Government Relations Advocacy
On Constitution Day, September 17, 2024, Fordham Law School held their first session in the Faculty-Student-Staff Conversation Series- Supreme Court Round Up: Key Cases From the Past Term. Please email Erin Degregorio at [email protected] for further details.
The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Annual Meeting and Advocacy Day is designed to provide briefings on the most urgent policy issues affecting higher education. Learn more about the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
The CICU Student Advocacy Day was held on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. The CICU and hundreds of students from CICU member campuses, including Fordham University, met with policy makers to encourage them to support College and University students, New York's future leaders.
Census 2020
The Census is an extremely important means of advocacy for every living person in the United States because every person counts and the Census is a tool used to count everyone! There is no citizenship question on the Census. The data gathered is confidential and used to determine where billions of dollars in federal funds are allocated. Federal funding which goes towards public resources such as fire departments, hospitals, schools, roads, and other essential public resources. Census data is also used to decide the number of seats each state will have in the U.S. House of Representatives, and they are used to draw congressional and state legislative districts. The Census happens every ten years by mandate of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 2.)
Fordham University participated in Census 2020, the decennial count of all residents in the United States. Census data is used to determine where billions of dollars in government funds are allocated. The data is also used to decide the number of seats each state will have in the U.S. House of Representatives and to draw congressional and state legislative districts. The Census 2020 data is available at the census website.
Economic Impact
Elected Official Directory
The United States Government is organized into three branches: the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch.
Find Elected Officials Contact Information
- The President
- United States Senate
- United States House of Representatives
- Elected Official State and Local Directory
- New York State Senate
- New York City Council
- Westchester County Executive
- Westchester County Board of Legislators