News at Adelphi

Here's a look at our top stories for each month.

The fraught relationship between Central American immigrant mothers and their reunified children.

Adelphi University excels in several 2024 U.S. News & World Report rankings including Best College, Social Mobility, Best Value, First-Year Experiences and Undergraduate Nursing.

Adelphi’s Class of 2023 celebrated their accomplishments with family and friends at the University’s 127th Commencement ceremony on May 23 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

The College of Professional and Continuing Studies' Finish Line Program is designed to help students who left Adelphi get back on track to a degree. Dedicated advisers are skilled at meeting the needs of returning students by charting their personalized paths to graduation and future success.

Palliative care focuses on managing the symptoms and stress that accompany serious illnesses. This certificate from the College of Professional and Continuing Studies trains nurses in this fast-growing specialization.

Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Honored by The Princeton Review The Adelphi University Robert B. Willumstad School of Business has once again been recognized in The Princeton Review’s Best Business Schools 2023 for its on-campus MBA program. This is based on institutional data the company gathers from administrators at business schools as well as surveys of students attending…

It's been another great year of academic achievement and recognition at Adelphi.

The CPCS Mother-Scholar Childcare and Technology Award provides five scholar-mothers with the support they need to complete their degrees.

Fully online, intensive seven-and-a-half-week courses in liberal studies and business offer adult learners a flexible, quality option designed to work around their busy lives.

Adelphi University has a new partnership with Wiley University Services to develop and launch six online programs over the next two academic years.

The College of Professional and Continuing Studies is proud to be introducing new noncredit certificate programs in healthcare that many adult students and career changers can benefit from.

More students, particularly nontraditional adult learners, are requesting degrees without the constraints of a traditional major area of focus or an in-person classroom setting.

Fall 2021 marked the launch of an exciting new initiative, the Nassau-Adelphi Gateway program. The distinctive partnership provides a best-of-both-worlds choice for Nassau Community College (NCC) students. While earning their associate degrees at NCC, they are able to take advantage of the four-year cocurricular Adelphi experience—living and dining on campus, participating in clubs and recreation, and being part of the Adelphi community outside the classroom—with a streamlined transfer pathway for completing their bachelor's degrees at Adelphi. This August, Adelphi welcomed the first cohort of 27 Nassau-Adelphi Gateway students.

Nola Jackson, 59, of Brentwood, New York, was 30 credits away from earning her 120-credit BA in Social Science in Adelphi's College of Professional and Continuing Studies (CPCS) in 2014 when she became ill and was unable to work or attend classes.

During his time at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology (then the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Psychological Studies), longtime professor and former associate dean Patrick L. Ross, PhD, was devoted to graduate education.

When Nicole Daisy-Etienne, PhD ’05, learned in March 2020 that a Hempstead student in her care had COVID-19 symptoms and a parent too afraid of immigration to get the child medical care, the Derner Hempstead Child Clinic director and clinical supervisor went into action. She pulled together a newsletter containing all the places the students…

As an undergraduate political science major, Kaleb Retzer, of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, became fascinated by the threats, both domestic and abroad, to the United States— particularly electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks.

Five adult learners have been inducted into the Alpha Sigma Lambda National Honor Society in recognition of their GPAs of 3.7 and higher, including working mother Janel Smith.

So much of how we think about work and jobs is wrong, according to James McGowan, associate dean of professional programs for Adelphi University's College of Professional and Continuing Studies (CPCS). For most of the 20th century, he said, people disputed a two-track approach to careers, debating which had more value: blue-collar or white-collar jobs.

An increasing number of school districts and organizations on Long Island have signed up to participate in Adelphi University’s Diversity Certificate program.

Adelphi University is taking a major step forward in serving nontraditional students and adult learners looking to acquire new skills and advance their careers. The University's College of Professional and Continuing Studies has introduced more than 50 certificate programs and workshops in a number of high-demand areas.

Four Adelphi University graduate degree programs have landed on the U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools list for 2021.