Awards in Community Service, Social Work Programs, and Mobile Apps
Adelphi University Wins
National Community Service Award
For the second year in a row, Adelphi University was honored with the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for engaging students, faculty and staff in substantial, relevant and meaningful service to communities. Honorees are chosen based on a series of selection factors including scope and innovation of service projects, percentage of student participation in service activities, incentives for service, and the extent to which the school offers academic service-learning courses. The University has demonstrated a strong institutional commitment to service through various ways including the Community Fellows Program, UN programs, Freshman Community Action Program (FCAP), health awareness initiatives, and Levermore Global Scholars Program, to name a few.
Adelphi Graduate Program
Ranked Among Top in the Nation
by U.S. News & World Report
Adelphi University School of Social Work made the list in U.S. News‘ 2013 Best Graduate Schools rankings. For more than 60 years, the Adelphi University School of Social Work has been at the forefront of preparing social workers through its B.S.W., M.S.W., and Ph.D. programs at its Garden City campus and at the Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Hudson Valley Centers. In addition, its professional education program offers a wide range of workshops and certificate programs for social workers and other human service professionals to enrich their knowledge and skills. School of Social Work faculty are regarded by their students as excellent teachers. They also are known nationally and internationally in their research areas and have published extensively. The curriculum enables graduates to live as informed citizens and to be educated, humane, and skillful professionals. The degree programs are fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
Adelphi’s Lauded for
Mobile Web App AU2Go
LISTnet, Long Island’s tech communities largest networking organization, has acknowledged Adelphi’s mobile web app AU2Go with a LISA award for excellence in the area of software and technology solutions. Through the app, individuals can access some of Adelphi’s essential information on their mobile device, including semester grades, shuttle schedules, campus directory, news and events, the academic calendar, and campus maps. On a smartphone or tablet, open the browser application and type in m.adelphi.edu.
For further information, please contact:
Todd Wilson
Strategic Communications Director
p – 516.237.8634
e – twilson@adelphi.edu