Fordham University

{{Main|History of Fordham University}}

{{Further|List of presidents of Fordham University}}

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Fordham was founded as St. John's College in 1841 by the Irish-born coadjutor bishop (later archbishop) of the Diocese of New York, John Hughes.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=5}} It is the third-oldest university in the state of New York,{{Sfn|Shelley|2016|p=20}} and the first Catholic institution of higher education in the northeastern United States.{{Sfn|Kurian|Lamport|2015|p=510}} In 1839, Hughes, then 42 years old, had purchased the 106-acre Rose Hill Manor farm in the village of Fordham, New York, for $29,750.{{Cite web|url=http://fordham.libguides.com/c.php?g=451084&p=4031308|work=Research Guides @ Fordham: The Dodransbicentennial |title= 175 years of Fordham: First 50 Years of Fordham|last=Kane|first=Patrice|access-date=December 1, 2017}} His intent was to establish St. Joseph's Seminary following the model of Mount Saint Mary's University, of which he was an alumnus.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=377}} "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.{{cite web|last1=Gilbert|first1=Allan S.|last2=Wines|first2=Roger|title=Fordham: The Early Years: A Commemoration of the Jesuits' Arrival in 1846: Chapter VI: From Earliest to Latest Fordham: Background History and Ongoing Archaeology|url=https://cms.fordham.edu/download/downloads/id/526/the_environmental_history_of_fordham_universitys_rose_hill_campus2_pdf|website=cms.fordham.edu|publisher=Something More Publications|access-date=December 2, 2017}}

In 1840, St. Joseph's Seminary opened at Rose Hill. The seminary was paired with St. John's College, which opened at Rose Hill with a student body of six on June 24, 1841, the feast day of Saint John the Baptist.{{NoteTag|According to Christian tradition, in the Gregorian calendar, June 24 is observed as the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, and it is mentioned in the 1920 General Catalogue published by the university that the college's opening deliberately coincided with the feast day.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KLBIAQAAMAAJ |date=August 1920|title=General Catalogue of Fordham University|volume=XIII|number=5|ref={{SfnRef|General Catalogue|1920}}}} pp. 10–13. {{Open access}}}} 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 James Roosevelt Bayley, a distant cousin of Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and a nephew of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=10}} In 1845, the seminary church, Our Lady of Mercy, was built.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=24}} The same year, Bishop Hughes convinced several Jesuit priests from the St. Mary's College in Kentucky to staff St. John's.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=22}}

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The college received its charter from the New York State Legislature in 1846, and the first Jesuits began to arrive about three months later.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=12}} In the same year Bishop Hughes sold St. John's College to the Jesuits for $40,000. Hughes deeded the college over but retained title to the seminary property, which totaled 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.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=24}} Poe also spent considerable time in the college's library, and even occasionally stayed overnight.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|pages=23–24}}

St. John's curriculum consisted of a junior division (which would become Fordham Prep), 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.{{sfn|Schroth|2008|p=30}} 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 by the St. John's Dramatic Society.{{Sfn|Taaffe|2013|p=140}} The seminary was closed in 1859.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=27}}

The Civil War was a significant time for the college; among its alumni were four generals, six colonels (including Shaw), and five captains serving in the Union Army; twelve men from Fordham also served in the Confederate Army.{{Cite web|url=http://fordham.libguides.com/c.php?g=279634&p=1863178|work=Research Guides @ Fordham|title=American Civil War and Fordham: Home|last=Kane|first=Patrice|access-date=December 1, 2017}} Three Jesuits from St. John's served as army chaplains. Lincoln's assassination deeply affected the student body, and even southern students attending the college mourned his loss.

Fordham's baseball team, which played its first game on September 13, 1859,{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.fordham.edu/cubanbaseball/Notes.html|title=Fordham Baseball Notes |work= Fordham University Libraries|access-date=November 29, 2017}} made several contributions to the history of baseball in the nineteenth century, and played a key role in introducing the game to Cuba and Latin America. On November 3, 1859, Fordham played the first college baseball game with modern nine-man teams against the now-defunct St. Francis Xavier College in Manhattan. Fordham won the game 33–11. Steve Bellán, the first Cuban and Latin American to play major league baseball, learned the game while a student at Fordham from 1863 to 1868.{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.fordham.edu/cubanbaseball/E_Bellan.html|title=Esteban Bellan|work=Fordham University Libraries|access-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609135924/http://www.library.fordham.edu/cubanbaseball/E_Bellan.html|archive-date=June 9, 2007|url-status=dead}} After playing for several American major league teams, he returned home and played in the first organized baseball game in Cuba on December 27, 1874. Charles, Henry, and Frederick Zaldo, brothers from Havana who founded the Almendares Baseball Club, one of the three original Cuban baseball teams, also learned the game while attending Fordham from 1875 to 1878.{{Cite web|url=http://www.library.fordham.edu/cubanbaseball/Zaldo.html|title=Zaldo Brothers |work= Fordham University Libraries|access-date=December 1, 2017}}

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An Act of Congress created instruction in military science and tactics at the college level. As a result of the act, St. John's brought a cadet corps to campus. From 1885 to 1890, Lt. Herbert C. Squires—a veteran of the 7th U.S. Cavalry—built a cadet battalion to a strength of 200, which would provide the foundation for the modern ROTC unit at Fordham.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=97}}{{Sfn|Taaffe|2013|p=123}} 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.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=380}}

On June 21, 1904, the Regents of the University of the State of New York consented to allow the board of trustees to authorize the opening of a law school and a medical school.{{sfn|General Catalogue|1920|p=13}} St. John's College officially became Fordham University on March 7, 1907.{{Sfn|General Catalogue|1920|p=2}} 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 Bronx County at the turn of the twentieth century, the village became the borough's Fordham neighborhood. Still in existence today, it is just to the west of the Rose Hill campus.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=xii}}

In 1908, Fordham University Press was established.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=381}} 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 Catholic theology instruction. In September 1912, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung delivered a series of lectures at Fordham; these lectures marked his historic break with the theories of his colleague, Sigmund Freud.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=126}}

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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 City Hall Campus at "the Vincent Astor Building" at 302 Broadway.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=384}} This commenced an unbroken string of instruction in Manhattan that became what is now Fordham College at Lincoln Center, where all of Fordham's academic operations in Manhattan are centered today.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=111}}File:302entrance.jpg

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The university closed its medical school in 1919, citing a lack of endowment and reduced university funds overall due to the First World War.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=140}} The Gabelli School of Business began in 1920 in Manhattan as the School of Accounting.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=141}} According to a university catalogue from 1920, the annual cost for tuition, room and board at the college was $600 ({{Inflation|US|600|1920|fmt=eq}}).{{sfn|General Catalogue|1920|p=9}} In 1944, the School of Professional and Continuing Studies was established, largely bolstered by returning veterans taking advantage of the GI Bill.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=178}}

The football program was established in 1882 and gained national renown 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. The program produced the famed Seven Blocks of Granite, one of whom was the great Vince Lombardi. On September 30, 1939, Fordham participated in the world's first televised football game, defeating Waynesburg College, 34–7.{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/patriot/fordham/yearly_results.php?year=1935 |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |first=David |last=DeLassus |access-date=February 11, 2011 |title=Fordham game-by-game results (1935–1939) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708133218/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/patriot/fordham/yearly_results.php?year=1935 |archive-date=July 8, 2011 }}{{cite news|author=Wheeler, Romney |url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/217181912.html?dids=217181912:217181912&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=JAN+05%2C+1942&author=By+Romney+Wheeler+Associated+Press+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Rams+Set+Mark+For+Low+Score+In+Sugar+Bowl&pqatl=google|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930222433/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/217181912.html?dids=217181912:217181912&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=JAN+05,+1942&author=By+Romney+Wheeler+Associated+Press+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Rams+Set+Mark+For+Low+Score+In+Sugar+Bowl&pqatl=google|url-status= dead|archive-date= September 30, 2007|title= Rams Set Mark For Low Score in Sugar Bowl|newspaper=The Washington Post|agency=Associated Press|date= January 4, 1942|via=ProQuest Archiver}} {{Open access}} 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 an NCAA Division III team in 1970 and Division I team in 1989.

On February 15, 1958, then-Senator John F. Kennedy received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from university president Laurence J. McGinley and delivered an address at the annual Fordham Law Alumni Association luncheon.{{cite web|url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKSEN-0899-011.aspx|title=Fordham Law Alumni Association luncheon, New York City, 15 February 1958 |work=John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum|access-date=November 30, 2017}}{{sfn|Schroth|2008|p=358}} After humorously stating that he denied any "presidential aspirations—with respect to the Fordham Alumni Association," Kennedy said that, "It is to the eternal credit of Fordham that the teaching of law has here been accompanied by an inculcation of moral values. The graduate of this law school has acquired something more than the tools of his profession—he has learned, both by example and precept, the high obligations of trust which are his as an attorney."

