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50 @FordhamNYC students traveled to Albany on behalf of their colleagues. They had the opportunity to share stories with & learn from @NYSenate leaders inc. Leader @AndreaSCousins, Dep Leader (and alum!) is@SenGianaris, Higher Ed Chair @tobystavisky, & Bronx’s own @jamaaltbailey!
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It’s a great day to be a Ram. 🏀 #atlantic10
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Honored to sing the national anthem at Yankee Stadium, one of the most iconic stadiums in the Bronx and the world. #RepBX
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Celebrating @KeithUrgo’s five-year contract extension with lunch on Arthur Avenue. So excited for what’s to come.
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Throwing out the first pitch @Mets!
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A recent selfie with @JamesMartinSJ. I look forward to seeing Father Martin, along with LGBTQ lay people, clergy, scholars, artists, educators, students, and allies, at tomorrow's Outreach LGBTQ Catholic Ministry Conference.
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It was an honor to sing an Ave Maria today at the University Church to celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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Heartbreaking loss but they never gave up. So proud of @FordhamMBB, the coaches, and the greatest fans in college basketball.
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Throwing heat last night @CitiField. I think the @Mets were scouting me. Grateful for the company and support of @FordhamSoftball players—you women rock! @FordhamNYC
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One of the best restaurants on Arthur Avenue. What's your favorite spot?
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Yesterday we honored the life and legacy of Vin Scully, FCRH ’49, at a memorial Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It was a beautiful tribute to Vin—a master storyteller, man of faith, and beloved member of the Fordham family. Thanks to all who joined us, especially Vin’s family.
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Back at Yankee Stadium for Fordham night! 1,400 of us here.
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I promise you this is not posed: Archie found the flag in the closet and came trotting out with it. ⁦@FordhamNYC#DogsOfTwitter
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The hall of my predecessors. It's an honor to be among them.
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Meet Fordham’s first dog, Archie Tetlow. My family and I fell in love with him when he first arrived at our home as a puppy. We hope you love him, too. Follow @archietetlow on Instagram for more quality content. 🐾 #dogmom
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With my inauguration peeps! Fordham students have so much heart. @FordhamNYC
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The benefits of flying back to NY with your @FordhamNYC hat on. Your students come and find you.
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Today was my in-person introduction to WFUV (90.7 FM), Fordham’s noncommercial, member-supported public media service. Here I am with @wfuvsports Director Bobby Ciafardini (L) and @wfuv general manager Chuck Singleton.
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A @LoyolaMarymount chapel with windows for each of the @jesuitcolleges. This window is @FordhamNYC’s. 🙌 #represent
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Special shoutout to my husband and best friend, Gordon, who has been so supportive during this new chapter of our lives. And of course, thank you for welcoming us to the Ramily, @FordhamNYC.
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Such a smooth swerve. 🏀 Amazing game, @FordhamMBB.
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Gravity doesn’t apply to @FordhamMBB. 🚀 Congrats on an incredible win against @GWtweets.
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Happy holidays from my team to yours. Wishing you all a wonderful winter break. ✨
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Visited Murray-Weigel Hall, a home for retired Jesuits. Their collective IQ and sense of humor was palpable. (Fun fact: Within their home is the chapel where my parents first met.) A few of them recall meeting me when I was a toddler. I’m grateful for our reunion, decades later.
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Last night was Fordham Night at Yankee Stadium. Here I am with Trustee Kim Bepler, Ed Kull, Fordham’s athletic director, and Keith Urgo, men’s basketball coach. @FordhamNYC
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My favorite @FordhamNYC graduate. 🐾
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.@FordhamWBB won the first round of @WomensNIT! 👏👏👏 #TougherTogether
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.@FordhamMBB is on fire. 🔥
The Rams erase a halftime deficit for the NINTH (!) time this season to improve to 19-5 overall, the team's highest single-season win total since 1990-91.
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What a beautiful and joyous day to start this new chapter at Fordham. Families and friends, thank you for entrusting us with your students. Know that we will treat them as our own. And #Fordham2027: Welcome home.
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You can always tell the temperature from the size of crowds at Eddie’s Parade.
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Happy first day of #spring, Rams. 🌸 The pollen might wreck our sinuses, but the blossoming trees and flowers are beautiful beyond measure. I can’t wait to see our campuses in full bloom—and Eddie’s filled with students, of course.
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This Father's Day, celebrating my husband and missing my own father. This is us at his Fordham graduation in 1974.
