Check out why Fordham University received a D+ grade in our Report Card below. 
Fordham University is a private university in Bronx, New York with an undergraduate enrollment size of 9,904. It is the only Jesuit college in New York City and is the third-oldest university in the state. Students at the university are within minutes of the Bronx Zoo, Yankee Stadium, and Times Square. Fordham University&#8217;s official mascot is Ramses the Ram and members of the Fordham University community are referred to as &#8220;Rams.&#8221;
Although widely known for its liberal arts and law programs, Fordham University offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate, and pre-professional programs. Notable former students include actor Denzel Washington, singer and artist Lana Del Ray, and college football legend Vince Lombardi.

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C&#8221; grade by <a href="https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/schools/3008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Will They Learn?</a> which takes into account the university&#8217;s educational prowess. Factors include composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, mathematics, and natural science.
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What Will They Learn? Academic Score

Fordham University receives a &#8220;B+&#8221; grade for the Average Salary of Recent Graduates. As of 2021, alumni with 0-5 years of experience after graduating from Fordham University with a bachelor&#8217;s degree make $63,700 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale</a>.
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Average Salary of Recent Graduates

Fordham University receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for the Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career. As of 2021, alumni with 10+ years of experience after graduating Fordham University with a bachelor&#8217;s degree make $124,800 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale</a>.
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Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C-&#8221; grade for the Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private). In 2020, 57% of graduates accumulated student debt from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access and Success</a>.
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Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private)

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C-&#8221; grade for the Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private). In 2020, graduates accumulated $37,283 of debt on average from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a>.
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Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private)

Fordham University receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff.
The only mandatory <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/human-resources/professional-development/current-and-upcoming-classes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training</a> for all employees is the Sexual Harassment Prevention Workshop (as required by law). There is also a Diversity and Inclusion Workshop that is strongly encouraged for all employees. The description says (in part), &#8220;Completing this training is a step towards adopting inclusive workplace practices, learning about Fordham&#8217;s diversity and inclusion expectations, and maintaining a respectful and inclusive workplace.&#8221;
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Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff

Fordham University receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for not having a Bias Reporting System or a Bias Response Team. Bias Reporting Systems and Response Teams are systems or teams of faculty, staff, and sometimes law enforcement.
According to <a href="https://speechfirst.org/bias-reporting-systems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeechFirst</a>, students are “encouraged to report ‘bias incidents’ to these boards (or teams) in the name of inclusion and tolerance, but it’s often unclear what the school considers ‘bias’ in the first place. Overly broad or vague definitions of bias put all kinds of speech at risk of being reported – even unpopular speech which is protected by the First Amendment.”
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Bias Reporting System or Bias Response Team

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C+&#8221; grade for the Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs. Out of a list of 20 clubs (10 from each side), the <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/student-life/student-organizations/rose-hill-student-organizations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university</a> has one right-leaning club compared to two left-leaning clubs. Respect for Life is the one right-leaning club. Advocates for Palestinian Perspective and PRIDE Alliance are the two left-leaning clubs.
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Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C&#8221; grade due to having no active Turning Point USA chapter. The university has not denied a Turning Point USA chapter on campus.
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Denied Turning Point USA Chapter

Fordham University receives an &#8220;A-&#8221; grade for the Amount of Foreign Funding Received. According to <a href="https://sites.ed.gov/foreigngifts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Foreign Gift Reporting</a>, the total amount of foreign funding the university has received is $109.65 per current undergraduate student. Oftentimes, foreign parties will convey their influence by funding certain courses, activities, professors, and organizations on campus. In certain cases, universities must abide by restrictions dictated by foreign parties to receive funding. In addition, there have been <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-universities-took-billions-in-unreported-foreign-funds-u-s-finds-11603226953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that claim that universities underreport foreign funding. The figure above only takes into account reported foreign funding.
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Amount of Foreign Funding Received

