Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Motto	Latin: Sapientia et Doctrina
Motto in English	Wisdom and Learning
Type	Private
Established	1916
Parent institution	Fordham University
Affiliation	Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Dean	Eva Badowska
Students	740 (2016)
Location	New York City, New York, U.S.
Campus	Urban
Website	www.fordham.edu/gsas

The Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Fordham GSAS) is an American graduate school within Fordham University, a private Jesuit university based in New York City.

Established in 1916, the school provides instruction at two of the school's three campuses in the New York City area— at the university's main campus, Rose Hill, located in the Bronx; and the Lincoln Center, located in Manhattan's Upper West Side. The school offers a wide range of master's programs, doctoral degree programs, and certificates in traditional disciplines in liberal arts and sciences, as well as interdisciplinary programs.

The school stresses the advantage of its multiple identities: a graduate school of arts and sciences, a Catholic university, a Jesuit institution, and a school in New York City.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was established at Fordham University in 1916, as well as a teachers college. Originally, the GSAS was housed in the Woolworth Building in Manhattan, and offered only eight courses, mainly anchored around philosophy and literature. The school was led by three Jesuits; Michael J. Mahoney, J.F.X. Murphy, and Terence J. Shealy; as well as one lay instructor, Condé B. Pallen. By 1920, the school employed a total of sixteen faculty members, and offered Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Philosophy, Licentiate of Philosophy, and Doctoral degrees. In 1921, the GSAS was reorganized into the modern departmental system it bears today. In 1933, a psychology department was introduced into the GSAS

In 1936, upon the completion of Keating Hall, the GSAS administrative headquarters were officially relocated to Keating. The same year, Hilaire Belloc joined the faculty, followed by Dietrich von Hildebrand in 1940, the latter of whom taught philosophy. Psychologist Anne Anastasi joined the faculty of the psychology department in 1947, and was the fourth woman to join the Fordham GSAS faculty. In 1967, Dr. Arthur Wayne Brown, a scholar in English literature, became the dean of the GSAS, and established two new Masters programs, in International Political Economy and Development, and Medieval Studies, the former of which would later be inaugurated in the political science department.