Fordham University

Fordham University () is a private Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the northeastern United States and the third-oldest university in New York State.

Founded as '''St. John's College''' by John Hughes, then a coadjutor bishop of New York, the college was placed in the care of the Society of Jesus shortly thereafter, and has since become a Jesuit-affiliated independent school under a lay board of trustees. While governed independently of the church since 1969, every president of Fordham University between 1846 and 2022 was a Jesuit priest, and the curriculum remains influenced by Jesuit educational principles.

Fordham enrolls approximately 15,300 students from more than 65 countries, and is composed of ten constituent colleges, four of which are undergraduate and six of which are postgraduate, across three campuses in southern New York State: the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, the Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan's Upper West Side, and the Westchester campus in West Harrison, New York. In addition to these locations, the university maintains a study abroad center in London and field offices in Spain and South Africa. The university offers degrees in over 60 disciplines.

The university's athletic teams, the Rams, include a football team that boasted a win in the Sugar Bowl, two Pro Football Hall of Famers, two All-Americans, two Canadian Football League All-Stars, and numerous NFL players; the Rams also participated in history's first televised college football game in 1939 and history's first televised college basketball game in 1940. Fordham's baseball team played the first collegiate baseball game under modern rules in 1859, has fielded 56 major league players, and holds the record for most NCAA Division I baseball victories in history.

Fordham's alumni and faculty include former President Donald Trump, U.S. Senators and representatives, four cardinals of the Catholic Church, several U.S. governors and ambassadors, a number of billionaires, two directors of the CIA, Academy Award and Emmy-winning actors, royalty, a foreign head of state, a White House Counsel, a vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army, a U.S. Postmaster General, a U.S. Attorney General, a President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the first female vice presidential candidate of a major political party in the United States. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Fordham University (New York, N.Y.)
    Created 1881 - 1955
    Location: PAHRC Library, Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center (PAHRC)
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    Created 1941
    ...Fordham University...
    Location: Dinand Library, College of the Holy Cross
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    ...Fordham University...
    Location: Dinand Library, College of the Holy Cross
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    Created 1963
    ...Institute of Pastoral Psychology Fordham University...
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
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    Created 1965
    ...Institute of Pastoral Psychology Fordham University...
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
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    Created 1968
    ...Institute of Pastoral Psychology Fordham University...
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
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    Created 1958
    ...Institute for the Clergy on Problems in Pastoral Psychology Fordham University...
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
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    Created 1964
    ...Institute of Pastoral Psychology Fordham University...
    Location: John J. Burns Library, Boston College
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    Created 1967
    ...Fordham University...
    Location: University Libraries of CUA, Catholic University of America
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    by Lawton, Joseph, 1954-
    Created 2001
    ...Fordham University. College at Lincoln Center. Center Gallery...
    Location: Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
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