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A pilgrimage to see my Uncle Joe for the weekend at his retreat house in Lake Dallas. Getting a big dose of wisdom and love.
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With the terrific Eli Manning @Giants game. Everywhere I go, I run into my fellow New Orleanians. @FordhamNYC
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My dog, Archie, wants to know if you’ll be his Valentine.
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A recent meeting with the remarkable John Feerick, Dean Emeritus of @FordhamLawNYC and a triple Ram. A governor once described him as “the one individual who is pre-eminent among all New Yorkers in standing for the principles of integrity in government.”
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Move-In Day at the Rose Hill campus. This is one of the most emotional days in the University calendar—right behind Commencement. Students are full of nervous excitement; parents are full of pride, and not a little sad to be sending their students off to college. @FordhamNYC
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This Southern girl is enjoying the New York snow. (For the 10 minutes it was snowing, at least.)
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I'm not sure what's happening in this picture, but we are having a GREAT time! fordham.edu/.../events-and..…
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Last weekend, for the second year in a row, @FordhamNYC hosted the Outreach Conference on Catholic Ministry and the LGBTQ community. With welcome letters from @Pontifex and @CardinalDolan, the conference created (as the pope described in his handwritten note) …
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Yesterday at our Rose Hill campus with some amazing Fordham students—it's going to be a great year! @FordhamNYC
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Feeling a little shorter next to members of our @FordhamMBB team.
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Got to meet so many students at #Homecoming.
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At the Back to School Festival today at Fordham Plaza. Note that this is not an NCAA-sanctioned event. @FordhamNYC
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What an incredible moment. Well done, @FordhamWBB, and thanks to @GMA for the feature.
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.@FordhamNYC is nationally recognized for its campus trees, including one of the oldest American elms in New York City, but sadly, we don’t have any palm trees. These were a welcome sight at @LoyolaMarymount, our fellow Jesuit university in Los Angeles.
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“This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” — Psalm 118:24
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Met some of our nation’s most significant leaders, many of whom either graduated from @FordhamNYC or represent our districts. Ended the day with the Congressional Independent Colleges Caucus reception. What an incredible way to cap off this trip to our nation’s capital.
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.@NYBG President Jennifer Bernstein and I recently met and discussed ways to expand our partnership. The garden and @FordhamNYC have been neighbors for more than a century, and we’re looking forward to continue growing together. 🌱
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On behalf of all of us who celebrate Mardi Gras, over the last few days, we lit the McShane Center purple, green, and gold. This is a time for us to come together, to celebrate all that we have and all that we are. #HappyMardiGras
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On a visit to Fordham London, here at Westminster Abbey with Fordham crew (L-R) Ainsley Woakes, Michael Griffin, Roger Milici, and Taylor Ha. @FordhamNYC
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Baseball Practice with the team. Practicing for my first pitch! Thank the Lord I’m not terrible!
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Archie has special dogspensation to be on campus tonight to cheer for @FordhamRams on #GameDay (and because it's Mom's birthday). @FordhamNYC
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Having butterflies at the beginning of the Missioning Mass | University Church, Rose Hill
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.@FordhamDance getting some help from Lucy.
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Celebrating my one-year anniversary at Fordham today. In a year full of joy, challenges, and growth, the greatest gift has been meeting all of you. I'm "nex-cited" (nervous and excited, as my daughter describes it) to start year two. See you in August!
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For the first time in more than five decades, @FordhamMBB is off to a 10-1 start after last night’s win against @binghamtonu. Proud Ram mama over here. 🐏❤️
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Cheering on Fr. McShane as he receives the highest honor of @CatholicHighrEd. He made the enormous crowd laugh and cry and remember why we work so hard.
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Kicking off Commencement with Mario Gabelli and our new mascot, Skwib. He enjoys chin rubs.
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The happiest elevator full of LC students yet!
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A painting by our talented provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, Dennis Jacobs. Very excited to hang this up in my office!
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My grandmother’s St. Francis statue found a permanent home at @MontserratJRH, a Jesuit retreat house inspired by the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius.
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To quote the lyrics of our own Dr. Stevie Wonder: “Change your words into truth, and then change that truth into love.” Graduates, we’re so proud of you and all the ways you will make our world a better place. Congratulations, Class of 2023!
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When I found out that @FordhamNYC student Abigail Dziura won a Truman Scholarship, I called her and surprised her with the good news. As a 1991 @TrumanApp Scholar myself, it was thrilling to learn that one of our own students was selected this year. We're so proud of you, Abby.
