PRESIDENT TETLOW
Women’s History Month: Fordham Makes History with First Female President
NBC 4 03-01-2023
Women make up only 22% of presidents at elite research institutions, according to the Women’s Power Gap Initiative, and only about a third of the top roles around the nation, reported Gilma Avolos. “When you squander half the talent of the human race, you’re giving up on a lot,” said Fordham President Tania Tetlow. “I think a lot of it is just recognizing that you need to not overlook that talent in our half of humanity.”
CLIPS OF THE WEEK
Poets&Quants’ Best Undergraduate Business Schools Of 2023
Poets&Quants 03-01-2023
Fordham University Gabelli School of Business has been ranked #20 nationwide by Poets&Quants Undergrads for Best Undergraduate Business Schools for 2023.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
White-Collar Layoffs While Blue-Collar Worker Demand, Wages Rise
Voice of America 03-02-2023
“Now what we are experiencing is, oh, we’ve got to cut the fat. We over-hired. So instead of downsizing—which is what we would expect companies to do—they are right-sizing in anticipation of what’s to come,” said Giacomo Santangelo, senior lecturer of economics at Fordham.
DEBORAH DENNO
Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad
Los Angeles Times 02-27-2023
Deborah Denno, a Fordham University expert who has been studying capital punishment for 30 years, said issues surrounding lethal injections have contributed to states such as New Jersey and Virginia abolishing capital sentences, and to moratoriums on executions in others, like California.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
As the Supreme Court debates student loans, some families go to extremes to afford college tuition
USA Today 03-01-2023
As an educational consultant, Carolyn Johnson helps young people navigate the maze of applying to college, including applying for scholarships and financial aid. Her daughters, Alison, 23, and Amy, 21, a graduate of and current student at Fordham University, respectively, have received scholarships and each has roughly $20,000 in loans.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Poets&Quants’ Best Undergraduate Business Schools Of 2023
Poets&Quants 03-01-2023
Fordham University Gabelli School of Business has been ranked #20 nationwide by Poets&Quants Undergrads for Best Undergraduate Business Schools for 2023.
CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES
Supporting Jewish studies scholars in Ukraine: What we’ve learned and where we’re going
Jewish Philanthropy 02-27-2023
Around that same time, the American Academy of Jewish Research partnered with Fordham University’s Center for Jewish Studies and the New York Public Library to provide fellowship support to Jewish studies scholars who have been displaced, deprived of employment, or otherwise at risk due to the war.
CENTER ON RELIGION AND CULTURE
What is the future of the papacy?
Scripps News 03-02-2023
David Gibson is the director at the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University. “The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI was really an earthquake in the church in so many ways. He gives a speech in Latin and they’re all saying, ‘Did he say what I think he said?'” Gibson said.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE
‘Safety Is Not Just the Absence of Crime, but a Presence of Well-Being’
West Side Rag 02-24-2023
The “Creating Opportunities for Amsterdam” (COFA) program will feature direct, door-to-door outreach to young people living in the developments. Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service, which is based nearby at the University’s Lincoln Square campus, will also be involved, providing ongoing evaluation of the program’s effectiveness.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
DEBORAH DENNO
Why Idaho is considering bringing back execution by firing squad
Los Angeles Times 02-27-2023
Deborah Denno, a Fordham University expert who has been studying capital punishment for 30 years, said issues surrounding lethal injections have contributed to states such as New Jersey and Virginia abolishing capital sentences, and to moratoriums on executions in others, like California.
JED SHUGERMAN
Biden administration lawyer may have saved student loan forgiveness plan at Supreme Court
CNBC 03-01-2023
On Wednesday, Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman tweeted that he remains “struck by SG Elizabeth Prelogar’s brilliant performance.”
JED SHUGERMAN
The Supreme Court Is Set to Rule on Student Loan Forgiveness. Here’s What Could Happen Next
TIME 02-26-2023
“The only excuse for not actually having any step to show a causation or correlation from the emergency would be if the emergency was still happening,” Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, said.
JED SHUGERMAN
Student loan forgiveness: Key statements from each justice
The Hill 02-28-2023
He referenced an amicus brief from a Fordham Law School Professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman, who called the plan a “case study” for how administrations abuse emergency powers.
