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Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York: 1841-2003
Thomas J. Shelley
Abstract
Fordham is the story of the evolution of a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit university. Founded by John Hughes, the Bishop of New York, as St. John’s College in 1841, the Society of Jesus assumed ownership of the college in 1846. The name was changed to Fordham University in 1907, two years after the establishment of the first two graduate schools (Law and Medicine). A major expansion took place in the 1960s with the creation of the Lincoln Center campus. A recent fund-raising campaign raised over a half-billion dollars. In 2015 Fordham had an enrollment of over 15,000 stude ... More
Keywords: Bishop John Hughes, Lincoln Center
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823271511 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: January 2017 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823271511.001.0001 |