Fordham University receives an &#8220;F&#8221; grade for Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students. The university requires students to take one course in its &#8220;American Pluralism&#8221; category.
According to their <a href="https://bulletin.fordham.edu/undergraduate/fordham-college-core-curriculum/distributive-requirements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, &#8220;American Pluralism courses will afford students the opportunity to develop tolerance, sensitivities, and knowledge of the following forms of American diversity: race, ethnicity, class, religion, and gender. American Pluralism courses may be drawn from core, major, or elective offerings. They will be applicable both to the American pluralism requirement and to other core or major requirements that a student must complete in the course of his or her college career.&#8221;
Examples of courses in this category include, but are not limited to:
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Black Prison Experience&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Black Feminism: Theory and Expression&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;&#8216;We Can&#8217;t Breathe&#8230;&#8217; the History of Black Protest&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Expressive Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and the Arts&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Race, Sex, and Science&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Race, Gender, and Digital Media&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Queer Theories&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Queer Iconoclasts: Sexuality, Religion, Race&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Queer Latinx Literature&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Gender and Sexuality Studies.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students

Fordham University receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes. The university has multiple &#8220;<a href="https://www.fordham.edu/student-life/multicultural-affairs/programs-and-events/diversity-graduation-celebrations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity Graduation Celebrations,</a>&#8221; including:
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Latine Graduation Celebration&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Lavender Graduation Celebration&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;AAPI Graduation Celebration&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Black Graduation Celebration&#8221;</li>
</ul>
The university has no segregated classes or dormitories.
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Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes

Fordham University receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Protests and Canceling Speakers. In 2021, Fordham University <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/fordham-u-cans-professor-for-allegedly-mixing-up-the-names-of-two-black-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired a professor</a> for mixing up the names of two black students. Students felt &#8220;disheartened and disrespected&#8221; and indicated the mix-up was due to their race.
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Protests and Canceling Speakers

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C&#8221; grade for Mask and Vaccine Mandates. According to the <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/resources/coronavirus-updates/fordham-forward/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university&#8217;s</a> &#8220;Coronavirus Updates&#8221; page, vaccines and masks are recommended, but not required. &#8220;Vaccinations and boosters will continue to be strongly recommended because they remain very effective in protecting each of us individually from serious illness and death.&#8221;
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Mask and Vaccine Mandates

Fordham University receives a &#8220;D&#8221; grade for the Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees. According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Center (<a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPEDS</a>), as of 2020, 3.50% of the current undergraduate student population graduate with a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics degree. Across the United States, students who graduate with STEM degrees tend to earn more on average than their other student counterparts.
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Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C+&#8221; grade for Crime Rates in University City or Town. According to the <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, the Bronx, New York violent crime rate was 541.03 per 100,000 people in 2018, higher than the 2018 national average of 380.56 per 100,000 people. While campus safety is of utmost importance, it is also pertinent to consider the crime rates of the surrounding town or city as students often tend to venture off campus, especially after their freshman year.
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Crime Rates in University City or Town

Fordham University receives a &#8220;C&#8221; grade for Required Western Civilization Courses for Students. The <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/undergraduate-admission/apply/how-to-apply/transfer-students/core-curriculum-checklist/">university</a> offers courses related to Western Civilization that can be taken to fulfill general education requirements. However, these courses can be bypassed in favor of courses unrelated to Western Civilization. Students have the option to take the following courses in the university&#8217;s required History and Theology categories:
<ul>
<li>&#8220;American History&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Ancient Greece&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Ancient Rome&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Intro to Old Testament&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Medieval Theology Texts&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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Required Western Civilization Courses for Students

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Check out why Fordham University received a D+ grade in our Report Card below. 

Fordham University is a private university in Bronx, New York with an undergraduate enrollment size of 9,904. It is the only Jesuit college in New York City and is the third-oldest university in the state. Students at the university are within minutes of the Bronx Zoo, Yankee Stadium, and Times Square. Fordham University's official mascot is Ramses the Ram and members of the Fordham University community are referred to as "Rams."

Although widely known for its liberal arts and law programs, Fordham University offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate, and pre-professional programs. Notable former students include actor Denzel Washington, singer and artist Lana Del Ray, and college football legend Vince Lombardi.

