Fordham recently launched the Fordham Hub, a website that “connects students with a variety of campus resources, including Academic Advising, Class Deans, Career Advising and more.”

Currently, multiple Fordham groups are using the site for their academic advising, including Fordham College at Rose Hill, Lincoln Center, the Gabelli School of Business and the School of Professional and Continuing Studies.

Ashlee Burrs, associate dean for academic advising, works with first-year advisors, who were the first to use the new hub.

“It is a tool that helps [students] make appointments with their advisor or class dean. It helps the advisors communicate, and it helps the advisors manage the appointments for a student. It keeps it all in a space for them to look back at,” said Burrs.

In addition to making appointments, more will be added to the Fordham Hub in the future. “It is just launching now. More and more departments will hopefully join and start utilizing it. Financial aid is in there now, which is cool. It gives them a way to connect with students and send alerts to students. It is a useful communication tool. The midterm reports that faculty send are going to be in the hub. There are a lot of features that can build out,” said Burrs. “There is a larger team that looks at when those projects will be added.”

In recent years, the Fordham Hub is not the only change made to the advising system. Last semester, after years of research, the Fordham College Advising Center was launched, which replaced the previous system of grade-level advisors for students. Like the Fordham Hub, which is currently mainly utilized by the class of 2026, the new advising system’s first phase was also directed at the first-year class.

While the system is currently most utilized by the first-year students at Fordham, Burrs explained that more student activity will result in more features in the future. “It is a cool tool. The more the students that use it, the more we can see what other features we can add and different departments that we want to bring in,” said Burrs. “It all starts with the students and what they need and what they want. Right now, they can easily schedule appointments. We would love to use it even more.”

The Fordham Hub is located on fordham.edu under the My Pages Student tab, where students can utilize all features it has so far. Fordham’s Information Technology services also has a website dedicated to explaining how to use the hub for students and advisors unfamiliar with its features.