We’re a Jesuit, Catholic university. Our spirit comes from the nearly 500-year history of the Jesuits. It’s the spirit of full-hearted engagement—with profound ideas, with communities around the world, with injustice, with beauty, with the entirety of the human experience.
This is what makes us Fordham: We’re a tight community in New York City, and we value and educate the whole person. Much of our Jesuit history and mission comes down to three ideas, which, translated from the Latin, mean roughly this:
Strive for excellence in everything you do.
Care for others.
Fight for justice.
It adds up to an education that works. Wisdom, experience, morality, critical thinking, creative problem-solving. This is what Fordham students take into the world.
我们是一所耶稣会天主教大学。我们的精神源自耶稣会近500年的历史传承，那是一种全心投入的精神——对深邃思想的投入，对全球社群的投入，对不公现象的投入，对美好事物的投入，对人类全部经验值的投入。
这正是福坦莫大学的特质：我们是在纽约市紧密联结的共同体，重视并培养完整的人格。我们的耶稣会历史与任务可归结为三个拉丁文核心理念，其大意为：
在每项行动中追求卓越。
关爱他人。
为正义而战。
这累积成了行之有效的教育方式。智慧、经验值、道德、批判性思维、创造性问题解决能力。这是福坦莫大学学子带给世界的礼物。