams, as well
as various club and intramural sports. The Fordham mascot is the ram, and
its colors are maroon and white. In most varsity sports, the Rams compete in
Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and are a member of
the Atlantic 10 Conference. The football team, however, plays in NCAA
Division I FCS and is an associate member of the Patriot League, the most
academically selective NCAA conference after the Ivy League.[4][97]
The Rams football program boasts a national championship title (1929), two
bowl game appearances (1941 and 1942), two Patriot League championships
(2002 and 2007) and corresponding NCAA Division I Football Championship
appearances, and the 15th most wins of any college football program.[citation
needed] It is best known, however, for the "Seven Blocks of Granite," a name
given to the team's 1928 and 1936 offensive lines. The 1936 team was
coached by "Sleepy" Jim Crowley, one of the University of Notre Dame's
famed "Four Horsemen," and included Vince Lombardi, the legendary
professional football coach. Furthermore, it is credited with inspiring the term
"Ivy League" after New York Herald Tribune sportswriter Caswell Adams
compared it to the squads of Princeton and Yale, two powerhouses of the
day. Adams remarked disparagingly of the latter two, saying that they were
"only Ivy League." There are currently four Rams in the National Football
League. Moreover, the Los Angeles Rams NFL franchise was named in honor
of Fordham's football heritage.[98]
The University's men's basketball program also has an impressive heritage,
boasting four NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and 16
National Invitational Tournament appearances. During the 1971 season, the
program enjoyed its best campaign ever, compiling a 263 record and
earning a #9 national ranking. That team was coached by Digger Phelps,
later the renowned University of Notre Dame men's basketball coach and its
player's roster included Peter "PJ" Carlesimo, the former head coach of the

Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise. Fordham basketball plays in the Rose Hill
Gymnasium (also known as "The Prairie"), the oldest on-campus venue
currently in use by an NCAA Division I basketball team.
The Rams baseball program is among the oldest in the nation and was the
first college baseball team to play the game according to modern rules. The
program has launched the careers of dozens of Major League Baseball
players, including National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Frankie Frisch
(also known as the "Fordham Flash"). In April 2010, a Fordham baserunner
made national headlines when he leaped over an opposing team's catcher to
score a run during a game. The incident was dubbed the "Fordham Flip."[99]
The baseball program has recorded the most wins of any N.C.A.A. Division I
baseball program.[100]
There are eight women's teams on campus. The women's basketball team
won the Atlantic 10 championship in 2014, advancing to the first round of the
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship.[101] This feat came just 6
years after the team set an NCAA record for the worst season, finishing the
season 029 in 2008.[102]
The university's most successful programs include track and field, which
claims world record holder and Olympic gold medalist Tom Courtney as an
alumnus; sailing, which is headquartered at the Morris Yacht and Beach Club
in City Island, Bronx; crew, which rows out of the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse
on the Harlem River and regularly attends such prestigious regattas as the
Henley Royal Regatta in the United Kingdom; and golf, which is affiliated with
the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York.

Publications[edit]
The University has a number of publications, including The Observer, the
award-winning[103] newspaper for the Lincoln Center campus; The Ram, the
university's journal of record;[104] and the paper, a student-run free-speech
publication.[105]

WFUV Radio[edit]
WFUV is Fordham's 50,000-watt radio station, broadcasting on 90.7 FM.
Founded in 1947, the station serves approximately 350,000 listeners weekly
in the New York City metropolitan area. It is a National Public Radio affiliate
and has an adult alternative format on weekdays and a variety format on
weekends.[106] In 2012, The Princeton Review ranked WFUV the 10th most
popular college radio station in the United States.[107]

Performing arts[edit]
Fordham offers a wide variety of performing arts groups, spreading from its
non-major theater groups at Lincoln Center and Rose Hill (the Mimes and
Mummers, Fordham Experimental Theater, the Theatrical Outreach Group,
Splinter Group) to choirs (University Choir, Schola Cantorum, Gloria Dei

