[[File:FordhamLogo.png|FordhamLogo.png|alt=|right|frameless|link=Special:FilePath/FordhamLogo.png]]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, and with the entirety of the human experience.
<br />This is what makes us [https://www.fordham.edu/ Fordham]: We’re a tight community in New York City, and we value and educate the whole person, as described by our principle of ''cura personalis''. 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.
==Promoting Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship==
<div>Fordham promotes student innovation and entrepreneurship through formal programs and extracurricular activities. Fordham offers many different concentrations relating to innovation and entrepreneurship, including sustainable business and social innovation concentrations, enabling its students to explore and learn valuable skills. Students can begin learning about innovation and entrepreneurship through classes such as "Exploring Entrepreneurship" and "Innovation and Resilience". Fordham also offers classes that allow students to pursue innovation or entrepreneurship after college, such as “Launch Your Start-Up” and “Leadership and Change”. Fordham has also implemented a new "Social Innovation Cohort" into the Gabelli Consulting Cup Integrated Project curriculum. The University houses numerous extracurricular activities and innovation spaces that further allow students to expand their knowledge outside the classroom. The Fordham Foundry and Social Innovation Collaboratory are spaces and extracurricular offerings where like-minded individuals are able to help one another and work together. The Fordham Foundry provides competitive opportunities that give students a chance to win monetary prizes based on their businesses or business ideas, such as the Pitch Challenge and Hackathon. The Foundry also hosts many events in which students can connect with entrepreneurial mentors. Additionally, the Entrepreneurship Society and the Compass Fellowship are other extracurricular outlets for students to further their interests in innovation and entrepreneurship.</div><div><br /></div>
==Encouraging Faculty Innovation & Entrepreneurship==
=Landscape Canvas=
The 2022 Landscape Canvas can be found [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_eMojePLQ3PyndLX1_E-x14Lmax36KMC7n2tE8lH1lw/edit#gid=0 here.]
The 2021 Landscape Canvas can be found [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T-TAcHuWTobBMqk_RrZlz19UcxU03moHI9Fi_Hr7-MA/edit?usp=sharing here.]
=Strategic Priorities=
The 2022 Fordham University Student Priorities can be found [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fordham_University_Student_Priorities here].
The 2021 Fordham University Student Priorities can be found [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fordham_University_Student_Priorities here].
=Related Links=
==2022 University Innovation Fellows Candidates:==
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Vanditha_Krishnan Vanditha Krishnan]
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Julia_Maling Julia Maling]
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Eden_Kavanagh Eden Kavanagh]
[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Ojaswi_Pradhan Ojaswi Pradhan]
==2021 University Innovation Fellows Candidates:==