In 1961, the Lincoln Center campus opened as part of the Lincoln Square Renewal Project. This second campus which placed an institution of higher learning in the realm of a multi-disciplinary performing arts complex came to pass through the collaboration of New York City's urban planner Robert Moses and Fordham's twenty sixth President Fr. Laurence J. McGinley.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/18/nyregion/lj-mcginley-fordham-ex-president-dies-at-86.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap | title=L.J. McGinley, Fordham Ex-President, Dies at 86 | newspaper=The New York Times | date=August 18, 1992 }} 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. File:General view of ceremonies at Lincoln Square when President Eisenhower was applauded.jpg at the launching of Lincoln Center campus, 1959]] In addition, on November 18, 1961, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received an honorary degree and delivered an address at the dedication of the new Fordham Law School building in Lincoln Center, paying tribute to "Fordham ideals, traditions and teachers."{{cite journal|last=F|first=Kennedy, Robert|year=1961|title=Address by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the Dedication Ceremonies of Fordham Law School|journal=Lincoln Center, 140 W 62 (1961-Present)|url=http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/lc_140w62st/43/}} Kennedy said that he was privileged, as attorney general, to be "the largest single employer of Fordham law graduates in North America," and also remarked that, "While the world we know is preoccupied by what may lie before it, when threats could pervade our every thought and fears our every action, it is reassuring to see buildings and programs like these rise each day to greet the future. It is a mark of courage and resolution." On November 2, 1964, during his campaign for the U.S. Senate, Robert F. Kennedy made another visit to Fordham and gave an address at the Rose Hill gymnasium that attracted a crowd of 2,800.{{Cite web|url=http://digital.library.fordham.edu/digital/collection/RAM/id/8677|title=CONTENTdm|work=Fordham University Library|series=Digital Collections|access-date=November 30, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidanthonykennedy.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3428|title=David and RFK at Fordham University, New York campaigning for the senate – November 2, 1964|work=davidanthonykennedy.com|access-date=November 30, 2017}}

The first women to attend Fordham came earlier in the century: the Law School began accepting female students in 1918. Women also had been earning Fordham degrees at the Graduate School of Social Service and the Undergraduate School of Education, at the City Hall Campus. Women in the School of Education had also been commuting to the Rose Hill campus to take their science lab courses alongside male students, where women had also been part of the School of Pharmacy's student body. However, in September 1964, the all-female Thomas More College at the Rose Hill campus began instruction for the BA and BS degrees.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=261}}

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 covered by journalists at such large-circulation publications of the day as Look, Esquire and the Saturday Review. The school closed in 1974.{{Cite web|url=http://fordham.libguides.com/c.php?g=279582&p=1863388|title=Research Guides @ Fordham: Fordham University History: Schools that Once Were|last=Kane|first=Patrice|website=fordham.libguides.com|access-date=June 16, 2017}}

"The Liberal Arts College" for undergraduates opened in 1968, later changing its name to "The College at Lincoln Center" and then in 1996 to "Fordham College at Lincoln Center."{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=xvii}} In 1993, a twenty-story residence hall for 850 students was added to the Lincoln Center campus.

In the late 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement was gathering momentum in the U.S. when Fordham students and school officials expressed ambivalence about racial justice.{{Sfn|Shelley|2016|p=337}} 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 the ROTC and military recruiters.{{Sfn|Shelley|2016|p=392}} During this period, students routinely organized protests and class boycotts and used psychoactive drugs on campus open spaces.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|pages=287–289}} 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. As a result of the sit-in, Nixon was forced to cancel his plans to speak.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|pages=281}} A year later, students stormed the main administration building, occupying it for several weeks, and set fire to the Rose Hill faculty lounge.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|pages=287–289}} It was during this period of activism that the university's 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.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=384 }}

The board of trustees was reorganized in 1969 to include a majority of nonclerical members, which officially made the university an independent institution.{{sfn|Shelley|2016|p=403}} While the Jesuit order thereby lost full control of Fordham, the board of trustees continues to maintain the institution as a "Jesuit, Catholic university." The College of Pharmacy closed in 1972 due to declining enrollment. Fordham College at Rose Hill became coeducational in 1974 when it merged with Thomas More College.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=257}}

Fordham Preparatory School is a four-year, all-male college preparatory school that was once integrated with the university, sharing its 1841 founding. "Fordham Prep" became legally independent in 1972 when it moved to its own facilities on the northwest corner of the Rose Hill campus. The school continues to retain many connections with the university.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordhamprep.org/page.cfm?p=358 |title=Fordham Preparatory School: Our History |publisher=Fordhamprep.org |access-date=December 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215072150/http://www.fordhamprep.org/page.cfm?p=358 |archive-date=December 15, 2013 }}

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Marymount College was an independent women's college that was founded in 1907 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. The school was consolidated into Fordham in July 2002. Marymount had been steeped in financial hardship since the 1970s. Located {{convert|25|mi|km|0}} north of Manhattan in Tarrytown, New York, the college remained open as a single-sex institution, 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 its Marymount College campus would be phased out; Marymount awarded degrees to its final undergraduate class in May 2007.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=384}} University administrators indicated the campus would remain open for Fordham graduate programs in several disciplines.

In the autumn of 2007, the university announced its intention to seek buyers for the Marymount campus. Administrators stated the expenses required to support the programs at the campus far exceeded the demand. University officials estimated 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 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.{{cite journal|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Fordham-U-Sells-Marymount/40481 |title=Fordham U. Sells Marymount College Campus for $27-Million – Graduate Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education |journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education |publisher=Chronicle.com |date=February 17, 2008 |access-date=December 15, 2013}}

In 2014, the university successfully completed a five-year, $500 million campaign; the project surpassed expectations by raising more than $540 million.{{cite web|url=http://fordhamram.com/2014/04/02/excelsior-ends-after-five-year-run/|title='Excelsior' Campaign Ends After Five Year Run, Raking in $540 Million |work=The Fordham Ram|access-date= July 14, 2015}} The university went on to renovate and expand its Lincoln Center campus, opening in 2014 its renovated Law School, as well as an additional undergraduate dormitory, McKeon Hall. The former law school building was converted to expand Quinn Library and house the Gabelli School of Business.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordhamobserver.com/fall-2016-brings-old-law-building-new-purpose/|work=The Fordham Observer|title=Fall 2016 Brings Old Law Building New Purpose|author=Fota, Ana|date=March 15, 2015|access-date=April 9, 2017}} Long-term plans include a new library building and buildings for the graduate schools of Social Service and of Education.{{cite web|url=http://news.fordham.edu/education-and-social-services/fordham-unveils-lincoln-center-master-plan/|work=Fordham News|title=Fordham Unveils Lincoln Center Master Plan|date=August 26, 2005|access-date=December 28, 2016}}

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Fordham has three main campuses, which are in and around New York City: Rose Hill in the Fordham neighborhood, the Bronx, adjacent to Bronx Park on Fordham Road; Lincoln Center in Manhattan, one block from Central Park; and Westchester in West Harrison, New York. In addition, it maintains and utilizes various academic, extracurricular, and residential facilities throughout New York City and New York State and around the world. In addition to its three main campuses, the university also operates the Louis Calder Center, a biological field station {{convert|25|mi|km|0}} north of New York City in Armonk, New York.{{cite web|title=About Us, The Louis Calder Center|website=Fordham University|access-date=March 13, 2021|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/21458/about_us}} It consists of {{convert|114|acre|km2}} forested with a {{convert|10|acre|ha|adj=on}} lake and 13 buildings.{{cite web|title=Facilities, The Louis Calder Center|website=Fordham University|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/21459/facilities|access-date=March 13, 2021}} The structures house laboratories and classrooms, offices for faculty and administrators, a library, and residences.

Outside the United States, the university maintains a small campus in London, known as the London Centre. In addition, Fordham operates field offices in Granada, Spain, and Pretoria, South Africa; these house undergraduate study abroad programs. Finally, the university provides faculty for the Beijing International MBA at Peking University at Peking University in China. The program, established in 1998, has been ranked No. 1 in China by Fortune and Forbes Magazines.{{cite web|url=http://en.bimba.edu.cn/index/NewsVoices/2015/1214/25086.html |work=Beijing International MBA at Peking (BiMBA) |title=BiMBA 2016 MBA Admissions Seminar |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |date=December 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309015212/http://en.bimba.edu.cn/index/NewsVoices/2015/1214/25086.html |url-status=dead }}

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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 {{convert|85|acre|ha|1}}{{cite book|ref={{SfnRef|Wintergreen|2010}}|title=College Admissions Data Sourcebook Northeast Edition 2010–11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D7yDl5o-zuQC&pg=PR5|edition=50th; bound regional|publisher=Wintergreen Orchard House|isbn=978-1-936035-02-1|oclc=40108218|date=September 2010}} p. 258. in the central Bronx, it is among the largest privately owned green spaces in New York City. At one time spanning over 100 acres, much of the land for adjacent Bronx Park was acquired from the university with funds authorized by the 1884 New Parks Act intended to preserve lands that would soon become part of New York City,{{rp|166}}*{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/03/25/106145636.pdf|title=The Albany Legislators|date=March 25, 1884|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 8, 2017|location=Albany, New York}}

• {{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/01/24/106138894.pdf|title=Proposed New Parks|date=January 24, 1884|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 8, 2017}} on the condition that it be used as a zoo and botanical garden.{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-zoo-turns-110-110-nyc-favorite-article-1.417057|title=The Bronx Zoo turns 110: Here are 110 things you need to know about this NYC favorite|last=Osterhout|first=Jacob E.|website=New York Daily News|date=November 13, 2009 |access-date=June 28, 2019}}{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=98}} Fordham students and staff have free admission to the garden grounds.{{cite web |url=https://www.nybg.org/community-access-discount-programs/ |title=Community Access Programs |website=New York Botanical Garden|access-date=March 21, 2021}} Rose Hill is on Fordham Road, just north of the Belmont neighborhood, described as the "real Little Italy of New York",{{cite web|url=http://www.arthuravenuebronx.com/|title=Arthur Avenue—Little Italy of the Bronx, new York|website=Arthur Avenue|access-date=March 21, 2021}} and immediately west of the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden. The campus's Collegiate Gothic architecture,{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/fordham-university-photo-tour-2013-10|work=Business Insider|title=Tour Fordham University's Stunning Campus in the Bronx|last=Jacobs|first=Peter|date=October 11, 2013|access-date=June 22, 2017}} expansive lawns, ivy-covered buildings, and cobblestone streets were featured by NBC News.{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26658838 |title=Pretty college campuses |work=NBC News |date=September 15, 2008 |access-date=December 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605092514/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26658838 |archive-date=June 5, 2013 }}

