News at Adelphi

Dear Adelphi Community, We are pleased to announce Adelphi’s Commencement plans to celebrate our Class of 2022. Adelphi University will hold a traditional in-person Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 23, at Nassau Live Center, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in Uniondale, New York. Our Doctoral Hooding Ceremony for eligible PhD candidates will be…

Nothing makes a more positive impact on student learning and success than well-prepared teachers, according to Teacher Residencies: Supporting the Next Generation of Teachers and Students, a 2019 report issued by the office of New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer.

Adelphi University has been nominated in nine categories in the annual Bethpage Best of Long Island competition organized by Schneps Media. Online voting continues through December 15 and winners will be announced early in 2022. Individuals may vote once a day.

As Adelphi moved to remote learning in the spring of 2020, one of our top priorities was to ensure that all students had the reliable broadband access and computer hardware they needed.

Across New York City’s diverse neighborhoods, schools struggle to attract and retain the talented teachers that students deserve. To address this critical issue, the New York City Department of Education’s Teaching Fellows Program awarded Adelphi University a $9 million grant in April. The Teaching Fellows Program at Adelphi, which will start in January 2022 and run for…

The New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) has awarded Adelphi University a $9 million Teaching Fellows Program grant. The six-year grant, $1.5 million each year, will prepare an estimated 900 teaching fellows for New York City public schools at Adelphi—about 150 per year.

Dear Adelphi Community, It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Christopher Storm, PhD, as Adelphi’s next provost and executive vice president, with unanimous approval from the Adelphi University Board of Trustees. Dr. Storm’s appointment will be effective July 1, 2021. Dr. Storm was chosen following an exhaustive internal search process that featured the…

Steven Cox, PhD, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders and director of the Voice and Quality of Life Laboratory (VQLL) at Adelphi University, studies how voice disorders can impact individuals' physical, psychological and social functioning. He has a particular interest in communication and quality-of-life concerns in individuals treated for laryngeal cancer.

Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States face daunting odds. An overwhelming majority are returned to their country of origin, their petitions for asylum denied.

Each spring, the Adelphi community comes together to celebrate student scholarship and creativity during the annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference.

Interested in earning a master's degree in teaching—with a paid internship? Graduate enrollment is now open for Adelphi University's New York Noyce STEAM Pipeline Program. Seven scholarships are available for candidates applying for the 2021–2022 school year.

How do you get to the Adelphi PAC Living Room? Practice, of course, plus a webcam and you're there.

Who is better prepared for success in college: first-generation students, meaning the first in their families to pursue higher education, or non-first-generation students, those whose parents and perhaps earlier generations in the family attended college?

Adelphi’s STEP and CSTEP programs are helping to prepare diverse students from local high schools and Adelphi for inspiring careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Melissa Randazzo, PhD, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, is taking her expertise to Uganda to train educators and therapists there.

Since childhood, Courtney Lee Weida, EdD, associate professor and director of graduate art education in Adelphi’s Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, has found the princess archetype “both captivating and problematic.” Dr. Weida partnered with her sister, Jaime Chris Weida, PhD, assistant professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (The City University of…