News at Adelphi
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
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Najee Hunt is a student leader who is actively helping create a diverse and inclusive culture on campus. As president of the campus organization Black Students United (BSU), he is passionate about supporting and mentoring fellow students of color. He has also expanded the organization's mission to include support of young people from the surrounding community.
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Perry, Greene, vice president for diversity & inclusion, talks about the importance of hiring and maintaining a diverse faculty.
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We are saddened once again by a senseless and awful act of hate which has killed and injured so many people who were practicing their faith in two mosques in New Zealand.
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Spotlight on Adelphi's Universal Access Task Force and Its Chair: Achievements and Priorities
CategoriesPublished:Dr. Perry Greene developed this task force to identify and assess the access issues so they could then prioritize and act.
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This group aims to ensure that Adelphi continues to monitor issues related to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), immigration status, and visa and international student climate, and to serve as a coordinating body for resources and information, among other things.
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Spotlight on Adelphi's Student Veterans Task Force and Its Chair: Achievements and Priorities
CategoriesPublished:This task force looked ahead at this year's priorities and looked back at last year's major achievements.
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This 10-person group, working closely with the University Diversity Committee to further support the inclusion and acceptance of students, faculty and staff who identify as LGBTQ+, looked ahead at this year's priorities and looked back at last year's major accomplishments.
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Adelphi University Libraries has thousands of print and digital books available. But this month it will add a different type of book—that of the human variety.
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To celebrate Women's History Month, we're highlighting some notable women who have taught, attended or spoken at Adelphi, as well as how we have advanced education for women over the years.
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Social change begins in the classroom. Dr. Michael J. Sorrell has transformed Paul Quinn College, the small, private institution in Dallas. In his keynote address at the conference, he called for universities to help bring about social change and end poverty.
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In this issue devoted to the annual Teaching and Learning Conference, Provost and Executive Vice President Steve Everett, D.M.A., discusses the University's approach to diversity and understanding—and how our students benefit from it.
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On Thursday, February 14, Prison Reform and Rehabilitation: 46th Annual History Conference dove into the history and current state of criminalization, punishment and rehabilitation in prisons.
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Bruce Jones '82, Ph.D., Heads Research at Howard University, but Adelphi Remains Dear to His Heart
CategoriesPublished:"Adelphi was the right size because you can get a lot of attention there that you wouldn't get at these huge campuses with 50,000 or 60,000 students. For me, it was a very nurturing campus."
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A study by Professor Geoffrey Ream Ph.D. on suicide rates in LGBTQ youth is featured by many media outlets including Reuters and Huffington Post.
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When the Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies asked Jon Duff, Adelphi exhibitions and art collection curator, to curate an exhibition in honor of Black History Month, he immediately thought of multimedia artist Coby Kennedy.
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On Wednesday, February 13, dozens of students and faculty members filled the Ruth S. Harley University Center's Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom to hear the day's guest speaker, Premilla Nadasen, Ph.D., who informed them, “If you all have come here to hear how black feminism will save us, you've come to the right place."
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For the third year, members of the Adelphi community have the opportunity to experience what guests have called a transformational experience when they attend the Oxfam Hunger Banquet.
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Adelphi's Diversity Certificate Program is not only helping to promote a respectful, inclusive work and learning atmosphere on the University campus, it's also expanding into Long Island school districts.
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At Adelphi, students find lifelong friends along with academic success. A big part of that are affinity spaces—places around campus where students with similar interests (international students, veterans and students of color) can not only feel comfortable but nurture themselves in their culture and individuality and interact with the Adelphi community.
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The Interfaith Center has been at Adelphi for over 20 years. It has grown to not only be a welcoming space for those seeking spiritual worship and guidance, but a place to receive counseling.
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Throughout the month of February, Adelphi University will celebrate Black History Month by hosting a number of events on campus.
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Adelphi Proudly Joins the Top 2 Percent of Universities in the Country for Initiatives in Diversity
CategoriesPublished:Adelphi has made significant gains in reaching its Momentum strategic plan goal of becoming a model of diversity and inclusion in the past two years—and now awards like INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine's Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award are the icing on the cake.
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Helping Others Feel "Welcome at the Table": Dr. Perry Greene Wins Two Awards for Diversity
CategoriesPublished:Perry Greene, Ph.D., Adelphi's vice president for diversity and inclusion since July 2016, has been presented with two awards recognizing his leadership in diversity initiatives at Adelphi.
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Adelphi's “Facing Racism" discussion sessions likely will be back for a third year in Fall 2019.
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Adelphi's various diversity task force chairs—all multitasking between new initiatives and their ongoing positions—enthusiastically looked back at their task forces' major accomplishments in 2018 and ahead at this year's top priorities.
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On Monday, January 21, Perry Greene, Ph.D., vice president for diversity and inclusion, was presented with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Recognition Award by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee of Nassau County.
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Perry Greene, Ph.D., vice president for diversity and inclusion, shares his advice for building a more diverse faculty with University Business Magazine.
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Perry Greene, Ph.D., vice president for diversity and inclusion, shared with Inside Higher Ed how Adelphi successfully increased our number of new faculty hires who are people of color.
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On October 17, 2018, Cholena Smith, Shinnecock scholar and educator, brought her people's culture, history and traditions to Adelphi in honor of Native American Heritage Month in November and Indigenous Peoples' Day on October 8.
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In response to the shooting on October 27, 2018, in which 11 members of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh lost their lives, the Adelphi community came together on the evening of Monday, October 29, for a multidenominational service on the Flagpole Lawn.