Choir), to its considerable a cappella groups spanning both campuses

(Fordham Ramblers, Satin Dolls, b-Sides, Hot Notes, F-sharps).
Theater at Rose Hill[edit]
Fordham College at Rose Hill has a long, rich history of college theater. The
Mimes and Mummers, the oldest entirely student run club at Fordham
University and one of the oldest college theater groups in the United States,
was founded in 1855 as the Saint John's Dramatic Society.[108] The Mimes put
on two musicals, a drama, and a comedy each year, which all must be nonstudent written shows, as well as workshops designed to help students at
Fordham learn about theater. The club receives a budget from the school,
allowing them to hire professional directors, music directors, and
choreographers as a production calls for, but each show remains fully student
produced, with all elements of technical design being run by members on the
club's executive board.[109]
In 1905, with the construction of Collins Hall, Fordham University became the
first place on the East Coast of the United States to have a theater in the
round. The Penthouse Theatre, located on the fourth floor of Collins Hall,
served as a place for both professional show debuts to occur as well as a
home for theater groups like the Mimes and Mummers. The Penthouse
Theatre was turned into office space by Fordham University in 1966.[108] In
addition to The Mimes and Mummers, Fordham University's Rose Hill
campus also has two additional theater clubs, Fordham Experimental Theater
(FET), and the Theatrical Outreach Program (TOP).

Speech and debate[edit]

The Fordham Debate Society (FDS) is based at the Rose Hill campus and is
the oldest existing club at the university, having been founded in 1852. The
club competes in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which was
founded at the university's annual debate tournament in 1982. FDS regularly
places among the top teams in the country, and it ranks well in the World
Universities Debating Championship standings.[110]

Campus ministry and social activism[edit]

The Blue Chapel, Rose Hill.

The purpose of Campus Ministry at Fordham is to provide "opportunities and

resources for spiritual growth to members of [the university] community." It
offers programming for more than 15 faith traditions in such areas as worship,
music ministry, and social ministry. One of its most popular initiatives is its
retreats, which are held at the university's McGrath House of Prayer in
Goshen, New York, and other retreat houses in the New York City
metropolitan area.[111][112] In addition to its Jesuit traditions, the university also
has organizations devoted to Judaism, Islam, and other religions.
The Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice is responsible for overseeing
Fordham's various community service and humanitarian initiatives. Grounded
in the Jesuit principle of homines pro aliis ("men and women for others"), the
center organizes projects in such areas as poverty, hunger, education, and
disaster relief.[113] As a result of the Dorothy Day Center's efforts, the university
performed approximately one million hours of service in 2011, ranking it sixth
in the country in terms of community outreach.[114] A popular volunteer location
among students is the Society of Jesus New York Province Health Care
Center at the Rose Hill campus, where those students interested in nursing
can gain practical experience in the field.[115]
The Dorothy Day Center also offers a pre-orientation program for incoming
Fordham Freshmen called "Urban Plunge" that introduces students to themes
of social justice across New York City.[116]

Military education[edit]
The Fordham Military Science program is available to all undergraduate and
graduate students, regardless of their chosen course of study. It is also
available to students at more than fifty other colleges and universities in the
New York metropolitan area. The program consists of membership and
training in the Ram Battalion of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps
(ROTC) and a sequence of military science classes taught on campus.[117]
Participants in the program are also eligible to enroll in the Air Force ROTC
program at Manhattan College and the Navy ROTC program at SUNY
Maritime College.[117] In 2011, Fordham Military Science began offering a
combat nursing program in conjunction with Regis University and the
University of Colorado at Denver.[118]
The Military Science program has several notable alumni, including former
Secretary of State Colin Powell, four-star General John M. Keane, and at
least four recipients of the Medal of Honor. Furthermore, it has been
distinguished as being in the top fifteen percent of military science programs
in the country.[117]
In addition to its ROTC program, the university contributes to military
education through its Veterans Initiative, which provides full-tuition
scholarships and other benefits to post-9/11 veterans of the U.S. military.