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Honored and humbled to be included in @CityAndStateNY’s list of the most influential college and university leaders in New York.
Fordham President Tania Tetlow has been named to the @CityAndStateNY Higher Ed Power 100 list of New York’s most influential academic leaders—those making the biggest difference both on campus and off. @TetlowTania cityandstateny.com/power-lis…
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It was a joy to meet the Jesuit community at America House for Mass and dinner last night. Thank you @JamesMartinSJ for the lovely portrait.
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The countdown begins. Can't wait to celebrate you tomorrow, @FordhamNYC Class of 2024! 🎉
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Meeting so many incredible leaders at @jesuitcolleges, @CatholicHighrEd, and @NAICUtweets events in D.C. Some highlights so far: eating lunch with AJCU President Michael Garanzini, S.J., and moderating a panel about improving civic learning in Catholic colleges and universities.
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Consoling the president of @SLU_Official about last Tuesday’s basketball game.
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With Gordon and Lucy on Fordham Night at Yankee Stadium. @FordhamNYC @FordhamRams
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A quiet moment in our Blue Chapel, a hidden gem on the third floor of Keating Hall.
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Talking with John Mara, Fordham Law ’79, president and co-owner of @Giants at MetLife Stadium, where we're playing the Carolina Panthers.
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Met the incredible Patricia Clarkson, FCLC ’85, last night. (Fun fact: Patricia is a New Orleans native who transferred to @FordhamNYC from Louisiana State University. We’re so lucky she chose us.)
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Tonight we celebrated our newly admitted students from local Jesuit, Cristo Rey, and Catholic high schools, as well as their family and school counselors. We can’t wait to welcome you back to @FordhamNYC this fall.
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Our campus squirrels are going a little nuts today.
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.@FordhamNYC: Today is the Feast of St. Ignatius, when we celebrate our founder, the intellectual and moral genius who left us an extraordinary legacy. But rather than brag about Ignatius himself, we serve his legacy better by remembering his teachings. news.fordham.edu/living-the-…
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Thank you to @EmeraldTreeCo for planting this beautiful magnolia tree in honor of my new presidency. It’s a lovely addition to our campus, and I look forward to seeing it grow.
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One of my favorite moments from Jubilee: playing cornhole with my daughter, Lucy, on Martyrs’ Lawn.
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I had the chance to sing with the University Church choir yesterday. Fun in the choir loft. @FordhamNYC @FordhamCM
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Just wrapped up our final diploma ceremony. So proud of all our grads, including our seven honorary doctorate recipients. View my Instagram at @president_tetlow for the full post.
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The view from my Lincoln Center office as it finally warms up.
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Many university presidents are concerned about a fall-winter resurgence of COVID-19: people, like college students, who live in congregate settings are more at risk for exposure to the virus. I'm getting my booster today. @FordhamNYC washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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A hawk next to Duane Library. Not sure if the #hawk and my dog, Archie, would get along, but it’s wonderful seeing all the wildlife on campus.
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It’s such a wonderful time of year to come together and celebrate the holidays, especially after these last few years. What a blessing to be with you all at @FordhamNYC.✨ #PresidentsClubChristmasReception
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The beautiful Bronx River.
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Today we celebrate the extraordinary legacy of our Irish ancestors, including @FordhamNYC’s founder, Archbishop John Hughes. Thank you @NBCNewYork for interviewing me (at 7:37) and for recording us marching up Fifth Avenue (at 25:40). Sláinte! nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-see…
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We have been in negotiations with SEIU, the union representing many of our part-time and full-time non-tenure-line faculty. I am happy to tell you that Fordham has accepted the union’s most recent offer and reached a tentative agreement, subject to approval by their membership.
The three-year contract includes significant pay increases and funding for flexible spending accounts. news.fordham.edu/university-…
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At the finish of a very uplifting service. I have so much gratitude for the Fordham community. @FordhamNYC
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I was delighted to meet @Vanessalgibson, MPH, the @bronxbp. We are both the first women in our respective positions, and I look forward to working with her on issues that affect #TheBronx. @FordhamNYC
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It’s an honor to be included in this @jesuitnews feature on women leaders in the Ignatian family, which also includes fellow @jesuitcolleges president @LeMuraLinda.
Tania Tetlow, president of @FordhamNYC, shares how Ignatian spirituality shapes her approach to her work. Learn more about her and 20 other women who are leading Ignatian ministries: jesuits.org/womenlead
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Getting to know some of our students at #RoseHill today. Everyone is excited to be on campus—myself included. @FordhamNYC
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