Funding Initiative: Campus Center Renewal

It was a new ambience for the Joseph M. McShane, S.J. Campus Center: eerie music, wolf howls, ghoulish costumes, giant cobwebs, a hallway-size haunted house, laughter mixed with the occasional frightful yelp. The one flaw in the spookiness? All that natural light flooding in through the huge windows. “The sun is always shining in, it’s …

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The McShane Campus Center is a hub for student life. We talked with 10 students and alumni about what the campus center means to them and how they spend their time in the newly renovated spaces. The first two phases of the campus center renovation are complete. The third phase, which will focus on the …

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Fordham has officially unveiled the newest expansion of the Joseph M. McShane, S.J. campus center: an airy, sun-filled arcade with a sparkling glass entrance. Opened to the community on August 1, the arcade brings together the new campus center–opened in 2022–with the Rose Hill Gym and athletics facilities. Upon entering the arcade under a new …

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On April 27, Fordham honored outgoing president Joseph M. McShane, S.J., with a ceremonial naming of the Rose Hill campus’ newly renovated campus center. The outdoor dedication ceremony, held in front of the gleaming four-story addition that opened in February, drew hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and friends to the official ribbon cutting of the …

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Fordham will name its new campus center in honor of Joseph M. McShane, S.J., who will step down in June after 19 years as University president. The dedication will take place at the Rose Hill campus, just outside of the new center, on Wednesday, April 27. David Ushery of NBC 4 New York will emcee …

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Since Fordham University’s new campus center partially opened to students at the start of February, it has begun to serve as the kind of warm, welcoming home for students that it was meant to be—even as construction continues on the multiyear project. On a recent day in early March, construction crews were kicking off the …

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At 85 acres, Fordham’s Rose Hill campus is blessed with space. But when the 71,000-square-foot, four-story addition to the McGinley Center officially opens today, Feb. 1, it will introduce to the Fordham community a radically different sort of space, filled with places to relax, recharge, and connect. Get Your Sweat On One of the highlights …

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Just after the candlelit Gaudete Mass on Dec. 12, Fordham students lit up the Rose Hill campus with caroling, fellowship, and a sneak peek at the University’s new campus center. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham, led students in a blessing of the new space—a four-story modern addition to the McGinley Center. Set to …

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At nine feet tall and five feet wide, the stone cross that will be installed atop the new campus center at Rose Hill will be hard to miss. Less obvious than its expression of Fordham’s Catholic identity, however, is the fact that for one stone carver, it is the ultimate expression of his artistic passions. …

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  More space. Calming, relaxing, and inspiring space. Space for meeting friends and colleagues. Any way you look at it, the new campus center under construction at the Rose Hill campus will be a radically different space when it is completed in 2025. That’s one of the key takeaways of architectural renderings of the center …

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Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s—two of the big-three global credit-rating agencies—have affirmed their positive ratings of Fordham with respect to the bonds the University will issue to renovate and expand the campus center at Rose Hill. The roughly $150 million in revenue bonds for the campus center project will be issued by the Dormitory Authority …

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