JED SHUGERMAN
What Supreme Court Arguments Told Us About the Future of Student Loan Forgiveness
TIME 02-28-2023
“Other than Barrett, I didn’t hear another conservative focus on this in a way that showed that this is an issue that we’re struggling with,” Jed Shugerman, a professor who studies executive branch powers at Fordham Law School, says.
JED SHUGERMAN
Student loan forgiveness: The Supreme Court challenges explained
BBC 02-27-2023
“It’s doomed,” Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, told the BBC. “By choosing an obviously flawed path that was always likely to get struck down by the court, the Biden administration has run out of time in these four years to get anything like this through.”
JED SHUGERMAN
The Fate Of Biden’s Student-Loan Relief Plan Rests With The Supreme Court
HuffPost 02-26-2023
That’s something that Fordham Law School Professor Jed Shugerman, who supports student debt relief, warned about in a brief to the court in support of the state arguments for standing.
JED SHUGERMAN
What Is The Department Of Justice?
Fox News 02-26-2023
This week, Fordham Law School professor and Author of The People’s Courts, Jed Shugerman, Ph.D. joins Abby in the classroom to explain the role of the Department of Justice.
TOM BASILE
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
The Epoch Times 02-28-2023
“Virtually every legal scholar that I have spoken to has said that the president of the United States really doesn’t have the authority to do this, and the people at the White House and Domestic Policy Council know that,” Tom Basile told The Epoch Times. … Basile, best known as the host of the Newsmax program “America Right Now,” is an adjunct professor at Fordham University and a member of the New York State Bar Association.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
White-Collar Layoffs While Blue-Collar Worker Demand, Wages Rise
Voice of America 03-02-2023
“Now what we are experiencing is, oh, we’ve got to cut the fat. We over-hired. So, instead of downsizing—which is what we would expect companies to do—they are right-sizing in anticipation of what’s to come,” said Giacomo Santangelo, senior lecturer of economics at Fordham.
MICKI MCGEE
Opinion | This all-but-forgotten con man sold America on ‘fake it till you make it’
The Washington Post 02-27-2023
“The con artist became a business model,” says Micki McGee, author of “Self-Help, Inc.” “It’s only in a market-worshiping economy that you can say defrauding people in the interest of profit would somehow be okay.” McGee is associate professor of sociology and director of Fordham’s American Studies program.
MICKI MCGEE
How Bosses Ate Feminism
The New Republic 02-20-2023
The book and others like it, the sociologist Micki McGee has written, “channeled the counterculture value of self-fulfillment back into the productive spheres—back into the workplace.”
BRANDY MONK-PAYTON
How the Creed franchise makes a statement – and a ton of money – in modern Hollywood
CNBC 02-26-2023
“It’s refreshing to see this focus, not on our traditional ways of thinking about Black representation in terms of the past and historical struggles against discrimination and oppression,” said Brandy Monk-Payton, a professor at Fordham University who specializes in Black media representation.
CHRISTINA GREER
DeSantis Pushes Anti-Woke Agenda
MSNBC 02-29-2023
“There are so many things to unpack with Ron DeSantis. One, we know he has ambitions much greater than Florida. This is why we must take very seriously all his attacks not just on education and curriculum and African-American studies, but his world view,” said Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University.
MARK MATTSON
Breaking Down Lyric Performances of the Grateful Dead
Yellowstone Public Radio 02-24-2023
Mark Mattson, associate professor of cognitive-experiential psychology and a keyboardist, discusses his research on lyric performances by the Grateful Dead with “Dead of Night” host Susan Balter-Reitz on Yellowstone Public Radio.
JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
Newsletter: The latest New York news
The New York Times 02-27-2023
But is it ethical to kill them?: “City rats are a species that in some sense humans have created,” said Dr. Jason Munshi-South, a biologist and rat researcher at Fordham University. “They’re evolutionarily and ecologically linked to us.”
MICHAEL PARSONS
Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats?
The New York Times 02-27-2023
But Michael Parsons, an urban ecologist at Fordham University who has spent two decades studying city rats, said that wild brown rats (as well as the smaller and rarer black rats) are even more advanced than their laboratory counterparts. “They have unique personalities, and they experience regret, remorse and social justice,” Dr. Parsons said.
KATHRYN REKLIS
When women speak more than truth
The Christian Century 02-24-2023
“It is easy to forget that the MeToo movement started as an act of speech,” wrote Kathryn Reklis, who teaches theology at Fordham University and is co-director of the Institute for Art, Religion and Social Justice.