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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,{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/ |title=National Register of Historic Places Official Website-Part of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior |publisher=Nps.gov |access-date=December 15, 2013}} such as the University Church built in 1845 as a seminary chapel and parish church for the surrounding community. It contains the old altar from the current 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, locus of the earliest stages of the Gothic Revival.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/venturi.html |first=Dan | last=Venturi |title=Fordham University Church |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} Adjacent to the church is a 138-plot cemetery where the university's nineteenth-century Jesuits, diocesan seminarians, students, and workers are interred,{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=xiii}} relocated in 1890 from its original location at today's New York Botanical Garden.{{cite web|url=https://fordhamram.com/2014/09/24/despite-popular-legend-graveyard-has-bodies/|work=The Fordham Ram|title=Rumors Swirl Above Campus Graveyard|last=Laird|first=Alexandra|date=September 24, 2014|access-date=April 8, 2017}}

There are eleven residence halls on campus, including Queen's Court residential college, whose main mission is to "assist in the integration of first-year students into University life,"{{Cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/23214/queens_court_residential_college|title=Fordham online information {{!}} Student Life {{!}} Living on Campus {{!}} Living on Campus at Rose Hill {{!}} Residence Halls {{!}} First-Year Student Housing {{!}} Queen's Court Residential College|last=Fordham|publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 26, 2017}} and nine Integrated Learning Communities that each cater to a particular year (freshman, sophomore, etc.) or area of study (science, leadership, etc.).{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/student_affairs/residential_life/rose_hill/ |title=Fordham University The Office of Residential Life at Rose Hill |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} In addition, the campus contains two residences for Jesuits, a retirement home, and the Murray-Weigel infirmary.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=289}}

Rose Hill is served by the Fordham station of the Metro-North Railroad, which extends to 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. 6,981 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at the Rose Hill, of which 2,482 live on campus.

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In 1954, New York City's Robert Moses wrote to Fordham administrators proposing Fordham might "be interested in an alternative [to renting space in the New York Coliseum] involving a new building in a part of the area to the north of Columbus Circle to be redeveloped under Title One of the Federal Housing Law. ... If this idea appeals to you I will ask Mr. Lebwohl to see you and explain it in greater detail."{{Sfn|Gannon|1967|p=297}} In March 1958, Mayor Robert Wagner signed the deeds transferring the Lincoln Center campus to Fordham University.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=241}}

The Lincoln Center campus is home to Fordham College at Lincoln Center and to 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 Gabelli School of Business. The {{convert|8|acre|ha|adj=on}} 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.

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Lincoln Center has two grassy plazas, built one level up from the street. The larger expanse was once a barren cement landscape known as "Robert Moses Plaza;"{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=206}} 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. The campus 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. 9,078 undergraduate and postgraduate students are enrolled at Lincoln Center, of which 1,337 reside in University housing. The campus consists of the Leon Lowenstein Building, McMahon Hall, the Gerald M. Quinn Library, and the Doyle Building.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=277}} In the fall of 2014, the new freshman residence dormitory McKeon Hall opened, along with the new Fordham Law School building.{{cite web|url=http://news.fordham.edu/fordham-magazine/mckeon-hall-15th-floor/|work=Fordham|title=McKeon Hall, 15th Floor|date=November 14, 2014|access-date=April 6, 2017}}

The Toward 2016 Strategic Plan prescribed a complete reconfiguration of the Lincoln Center campus, to be completed by 2032.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/fordhamuplans/proposal.html |title=Fordham University Lincoln Center Master Plan Proposal Summary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223002201/https://www.fordham.edu/fordhamuplans/proposal.html |archive-date=December 23, 2008 |publisher=Fordham University |url-status=dead }} The first phase of the project, including renovations of the Lowenstein Building as well as a new Law School building and residence hall designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, were completed in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://therealdeal.com/2011/01/18/fordham-university-begins-construction-on-new-250m-law-school-dorm-building-in-lincoln-center/|work=The Real Deal|date=January 18, 2011|access-date=December 26, 2016|title=Fordham begins construction on new $250M law school and dorm building}} In 2014, Fordham University purchased a building at 45 Columbus Avenue and incorporated it in its Lincoln Center campus as Joseph A. Martino Hall. The nine-story building is directly across the avenue from the former Law School building.{{cite web|last=Mercuri |first=Joanna |url=http://news.fordham.edu/university-news/fordham-offices-move-to-new-location-on-columbus-avenue/ |title=Fordham Offices Move to New Location on Columbus Avenue |publisher=News.fordham.edu |date=August 11, 2015|access-date=November 20, 2016}}

The Westchester campus is home to divisions of the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, the Martino Graduate School of Business Administration, and the Education and Social Service graduate schools. It consists of a three-story, {{convert|62500|sqft|m2|adj=on}} building on {{convert|32|acre|ha|1}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/westchester/index.asp |title=Fordham Westchester |publisher=Fordham University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215214647/http://www.fordham.edu/academics/westchester/index.asp |archive-date=December 15, 2013 |url-status=dead }} In 2008, the university spent over $8 million renovating the building in order to increase its sustainability.{{cite news|url=http://news.fordham.edu/university-news/ribbon-cutting-marks-official-opening-of-fordham-westchester-2/|title=Ribbon Cutting Marks Official Opening of Fordham Westchester|work=Fordham Newsroom|access-date=June 16, 2017}}

The campus is served by the White Plains station of the Metro-North Railroad {{convert|4|mi|km|0}} away and connected by the Westchester County Bus System ("The Bee Line").

In October 2018, Fordham expanded its study abroad program in London to its own space, the London Centre.{{cite web|url=https://news.fordham.edu/university-news/fordham-opens-new-london-centre/ |first=Tom | last=Stoelker |title=Fordham Opens New London Centre |work=Fordham News |date=October 31, 2018 |access-date=April 20, 2019}} The campus is situated in the Clerkenwell area of London, within the London borough of Camden.{{cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/24623/london_centre|publisher=Fordham University|title=London Centre|access-date=April 20, 2019}} Fordham's London Centre offers programs in business, theater, and the liberal arts to students from Fordham and other colleges and universities.

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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 New York State Higher Education Opportunity Program.{{cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/20970/heop |title=Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOP) |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 29, 2016}} In addition, about 80% of students participate in local community service.Rose Hill Society Ambassador Handbook.

The relationship between the Lincoln Center campus and some of the Upper West Side community residents have been strained, over campus development.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordhamobserver.com/fordham-responds-to-condo's-lawsuit/|work=The Fordham Observer|title=Fordham Responds to Condo's Lawsuit|author=Poretto, Anthony|date=December 10, 2009|access-date=April 9, 2017}} In 2010 the New York State Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against Fordham brought by The Alfred Condominium. The suit was filed in response to the university's expansion plans at Lincoln Center and their expected visual and auditory impact on the surrounding community.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordhamobserver.com/lincoln-center-expansion-lawsuit-dismissed/ |title=Lincoln Center Expansion Lawsuit Dismissed |work=The Fordham Observer |date=August 25, 2010 |access-date=April 8, 2017| author= Deninno, Nadine}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://atrium.lincolncenter.org/index.php/atrium-2012-ailey-fordham |title=Ailey Fordham |publisher=Atrium.lincolncenter.org |date=November 29, 2012 |access-date=December 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105234713/http://atrium.lincolncenter.org/index.php/atrium-2012-ailey-fordham |archive-date=November 5, 2013 }}

Fordham University is composed of four undergraduate and six graduate schools,{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/index.asp |title=Academics |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 13, 2015}} and its academic ethos is heavily drawn from its Jesuit origins.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=37}} 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, a universal charity, among members of the Fordham community.{{NoteTag|Fordham has been governed by a lay board of trustees since 1969, when it ceased being directly governed by the Society of Jesus.{{sfn|Shelley|2016|p=403}} However, the university maintains its official Jesuit, Catholic affiliation and a curriculum in accordance with Jesuit educational principles, specifically cura personalis, and each of its presidents since 1846 have been Jesuit priests. The university's Jesuit academic ethos privileges the liberal arts as a basis of education.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=114}}}}

Through its International and Study Abroad Programs (ISAP) Office, Fordham provides its students with over 130 different study abroad opportunities. 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).{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/office_of_the_provos/office_of_internatio/international__study/index.asp |title=International and Study Abroad Programs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817004411/http://www.fordham.edu/academics/office_of_the_provos/office_of_internatio/international__study/index.asp |archive-date=August 17, 2011 }} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/academics/international_programs/index.asp |title=Fordham Graduate School of Business :: Fordham University |publisher=Bnet.fordham.edu |date=October 28, 2003 |access-date=December 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104144805/http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/academics/international_programs/index.asp |archive-date=January 4, 2012}} Fordham has produced 168 Fulbright scholars since 2003.{{cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/20088/fordham_facts|publisher=Fordham University|title=Fordham Facts|access-date=May 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195244/https://www.fordham.edu/info/20088/fordham_facts|archive-date=March 28, 2017}}

According to U.S. News & World Report, Fordham is considered a "more selective" university, while a 2013 Barron's survey published in the New York Times classed the university as "highly competitive".{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/04/business/economy/economix-selectivity-table.html|work=The New York Times|title=Ranking Colleges by Selectivity

|date=April 4, 2013|access-date=June 28, 2017}} In its 2018 edition, admissions selectivity to Fordham's undergraduate schools received a reclassification by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges to "Most Competitive" after being "Highly Competitive+" in its 2017 edition, and reported 74% of enrolled freshmen as ranking in the top 20% of their high school class.

