After a period of sweeping reform of the rules and regulations affecting the global financial services industry, organizations have shifted their focus to implementation. However, with every region, product, and legal entity closely regulated, financial institutions are challenged to make smart decisions that account for the unknown in areas from overall business strategy to risk

A panel of experts from the nonprofit sector will talk about why nonprofits fail, warning signs, and what to do to fix and/or avoid them. Co-sponsored by the Center for Nonprofit Leaders, the Graduate School of Social Service, and the Gabelli School of Business.

Fordham’s Institute of Irish Studies will welcome Anne Enright, author of The Green Road (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) and The Gathering (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, 2007).

Fordham's Creative Writing Program welcomes author and poet Claudia Rankine for a reading, Q&A, and book signing as part of the 2016 Reid Family Writers of Color Reading Series.

Moderator and host Bill Baker, journalist-in-residence and distinguished professor of education at Fordham, will conduct a special interview with Robert Steel, former New York City deputy mayor for economic development.

Speakers: Cornel West, PhD, professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary, and Adolph Reed, Jr., professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss America’s system of higher education and how these issues may be addressed in the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond. Sponsored by Fordham American Studies.

A panel of experts will examine and defend the civil and human rights of all pregnant people. Sponsored by the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, American Studies, and Women’s Studies, and the student organization Law Students for Reproductive Justice.