A New College Admissions Mindset: Why Values Alignment Matters
Forbes 09-18-2025
For many families, alignment means finding colleges where faith is respected and supported, not sidelined. Catholic families might resonate with Jesuit values of service, reflection, and educating the whole person, drawing them toward institutions like Boston College, Georgetown University, or Fordham University.
What Is a ‘Work-Appropriate’ Shoe?
The New York Times 09-22-2025
The first is the simplest. According to Susan Scafidi, the founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, workplace dress codes are “up to the employers, so long as dress codes comply with the law and neither discrimination nor harassment is involved.”
The Fed’s Rate Cut Was Expected. Here’s What Not To Expect: Real Help
Forbes 09-19-2025
“U.S. [consumer]consumption is debt-based and doesn’t seem to slow down,” Giacomo Santangelo, a senior lecturer in economics at Fordham University, told me. The result is “fake signals that the U.S. economy is strong because of the U.S. economy. Consumption seems strong, but it’s because of debt, not because of income.”
Trump’s AI plan supports antitrust enforcement, DOJ official says
Reuters 09-19-2025
Protecting competition in the industry supports innovation, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater said at a conference at Fordham University, signaling that President Donald Trump’s antitrust enforcers are looking out for anticompetitive conduct and consolidation.
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Gov. Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani as much about her political future as his
Gothamist 09-16-2025
“As I see it, the Hochul endorsement helps Hochul more than it helps Mamdani,” said Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University.
What to know as U.N. General Assembly opens, marking 80 years, tackling deep crises
NPR 09-22-2025
Anjali Dayal, an expert on the U.N. who teaches at Fordham University, says the U.S. has gone from a key underwriter to a real source of instability at the U.N.
“From top to bottom, huge arenas of the U.N.’s work — things like poverty alleviation, things like public health, things like gender equality, things that fundamentally anchor the U.N.’s work — the U.S. is actively working to disrupt them,” Dayal told NPR.
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Regina Hall and Sheila E. Share a Birthday — and So Much More
The New York Times 09-19-2025
“I was living in New York [after graduating from Fordham University with a B.A. in communications], and my parents were like, ‘Regina, you either got to get a job or you got to come home.’ I was just in New York going to clubs!” said Regina Hall, Fordham Rose Hill ‘92.
SC lethal injection, firing squad executions part of uptick in carrying out death sentences
The Post & Courier Columbia 09-21-2025
Within the last century, executions spiked in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, when people were suffering economically, said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law school professor. Since 1999, she said, executions nationwide have been on a downward trajectory for reasons that include lower public support for capital punishment and challenges related to the lethal injection method.
How can New York Democrats win back young men?
City & State New York 09-22-2025
“We know that many people, male and female, cannot bring themselves to vote for a woman, let alone a woman of color at the top of any ticket,” Fordham University associate professor Christina Greer said. “There’s a reason why we don’t have any Black female governors ever in the history of the United States, and many people just could not stomach the fact that there would be a Black woman as the president.”
Key question in the Jimmy Kimmel case: Does the FCC have the power to regulate speech?
PolitiFact 09-19-2025
“This basically means that a licensee has the duty to air programs that are responsive to its local community’s priorities and needs,” Olivier Sylvain, a Fordham University law professor and senior policy research fellow at Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute.
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How Zohran Mamdani’s Video Team Reinvented the Visual Art of Political Conversation and Storytelling
Counter Punch 09-19-2025
Ideas, pitches and discussions of the videos often originated in a group chat, during a process that included Mamdani, the Melted Solids team, comms director Andrew Epstein and videographer Donald Borenstein, who handled the Urdu video. Borenstein took the lead as video producer and was responsible for the daily feeds of short, vertical video content. Like [Anthony] Dimieri, he graduated from New York’s Fordham University.
Caribbean Matters: Afro-Latinos and Hispanic American Heritage Month
Daily Kos 09-20-2025
Professor Tanya Hernández is an internationally recognized comparative race law expert at Fordham Law School. She focuses her scholarship on the study of comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law. Professor Hernández excavates the otherwise silenced voices of the Afro-Latino and African American victims of Latino anti-Blackness.