In 2016, the university accepted approximately 43% of all applicants across both its undergraduate and graduate programs.{{cite web|url=https://fordhamram.com/2016/04/13/fordham-acceptance-rate-drops/|work=The Fordham Ram|title=Fordham Acceptance Rate Drops|author=Carrejo, Cate|access-date=May 17, 2017| date=April 13, 2016}} For the undergraduate class of 2019, Fordham accepted 20,366 of the 42,811 applicants (47.6%) and enrolled 2,211. 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 28–33. The average high school GPA of incoming freshmen was 3.64.

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All undergraduates pursuing bachelor's degrees 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 emphasizes the liberal arts as a basis of education.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=114}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12654a.htm |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ratio Studiorum |publisher=Newadvent.org |date=June 1, 1911 |access-date=December 15, 2013}}

Undergraduate students are expected to have finished most of the core requirements as a sophomore; a wide variety of courses can be applied to satisfy the requirements.{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/undergraduate_colleg/fordham_college_at_r/academics/core_curriculum_19658.asp |title=Core Curriculum, Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH) |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} Upon the completion of the Core Curriculum, students choose from approximately 50 major courses of study, in which they will receive their degree. One option is the "personalized interdisciplinary major", which allows students to create their own course of study across various disciplines.{{cite web|publisher=Fordham University |title=Individualized Program |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823140517/http://www.fordham.edu/info/20526/majors_and_minors/1868/individualized |url=http://www.fordham.edu:80/info/20526/majors_and_minors/1868/individualized |archive-date=August 23, 2016}}

In addition to the bachelor's degrees offered to undergraduates, the university also offers specialized academic programs, including pre-medical and health professions;{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/undergraduate_colleg/fordham_college_at_r/academic_advising/prehealth/ |title=Pre-Health/Pre-Medical Professions Advising, Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH)|publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} pre-professional programs in architecture, law, and criminal justice;{{cite web |url= https://www.fordham.edu/info/20814/curriculum/1674/pre-architecture_program |title=Pre-Architecture Program |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 18, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/sociology__anthropol/undergraduate_degree/index.asp |title=Undergraduate Degree |publisher=Fordham University |date=July 18, 2013 |access-date=December 18, 2016}} a 3-2 engineering program, in conjunction with Columbia and Case Western Reserve Universities;{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/engineering/32_cooperative_progr_75053.asp|title=3–2 Cooperative Program in Engineering|publisher=Fordham University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215211434/http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/engineering/32_cooperative_progr_75053.asp|archive-date=December 15, 2013}} a five-year teacher certification program;{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/undergraduate_colleg/fordham_college_at_r/academics/majors_and_minors_19657.asp#tchr8 |title=Majors, Minors, and Certificate Programs; Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH) |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} an Applied Public Accountancy (CPA certification) program;{{Cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/20526/majors_and_minors/1890/public_accounting|title=Public Accounting|series=Majors and Minors|last=Lehmann|first=Donna J.|publisher=Fordham University|access-date=June 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727220946/https://www.fordham.edu/info/20526/majors_and_minors/1890/public_accounting|archive-date=July 27, 2016}} a BFA program in dance, in conjunction with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater;{{cite web|url=http://www.theaileyschool.edu/BFA|title=B.F.A. Program ||work=The Ailey School|date=November 1, 2001|access-date=December 15, 2013|archive-date=May 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512003048/http://www.theaileyschool.edu/BFA|url-status=dead}} as well as cross-registration opportunities with the Juilliard School for advanced music students.{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/inside_fordham/january_17_2012/provost_issues_under/fordham_college_at_l_81365.asp |title=Fordham College at Lincoln Center |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}}

{{See also|Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences|Fordham University School of Law|Fordham Graduate School of Social Service}}

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Master's and doctoral degrees are offered through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Service, the Gabelli School of Business, and the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education. Fordham's graduate programs in business, education, English, history, law, psychology, and social work were all ranked among the top 100 in the nation by the 2016 U.S. News & World Report.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/fordham-university-191241/overall-rankings|work=U.S. News & World Report|title=Fordham University – U.S. News Best Grad School Rankings|access-date=April 7, 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/graduate__profession/arts__sciences/gsas_programs__degre/doctoral_consortium_22046.asp |title=Doctoral Consortium |publisher=Fordham University |archive-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123015553/http://www.fordham.edu/info/21265/academics/2388/consortium_programs}}

Fordham's medical school officially closed in 1919, and its College of Pharmacy followed suit in 1972.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=140}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.einstein.yu.edu/news/releases/253/fordham-and-yeshiva-boost-science-medical-offerings-through-agreement/ |title=Fordham And Yeshiva Boost Science/Medical Offerings Through Agreement | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |publisher=Yeshiva University |date=October 29, 2008|access-date=December 15, 2013}}

{{See also|Fordham University Press|William D. Walsh Family Library}}

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The university is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".{{cite web |url=https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=191241 |title=Fordham University: Institution Profile |work=The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education |date=2023 |accessdate=January 18, 2023}} The Fordham University Library System contains over 2.5 million volumes and 3.1 million microforms, subscribes to 16,000 periodicals including electronic access, and has 19,300 audiovisual materials. It is a depository for 363,227 United States Government documents.{{sfn|Praeger|2010|p= 858}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.library.fordham.edu/services/illservices.html |title=Interlibrary Loan Services (ILL) – Fordham University Libraries |publisher=Library.fordham.edu |access-date=December 15, 2013}} Fordham's libraries include the William D. Walsh Family Library, ranked in 2004 as the fifth best collegiate library in the country,{{cite book|last=Franek|first= Robert| title=The Best 351 Colleges|publisher= Princeton Review|year= 2003| isbn=978-0-375-76337-3|edition= 2004}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/ |title=Center for Medieval Studies |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} The Rose Hill campus's Duane Library, despite its name, is no longer a library but offers reading and study space for students.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/audience/tours/rh_map/13_duane_library.shtml |title=Fordham University Rose Hill Campus |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}}

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Fordham maintains several special collections housed in museums and galleries on campus. The Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art is at the Rose Hill campus and contains more than 200 artifacts from Classical antiquity, including: sculptures, mosaics, ceramics and pottery, coins, and inscriptions, among other items. A gift from alumnus William D. Walsh, it is the largest collection of its kind at any college or university in the New York metropolitan area.{{cite news|author=Pogrebin, Robin|title=Fordham Opens Its Gift: An Antiquities Museum|work=The New York Times|date=December 6, 2007|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/arts/design/06muse.html|access-date=December 28, 2016}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/inside_fordham/december_3_2012/news/universitys_art_coll_89661.asp |title=University's Art Collection Takes Form |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.library.fordham.edu/archives/archive.html |title=Archives and Special Collections |work=Fordham Library Services |access-date=December 18, 2016 |archive-date=March 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302063736/http://www.library.fordham.edu/archives/archive.html}}

Other research facilities include the Louis Calder Center, a 114-acre biological field station and the middle site along an {{convert|81|mi|km|adj=on}} urban-forest transect known as the Urban-Rural Gradient Experiment;{{cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/21458/about_us/3002/urban-rural_gradient|title=Urban-Rural Gradient, The Louis Calder Center|website=Fordham University|access-date=March 13, 2021}} the William Spain Seismic Observatory, a data collection unit for the US Geological Survey; and other facilities.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/physics/history_73327.asp |title=History |publisher=Fordham University |date=December 17, 1964 |access-date=December 15, 2013}} 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.{{cite web |url = https://news.fordham.edu/education-and-social-services/fordham-partners-with-four-bronx-institutions/ |title=Fordham Partners with Four Bronx Institutions |website=Fordham University |date=July 18, 2013|access-date=March 13, 2021 |first=Nicole |last=Larosa}} Furthermore, Fordham faculty have conducted research with such institutions as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and organizations worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://news.fordham.edu/science/professor-discovers-new-form-of-nuclear-matter/ |title=Professor Discovers New Form of Nuclear Matter |website=Fordham University |date=January 17, 2012 |access-date=March 13, 2021 |first=Patrick |last=Verel}}

Fordham University Press, the university's publishing house and an affiliate of Oxford University Press, primarily publishes humanities and social sciences research.{{cite web |url=https://news.fordham.edu/inside-fordham/press-strikes-distribution-deal-with-oxford/ |title=Press Strikes Distribution Deal with Oxford |website=Fordham University |date=September 20, 2010 |access-date=March 13, 2021}} The university also hosts an Undergraduate Research Symposium every year during the spring semester and publishes the Undergraduate Research Journal in conjunction with the symposium.{{cite journal |journal = The Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal |publisher=Fordham University |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141218131947/http://www.fordham.edu/info/20332/the_fordham_undergraduate_research_journal |archive-date = December 18, 2014 |url = http://www.fordham.edu:80/info/20332/the_fordham_undergraduate_research_journal |title=Fordham online information | Academics | Colleges and Schools | Undergraduate Schools | Fordham College at Rose Hill | Undergraduate Research | the Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal }} 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.{{cite web |last=McClain |first=Joseph |url = http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2012/media-turn-to-wm-physicist-for-higgs-boson-explanations123.php |title = Media turn to W&M physicist for Higgs boson explanations |publisher=William & Mary |date=July 5, 2012 |access-date = December 18, 2016 }}