ATHLETICS
ASIAH DINGLE
Fordham women’s hoops are aiming for an Atlantic 10 title
New York Amsterdam News 03-02-2023
College basketball has been somewhat of a winding journey for guard Asiah Dingle, but she’s finishing off with a flourish at Fordham University.
Not Looking Ahead, But Fordham Is Closing In
NY Sports Day 02-26-2023
Keith Urgo does not want to look ahead and the first year coach at Fordham is taking this a game at a time with three A-10 Conference games remaining, but his Rams achieved another milestone at Rose Hill Saturday afternoon with their 74-71 conference win over Rhode Island.
KEITH URGO
Coach Urgo Breaks Down Men’s Hoops Success with Bruce Beck
NBC4 02-26-2023
“That’s Keith Urgo of the Fordham Rams,” said Bruce Beck. “He has more wins as a first-year head coach at Rose Hill since Digger Phelps went 26 games during the 1970-71 season. This year’s Rams are chasing that magical team for the most victories in school history.”
Keith Urgo’s Fordham team recapturing spirit of 1971
New York Post 02-24-2023
The ceaseless roar has been the greatest of all gifts across this beautiful basketball winter at Rose Hill in The Bronx. The thunder, deafening and daunting and delightful, has been the soundtrack, filling the 98-year-old gymnasium with joy and hope and possibility, spilling beyond the doors and windows, covering a campus with belief.
Fordham sets sights on first NCAA Tournament in more than 30 years
New York Post 02-24-2023
In his first year as a head coach, [Keith] Urgo has Fordham doing things skeptics said couldn’t be done. The Rams are tied for third place in the Atlantic 10 with Saint Louis, in position to receive a double-bye in the conference tournament. They have 22 wins, their most since they went 25-8 in 1990-91 under Nick Macarchuk, and the 10 league victories are their highest total in 16 years.
KEVIN LEIGHTON
Leighton on Fordham Baseball
MLB Network 02-26-2023
“We’ve got a solid group of guys. We’re off to a rough start. We’ve played two really good teams, but I think we are moving in the right direction,” said Fordham Baseball Coach Kevin Leighton. “ We’ve got to just keep fighting and keep battling.”
STUDENTS
PATRICIO PULLA
Not Just Rice Bowl, CRS Chapters and Clubs Engage Catholics in Living Out Call to ‘Missionary Discipleship’
Today’s Catholic 03-01-2023
Patricio Pulla, Secretary of the CRS club at Fordham University in New York, said a winter break trip to the Philippines by four of its members became a practical lesson in overseas aid impact.
ALUMNI
JACK KEANE
Opinion: Ukraine war wouldn’t take so long if Biden would commit to victory
Fox News 02-24-2023
“We must continue, and continue to enhance, our support. President Joe Biden has said we will support Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes.’ It doesn’t have to take that long,” wrote Jack Keane [GABELLI ‘66], a Fox News senior strategic analyst and a retired general who served as U.S. Army vice chief of staff.
BOB PAPA
Golf: The Darius Rucker Intercollegiate Tournament
The Golf Channel 02-28-2023
“So glad you could join us for the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate at Long Cove Club,” said announcer Bob Papa. “Yes, I did go to college. The great Fordham University.”
MARIE CLARK TAYLOR
Rooted in Plants: Celebrate Black History Month
Bronx Times 02-27-2023
Visit the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden to celebrate Black History Month by learning about the ways in which people of the African Diaspora have contributed to our understanding and uses of plants around the world! Investigate seeds native to Africa and create your own plant maze light box experiment to learn about the amazing Black botanist Marie Clark Taylor, who was awarded the first science Ph.D. for a woman at Fordham University.
SOFIA ONGELE
Our 5 most popular iPhone and Android apps from Black developers
Digital Trends 03-01-2023
ReDawn is an app that’s designed to be a bit more sobering compared to most on this list. Developed by [Sofia] Ongele, a then-student at Fordham University, it aims to help victims of sexual assault and harassment recover.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ethan Philbrick’s Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence
BOMB Magazine 03-02-2023
Focusing on queer and feminist experiments of assembly, Ethan Philbrick’s debut book (Fordham University Press 2023) considers both the fantasy and destruction of collectives.
