The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was established at Fordham University in 1916, as well as a teachers college.

[3] Originally, the GSAS was housed in the Woolworth Building in Manhattan, and offered only eight courses, mainly anchored around philosophy and literature.

[5] The same year, Hilaire Belloc joined the faculty, followed by Dietrich von Hildebrand in 1940, the latter of whom taught philosophy.

[4] After the September 11th attacks, Professor Orlando Rodríguez—the chair of the department of sociology, whose son died in the World Trade Center—began teaching a graduate course on the history of terrorism at the GSAS.

[4] Two years later, the university completed construction on a residential cabin for biology graduate students at the Louis Calder Center in Armonk, New York.