Comments on: Fordham Needs to Readjust the Colleges

By: Cathy Again

Cathy Again — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 23:59:32 +0000

Fyi, Gabelli is NOT a major player among business schools by any notion and there has been no ”barrage of donations” ! Mario Gabelli solely gave to the undergrad CBA and it is now branded (poorly I may add) as the Gabelli School of Business, he also scored for no $ donation whatsoever the naming rights on the Lincoln Center ex. law building, this is highway robbery given naming worth of a building at Lincoln Center. GBA students in fact did not want the merger to take place, it is solely for cost savings and revenue generation back to Rose Hill. Show the budget and revenue year over year of both programs and what is is now.

Absolutely fantastic what Mario did at Rose Hill with the Hughes building but his donation was not to the graduate school yet he now gets naming rights on it. Essentially what this does is block any donor opportunity GBA could have had at Lincoln Center ! GBA was a sizeable school with upward of 1500 students attending, it also thru sheer robbery of it’s revenue helped fund the Hughes building, in fact one year McShane had so much extra cash he put some into the university endowment. Ridiculous what Rose Hill decisions lay upon Fordham’s future, the naming of Gabelli at Lincoln Center being top of the list for short sighted thinking.

By: Cathy Again

Cathy Again — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 23:47:47 +0000

Fyi, Gabelli is NOT a major player among business schools by any notion and there has been no ”barrage of donations” ! Mario Gabelli solely gave to the undergrad CBA and it is not branded as the Gabelli School, he also scored for no $ donation whatsoever the naming rights on the Lincoln Center ex. law building, this is highway robbery given naming worth of a building at Lincoln Center. Absolutely fantastic what he did at Rose Hill with the Hughes building but his donation was not to the graduate school, yet he now gets naming rights on it. Essentially what this does is block any donor GBA could have had at Lincoln Center ! GBA was a sizeable school with upward of 1500 students attending, it also thru sheer robbery of it’s revenue helped fund the Hughes building, in fact one year McShane had so much extra cash he put it into the endowment. Ridiculous what Rose Hill decisions lay upon Fordham’s future, the naming of Gabelli at Lincoln Center being top of the list.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 23:34:26 +0000

For your information, the graduate school of business administration (GBA now GSB without ANY Gabelli donation) has been funding the university and has been depleted financially for decades. It was a monster size part-time MBA program run off of two floors at Lincoln Center. Rose Hill ran a skimming operation for decades off GBA and to a lesser extent Law. In the last two years GBA made $30 million beyond it’s budgeted forecast, do the math, one year pre 2008 it made 20 million over. Add that up year upon year and get an idea of the skimming Rose Hill has done to the program and its mediocre and non-existing reputation. It has revelled in obscurity and ill competitiveness so Rose Hill could reapportion it’s profits elsewhere, both to CBA and arts. Currently the program is unranked while being in the center of NYC, outranked by hinterland MBA programs that understand branding. As well, it has 11 Master of Science programs targeted at asian students (revenue $) wanting a NYC experience, tour the school and feel like a foreigner in NY !

Expanding science program is a great idea as is engineering, getting the administration to take it’s head out of the sand is another story !