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Fordham's undergraduate schools all offer honors programs for their students.Undergraduate Bulletin 2010–2012. Fordham University, 2009. Print. The programs' curricula are modified versions of the Core Curriculum. For example, the Fordham College Honors Program, a community of scholars for justice,{{cite web |url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/28534/rose_hill_honors_program |title=Rose Hill Honors Program |website=Fordham University |access-date=March 13, 2021}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/28537/rose_hill_honors_program_overview |title = Rose Hill Honors Program Overview |website=Fordham University |access-date=March 13, 2021 }}

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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.{{cite web |url = http://www.fordham.edu/academics/special_programs/army_rotc_ram_battal/ |title=Army ROTC Ram Battalion |publisher=Fordham University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215214458/http://www.fordham.edu/academics/special_programs/army_rotc_ram_battal |archive-date=December 15, 2013}} Participants in the program are also eligible to enroll in the Air Force ROTC program at Manhattan University and the Navy ROTC program at SUNY Maritime College. In 2011, Fordham Military Science began offering a combat nursing program in conjunction with Regis University and the University of Colorado at Denver.{{cite web |url = http://www.fordham.edu/academics/special_programs/army_rotc_ram_battal/army_rotc_scholarshi/nursing_scholarships_29947.asp |title = Nursing Scholarships |publisher=Fordham University |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140905162142/http://www.fordham.edu/academics/special_programs/army_rotc_ram_battal/army_rotc_scholarshi/nursing_scholarships_29947.asp |archive-date=September 5, 2014}}

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.{{Cite web |url = https://nypost.com/2011/06/08/rotcs-nyc-boycott/ |title = ROTC's NYC boycott |last=Report |first=Post Staff |date=June 8, 2011 |website=New York Post |access-date=June 16, 2017 }}

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.{{cite web |url = http://www.fordham.edu/academics/veterans_initiative/ |title=Fordham Veterans Initiative |publisher=Fordham University |archive-date=November 14, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131114211229/http://www.fordham.edu/academics/veterans_initiative/}}

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Fordham University is ranked by several national organizations. In 2025, the university was ranked tied for No. 91st by U.S. News & World Report in "Best National Universities," tied at No. 57 in "Best Colleges for Veterans", tied at 40th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching", 73rd in "Top Value Schools", and tied for 153rd in "Top Performers on Social Mobility".{{cite web |year=2025 |title=Fordham University Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/fordham-university-2722/overall-rankings |access-date=February 8, 2025 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}} In 2019, Forbes ranked the university 141st among "Top Colleges",{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/fordham-university/|title=Fordham University|work=Forbes|access-date=March 21, 2021}} while Kiplinger ranked it 62nd of 100 Best Values in Private Universities in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.kiplinger.com/article/college/t014-c000-s002-past-years-rankings-of-top-private-college-values.html |title=Past Years' Rankings of Top Private College Values|work=Kiplinger |date=July 25, 2019 |access-date=March 21, 2021}}

For 2021, UniRanking listed Fordham fifth among the top Catholic Universities in the world and fourth among US schools.{{cite web|url=https://www.4icu.org/top-religious-universities/catholic/|title=The Top Catholic Universities in the World}}

In 2014, Business Insider ranked Fordham 131st on a list of "The 600 Smartest Colleges in America," based on the student body's average SAT scores.{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/smartest-colleges-in-america-2014-10|work=Business Insider|title=The 600 Smartest Colleges in America|last=Wai|first=Jonathan|date=October 21, 2014|access-date=October 9, 2017}} Fordham has also been named one of the country's Hidden Ivies,{{NoteTag|Fordham was included in the third edition of the Hidden Ivies published in 2016.{{cite book|title=The Hidden Ivies, 3rd Edition: 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities|series=Greene's Guides|edition=3rd|publisher=Collins Reference|year=2016|author1=Greene, Howard|author2=Greene, Matthew W.|pages=198–202|isbn= 978-0-062-42090-9}}}} which are classed as "renowned academic institutions" that "rival the Ivy League."{{cite book|title=The Hidden Ivies, 2nd Edition: 50 Top Colleges—from Amherst to Williams —That Rival the Ivy League|series=Greene's Guides|edition=2nd|publisher=Collins Reference|year=2009|author1=Greene, Howard|author2=Greene, Matthew W.|isbn=978-0-061-72672-9}}

The AACSB accredited Gabelli School of Business was ranked tied for tenth in "Undergraduate International Business Rankings" by U.S. News & World Report for 2021, and in 2016, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked it the 27th best undergraduate business school in the nation.{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-best-undergrad-business-schools/| title=Fordham University: Gabelli School of Business – Undergraduate Profile|work=Bloomberg|access-date=July 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629042436/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-best-undergrad-business-schools/|archive-date=June 29, 2017| last1=Levy| first1=Francesca| last2=From| first2=Jonathan Rodkin}} For 2021, USN&WR ranked Gabelli undergrad business 63rd. For 2022, Poets and Quants ranked Gabelli #1 for Corporate, Social and Environmental Responsibility and #10 for Best EMBA programs.{{cite web|url=https://poetsandquants.com/2022/03/16/this-new-york-city-mba-program-has-been-making-waves-and-just-made-its-biggest-yet/ |title=This New York City MBA Program Has Been Making Waves — And Just Made Its Biggest Yet |website=poetsandquants.com |date=March 16, 2022}} Also for 2022, The Economist posted their list of the top 100 MBA programs in the world where only 50 were US programs. Gabelli was listed 94th.{{cite web|url=https://poetsandquants.com/2022/06/22/the-economists-2022-ranking/6/|title=Another Mind-Boggling MBA Ranking: The Economist's 2022 List |date=June 22, 2022 }}

Gabelli Business School's MBA program tied for 80th among "America's Best Business Schools" by U.S. News & World Report. In the years prior, the business program was ranked No. 72 among "Best Full-Time MBA Programs" by Bloomberg Businessweek (2015),{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-best-business-schools/ |title=Top Business School Rankings: MBA, Undergrad, Executive & Online MBA |work=Bloomberg |first1=Jonathan |last1=Rodkin |first2=Francesca |last2=Levy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407053241/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-best-business-schools/ |archive-date=April 7, 2017}} No. 79 among "Best Executive MBA Programs in the World" by the Financial Times (2015),{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/financial-times-executive-mba-ranking-2015-top-100 |title=Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2015: top 100 |work=Times Higher Education World University Rankings |access-date=December 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115105352/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/financial-times-executive-mba-ranking-2015-top-100|archive-date=January 15, 2017|date=October 22, 2015 }} and No. 39 among "Best Executive MBA Programs" by Bloomberg Businessweek (2013).

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The Fordham Law School in 2020 was ranked 27th in U.S. News & World Report{{'}}s ranking of "America’s Best Law schools".

Globally, Fordham was ranked 90th among the "World's top 100 universities for producing millionaires", as compiled by THE in 2013.{{NoteTag|Fordham University was placed at 94th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for "World's top 100 universities producing millionaires" in 2013; however Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania had their business school listed separately on this list. Also, all State University of New York (SUNY) institutions appear as one entity on the list.{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/worlds-top-100-universities-for-producing-millionaires/2008749.article|title=World's top 100 universities for producing millionaires|author=Parr, Chris|date=November 4, 2013|access-date=April 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115105352/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/financial-times-executive-mba-ranking-2015-top-100|archive-date=January 15, 2017|work=Times Higher Education World University Rankings}}}} According to data from The New York Times, Fordham ranked at No. 8 out of 71 "highly selective private colleges" yielding the greatest overall social mobility; this data reflects the share of all students who came from lower-income families and ended up in higher-income families after completing their education.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/fordham-university|newspaper=The New York Times|series=College Mobility|title=Fordham University|access-date=May 17, 2017|date=January 18, 2017}} École des Mines de Paris's 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 – ranks Fordham University 16th on their list, making it the highest ranked Catholic institution.{{cite web|url=http://www.mines-paristech.eu/About-us/Rankings/professional-ranking/#7/ |title=Highly-ranked French engineering school |work=Mines Paristech |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005034041/http://www.mines-paristech.eu/About-us/Rankings/professional-ranking |archive-date=October 5, 2016}}

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The university supports 21 men's and women's varsity athletic teams, as well as various club and intramural sports.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fordhamsports.com/#|title=Fordham University Rams Athletics|access-date=June 16, 2017}} The Fordham colors are maroon and white and its mascot is the ram. 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, reported to be the most academically selective NCAA conference after the Ivy League.{{cite web|url=http://www.patriotleague.org/ |title=Patriot League Official Athletic Site |publisher=PatriotLeague.org |date=October 9, 2013 |access-date=December 15, 2013}}

The Ram's football team ended the 1929 season as title holders according to college football's fictitious national championship,{{cite web|url=http://www.footballgeography.com/college-footballs-fictitious-lineal-national-championship/|work=Football Geography|title=College Football's Fictitious Lineal National Championship|date=October 30, 2013|access-date=April 5, 2017|author=McKillop, Andrew}} boasts two bowl game appearances (1941 and 1942), two Patriot League championships (2002 and 2007) and corresponding NCAA Division I Football Championship appearances. 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 Green Bay Packers coach. The team provoked the term "Ivy League" after New York Herald Tribune sportswriter Caswell Adams called then powerhouses Princeton and Yale "only Ivy League" compared to this Fordham team. Moreover, the Los Angeles Rams NFL franchise was named in honor of Fordham's football heritage.{{cite web |url=http://www.stlouisrams.com/team/history.html |title=History |publisher=St. Louis Rams |access-date=December 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203234650/http://www.stlouisrams.com/team/history.html |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

