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 New York, NY - Fordham University is poised to open its new campus in Westchester County, N.Y., for the coming fall semester.
Set on 32 landscaped acres in West Harrison, Fordham Westchester is a three-story, 62,500-square-foot building that will house the University’s adult undergraduate program as well as its graduate schools of Social Service, Religion and Religious Education, Education, and Business Administration.
The building includes 26 renovated classrooms with technological amenities such as “smart boards,” teleconferencing capabilities and newly installed seating and learning areas. The surrounding campus, nestled in a scenic wooded enclave, features a stream and pond.
In addition, the building will house faculty offices and administrative support space, a library, three personal computer laboratories, a food service facility and indoor as well as outdoor student meeting areas. More than $8 million was spent on renovations that incorporated substantial green building techniques, including a large central courtyard at the heart of the facility.
“This is a key ingredient for Fordham's future,” said Stephen Freedman, Ph.D., Fordham’s senior vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer. “This campus makes available the best of Fordham for our students in the Westchester community.”
The University served Westchester students for more than 25 years at its campus in Tarrytown, N.Y. That property, the former Marymount College, was sold earlier this year.
The new campus aims to expand its existing Westchester County base by attracting students from north of the county line and from nearby Fairfield County, Conn.
Fordham Westchester campus offers parking for 250 vehicles and is accessible by public transportation via Metro North and the Westchester County Bus System (the “Bee-Line”). The campus is also accessible, in conjunction with a bus, from both New Haven (Portchester or Rye) and Hudson (Tarrytown) Metro North lines. In addition, Fordham offers its intercampus shuttle service, the Ram Van, between its three campuses.
The University signed a 20-year lease with GHP Office Properties for the campus.
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to approximately 14,700 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 Westchester, and the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y.
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