News at Adelphi

He once lived on the streets. Now he plans to shape social policy. “It’s crazy. At one point, the world didn’t want to deal with me, and now it’s like I’ve got these amazing people who have already achieved what I want to get to, supporting me.”

“I consider Adelphi a second home."

Dean Ashdown highlights Adelphi University's partnerships with local schools.

2015 Outstanding Service to Adelphi

"My years at Adelphi were exciting and gratifying...Scott and I are delighted to support this wonderful, vibrant institution to help ensure that current and future students will also enjoy the same high quality experience that I did at Adelphi."

Students from Adelphi and Queens High School of Teaching collaborated on a memoir-writing project that strengthened an already solid partnership between the schools.

With a desire to help others, the West Hempstead, New York, native has excelled in the School of Social Work.

"I knew I wanted to be involved with creating a more equal world and assisting people who are disenfranchised."

Dr. Olga Brom Spencer's M.S.W. ’71 life and career are filled with experiences enjoyed and accomplishments achieved with great passion and purpose.

“I hope that my scholarship can open the door to an Adelphi education for future students.”

After volunteering with children in Guatemala, she is now applying her social work skills to helping young people at home.

Certified and aspiring school psychologists at Adelphi’s Social Training Center help young adults with autism spectrum find acceptance and friends.

An Adelphi University student organized a dinner in Brooklyn, New York, so Jews and Muslims could get to know one another.

Graduate student Trevena Goulbourne spent a productive summer as an intern through the Community Fellows Program.

Senior nursing majors are now serving in leadership capacities in the Nursing Student Association of New York State and the National Student Nurses Association.

More than 150 students, faculty and staff rally for the People's Climate March.

Master's degree candidates in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders ran the weekly aphasia sessions.

After receiving her degree, Edrman became an infusion nurse in outpatient oncology at Oregon Health and Science University.

Adelphi University alum Chianne Green '14 thrives at Adelphi and furthers her professional goals with help from the Center for Career Development.

Wiltshire is assistant director for ACMH’s young adult population. This is the first time in ACMH history that the agency is focusing in on this specific age group.

Adelphi University CHI grants to support community resiliency in the Town of North Hempstead and the Village of Patchougue.

Williams is an assistant district attorney for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office and an adjunct professor at Metropolitan College of New York, where she teaches a course on contemporary values and ethics.

Hall works at National Urban League (NUL), a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities.

Knowing that social work has been her calling, Sayyeda Khalfan has followed her passion.

After 27 years as a lineman at Verizon, John Sanchez '14 received a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management.

For children at the Prince Hall Day Care Center at the Polo Ground Housing Project in Harlem, May 21, 2014, felt like December.

Victoria Grover is enjoying her Honors College experience and all Adelphi has to offer.

TOTalk has enabled many Adelphi University students to engage in clinical practice.

Graduate students presented the Domestic Violence Emergency Food Pantry with over 1,000 pounds of food, baby supplies and toiletry items.

School of Social Work graduate students presented Astor Services for Children & Families, Head Start Program with over $1700 dollars of much needed school supplies for their children.