The Fordham men's basketball program has made four NCAA Tournament appearances and 16 National Invitational Tournament appearances. During the 1971 season, the program enjoyed its best campaign ever, compiling a 26–3 record and earning a No. 9 national ranking. That team was coached by Digger Phelps, who accepted an offer to coach Notre Dame after the 1971 season ended. Peter "PJ" Carlesimo was a reserve on Fordham's 1971 team; he later became the head coach of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise and was involved in a famous choking incident with Latrell Sprewell.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=306}} Fordham basketball plays in the Rose Hill Gymnasium (also known as "The Prairie"), the oldest on-campus venue in use by an NCAA Division I basketball team.{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7202696/ncb-nation-oldest-basketball-stadiums-including-yale-bulter-espn-magazine|title=Mag: Yale, Bulter among nation's oldest basketball stadiums|publisher=ESPN|access-date=June 16, 2017}}

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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 57 Major League Baseball players, including National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Frankie Frisch (also known as the "Fordham Flash").{{Cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/fordham_university_baseball_players.shtml|title=Fordham University Baseball Players Who Made it to a Major League Baseball Team|website=Baseball-almanac.com|access-date=June 16, 2017}}{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=343}} In April 2010, a Fordham baserunner made national headlines when he somersaulted over an opposing team's catcher to score a run during a game. The incident was dubbed the "Fordham Flip."{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100421&content_id=9468692&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |title=Amazing 'Fordham Flip' has fans abuzz | Major League Baseball: News |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=December 15, 2013}} The Rams baseball team holds the record for most NCAA Division I baseball victories in history.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/index.cgi?key_school=c0ead9dd|title=Baseball Reference: Fordham|access-date=January 1, 2009|publisher=Baseball Reference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808220146/http://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/index.cgi?key_school=c0ead9dd|archive-date=August 8, 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|author=Curry, Jack|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/sports/baseball/06fordham.html|title=For 150 Years, Fordham Baseball's Tradition of Winning|work=The New York Times|date=April 5, 2009|access-date=July 30, 2017}}

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.{{cite news|last1=Watts|first1=Mike|title=Fordham Wins Atlantic 10 Championship|url=http://www.wfuv.org/sports/fordham-sports/140310/fordham-wins-atlantic-10-championship|access-date=June 25, 2014|publisher=WFUV|date=March 10, 2014}} This feat came just 6 years after the team set an NCAA record for the worst season, finishing the season 0–29 in 2008.{{cite news|title=Fordham women set NCAA mark with 0–29 season|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/womensbasketball/2008-03-01-fordham-gw_N.htm|access-date=June 25, 2014|work=USA Today|date= March 1, 2008}}

The university's programs include track and field, which claims world record holder and Olympic gold medalist Tom Courtney as an alumnus;{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=233}} 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 frequents the Henley Royal Regatta in the United Kingdom; and golf, which is affiliated with the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York.

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Clubs and organizations for undergraduate and graduate students number over 130 at the Rose Hill campus and 50 at Lincoln Center.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/21466/student_organizations|title=Fordham online information {{!}} Student Life {{!}} Student Organizations|publisher=Fordham University|access-date=June 16, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/student_affairs/student_leadership__/index.asp |title=Student Leadership & Community Development |publisher=Fordham University |archive-date=October 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026043903/https://www.fordham.edu/student_affairs/student_leadership__/index.asp |url-status=dead }}

Fordham College at Rose Hill has a long history of college theater.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|pages=124, 185}} The university maintains a number of theater groups at both Lincoln Center and Rose Hill (e.g. the Mimes and Mummers, Fordham Experimental Theater, the Theatrical Outreach Group, Splinter Group). There are also choirs (University Choir, Schola Cantorum, Gloria Dei Choir) and a cappella groups spanning both campuses (Fordham Ramblers, Satin Dolls, b-Sides, Hot Notes, F-sharps). The Mimes and Mummers, the oldest entirely student-run club at Fordham University and among the oldest college theater groups in the United States, was founded in 1855 as the Saint John's Dramatic Society.{{cite web|last1=Kelley|first1=Tim|title=The History of The Mimes and Mummers|url=http://www.themimesandmummers.com/history-of-the-mimes.html|website=The Mimes and Mummers|access-date=June 19, 2016}} The Mimes put on two musicals, a drama, and a comedy each year – all non-student-written shows – as well as workshops designed to help students at Fordham learn about theater. The club receives from the school a budget which allows the hiring of professional directors, music directors, and choreographers but the shows are student produced, with all elements of technical design run by the club's executive board.{{cite web|title=The Mimes and Mummers|url=http://www.themimesandmummers.com/|website=The Mimes and Mummers|access-date=June 19, 2016}}

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.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.at/books/edition/Theatre_Arts/jJ8bAQAAMAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=0&bsq=Penthouse%20Theatre%20fordham |title=Theatre Arts |date=1949 |publisher= |volume=33 |pages=62, 65 |language=en}} The Penthouse Theatre, on the fourth floor of Collins Hall, served both for debuts of professional shows and home for theater groups like the Mimes and Mummers. The Penthouse Theatre was turned into office space in 1966.

In 1990, Alumni House, believed to be constructed in 1842 by William Rodrigue as a personal residence, an architect involved in the building of much of the early campus, was turned into a student-run space. Despite this account being questioned by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission in the report of its listing, it came to be known as Rodrigue's Coffee House.{{citation | url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1084.pdf | title=Landmarks Commission Report}} Rodrigue's, more commonly referred to as "Rod's" is an entirely student run coffee house and event space. Notable artists such as Frankie Cosmos, Matt and Kim, Japanese Breakfast, and Dreamcrusher have performed at Rod's.

The university has a number of student publications, including [https://thefordhamram.com/ The Fordham Ram], the university's official journal of record; The Observer, the newspaper for the Lincoln Center campus;{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=195}} the Fordham Political Review, the university's "undergraduate publication dedicated to politics, economics, social sciences, international affairs, and culture";{{Cite news|url=http://fordhampoliticalreview.org/about-2/|title=About|date=September 28, 2016|work=FORDHAM POLITICAL REVIEW|access-date=December 28, 2017}} The Rival, an online-only student-run publication;{{Cite web|url=http://fordham.therival.news/about|title=The Rival at Fordham University – About|website=fordham.therival.news|access-date=June 16, 2017}} and the paper, a student-run free-speech alternative journal.{{cite web|last1=the paper|title=the paper website|url=http://fupaper.blog/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207192603/https://fupaper.blog/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 7, 2017|website=the paper}}

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.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=344}} In 2017 The Princeton Review ranked WFUV the second best college radio station in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.princetonreview.com/schools/1023254/college/fordham-university|work=The Princetown Review|title=Fordham University|access-date=April 26, 2017}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/mission/mission_and_ministry/campus_ministry/index.asp |title=Campus Ministry |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} In addition to its Jesuit traditions, the university also has organizations devoted to Judaism, Islam, and other religions.{{cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/26119/interfaith_ministry/111/campus_worship_spaces|publisher=Fordham University|title=Campus Worship Spaces|access-date=April 10, 2017}}

The university has a church and numerous chapels across its campuses. At Rose Hill are the University Church which houses Our Lady's Chapel in the basement;{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=378}} the Blue Chapel on the third floor of Keating Hall;{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=222}} the Sacred Heart Chapel in Dealy Hall; the St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel at Spellman Hall; along with chapels at several student residence halls. At the Lincoln Center campus is the Bl. Rupert Meyer Chapel in the Leon Lowenstein Building.

In conjunction with the Office of Mission and Ministry, Global Outreach (GO!) operates as a cultural immersion and service program where students learn about various issues of social, economic, political, and environmental injustice while living a simple lifestyle that fosters communal and spiritual growth.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/info/20097/global_outreach|title=Fordham online information – About – Faith and Service – Mission Integration and Planning – Global Outreach|last=Fordham|website=Fordham.edu|access-date=November 22, 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/info/20118/our_story|title=Global Outreach: Our Story|website=Fordham.edu|access-date= July 14, 2015}} GO!'s roots stretch back to the 1950s, when Fordham students were participating in various service and immersion projects. In the 1970s and '80s it became known as the Mexico project, with students coining the term Global Outreach in 1988.

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 training "men and women for others",{{Cite web|url=http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/men-for-others.html|title=Men for Others|website=onlineministries.creighton.edu|access-date=June 16, 2017}} the center organizes projects in such areas as poverty, hunger, education, and disaster relief.{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/mission/mission_and_ministry/dorothy_day_center_f/index.asp |title=Dorothy Day Center For Service & Justice |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} As a result of the Dorothy Day Center's efforts, the university performed approximately one million hours of service in 2011, ranking it sixth among universities country-wide in terms of community outreach.{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/rankings_2011/national_university_rank.php |title=National University Rankings 2011 |work=Washington Monthly |archive-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211083849/http://washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/rankings_2011/national_university_rank.php |url-status=dead }} A popular volunteer location among students is the Jesuit Health Care Center at the Rose Hill campus where students interested in nursing gain practical experience.{{cite web|url=http://nysj.org/s/316/nypsj.aspx?pgid=1003&gid=1 |title=New York Province Society of Jesus – Province Health Care Center |publisher=Nysj.org |access-date=December 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215214625/http://nysj.org/s/316/nypsj.aspx?pgid=1003&gid=1 |archive-date=December 15, 2013 }} The Dorothy Day Center also offers a pre-orientation "Urban Plunge" program, introducing incoming freshmen to social justice issues in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/20883/first_year_experience/1787/experience_nyc_urban_plunge|title=Experience NYC: Urban Plunge|work=Fordham University|access-date=March 21, 2021}}File:Fordham Manor, Bronx, NY, USA - panoramio (2).jpg in the United States]]

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. Also, the Department of Grounds Maintenance at Fordham has committed to making half of its vehicle fleet electric by 2016.{{cite web |url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/23673/sustainability_at_fordham|title=Sustainability at Fordham |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} The university has also proposed numerous environmental initiatives, including using certified green cleaning products, a uniform recycling program, and composting in cooperation with the New York Botanical Garden.

