U.S. News released their 2025 rankings of colleges and universities across the country on Sept. 24, with Fordham University dropping two places this year to the spot of 91st, tied with six other institutions: American University, Baylor University, Loyola Marymount University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Southern Methodist University and the University of South Florida.  In the 2024 rankings, released last year, Fordham dropped 17 points from 72nd to 89th, sharing the 89th slot with Temple...

Fordham University students engaged in a “study-in” in the Student Lounge on the first floor of the McShane Campus Center on Oct. 7, 2024. The event began at 11 a.m. with around nine students sitting around the table. Two Palestinian flags were placed on the table and students had signs taped to their laptops and water bottles. 

Fordham's advising program for students recently entered its third year, offering students academic guidance on their Fordham journeys.

Global Outreach (GO!) has operated out of Fordham University’s Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) for the past 62 years. They run four or five projects in each of the three program cycles each year: winter, spring and summer. Applications recently closed for the coming winter programs, running from Jan. 4-11, 2025. The winter programs are taking place in Arizona, California, Mexico, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. Thirty students were accepted to partake in these offerings. “In...

Fordham University Rose Hill’s United Student Government (USG) met to hear proposals for two new potential clubs and recap their retreat on Oct. 3.  USG went to the Bronx Zoo on Sunday, Sept. 29, for their annual retreat. Members brainstormed nearly 30 initiative proposals during the retreat, with three concrete proposals emerging as issues worth urgently pursuing. These proposals include initiatives related to career services and health center improvements; specific proposal details were not...

On the first Friday of every month, students and faculty gather in Rodrigue’s Coffee House outside Alumni Court South for a jazz jam session. This past Friday, parents and siblings were in the audience for Family Weekend. The event brings together the music department and Rod’s, as well as students and faculty, to make music.  The event is open to all Fordham University students, and all are welcome to perform. Students and faculty performed many different songs, from jazz standards like...

Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president emeritus, returned to Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus to speak for the 20th annual Economos Orthodoxy in America lecture series on Oct. 1.  McShane’s speech, titled “Building an Alliance of Grace: The Work of Ecumenism in an Age of Anxiety,” explored the history and contemporary applications of the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. This speech was especially significant for the Fordham community, home to...

Fordham's Cura Personalis fundraising campaign exceeded its goal of $350 million, funding important student spaces such as the McShane Campus Center.