News at Adelphi

The College of Nursing and Public Health has secured a $458,000 grant to continue funding Adelphi's long-running Nurse Faculty Loan Program.

This new undergraduate program will emphasize working collaboratively with professionals from different fields, guided by the core competencies of ethics and values.

Dear Adelphi Community, On Monday, July 6, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released guidelines prohibiting international students from remaining on campus if all of their classes are online. This was an unexpected and senseless policy that runs counter to what we stand for as a university. We write to express our unqualified support for our…

Recent high school graduates or even current college students who have decided to take a gap year have traditionally tried to continue their education through travel, internships or volunteer projects—avenues currently limited by the global coronavirus pandemic. Now, though, they have the option of staying connected to a higher education track through Adelphi University's new Gap Year Experience.

Children, teens and adults in neighboring communities depend on the therapists in the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders for speech-language and hearing evaluations and interventions. The Center has more than 100 speech and hearing client visits per week. The Center is also a clinical training ground for students pursuing a master’s in speech-language pathology…

In an interview, K.C. Rondello, MD, clinical associate professor in Adelphi’s College of Nursing and Public Health—and national authority on disaster epidemiology—discusses the coming year.

Social distancing is helping telemedicine become the new normal. What other medical technologies may soon enter the mainstream? A. Hasan Sapci, MD, College of Nursing and Public Health assistant professor, provides some hints.

What might students expect when campus reopens? Our Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students R. Sentwali Bakari, PhD, explains.

ParentChild+ helps young children in underserved communities across 15 states. The organization's goal is to use education to break the cycle of poverty for low-income families, engaging early in life to help toddlers, their parents, and their family child care providers access a path to possibility.

June is a time when individuals across the country and the world celebrate the LGBTQ+ community as part of Pride Month. Adelphi University, too, celebrates the many contributions of the LGBTQ+ community within our campus and honors their continued struggle for equity within our nation and the world.

The Center for Student Involvement has worked tirelessly to transform First-Year Orientation into a virtual format for the Class of 2024.

While adjusting to teaching and learning online, Jennifer Perrone finds hope during the pandemic with the birth of her son.

Throughout these past several weeks, we have continued to define our University's plans for a safe, in-person reopening this coming fall. We all look forward to safely being together again on campus.

As America begins to slowly reopen, the speculation surrounding the attempted start or restart of professional sports has increasingly grown as a major news issue, in particular, Major League Baseball (MLB).

We continue to work in partnership with students, faculty and staff to develop actionable antiracism plans that work toward dismantling racial inequities and demonstrating our authentic commitment to racial justice.

Being at home wasn't going to stop Corrada Spatola '20 from making the most of her last semester at Adelphi. Thanks to the virtual student chats offered by various departments at Adelphi, she got to interact with her fellow students and learned how to navigate our new normal.

Sylvia Frances Moss '64, Tomislav Kostadinov '10, Emily Ladau '13, Dottie Herman and Hilda Perez '11 have been elected as new members of the Adelphi University Board of Trustees.

In recognition of Juneteenth, a nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States of America, Adelphi University is joining other colleges, universities and organizations around the country in offering a paid day off to employees.

Original RENT cast members joined Adelphi students and alumni to perform “Seasons of Love” as part of Adelphi University's Virtual President’s Gala in Support of Student Success. The video is featured by Broadway World.

Christine Riordan, PhD, president of Adelphi, is quoted in a Long Island Business News story about the impact of COVID-19 and safely reopening colleges and universities.

Kirkland Vaughans, PhD ’85, adjunct faculty member in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and director of the Derner Hempstead Child Clinic, is quoted in a New York Times story about healing from the trauma associated with racism.

Adelphi's College of Education and Health Sciences has been recognized for high program quality with accreditation by the CAEP.