CLIPS OF THE WEEK

Top Colleges for High-Paying Jobs in Accounting
The Wall Street Journal 05-16-2023
Rankings are determined by a Burning Glass Institute analysis of experience and pay data from Lightcast, a labor-market data firm, and Glassdoor, a company-ratings website. Fordham University was ranked No. 15 among private colleges and universities.

Stevie Wonder to Receive Honorary Degree at Fordham’s 178th Commencement
CBS 2 05-16-2023
“It’s Fordham’s 178th commencement this Saturday. He will be speaking to the graduates at Rose Hill, the most beautiful campus in the world,” said anchor Dick Brennan, a Fordham alumnus.

TANYA KATERÍ HERNÁNDEZ
Latinos Can Be White Supremacists
The Atlantic 05-17-2023
So, you know, we can be Latino by ethnicity, but Latinos are also white, Black, Indigenous, Asian,” Tanya Katerí Hernández, a professor at Fordham Law and the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, told me. 

TRUSTEES

VALERIE IRICK RAINFORD
It’s Time To Retire The Practice Of Forced Distribution Curves
Forbes 05-16-2023
“If companies want to engage in more equitable practices regarding mobility, as well as increase diverse representation in leadership, they need to consider abandoning forced distribution curves,” wrote Valerie Irick Rainford, founder & CEO of Elloree Talent Strategies, and Fordham University trustee.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Magnitude 2.2 Earthquake Detected North of Yonkers
News 12 05-19-2023
“We have a seismograph about eight miles away right here at Fordham University. Eight miles to the north were able to detect vibrations on the seismograph. This is coming in from a consortium called IRIS. It’s a consortium of seismology institutions across the United States to kind of gather earthquake and earth motions,” said meteorologist Mike Rizzo. “Really cool stuff coming in to our weather center about this.”

Small Earthquake in Westchester Recorded
NY 1 05-19-2023
A small earthquake hit Westchester County. Watch as we zoom into that moment at 1:53 a.m. when the 2.2 magnitude quake was recorded at Hastings on Hudson. That’s the seismic reading from a sensor up at Fordham University.

Stevie Wonder to Receive Honorary Degree at Fordham’s 178th Commencement
CBS 2 05-16-2023
“It’s Fordham’s 178th commencement this Saturday. He will be speaking to the graduates at Rose Hill, the most beautiful campus in the world,” said anchor Dick Brennan, a Fordham alumnus.

Music Legend Stevie Wonder to Get Honorary Degree at Fordham
NBC 4 05-16-2023
“Stevie Wonder will get that honorary degree during this Saturday’s graduation. He’s also expected to speak to the graduates during the ceremony,” said Rana Novini. “Fordham’s president called Wonder ‘a shining example of an artist’s ability to stir the soul.’”

Stevie Wonder to Recieve Honorary Doctorate from Fordham University
ABC 7 05-16-2023
“Music legend Stevie Wonder will receive a special honor in the Bronx this week at Fordham University’s commencement on Saturday,” said Eyewitness News at Noon anchor David Novarro.

Stevie Wonder is Getting Honorary Degree Saturday at Fordham University – Audio Unavailable
KOGO San Diego 05-17-2023
Stevie Wonder is getting an honorary degree this Saturday from Fordham University in the Bronx. Stevie Wonder, the child prodigy who turned out 32 No. 1 singles, is being honored at Fordham’s 178th commencement ceremony.

Stevie Wonder to receive honorary doctorate from Fordham University
New York Amsterdam News 05-16-2023
Music legend Stevie Wonder is receiving an honorary doctorate of humane letters at Fordham University’s 178th Commencement on May 20 on the Rose Hill campus.

Stevie Wonder to receive honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Fordham University commencement
New York Folk 05-17-2023
Graduation day is always special for students and their families, but Fordham University has someone extra special who will be in the Bronx for the big day this year. Stevie Wonder will be honored during Fordham University’s 178th commencement this Saturday at Rose Hill.

Living Legend Stevie Wonder Getting Honorary Degree at Fordham – Audio Unavailable
Black Information Network 05-18-2023
Stevie Wonder, the living legend, is getting an honorary degree from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. A child prodigy who turned out 32 No. 1 singles is being honored at Fordham’s 178th commencement ceremony Saturday.

Stevie Wonder to Receive Honorary Degree from Fordham – Audio Unavailable
1010 WINS 05-16-2023
Wonder, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Fordham University in the Bronx during the school’s 178th commencement this coming Saturday at Rose Hill. The university’s president says Wonder’s music has entertained and inspired so many for more than six decades.

Fordham to Present Stevie Wonder with Honorary Doctorate Saturday – Audio Unavailable
WCBS Radio 05-16-2023
Graduation day at Fordham is going to be epic this year. Stevie Wonder will be honored during the university’s 178th commencement on Saturday at Rose Hill. They are presenting him with an honorary doctorate of humane letters.

Honorary Fordham Degree Will Give Wonder ‘Street Cred’
KFI-AM Los Angeles 05-17-2023
Stevie Wonder’s getting an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from FordhamUniversity in the Bronx. He only has 25 Grammys, so this should finally give him some street cred.

UNHP Celebrates 40 Years as New Report Ranks Bronxites among Worst Affected by Housing Crisis  
Norwood News 05-18-2023
The University Neighborhood Housing Program (UNHP) was created in 1983 by Fordham University to help Bronxites take ownership of community-based redevelopment efforts. On Thursday, April 27, the organization celebrated 40 years with an event entitled “40 & Still Fighting Fiesta” held at Serviam Hall in Bedford Park.