Because of the initiative, Fordham was named one of the 25 best colleges in
the country for veterans in 2013 by Military History Monthly Magazine.[119]

Fraternities and sororities[edit]

Fordham does not sponsor any Greek letter fraternities or sororities. Councils
of the Knights of Columbus, the national Catholic service fraternity for men,
and its sister organization, the Columbiettes, are hosted on campus. In
addition, Fordham sponsors a chapter of Pershing Rifles, the national military
fraternity.[117]

Traditions and symbols[edit]

During its 175 years in existence, the university has developed many
traditions. Some of them are described below:
President's Ball: The President's Ball takes place every autumn on the
eve of the Homecoming football game. It is a business formal event
held in the Vince Lombardi Field House. It is hosted by the Office of the
President, from which the name is derived.[120]
Winter Ball: The Winter Ball is a business casual event held every
winter by the United Student Government and the Campus Activities
Board of Fordham University at Lincoln Center. It takes place at a
different location each year in New York City. Past venues have
included the Rainbow Room, the Russian Tea Room, and the Mandarin
Oriental Hotel.[121]
Under the Tent: The "Under the Tent" Dance is a smart casual event
held the weekend before final exams. Sponsored by the university's
Residence Halls Association, it takes place underneath a tent on
Martyrs' Lawn, Fordham's second-largest quadrangle, and has a
different theme each year. The dance is part of the Spring Weekend
Festival, which also includes two concerts, a barbecue, a race around
the Rose Hill campus, and a comedy show.[122][123] The dance was
previously held at the Lincoln Center campus as well, but was replaced
in 2015 by an end-of-the-year event called "The Bash."
The Festival of Lessons and Carols: The Fordham University Concert
Choir presents a series of Nine Lessons and Carols every year during
the Christmas season. An afternoon concert is performed at the
University Church on the Rose Hill campus, and an evening concert is
performed at the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle adjacent to the
Lincoln Center campus.[124]
Midnight Breakfast: Each semester, the official beginning of the final
exam period is marked by a "midnight breakfast," in which Fordham
administration and professors cook students their favorite breakfast
items so as to prepare them for the long night of studying ahead of
them.[125] Despite the name, the meal is not held at midnight.

The Liberty Cup: The Liberty Cup is awarded annually to the winner of
the football game between Fordham and Columbia Universities. The
tradition began in 2002, a year after the Fordham-Columbia game was
postponed due to the September 11th attacks.[126] As of 2016, the series
was ended by Columbia.
Rams-Crusader Trophy: Started in 1951 to commemorate a great
coach of both Fordham and Holy Cross: Frank "Iron Major"
Canvanaugh.
Encaenia: Fordham College at Rose Hill hosts an Encaenia each year
in early May. Faculty, administrators, and students process in academic
regalia, and candidates for degrees at the current year's
Commencement receive various awards and honors. The ceremony
includes a sentimental speech by the year's valedictorian, as well as a
generally more humorous, yet, equally endearing speech by the
honorary Lord or Lady of the Manor.[127]
In addition to its traditions, Fordham is associated with a number of symbols,
some of which are discussed below:
Maroon: The university's official color used to be magenta, one which
was shared by Harvard University. Since it was confusing for the two
schools to be wearing the same color during athletic competitions, the
matter of which school could lay claim to magenta was to be settled
through a series of baseball games. Fordham won the games, but
Harvard reneged on its promise. Both schools continued to use the
color until 1874, when the Fordham student government unanimously
agreed to change to maroon. Maroon was chosen because it was not
widely used at the time. Sometime later, Harvard stopped using
magenta in favor of crimson.[56]
The Ram: The ram became the university's mascot as a result of a
slightly vulgar cheer that Fordham fans sang during an 1893 football
game against the United States Military Academy The fans began
cheering, "One-damn, two-damn, three-damn, Fordham!" which was an
instant hit. Later, "damn" was sanitized to "ram" so that the song would
conform to the university's image.[12]
The Victory Bell: Presented to Fordham by Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz ('44) of the US Navy, the Victory Bell was the ship's bell of the
Japanese aircraft carrier Junyo. First rung on campus by President
Harry S. Truman on May 11, 1946, it currently stands in front of the
Rose Hill Gymnasium and peals following all Ram athletic victories and
at the start of Commencement each year.[56]
The Great Seal: The Great Seal of Fordham University was designed
to acknowledge the presence of the Society of Jesus on campus, hence
the order's coat of arms in the seal's center. The coat of arms bears the