Fordham's Rose Hill campus is home to one of the largest collections of mature American elms in the country, the oldest estimated to be 270 years old.{{cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/23674/green_campus_initiatives|publisher=Fordham University|title=Green Campus Initiatives|series=Sustainability at Fordham|access-date=July 9, 2017|archive-date=September 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923173639/https://www.fordham.edu/info/23674/green_campus_initiatives}}

Since its founding in 1841, the university has developed many traditions. Some of them are described below:

• 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.{{cite web|url=https://fordhamram.com/2014/09/17/presidents-ball-a-night-to-remember/|work=The Fordham Ram|title=President's Ball: A Night to Remember|date=September 17, 2014|access-date=June 14, 2017|author=Bhatti, Amina}}

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• The Winter Ball is a business casual event staged each winter by the United Student Government and the Activities Board of Lincoln Center, at venues in New York City including the Rainbow Room, the Russian Tea Room, and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/25214/winter_ball|title=Fordham online information {{!}} Student Life {{!}} Student Involvement {{!}} Office for Student Involvement at Lincoln Center {{!}} Winter Ball|publisher=Fordham University|access-date=June 16, 2017}}
• 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.{{cite web|author=Arts and Culture Film Literature Museum Music Theater |url=http://www.fordhamobserver.com/spring-weekend-a-success-despite-low-expectations/ |title=Spring Weekend a Success Despite Low Expectations |publisher=Fordhamobserver.com |date=May 2, 2015 |access-date=December 15, 2013}} 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 St. Paul the Apostle Church adjacent to the Lincoln Center campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/eNewsroom/topstories_2001.asp |title=The Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}}
• 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/inside_fordham/may_19_2007/in_brief_25907.asp#bkfst |title=Students Line Up for Midnight Breakfast|series=In Brief|publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} The name comes from "burning the midnight oil" with studies, not from the time of the breakfast.
• The Liberty Cup was 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 September 11 attacks.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_969.asp |title=Football Team Beats Columbia, Reclaims Liberty Cup |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}} {{as of|2016}}, the series was ended by Columbia.
• The Rams-Crusader Trophy in football was first awarded in 1951 to commemorate a great coach of both Fordham and Holy Cross: Frank "Iron Major" Cavanaugh.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=395}}
• 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_1254.asp |title=FCRH Accomplishments Honored at Encaenia Ceremony |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013}}

In addition to its traditions, Fordham is associated with a number of symbols, some of which are discussed below:

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• 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.
• The ram became the university's mascot as a result of a slightly vulgar cheer 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 the song would conform to the university's image.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=107}}
• 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.

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• The design of the Great Seal of Fordham University acknowledges the Society of Jesus presence on campus, hence elements of the order's coat of arms in the center on a light-purple shield, without the usual sunburst background. The borrowed elements include the IHS monogram used by the Jesuits as an abbreviation for the name of Jesus in Greek: IHSOUS, in this case with the Cross resting on the center of the H, and the three nails of the Crucifixion beneath the epigraph. These elements dressed in gold lay on the purple shield framed in maroon, the color of the university, with silver fleur-de-lis strung together atop the bordering frame at the edge of the shield. The fleur-de-lis symbolize the French origin of the Jesuits who arrived at Fordham in 1846. Immediately above the central shield rests the laurel crown in green on a light blue background, enclosing the university's original pedagogical disciplines in white capital letters listed above each other in the following order: ARTS, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, MEDICINE, LAW. Below the shield is a light blue scroll with the university's motto in black capital letters, SAPENTIA ET DOCTRINA. Both the shield and the scroll rest on a gold field emblematic of learning (doctrina), upon which surrounds them with 14 fiery tongues of the Holy Spirit, evenly distributed, a symbol of wisdom (sapientia). Finally, surrounding the entire seal is an heraldic belt, which is employed as a stylistic decoration. It forms a circular maroon loop embroidered with green beads on its inner and outer edge, with a gold buckle and end tip. The belt is emblazoned with Fordham's official Latin title in gold capital letters: UNIVERSITAS FORDHAMENSIS; between the last two punch holes where the buckle is fastened and the end looped inside to wrap around, is in gold the date of the university's founding: 1841. The University of Oxford, the only other tertiary institution in the world that uses a belt in its seal, maintains that without its belt, their seal is not official.

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• 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 original Lincoln Center campus skyline. 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.
• The Terrace of the presidents: Robert Gannon, 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.
• Fordham's official school song is "Alma Mater Fordham," and its fight song is "Fordham Ram" by J. Ignatius Coveney.{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=107}} In December 2013 the lyrics to "Fordham Ram" were changed from "Hail Men of Fordham, hail" to "Hail Rams of Fordham, hail" to be inclusive of the school's female majority.{{cite web |url=http://legacy.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/eNewsroom/topstories_3046.asp|title=And Now, Hail Rams of Fordham|website=Legacy.fordham.edu|access-date= July 14, 2015}} "The Marching Song" is typically played during parades and after athletic games, especially after a Ram victory.{{cite web|url=http://www.fordham.edu/audience/sheetmusic.shtml |title="The Ram" Sheet Music |publisher=Fordham University |access-date=December 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215214736/http://www.fordham.edu/audience/sheetmusic.shtml |archive-date=December 15, 2013 }}

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Fordham has over 183,500 alumni spread throughout the world, with 40 regional alumni chapters in the US and abroad.

Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate of a major political party in the United States, attended Fordham,{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Geraldine-Ferraro-Dead-at-75-118706824.html|work=NBC New York|title=Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75|date=March 30, 2011|access-date=April 17, 2017}} as did numerous United States Congresspersons. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo is an alumnus{{cite web| url = http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-cuomo-21024931 | title=Andrew Cuomo Biography: Government Official, Lawyer (1957–)| publisher= Biography.com (FYI / A&E Networks) | access-date= May 25, 2015}} as was Martin H. Glynn, the 40th Governor of New York (1913–1914) and first Catholic to hold the office.{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000247|title=Glynn, Martin Henry – Biographical Information|work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=December 28, 2016}} Among those serving at high levels of the U.S. Executive Branch were Postmaster General John E. Potter;{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/postmaster-general-john-e-potter-bronx-native-helped-mail-moving-32-years-article-1.472400|work=Daily News|location=New York|title=Postmaster General John E. Potter, a Bronx native, helped keep mail moving for 32 years|author=DeFrank, Thomas|date=December 5, 2010|access-date=April 16, 2017}} Central Intelligence Directors William J. Casey (1981 to 1987){{cite news|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/07/obituaries/william-casey-ex-cia-head-is-dead-at-74.html|title=WILLIAM CASEY, EX-C.I.A. HEAD, IS DEAD AT 74

|date=May 7, 1987|access-date=April 16, 2017|author=Pace, Eric}} and John O. Brennan (2013 to 2017);{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/john-o-brennan.html|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|title=John O. Brennan|access-date=April 17, 2017|archive-date=July 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722222938/https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/john-o-brennan.html|url-status=dead}} John N. Mitchell, Attorney General from 1969 to 1972;{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/10/obituaries/john-n-mitchell-dies-at-75-major-figure-in-watergate.html|title=John N. Mitchell Dies at 75; Major Figure in Watergate |work=The New York Times|date=November 10, 1988|access-date=January 21, 2017}} and Bernard M. Shanley, Deputy Chief of Staff and White House Counsel to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Donald Trump attended for two years and studied economics but left in 1966, transferring to the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite web |last=KOZUB |first=SOPHIE |title=Inside Trump's Days at Fordham |url=https://fordhamobserver.com/30994/recent/news/inside-trumps-days-at-fordham/ |access-date=December 11, 2022 |website=The Observer |quote=Trump’s days at Fordham concluded with the end of the spring 1966 semester...he traded the ivy-mantled walls of Fordham’s Rose Hill campus for an ivy league degree.}}{{Cite web |last=Ram |first=The Fordham |date=February 4, 2021 |title="A bit of a loner," Former Classmates Remember Donald Trump in the Bronx |url=https://fordhamram.com/62224/news/a-bit-of-a-loner-former-classmates-remember-donald-trump-in-the-bronx/ |access-date=December 11, 2022 |website=The Fordham Ram |language=en-US |quote=Trump often touted his standing as a business graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school, in 1968, but usually omits his first two years studying economics at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus.}}

Fordham claims a number of distinguished military honorees, including three Medal of Honor recipients and notable generals including General John "Jack" Keane, four-star general and Army Vice Chief of Staff, 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, and produced Robert Kibbee, the Chancellor of the City University of New York. Cardinal Francis Spellman oversaw the Archdiocese of New York. James B. Donovan defended Rudolph Abel in his spy trial and negotiated the release of Francis Gary Powers. Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, daughter of the last Austrian Emperor, Charles I, studied at the School of Social Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://www.mecklenburg-strelitz.org/charlotte-erzherzogin-von-osterreich.html |work=The Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |title=Archduchess Charlotte of Austria |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405231829/http://mecklenburg-strelitz.org/charlotte-erzherzogin-von-osterreich.html |archive-date=April 5, 2017 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://fordhamram.com/2017/04/fordham-graduate-princess-serves-others/|title=Fordham Graduate Princess Serves Others|last=Quinlisk|first=Katie|date=April 26, 2017|website=The Fordham Ram|access-date=November 9, 2017}}