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Tanya K. Hernandez is the <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/info/23144/tanya_hernandez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University.</a> She’s also the Director and Head of Global and Comparative Law Programs and Initiatives. Her teaching and research interests include discrimination in Latin American law, critical race theory, and social justice.
Hernandez’s career encompasses rhetoric and offering a defense of a Hispanic spectrum of “whiteness” in the Latino community. She has made numerous literary contributions including a chapter called Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? in “Anti-Blackness” and The limits of U.S. racial equality with a Latin American constitutional ‘right to work’ in “Constitutionalism in the Americas.” 
She also wrote a book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Racial_Innocence/jJ5QEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Racial+Innocence:+Unmasking+Latino+Anti-Black+Bias+and+the+Struggle+for+Equality&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.</a>” In Chapter 3: Working in the USA, Hernandez says,
“Popular culture often depicts ‘diverse’ workplace settings as racial utopias where people of all races and ethnicities happily coexist…In contrast, legal narratives of what individuals experience and perceive when racial conflict occurs provide a picture grounded in the complexity and messiness of actual diverse contexts.”
She continued,
“What the stories reveal with regard to Latinos, is that anti-Blackness is an ongoing phenomenon that adversely affects Afro-Latinos, African Americans, and Africans alike, even against a richly diverse landscape where interracial cooperation exists simultaneously with racial conflict.”
Hernandez was featured in an article by The New America titled “<a href="https://thenewamerican.com/how-to-explain-latino-racism-professor-says-theyve-achieved-whiteness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Explain Latino Racism? Professor Says They’ve ‘Achieved Whiteness’!</a>” In response to the question of whether “making racist comments made Latino white or just a racist racial minority?”, Hernandez said, 
“Some people within the Latino community do achieve whiteness, one because they are white appearing, they favor more our European ancestors, and depending on their accent, their educational level, whether they actually have a recognizable Hispanic surname, that all those things that enable a person to…seamlessly [be] able to pass into whiteness…”
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In a segment on the Democratic L.A. city council racism scandal, Tiffany Cross and Prof. Tanya Hernandez rant about Latinos who are trying to be&#8211;or in Hernandez&#8217;s view, are&#8211; white. <a href="https://t.co/wkUYxRs0Lu">pic.twitter.com/wkUYxRs0Lu</a>
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexchristy17/status/1581314310252670976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Tanya K. Hernandez is the <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/info/23144/tanya_hernandez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University.</a> She’s also the Director and Head of Global and Comparative Law Programs and Initiatives. Her teaching and research interests include discrimination in Latin American law, critical race theory, and social justice.

Hernandez’s career encompasses rhetoric and offering a defense of a Hispanic spectrum of “whiteness” in the Latino community. She has made numerous literary contributions including a chapter called Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other? in “Anti-Blackness” and The limits of U.S. racial equality with a Latin American constitutional ‘right to work’ in “Constitutionalism in the Americas.” 

She also wrote a book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Racial_Innocence/jJ5QEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Racial+Innocence:+Unmasking+Latino+Anti-Black+Bias+and+the+Struggle+for+Equality&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality.</a>” In Chapter 3: Working in the USA, Hernandez says,

“Popular culture often depicts ‘diverse’ workplace settings as racial utopias where people of all races and ethnicities happily coexist…In contrast, legal narratives of what individuals experience and perceive when racial conflict occurs provide a picture grounded in the complexity and messiness of actual diverse contexts.”

She continued,

“What the stories reveal with regard to Latinos, is that anti-Blackness is an ongoing phenomenon that adversely affects Afro-Latinos, African Americans, and Africans alike, even against a richly diverse landscape where interracial cooperation exists simultaneously with racial conflict.”

Hernandez was featured in an article by The New America titled “<a href="https://thenewamerican.com/how-to-explain-latino-racism-professor-says-theyve-achieved-whiteness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Explain Latino Racism? Professor Says They’ve ‘Achieved Whiteness’!</a>” In response to the question of whether “making racist comments made Latino white or just a racist racial minority?”, Hernandez said, 

“Some people within the Latino community do achieve whiteness, one because they are white appearing, they favor more our European ancestors, and depending on their accent, their educational level, whether they actually have a recognizable Hispanic surname, that all those things that enable a person to…seamlessly [be] able to pass into whiteness…”
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In a segment on the Democratic L.A. city council racism scandal, Tiffany Cross and Prof. Tanya Hernandez rant about Latinos who are trying to be--or in Hernandez's view, are-- white. <a href="https://t.co/wkUYxRs0Lu">pic.twitter.com/wkUYxRs0Lu</a>
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexchristy17/status/1581314310252670976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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