News at Adelphi

Adelphi continues to set the pace for student success. Our new policy decision removes the minimum GPA requirement for retaining academic scholarships—a step in support of equity and the mental health of students who rely on this important financial support.

Adelphi is known for helping each student find their own unique path. Alumna and Adelphi University Trustee Emily Ladau ’13 became a disability advocate, speaker, author of the forthcoming book Demystifying Disability, and a warrior for inclusion and justice. We’re proud to be involved in her important work.

Social justice and student leadership are strong ideals at Adelphi, producing four Newman Civic Fellows in as many years. Our 2021 advocate for a better world is Newman Fellow Miguel Velasquez.

When classrooms were forced to adapt to virtual learning due to COVID-19, Adelphi's School of Social Work came up with a plan to ensure that students would still be able to gain experience in the field of social work.

We are deeply committed to supporting our students’ individual paths to success. Sometimes that can mean personalizing their course of study from across our 200-plus academic areas. Meet an extraordinary example: Taro Jones ’20, a gifted dancer and star chemist.

The Adelphi University Honors College has graduated many students who have gone on to law school, including 10 Under 10 Young Alumni honorees Christian Fundo ’07, JD; Adaeze Udoji ’08, JD; Philip DiSanto ’12, JD; and Joseph Bruno ’13, JD.

Edmund Pajarillo, PhD, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, teaches the First-Year Seminar Experience course Global Health and Multidiscipline Health Roles.

The demand for skilled psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners is growing and Adelphi University graduates are ready to answer the call. Adelphi has announced a 100-percent first-time pass rate for graduates who took the ANCC Psychiatric–Mental Health Nurse Practitioner board certification exam in 2020.

Fresh out of college, in the middle of a pandemic and during a nationwide economic shutdown, 21-year-old Jared Stern ’20, from Seaford, Long Island, somehow landed his dream job. The “interview” process, however, was anything but typical for the dancer and Adelphi alumnus. “It was such an experience,” Stern said. “The whole [process], start to…

Gabrielle Deonath, an Adelphi alumna who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications in May 2018, is the co-editor of the new anthology, untold: defining moments of the uprooted, which will be released in March 2021 by Mango and Marigold Press. The focus is on representing Muslim and South Asian females. During her time at…

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.

With opportunities for traditional gap year activities such as traveling and volunteering limited due to the pandemic, Adelphi University's virtual Gap Year Experience offers college students the opportunity to work remotely, in small groups, developing projects for companies in their chosen field. Participants in the program can earn college credits or certification.

At Adelphi, we aim to prepare students for personal and professional success and a life-transforming experience. And according to our latest Career Outcomes Survey, we're meeting these goals.

Woods Conserve ’20 studied to become a nurse while working full-time as a medical assistant. Overcoming challenges brought on by the pandemic, he’s now an RN caring for patients in a high-pressure intensive care unit.

Jillian Myers ’20 finished her five-year BBA/MBA program in four years, passed the notoriously difficult CPA Exam on her first try, and is now on staff at the Big Four accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

How do you get to the Adelphi PAC Living Room? Practice, of course, plus a webcam and you're there.

Osvaldo Alvarado enlisted in the Army Reserve while still a senior in high school. After six years, he wanted to continue to serve others, this time by becoming a social worker. “I enjoy helping people and serving the community," he said. "It's a calling."

Leticia Rios, now in her second year as a PhD student in Adelphi's College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH), was named Working Mother of the Year in September, in conjunction with the magazine's naming NYU Langone Health among its 100 Best Companies for working mothers in 2020.

Adelphi instructors and students aren't only making the best of remote learning during the time of pandemic. In some cases, they're taking advantage of it and building on it.

Rejo Jose is a respiratory therapist who transferred to Adelphi last spring to earn a nursing degree. He soon found that our nursing program offers more than just top academics; it also has faculty members who go out of their way to help students.

Alma Lorena Monreal Munoz is a painter and designer who has been honored as a young entrepreneur in her hometown of Hermosillo, Mexico. She's also a winner of this year's You Are Welcome Here Scholarship, coming to Adelphi for our five-year BBA/MBA program.

Brando Ortiz is coming from nearby Queens, but he's already traveled the globe winning world championships in salsa competitions. He'll study dance and business at Adelphi.

Dr. Monique Mohammed ’14, MS ’16, earned her Doctor of Optometry degree this spring. She couldn’t have done it, she said, without the support she received from the CSTEP and mentoring programs as a student at Adelphi. Read her inspiring story.

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.

Five student entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas in a virtual Shark Tank-style competition hosted by the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business.

It's not every day that an Adelphi graduate student gets invited to present research at a global conference in the Middle East.

For 17 years, the Student Government Association and Center for Student Involvement have hosted the Brown and Gold Awards honoring student leadership.

As we approach the end of the 2019–2020 academic year—one of the most challenging in Adelphi's history—we look at all that the SGA accomplished this year and welcome the new board.