Business and finance magnates who attended Fordham include Wendy Craigg, former Governor of the Central Bank of the Bahamas; Anne M. Mulcahy, chairperson and CEO of Xerox;{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=142}} Rose Marie Bravo, Vice chairman and CEO of Burberry;{{Cite web|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2005-A-Fi/Bravo-Rose-Marie.html|title=Rose Marie Bravo Biography – children, parents, name, school, mother, young, born, college, time – Newsmakers Cumulation|website=Notablebiographies.com|access-date=June 16, 2017}} E. Gerald Corrigan, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/business/fed-s-plumber-e-gerald-corrigan-crisis-manager-takes-mechanics-market.html|work=The New York Times| title=THE FED'S PLUMBER: E. Gerald Corrigan; A Crisis Manager Takes on the Mechanics of the Market

|author=Quint, Michael|date=October 2, 1988|access-date=December 30, 2016}} Maria Elena Lagomasino, CEO of JP Morgan Private Bank;{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/business/making-sure-the-rich-stay-rich-even-in-crisis.html|work=The New York Times|date=October 7, 2001|access-date=April 17, 2017|author=Fabrikant, Geraldine|title=Making Sure the Rich Stay Rich, Even in Crisis

}} Joe Moglia, former chairman and CEO of TD Ameritrade;{{cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2015/11/19/he-left-ceo-millions-to-coach-college-and-its-10-times-better-than-rudy/|work=New York Post|title=He left CEO millions to coach college and it's '10 times better than Rudy'|author=Kussoy, Howie|date=November 19, 2015|access-date=April 17, 2017}} Stephen J. Hemsley, CEO of UnitedHealth Group;{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/14003331-stephen-j-hemsley|work=Bloomberg|title=Stephen Hemsley Chief Executive Officer, Unitedhealth Group Inc|access-date=April 17, 2017}} Wellington Mara, New York Giants owner;{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/giants/examining-mara-family-tree-ny-giants-seek-fourth-super-bowl-patriots-article-1.1016405|work=Daily News|location=New York|title=Examining the Mara family tree as the NY Giants seek their fourth Super Bowl against Patriots|author1=Walder, Seth |author2=Red, Christian |date=February 3, 2012|access-date=April 17, 2017}} John D. Finnegan, chairman, President, and CEO of Chubb Corporation; Mario Gabelli, billionaire and founding CEO of GAMCO Investors; Lorenzo Mendoza, billionaire and CEO of Empresas Polar; Eugene Shvidler, billionaire and international oil tycoon;{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/evgeny-eugene-shvidler/|title=Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler|work=Forbes|access-date=June 16, 2017}} Frank Calderoni, CEO of Anaplan.

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, President of the Associated Press; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Loretta Tofani; Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and author; G. Gordon Liddy, President Richard Nixon associate and leader of the White House Plumbers, political pundit, and radio show host; NPR All Things Considered host Scott Detrow; and Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster and Radio Hall of Famer Vin Scully.

Fordham's contributors to arts and entertainment include Denzel Washington, two-time Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor;{{cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_545.asp |title=Denzel Washington Returns to Acting Roots |publisher=Fordham.edu |date=October 28, 2003 |access-date=April 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183701/http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_545.asp |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |url-status=dead }} Alan Alda, six-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor;{{Sfn|Schroth|2008|p=224}} Academy Award-nominated actress Patricia Clarkson;{{cite web|url=https://news.fordham.edu/arts-and-culture/patricia-clarkson-shares-insights-on-acting/|work=Fordham News|title=Patricia Clarkson Shares Insights on Acting|date=December 12, 2006|access-date=June 28, 2017}} Dylan McDermott;{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/dylan-mcdermott-9542247|work=Biography.com|publisher=The Biography Channel|title=Dylan McDermott|access-date=April 17, 2017}} actress Taylor Schilling;{{cite web|url=http://www.fordhamobserver.com/fordhams-taylor-schilling-is-the-new-black/|work=Fordham Observer|title=Fordham's Taylor Schilling is the New Black|date=September 23, 2013|access-date=April 17, 2017}} actress and comedian Regina Hall;{{Cite web|url=http://pix11.com/2015/08/11/people-places-things-stars-regina-hall-and-jermaine-clement-talk-about-the-new-comedy/|work=Pix 11|title='People Places Things' stars Regina Hall and Jemaine Clement talk about the new comedy|date=August 11, 2015|access-date=May 8, 2016|archive-date=June 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603054151/http://pix11.com/2015/08/11/people-places-things-stars-regina-hall-and-jermaine-clement-talk-about-the-new-comedy/|url-status=dead}} Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey;{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/biographies/lana-del-rey|title=Lana Del Rey Biography, Quotes and Facts|last=Sowray|first=Bibby|date=February 10, 2012|access-date=December 28, 2016|work=Vogue}} Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling suspense novelist;{{cite web|last=Bruns|first=Ann|title=Mary Higgins Clark Biodata|work=bookreporter.com|publisher=The Book Report, Inc|date=May 5, 2000|url=http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/mary-higgins-clark|access-date=September 9, 2016}} horror novelist and playwright Robert Marasco;{{cite web|url=http://www.regis.org/article_centennial.cfm?id=926 |work=Regis High School|title=Robert Marasco '54's Child's Play Chosen as Regis Repertory's Centennial Year Production|date=October 11, 2013|access-date=May 1, 2017}} postmodern novelist Don DeLillo, acclaimed novelist and Pulitzer Prize nominee; Robert Sean Leonard, Golden Globe winning television show actor;{{cite news |last = Klein |first = Alvin |title = For Stage Novice, 'Acting Is It' |url = https://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50713FD3B5C0C768CDDA80894DE484D81 |work=The New York Times |date=January 5, 1986| access-date=January 17, 2008 }} Bob Keeshan of TV's award-winning "Captain Kangaroo";{{cite web |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/23/obituaries/bob-keeshan-who-played-captain-kangaroo-on-tv-is-dead-at-76.html |work=The New York Times|date=January 23, 2004 |access-date=April 17, 2017 |title=Bob Keeshan, Who Played Captain Kangaroo on TV, Is Dead at 76 |last = Severo |first = Richard }} and John LaFarge, painter, muralist, and designer of stained-glass windows. John Gilmary Shea, regarded as the "Father of American Catholic History", is also an alumnus.{{cite web |url = http://news.fordham.edu/fordham-magazine/wisdom-and-learning/ |work = Fordham Magazine |title=Wisdon and Learning |access-date=June 14, 2017 |date=December 23, 2016 }} Michael Alig, infamous club promoter of '90s New York City nightlife, also attended Fordham. Comic Actor and Voice Artist "Bill Lobley" is an alumnus as well.

People from the world of sports who attended Fordham include Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Frankie Frisch (the "Fordham Flash"); Vince Lombardi, football coaching legend; Bill Chadwick, Hockey Hall of Fame inductee; Tom Courtney, two-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of world record in the 880-yard run; and Steve Bellán, first Latin American to play Major League Baseball.{{cite web|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/78dbf37d|work=Society for American Baseball Research|title=Steve Bellán|access-date=April 9, 2017|author=McKenna, Brian}}

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Fordham's Rose Hill campus was named the second most-filmed campus in North America by Noodle Education.{{cite web|url=https://www.noodle.com/articles/7-college-campuses-youve-seen-over-and-over-again-in-movies|work=Noodle|title=7 College Campuses You've Seen (Over and Over Again) in Movies|author=D'Arpino, Adam|date=July 18, 2014|access-date=December 29, 2016}} Films shot on the campus include:{{cite web|url=http://fordham.libguides.com/c.php?g=279582&p=1863480|title=Fordham University History: Fordham in Film and Fiction|series=LibGuides|work=Fordham University Libraries|access-date=April 8, 2017}} The Adjustment Bureau (2011), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cheerleaders Beach Party (1978), The Exorcist (1973), Fair Game (2010), The Gambler (1974), Godspell (1973), Kinsey (2004), Love Story (1970), Quiz Show (1994), Solitary Man (2009), The Verdict (1982), and Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (2010). The 1993 crime drama A Bronx Tale is set in the Belmont neighborhood adjacent to the Rose Hill campus.{{cite web|url=http://www.theramonline.com/culture/fordham-is-famous-movies-filmed-right-here-on-campus-1.1931716 |work=The Ram |publisher=Fordham University Press |author=Ramirez, Sarah |title=Fordham is Famous: Movies Filmed Right Here on Campus |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |date=September 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104092705/http://www.theramonline.com/culture/fordham-is-famous-movies-filmed-right-here-on-campus-1.1931716#.TwQbfOTP200 |url-status=dead}} The Lincoln Center campus appeared in Awake (2007) and Center Stage (2000).

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 series Forever features the new Gabelli building and McMahon dorm. In the second episode of CBS's Madam Secretary the Fordham commons are used in two scenes serving in lieu of Georgetown University.{{cite web|url=https://fordhamdaily.com/2014/09/23/madam-secretary-new-cbs-drama-films-at-rose-hill/|work=Fordham Daily|title='Madam Secretary,' new CBS drama, films at Rose Hill|date=September 23, 2014| author=Ryan, Connor|access-date=March 30, 2017}}

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