Trump to address United Nations as voice of a shifting world order
The Christian Science Monitor 09-21-2025
“What’s happening here is a turning away from the traditional underwriting of the U.N. by the U.S. towards a more U.S.-centric approach that devalues the idea that the U.S. has also been an outsize beneficiary of the international system,” says Anjali Dayal, assistant professor of international politics at Fordham University in New York.
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Mariska Hargitay & Kelli Giddish Shared a Tender Moment Filming SVU Season 27 (PICS)
NBC 09-19-2025
Back in Season 24, Giddish’s SVU character Rollins left the squad for a new professor job at Fordham shortly after marrying and Sonny Carisi (Peter Scanavino). By Season 25, Rollins and Carisi welcomed their first baby together, Dominick Carisi III, and it’s later revealed that Rollins quit her teaching job.
For This Golf Coach, His Career at Georgetown is a Hole in One
Georgetown University 09-18-2025
[Tommy] Hunter was a three-sport athlete at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC, grinding it out on the football field, basketball court and baseball diamond. His batting skills punched his ticket to Fordham University, where he got his first taste of a career in athletics administration. Hunter ran Fordham’s intramural sports program as a part-time job. He found he liked it.
My daughter is studying abroad in Italy this semester. I didn’t expect to be this panicked about the distance.
Business Insider 09-21-2025
One of the reasons I thought I could handle her studying abroad is because I’m already used to her being away at Fordham University in New York City, about a four-hour car ride from home.
She usually only comes back for holidays like Thanksgiving or school breaks, so I assumed I’d be fine with the distance.
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22 Decorated Dorm Rooms That’ll Blow Your Mind
Society19 09-18-2025
#22 Fordham University – The white shines brilliantly off of the wooden drawers and desk. With very little on the walls, it draws the focus towards the desk and the bed, which gives it a very clean look.
The Supreme Court Greenlit the President’s Political Prosecutions—Even Unlawful Ones
Mother Jones 09-18-2025
Congress still has some leverage to protect the DOJ, should they choose to use it, says Bruce Green of Fordham School of Law, from drastic measures like refusing to confirm appointments or withholding the DOJ’s budget to more traditional oversight.
George Nunez wants to change the narrative about The Bronx through tech
New York Amsterdam News 09-18-2025
Some of the high schools they are working with include Eagle Academy, Bronx Academy for Software Engineering, Comp Sci High, and Horace Mann School, as well as colleges Lehman College, Hostos Community College, Fordham University, Bronx Community College, and Manhattan College, among others. They also connect with seniors through the YMCA.
From Fleet to Courtroom: 2nd Lt. Hardwick’s Journey from Enlisted Marine to Judge Advocate
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service 09-17-2025
Hardwick is currently attending Fordham University in New York, working towards his goal of serving in the Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate.
Pros On The Loose: Eric Gottlieb
Radio and Music Pros 09-16-2025
Last week we reported on the budget cuts inside Fordham University’s WFUV/New York, triggered by July’s rescission of support for The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, costing WFUV some $500,000 in annual support, or 7% of its budget. In response, WFUV was forced to reduce expenses by eliminating five positions (12% of its staff), in the areas of programming, digital and corporate underwriting.
NYC security guards making a fraction of a livable wage, study finds
amNY 09-16-2025
“We rely on security officers to keep our city safe, but when so many of them are struggling to pay bills, it makes it harder for them to do their job,” said Burt Scipio, a security officer at Fordham University for more than 16 years who said that provides a stable, well-paying job.
5 Things Not to Say to Someone With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) — and What to Say Instead
Everyday Health 09-16-2025
The most common misconception about OCD is that people diagnosed with it are “neat freaks” or extremely tidy people, says Dean McKay, PhD, a psychology professor at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, where he studies OCD at his Compulsive, Obsessive, and Anxiety Program (COAP) research lab. While some with OCD primarily experience concerns with symmetry and orderliness, that’s by no means typical, he says.
US DOJ Signals Scrutiny of Antitrust Risks in AI Sector
PYMNTS 09-21-2025
Speaking at a conference at Fordham University in New York on Thursday, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater said that protecting open markets in AI is a key part of the Trump administration’s strategy to strengthen U.S. dominance in the technology. She noted that the Justice Department is examining the competitive dynamics across the different layers of the AI ecosystem and will be alert to exclusionary conduct that blocks access to critical resources.
