About the Rose Hill Honors Program
Since its founding in 1950, the Fordham College at Rose Hill Honors Program has provided exceptional students with the opportunity to pursue their core studies in greater depth, breadth, and intensity. Drawn from every major, Honors students share a passion not just for learning, but for thinking about what they learn. They are drawn to our mission of building a community of scholars for justice.
In small, seminar-style classes, Honors professors foster lively discussions, provoke critical analysis of texts and ideas, and provide students with an ideal opportunity to grow personally and intellectually.
FCRH Honors Program Timeline
1841: Fordham College at Rose Hill is founded.
1950: Honors Program is founded, with Reverend Victor R. Yanitelli as its first director.
1953: The first Honors class — a group of six students — graduates.
1957: Fordham's bookstore is acquired to become Alpha House, an Honors-only space.
1962: The Honors Program becomes the first Fordham class to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
1974: Fordham becomes a co-ed university.
1974: The Honors Program begins to accept women, following the closure of Thomas More College — Fordham’s former coordinate college for women.
2006: The first Honors Program reunion is held, with over 100 alumni in attendance.
2006: Fordham Honors students attend the first annual AJCU Honors Conference at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
2023: The Honors Program launches a new curriculum, built around the vision of fostering "a community of scholars for justice."
2023: The FCRH Honors Program sponsors its first-ever GO! project, sending students on an immersion trip to Mexico.
2024: The Honors Program sets up its first endowment.
"Here's my favorite Honors story: It's the second day of the semester, and the 12 students enrolled in my class have just read The Tempest in preparation for the day's discussion. We all sit down around the seminar table. I open by saying, 'So, The Tempest.' And 12 students immediately raise their hands. That's Honors at Rose Hill: Engaged students, eager to get at it. And professors in love with their work."
- Eve Keller, Ph.D. Professor of English, Honors Program Director