Eight of the Bronx’s 12 community districts have highest threats to affordable housing citywide: report
Bronx Times 05-16-2023
At a Fordham University-hosted affordable housing forum on Monday, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres floated his solutions to address housing supply and subsidies, with a bill to expand the housing choice voucher program for certain low-income families and guarantee residents pay no more than 30% of their income to rent.

Stevie Wonder To Receive Honorary Degree At Fordham University
The Bronx Daily 05-16-2-23
“It is an honor and a thrill to welcome Stevie Wonder to Fordham,” said Fordham President Tania Tetlow. “His music has charmed us, consoled us, elevated us, and entertained us for more than six decades. He is a shining example of an artist’s ability to stir the soul.”

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

LAURA GUY
High schools and colleges require students to pay mandatory fees to walk at graduation. Critics say this discriminates against low-income students.
Business Insider 05-16-2023
Laura Guy, a clinical social worker and program coordinator at the clinical-mental-health program at Fordham University, said missing these right-of-passage events could profoundly affect students.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Top Colleges for High-Paying Jobs in Accounting
The Wall Street Journal 05-16-2023
Rankings are determined by a Burning Glass Institute analysis of experience and pay data from Lightcast, a labor-market data firm, and Glassdoor, a company-ratings website. Fordham University was ranked No. 15 among private colleges and universities.

FORDHAM REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE

U.S. Rep. Torres Gets Personal in Fordham REI Discussion With Bess Freedman on NY’s Affordable Housing Crisis
The Arizona Republic 05-15-2023
The Fordham Real Estate Institute (REI) hosted U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y. at its Lincoln Center campus last week for a conversation about affordable housing in New York City, led by Bess Freedman, CEO of real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens and member of REI’s Executive Advisory Council (EAC) of industry and business leaders.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

CHERYL BADER
Allegations in Giuliani lawsuit could lead to criminal investigations, experts say
Yahoo! News 05-18-2023
“Sexual assault requires forcible compulsion,” Cheryl Bader, who teaches criminal law at Fordham University School of Law, told Yahoo News in an email. “Manipulation and emotional coercion are not enough, but the complaint alleges an encounter that involved holding onto her hair to force oral sex—which could constitute forcible compulsion.”

TANYA KATERÍ HERNÁNDEZ
Latinos Can Be White Supremacists
The Atlantic 05-17-2023
So, you know, we can be Latino by ethnicity, but Latinos are also white, Black, Indigenous, Asian,” Tanya Katerí Hernández, a professor at Fordham Law and the author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, told me.

TANYA KATERÍ HERNÁNDEZ
Podcast:The Roots of Latino White Supremacy
Slate 05-17-2023
“What that completely overlooks is that we have white people in Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean, meaning that Latino Hispanic is an ethnicity. It is not a race,” said guest Tanya Katerí Hernández, professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, “So the complexity and the diversity, the racial diversity within Latino populations is something that we don’t pay very much attention to, even during Hispanic Heritage Month.”

BENNETT CAPERS
Opinion: Neely’s death and reasonableness: Like in the Bernhard Goetz case, how the word is interpreted will determine if the subway killing by Daniel Penny is lawful or not
Daily News 05-13-2023
“No matter what happens in this case, the larger issue of how we treat the most vulnerable members of society — those who suffer from mental disabilities — that’s on us,” wrote I. Bennett Capers, professor and director of the Center on Race, Law and Justice, at Fordham Law School, and Cynthia Godsoe, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Clarence Thomas, Harlan Crow And The Original Meaning Of Corruption
HuffPost 05-13-2023
Officials who take the path of corruption are “tempted by narcissism, ambition, or luxury, to place private gain before public good in their public actions,” Fordham School of Law professor Zephyr Teachout wrote in “The Anti-Corruption Principle.”

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

MAGDA TETER
Author finds common root for antisemitism and racism is ‘Christian supremacy’
Jewish Telegraphic Agency 05-14-2023
Magda Teter’s new book, “Christian Supremacy,” begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11, 2017. Hundreds of white nationalist neo-Nazis who ostensibly gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a local park broke into a chant: “Jews will not replace us.”

STUDENTS

CHRISTIAN RIPKE
Opinion: Invest in the future of foster children
Stamford Advocate 05-18-2023
“I hope to be a voice for foster youth who may feel small, ignored or neglected by DCF or the adults in their lives. I am taking the first steps in achieving my dream as a Fordham University sophomore majoring in social work,” wrote Christian Ripke.

ALUMNI

JOHN GRONDELSKI
We Lose So Much When We Lose Church Bells
National Catholic Register 05-17-2023
“If you hear the word “tintinnabulation,” you are almost certainly going to think of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Bells,” perhaps only because you are unlikely to remember anyplace else you’ve heard that word. I once heard that Poe was inspired to write that poem by the bells of Fordham University Church, my Bronx alma mater, though I don’t vouch for the veracity of that claim,” wrote John Grondelski.

LIZ LEWIN
Detroit News Anchor Reflects on Her Fordham Commencement and Speaker
Fox 2 Detroit 05-14-2023
“I went to Fordham in New York City, and Stephen Colbert was mine. That was 2009 when the entire world crashed,” said Liz Lewin. “All the parents, it was hilarious, you could see the parents in the crowd like, ‘Oh, my god. They’re all moving home with us!”

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Jane Martinez is director of media relations and deputy University spokesperson at Fordham. She can be reached at [email protected] or (347) 992-1815.