Greek letters of the lapidary form of Jesus Christ (IHS), with the Cross
resting on the center of the H and the three nails of the Crucifixion
beneath the epigraph. These figures, dressed in gold, lay in a field
framed in maroon, the color of the university, with silver fleur-de-lis at
the edge. The fleur-de-lis symbolize the French Jesuits who arrived at
Fordham in 1846. Immediately above the central shield rests the laurel
crown, enclosing the university's pedagogical disciplines: arts, science,
philosophy, medicine, and law. Below the shield is a blue scroll with the
university's motto, Sapientia et Doctrina. The scroll rests on a gold field
emblematic of learning (doctrina) and is surrounded by the fiery
tongues of the Holy Spirit, a symbol of wisdom (sapientia). In a circular
maroon field embroidered with beads is Fordham's official title,
Universitas Fordhamensis; at the field's lower edge is the date of the
university's founding, 1841. Finally, surrounding the entire seal is a
heraldic belt, which is employed as a stylistic decoration. The University
of Oxford, the only other tertiary institution in the world that uses a belt
in its seal, however, maintains that without the belt, the seal is not
official.[56]
The mace: The mace of Fordham is traditionally carried at
Commencement by the president of the Faculty Senate, who serves as
the grand marshal of the main academic procession. The device, four
feet in length, bears a regal crown at the summit to denote the sole
power of the State of New York to grant academic degrees in its
territory. Above the crown is a cross composed of four windmill sails,
which signify the Catholic faith and the Dutch founders of New York
City, respectively. The center of the cross displays a heraldic rose,
which symbolizes Rose Hill. Immediately beneath the crown is a
support, on which the university's seal is emblazoned. The upper node
of the mace's staff is decorated with three heraldic roses, the Fordham
seal, a ram's head, and a silhouette of the Lincoln Center campus. The
titles of the university's constituent colleges are engraved above the
node, and the names of the school's presidents from 1841 to 1966 are
inscribed below it. The mace was a gift to the university from the
Fordham University Alumni Federation.[56]
The Terrace of the Presidents: The Rev. Robert Gannon, SJ,
president of Fordham from 1936 to 1949, initiated the custom of
engraving the granite steps leading up to Keating Hall with the names
of heads of state who visit the university. Among the names engraved
are George Washington, who visited the Rose Hill Manor before it was
succeeded by St. John's College in 1841; Franklin Delano Roosevelt;
Harry S. Truman; Richard Nixon; and the names of various other heads
of state from around the world.[56]

School songs: Fordham's official school song is "Alma Mater

Fordham," and its fight song is "Fordham Ram" by J. Ignatius Coveney.
In December, 2013 the lyrics to "Fordham Ram" were changed from
"Hail Men of Fordham, hail" to "Hail Rams of Fordham hail" in an effort
to be more inclusive of the school's female majority.[128]"The Marching
Song" is typically played during parades and after athletic games
(particularly after a Ram victory).[129]

Alumni and faculty[edit]

See also: Category:Fordham University people

Fordham has over 175,000 alumni spread throughout the world, with 40
regional alumni chapters in the US and abroad.[130]

Notable alumni[edit]
Main article: List of Fordham University alumni
Geraldine Ferraro, the first female Vice Presidential candidate of a major
political party in the United States, attended Fordham, as did three current
members of the United States House of Representatives and numerous past
members of Congress, including at least two United States Senators. Current
New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo, is an alumnus. A number of
Fordham graduates have served at the highest levels of the U.S. Executive
Branch, including John E. Potter, former Postmaster General of the United
States; William J. Casey, Director of U.S. Central Intelligence from 1981 to
1987; John N. Mitchell, former U.S. Attorney General; and Bernard M.
Shanley, Deputy Chief of Staff and White House Counsel to President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, and John O. Brennan, current Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. Fordham claims a number of distinguished military
honorees, including three Medal of Honor recipients and a number of notable
generals, including General John "Jack" Keane, retired four-star general and
former Vice Chief of Staff for the United States Army, and Major General
Martin Thomas McMahon, decorated American Civil War officer. Fordham has
produced college and university presidents for at least 10 institutions around
the United States, including two for Georgetown University and one each for
Columbia University and New York University. Francis Cardinal Spellman, the
late Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of New York, was also a Fordham
graduate. Fordham alumnus James B. Donovan, who defended Rudolph Abel
in his spy trial and later negotiated the release of Francis Gary Powers, is the
subject of Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated film Bridge of Spies.[131]
Business and finance magnates that have attended Fordham include Anne M.
Mulcahy, retired Chairperson and CEO of Xerox and named one of the "50
Most Powerful Women in Business" in 2006 by Fortune Magazine; Rose
Marie Bravo, Vice Chairman and former CEO of Burberry and named one of
the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business Outside the United States" in
2004 and 2005 by Fortune Magazine; E. Gerald Corrigan, former President of

