ISBN10: 082327151X, ISBN13: 9780823271511, [publisher: Fordham University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the context of the massive expansion of Catholic higher education that tookplace in the United States in the twentieth century. This was reflected at Fordham in its transformation from a local commuter college to a predominantly residential institution that now attracts students from 48 states and 65 foreign countries to its three undergraduate schools and seven graduate and professional schools with an enrollment of more than 15,000 students.This is honest history that gives due credit to Fordham for its many academic achievements, but it also recognizes that Fordham shared the shortcomings of many Catholic colleges in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There was an ongoing struggle between Jesuit faculty who wished to adhere closely to the traditional Jesuit ratio studiorum and those who recognized the need for Fordham to modernize its curriculum to meet the demands of the regional accrediting agencies.In recent decades, like virtually all American Catholic universities and colleges, the ownership of Fordham has been transferred from the Society of Jesus to a predominantly lay board of ...

Fordham University Press 2016 Hard cover New A history of Fordham University that traces the evolution of the institution from St. John' College, a small diocesan college founded by Bishop John Hughes in 1841, to one of the major Jesuit and Catholic universities in the United States. Num Pages: 536 pages, 50 black & white illustrations, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; JNKS; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1338. 2016. Illustrated. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.