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Tania Tetlow to be first woman president of Fordham University

Tania Tetlow has been unanimously elected the next president of Ford­ham University. Tet­low will be the first woman and the first layperson to lead the 181-year-old Jesuit institution. She replaces Joseph Mc­Shane, who announced his intention to step down from nearly two decades of leadership last fall.

Tetlow joins Fordham from Loyola University New Orleans, where she was also the first woman and layperson to serve as president. She is credited with increasing both enrollment and student retention at Loyola during her four-year tenure.

The Chair and the collapse of the humanities

In the opening sequence of the Netflix comedy series The Chair, Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh), the first woman of color to head the English department at a struggling liberal arts college called Pembroke University, makes her way across campus amid shots of ivy-carpeted walls and idyllic quads to the exultant strains of Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major: “Gloria . . . Gloria . . . in excelsis Deo.” Glory to God in the highest.

Claremont School of Theology ordered to offer land to neighboring colleges

According to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Claremont School of Theology must offer its Claremont, California, campus for sale to the Claremont Colleges, a neighboring consortium of schools—and for a price likely to be millions below fair market value.

The financially embattled United Methodist seminary has long been willing to sell its 16.4-acre campus near Los Angeles. But seminary leaders insisted on getting a fair market price, which they put at about $40 million.