News at Adelphi

African American women make up a disproportionate percentage of victims of intimate partner violence. Are they receiving the help they need? Bernadine Waller, MA ’10, associate director of experiential learning at Adelphi's Center for Career and Professional Development and a PhD candidate in social work, just received a prestigious grant for her research—and, she is searching for an answer.

Senior Lila Woodbridge worked with Joan L. Schimke, associate professor of communications, on a documentary short about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire screened at Cinema Village in Manhattan.

Research by Geoffrey Ream, Ph.D., associate professor of social work, has revealed a shocking fact: Nearly one-quarter of young teens who died by suicide were LGBT.

Innovate LI covered how Adelphi's approach of reaching out to multicultural students—starting as early as middle school—is raising awareness and attracting a diverse range of applicants.

The first hot day of the year brought with it the chill of what Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Perry Greene, Ph.D., called “senseless, ongoing horror in Sri Lanka," at a campus memorial service on April 24 for the 300 people killed in the Easter Sunday church attacks across that country.

Adelphi's Office of Diversity and Inclusion will host a summer college-readiness program free of charge for Hispanic high school students, scheduled for August 1 to August 4.

Famed rapper, activist, artist and cultural theorist Chuck D '84, '13 (Hon.), received a hero's welcome when he returned to his alma mater April 15 for a conversation on the Westermann Stage in the Concert Hall at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center with University Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Perry Greene, Ph.D.

What's it like living in a world where people fear you because of your religion? More important, what can we do about it?

This month, representatives of Bridges to Adelphi will be going around campus to educate others about the program as well as sponsoring events that draw attention and awareness of neurodiversity.

A professor and dean at Ithaca College has been named dean of Adelphi University's College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

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.

Perry, Greene, vice president for diversity & inclusion, talks about the importance of hiring and maintaining a diverse faculty.

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.

Dr. Perry Greene developed this task force to identify and assess the access issues so they could then prioritize and act.

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.

This task force looked ahead at this year's priorities and looked back at last year's major achievements.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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."

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.

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.

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."