News at Adelphi

On January 18, 2021, the renovated and expanded Ruth S. Harley University Center (UC) will be reopened and accessible to the Adelphi community.

Admission to Adelphi University will continue to be standardized test optional for current high school juniors applying for admission this coming year, recognizing the difficulty of taking SATs or ACTs during the pandemic.

In June 2019, Adelphi University embarked on a major renovation and expansion of the Ruth S. Harley University Center.

Adelphi President Christine M. Riordan, PhD, has been named among 25 leaders in education by Long Island Business News (LIBN). The list was announced in December.

Many people today might not know of The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, and in 2021 not many more remember the glam metal band Great White. But the two are forever and inextricably linked by a fatal fire that happened nearly 20 years ago.

Dear Adelphi Colleagues, As we work to understand what the months ahead will look like for each of us, I’d like to share the latest information we have regarding COVID-19 vaccination protocols for employees in higher education. According to New York state’s phased distribution of the vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has advanced New York into Phase 1B. However,…

When the United Nations wanted to host a concert celebrating its 75th year and the 10th anniversary of its Academic Impact program, it chose the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra. Our students and alumni had the outstanding experience of playing before a global Zoom audience.

While the pandemic has temporarily put an end to most on-site internships, Adelphi's Innovation Center is helping both enrolled students and those taking a gap year to get hands-on, résumé-ready career experience remotely.

With our James Riley, Jr. Trading Room closed since last March, the finance course that allows business students to invest a portion of the University's endowment has gone virtual. Our students continued learning how to turn a profit during a volatile period.

Senior nursing major Kassie Vetrano volunteered at a hospital at the start of the pandemic to work with COVID-19-positive patients. After contracting the virus herself, she returned to her job once she recovered, determined to inspire patients as they battled the disease.

To Members of the Adelphi Community, In light of the profoundly disturbing events that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, we invite our Adelphi faculty, staff and students to join an open community forum and panel discussion. Please save the date: Tuesday, January 12 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. “Assault on the Capitol and Democracy”…

To members of the Adelphi community, Adelphi University, our leadership and I will never condone violence. Our University will always support and endorse Americans’ constitutional rights to free speech and to peacefully assemble. The United States’ democratic republic is founded on the need for all voices to be heard and our civil liberties protected. I…

In January 2020 and January 2019, undergraduate students taking the Intersession International Business course with Pamela Buckle, PhD, MA ’13, professor of management, and Joseph Sheldrick, MBA ’97, adjunct faculty in decision sciences, were treated to a unique experiential learning and cultural immersion opportunity focused on China. 

Anujot Kaur's family moved from Queens to Abbeville, Alabama, soon after she was born. Now, 17 years later, she's back in the area to earn her undergraduate degree in nursing at Adelphi.

While it was a challenging and in many ways tragic year, 2020 also saw Adelphi University and its community highlighted in the news media at a high level.