News at Adelphi

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adelphi's “Facing Racism" discussion sessions likely will be back for a third year in Fall 2019.

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.

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.

Perry Greene, Ph.D., vice president for diversity and inclusion, shares his advice for building a more diverse faculty with University Business Magazine.

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.

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.

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.

When Chotsani West, M.A. '07, returned to Adelphi in 2014 to start the University's Mentoring Program, her task was to help improve the retention rate of students of color.

This year's Spirit Weekend saw a major change, as the king and queen handed over the "reigns," so to speak: Henceforth, the rulers of the Spirit Court will preside under the more gender-inclusive title of Prestigious Panthers.

Adelphi's LGBTQ+ students, and the welcoming environment they find here, are points of pride for the University.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion launched the series of conversations, "Facing Racism" last year in response to the rallies in Charlottesville and decided to hold them again each Friday this September.

In honor of National Coming Out Day, we're rolling out a new update (version 4.5) to our mobile app, AU2GO, to further support diversity and inclusion on-campus.

Launched last year in the wake of the events in Charlottesville, Adelphi's series of discussions about racism will return to campus this fall.

Student-professor partnership promotes a new approach to transgender health.

With the help of Adelphi University Board of Trustees member Marc Strachan '81, Adelphi is endowing four new multicultural scholarships created especially to help support students of color.

Marc S. Strachan credits his mother with pushing him to attend Adelphi—and helping him pay for it.

Over the past few years, administrators, students and faculty on the task force and the committee have worked together to launch 13 initiatives that support LGBTQ+ groups.