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What It’s Like To Be a University’s First Woman and First Lay President — And Then Do It Again

December 02, 2022

When Tania Tetlow started in July at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York City, she became both its first woman president and its first president who is not a priest. But it wasn’t the first time Tetlow has been in that position. She was also the first woman and first lay president in her last job, as president of Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit institution with about 4,600 students.

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