Tania Tetlow Named President of Fordham University
Tania Tetlow, J.D., has been named the 33rd President of Fordham University. President-Elect Tetlow will be the first layperson and the first woman to occupy...
Tania Tetlow, J.D., has been named the 33rd President of Fordham University. President-Elect Tetlow will be the first layperson and the first woman to occupy the post in Fordham’s 181-year history.
President-Elect Tetlow comes to Fordham from Loyola University New Orleans, where she has served as president since August 2018. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1995, and her Bachelor of Arts in American studies from Tulane University, cum laude, in 1992. Among her other honors, she was a Harry S. Truman Scholar. Prior to being named president of Loyola, she held the office of senior vice president and chief of staff at Tulane University from 2015 to 2018. She also served at Tulane as associate provost for international affairs, the Felder-Fayard Professor of Law, and director of Tulane’s domestic violence clinic.
Arriving at Loyola during the most challenging period in its financial history, President Tetlow successfully led a turnaround of the university, launching new academic programs and increasing enrollment and student retention. Loyola grew revenue and the endowment, improved its bond ratings, and returned to financial stability, all during a global pandemic. President Tetlow is beloved at Loyola for her compassionate and transparent leadership.Before that, President-Elect Tetlow served as a key part of
“Tania Tetlow has in abundance the qualities of leadership one needs to run a major university, among them discernment, patience, decisiveness, self-awareness, and magnanimity,” Father Joseph McShane said of her. “Her commitment to Jesuit pedagogy and to Fordham’s Jesuit, Catholic mission is both deep and well-informed. I shall rest easy with her in the office I have occupied for almost two decades.”
WittKieffer’s Robin Mamlet, Ryan Crawford, Jean Dowdall, Ph.D. and Bree Liddell led this search.
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