the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Maria Elena Lagomasino, CEO of JP
Morgan Private Bank from 2001 to 2005 and currently on the board of
directors of Coca-Cola; Joe Moglia, Chairman and former CEO of TD
Ameritrade; John Leahy, Chief Operating Officer of Airbus; Stephen J.
Hemsley, CEO of UnitedHealth Group; Wellington Mara, former owner of the
New York Giants; John D. Finnegan, Chairman, President, and CEO of
Chubb Corporation; Mario Gabelli, billionaire and founder and CEO of
GAMCO Investors; Lorenzo Mendoza, billionaire and CEO of Empresas
Polar; Eugene Shvidler, billionaire and international oil tycoon; and billionaire
Donald Trump, who attended the university, but left with no degree.
In the media and communications field, Fordham has produced Charles
Osgood, three-time Emmy Award and two-time Peabody Award-winning
journalist for CBS and Radio Hall of Fame inductee; Louis Boccardi, retired
President of the Associated Press; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Loretta
Tofani; Jim Dwyer, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and author; G. Gordon
Liddy, political operative for President Richard Nixon, leader of the White
House Plumbers, political pundit, and radio show host; and Baseball Hall of
Fame broadcaster and Radio Hall of Famer Vin Scully.
Fordham's list of contributions to the arts and entertainment industry includes
Denzel Washington, two-time Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe
Award-winning actor; Alan Alda, six-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden
Globe Award-winning actor; Dylan McDermott; actress Taylor Schilling;
actress and comedian Regina Hall; singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey; Mary
Higgins Clark, best-selling suspense novelist; Don DeLillo, acclaimed novelist
and Pulitzer Prize nominee; Robert Sean Leonard, Academy Award
nominated Dead Poets Society and Emmy and Golden Globe winning
television show actor, House actor; Bob Keeshan, television's multiple awardwinning "Captain Kangaroo;" John LaFarge, painter, muralist, and designer of
stained-glass windows; Virginia O'Hanlon, who, as a child, wrote a letter to
the New York Sun that prompted the famous response "Yes, Virginia, there is
a Santa Claus."
Among the sportsmen who attended Fordham are Frankie Frisch (known as
the "Fordham Flash"), Baseball Hall of Fame inductee; Vince Lombardi,
football coaching legend; Bill Chadwick, Hockey Hall of Fame inductee; Tom
Courtney, two-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of the world record in
the 880-yard run; and Steve Belln, the first Latin American to play Major
League Baseball.[132]

Alan Alda

Geraldine Ferraro

Lorenzo Mendoza

Taylor Schilling

Vin Scully

Denzel Washington

Notable current and former faculty[edit]

Main article: List of Fordham University faculty
Joseph Abboud, fashion designer
Bruce Andrews, poet and theorist on the state and global capitalism
Hilaire Belloc, writer

