Students, Faculty, and Administrators march with Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University, in New York City's annual Columbus Day Parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012.
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 15,100 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre at Heythrop College in the United Kingdom. 10/12