Assistant Vice President for Principal Gifts
Fordham University

Tania Tetlow
President of Fordham University

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Tania Tetlow has served as the 33rd president of Fordham University since July 2022, when she became the first layperson and first woman to hold the office since Fordham’s founding in 1841. Tetlow is a legal scholar and former assistant U.S. attorney with a strong commitment to the transformative power of Jesuit education.

President Tetlow has deepened Fordham’s ambitions as the Jesuit University of New York, making major new investments in STEM in connection with the University’s strengths in the humanities and professions. 

In 2024, she oversaw the completion of Fordham’s $350 million Cura Personalis Campaign, which surpassed its goal, raising more than $370 million to enhance the student experience. And in 2025, she was instrumental in securing a $100 million gift—the largest in Fordham’s history—from alumni Maurice (Mo) and Carolyn Dursi Cunniffe. The gift will be used to break ground on a cutting-edge, integrated science facility on the Rose Hill campus and to launch and expand STEM degree programs.

For her leadership in Catholic higher education, President Tetlow received Commonweal Magazine’s inaugural Centennial Award in 2024. She serves as board chair of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, starting in July 2025, will serve as vice chair of the board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Prior to Fordham, Tetlow served as the 17th president of Loyola University New Orleans for four years, the first woman and the first layperson to lead that institution. Under her leadership, Loyola completed a turnaround to recover from the most challenging period in its financial history. The university improved its bond rating and repositioned its finances through careful budgeting, increased retention, continued enrollment growth, and expansion of online, graduate, and professional programs. She led this turnaround while navigating multiple hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic.

From 2015 to 2018, she served as senior vice president and chief of staff at Tulane University, where she was a key strategic advisor to President Michael Fitts. For 10 years before that, she was a Tulane Law School faculty member, serving as the Felder-Fayard Professor before becoming chief of staff. Her scholarship focused on the overlap between equal protection law and criminal procedure, and helped persuade the Department of Justice to reimagine its regulation of constitutional policing. She also directed Tulane’s Domestic Violence Law Clinic, teaching students how to save lives through the practice of law. She used her expertise to improve the local criminal justice response to domestic violence and sexual assault.

Before her career in academia, Tetlow served as an assistant U.S. attorney, prosecuting violent crime, narcotics, arson, and fraud cases. She also clerked for the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked as an associate at Phelps Dunbar, litigating complex commercial transactions.

Tetlow graduated cum laude from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies, and she is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where she earned a Juris Doctor degree and was a Harry S. Truman Fellow.

A Catholic who was born in New York and grew up in New Orleans, President Tetlow is the daughter of Fordham alumni (her parents met in graduate school at Rose Hill). Her late father, Louis Mulry Tetlow, was an educator, clinical psychologist, and former Jesuit priest who earned his Ph.D. at Fordham. Her mother, Elisabeth Meier Tetlow, a biblical scholar and author, earned two of her five master’s degrees—in philosophy and theology—from Fordham.

Roger A. Milici Jr.
Vice President for Development and University Relations

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Roger A. Milici Jr. joined Fordham in 2009. As the vice president for development and university relations, he led the successful completion of Excelsior | Ever Upward | The Campaign for Fordham. The historic half-billion-dollar campaign helped the University create more than 220 scholarships, build residence halls for 800-plus students, raise the number of endowed chairs to 72, transform Hughes Hall into the Gabelli School of Business headquarters at Rose Hill, and construct the iconic new Fordham Law School and McKeon Residence Hall.

Milici oversees Fordham’s development, special events, stewardship, advancement, and alumni relations teams. He was previously the senior director of development and alumni relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University for eight years. He began his career in the United Way system and served as president and chief professional officer of a Connecticut United Way.

Milici was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. in international affairs and an M.A. in social and public policy at Duquesne University. He also studied in the divinity program at the University of Notre Dame as a seminarian with the Congregation of Holy Cross. He and his wife, Frances, live in Connecticut with their two daughters, Finula Frances and Annabella Rose.

Rick Turk
Assistant Vice President of Development & Campaign Director

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Rick Turk is an accomplished higher education fundraising and development executive, currently serving as the Assistant Vice President of Development & Campaign Director at Fordham University. With a Juris Doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Rick leverages his legal background to deeply understand and prioritize the needs of the faculty, donors, and institutional communities he serves.

Prior to his current position at Fordham, Rick served as the Executive Director of Development at Columbia Law School from November 2021 to December 2024. In this capacity, he managed major gifts, donor relations, the annual fund, and prospect research, while leading a team of fundraisers and collaborating closely with institutional leadership and advisory board members. During his tenure, he played a pivotal role in closing the law school's $325 million campaign and kickstarted and managed the completion of the law school library renovation. Personally raising over $20 million, Rick's strategic efforts were instrumental in driving Columbia Law to a record-breaking $65 million fundraising year in FY24.

Rick's success at Columbia followed a highly impactful five-year tenure at Fordham University School of Law, where he progressed through several leadership roles, culminating as Senior Director of Development. Between 2016 and 2021, he solicited more than $17 million and documented nearly $10 million in gifts to support the Law School's centers and institutes. As the development lead for the Feerick Center's annual benefit, he set new fundraising records for four consecutive years, skillfully adapting to virtual formats and doubling the event's revenue from $400,000 in FY18 to $800,000 in FY22. Following his time at Columbia, he returned to Fordham in late 2024 as Executive Director of Development, Major Gifts and Regional Advancement, before being quickly elevated to Assistant Vice President of Development & University Relations in May 2025.

Earlier in his career, Rick spent four years at New York University (NYU), advancing from a Senior Development Associate to the Associate Director of Development for the NYU School of Law. He began his professional career as a Campaign Associate for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.

Rick holds a B.A. in Communication Studies from Florida State University, where he demonstrated early leadership as the Fundraising Chair for the FSU Dance Marathon. He is dedicated to ongoing professional excellence, holding a Certificate in Professional Fundraising from Boston University and a certification in the Discipline of Frontline Fundraising from Plus Delta Partners.