Doron Ben-Atar, historian

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., poet-in-residence and world-renowned peace
activist
Thomas Berry, geologian
Mary Bly, writer
Joseph Campbell, poet, Irish studies scholar, and Irish republican and
POW
John M. Culkin, leading media scholar and critic, educator, writer, and
consultant
Brian Davies, OP, Thomistic philosopher and theologian
Joseph DioGuardi, former congressman
Avery Dulles, S.J., theologian and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic
Church
Victor Francis Hess,[133] Nobel Laureate for physics
Olivia Hooker, the first African American woman to enter the U.S. Coast
Guard
Thomas Hopko, theologian
Elizabeth Johnson, Christian feminist theologian
Carl Jung, psychologist
Joseph Koterski, S.J., philosopher, author
Anabella Lenzu, Choreographer
Paul Levinson, author of The Plot To Save Socrates and winner of the
1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel
Mark Massa, S.J., American Catholicism scholar
Marshall McLuhan, communications theorist, visiting professor and
coiner of the phrase "the medium is the message"
Margaret Mead, anthropologist, visiting professor
Joe Moglia, Current Chairman and former CEO of TD Ameritrade,
Current Coastal Carolina University Head Football Coach
Mark D. Naison, political activist
Diana Villiers Negroponte, legal historian
James Oddo, Staten Island Borough President
John James Maximilian Oertel, German-American writer and journalist
William O'Malley, S.J., technical advisor and actor in the film The
Exorcist, author
Willie Perdomo, Nuyorican poet and author
Phylicia Rashad, Tony Award-winning actress, instructor, first to hold the
Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre
Asif Siddiqi, historian specializing in the space race between the U.S.
and the Soviet Union.
Werner Stark, sociologist and economist
Harold Takooshian, Psychologist

Stan Van Gundy, assistant men's basketball coach-1988

Dietrich von Hildebrand, theologian
Paul Westcott, Talk Radio Host

In the arts[edit]

The Keating Hall First Floor Auditorium, a popular filming location at the Rose Hill campus.

Fordham's campuses have been featured in a number of films, including the

following: The Adjustment Bureau, Awake, A Beautiful Mind, Center Stage,
Cheerleaders Beach Party, The Exorcist, Fair Game, The Gambler, Godspell,
The Iron Major, Kinsey, Love Story, Quiz Show, Solitary Man, The Verdict,
and Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. The 1993 crime drama A Bronx Tale
is set in the Belmont neighborhood adjacent to the Rose Hill campus.[134]
Fordham is listed as one of the 10 most filmed college campus locations.[135]
Television programs filmed at Fordham include Shattered Vows, a 1984
television film starring Valerie Bertinelli, which portrays the true story of a
young nun in the 1960s who goes to Fordham for her master's degree and
falls in love with a priest; White Collar; Naked City; Saturday Night Live;
Chappelle's Show; and the 2009 U2 performance on Good Morning America.
The music video for the single What's Luv? by Fat Joe and Ashanti was
filmed in the gymnasium at the Rose Hill campus.[134] Most recently the new
show "Forever" shot a college campus location and used many scenes in and
out of the new Gabelli building and McMahon dorm. In the second episode of
the new CBS show "Madam Secretary", the Fordham commons are used in
two scenes serving in lieu of Georgetown University.
Fictional Fordham alumni include the title character of Michael Clayton, Ray
Brocco of The Good Shepherd, Michael Patrick Flaherty of Spin City, Jacob
Moore of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Annie Norris of Life on Mars,
Vinnie Terranova of Wiseguy, Nick Rice of Law Abiding Citizen, Bruno
Tattaglia of The Godfather, The father of Gabe Burton in Little Manhattan and
Dave Norris of The Adjustment Bureau.[134] Sonek Pran of Star Trek: A
Singular Destiny is an alumnus of Fordham University in the 24th century.[136]

Sustainability[edit]

In order to increase its sustainability, the university has committed to reducing

its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% in 2017. In addition, it has pledged to
employ low-flow faucets and shower heads, use sustainable materials like
reprocessed flooring, recycle up to 90% of its debris, and seek LEED Silver
certification in its construction of new facilities on campus. Finally, the
Department of Grounds Maintenance at Fordham has committed to making
half of its vehicle fleet electric by 2016.[137]

Affiliations[edit]

Fordham is affiliated with the following organizations:[138]

American Academy in Rome
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education[139]
American Council on Education
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Association of American Law Schools
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
Association of Graduate Schools in Catholic Colleges and Universities
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Center for Academic Integrity
College Board
Collegium
Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
Council of Graduate Schools
Fulbright Association
International Association of Universities
International Federation of Catholic Universities
Lilly Fellows
Lower Hudson Valley Catholic Colleges and Universities Consortium
Marymount Schools
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools
In addition, the university and its specific programs are accredited by the
following entities:[138]
American Bar Association
American Psychological Association
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards
Council on Social Work Education
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
National Association of School Psychologists
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
University Council of Educational Administration
University of the State of New York

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