See President Riordan’s latest From My Desk message and stories below.
Each month, I share stories of how Adelphi continues growing, leading and making a difference through our mission to transform lives. I invite you to see the ways our University, students, faculty, staff and alumni are contributing to our communities and advancing their professions and fields of study. I am thrilled to share these stories with you and welcome you to be part of our University community.
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As we take in the news from yesterday’s elections, Adelphi presses on with one of its most critical missions: researching topics that impact communities around the globe. In this year’s Academic & Creative Research Magazine, our distinguished faculty members look closely at the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the many industries that it changed forever. Inside, you will uncover the broad scope of groundbreaking inquiries, academic achievements, student mentorship and grants that fuel opportunities for discovery throughout our University.
I’m also proud to share more news this month of student success and equity at Adelphi. The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. rankings elevated Adelphi by 30 spots this year due to our exceptional student outcomes. Insight Into Diversity recognized Adelphi with its seventh consecutive Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award for new equity-based initiatives and growing campus diversity. We debut the University’s first admissions video in Spanish to ensure critical information reaches prospective students and families from Spanish-speaking communities. And we invite you to learn more about our Expect Extraordinary messaging campaign that explains the unique features, value and life-changing impact of an Adelphi education.
As we look forward to the last few weeks of the semester and the upcoming holiday season, I’m grateful for everyone at Adelphi who is working hard to make a difference in our students’ lives. Together, we continue to build a promising future.
All the best,
Chris
The COVID-19 pandemic affected all of us, around the world, in profound ways. Now that the critical stage of COVID has passed, Adelphi faculty look back—contributing exceptional research on the ways the pandemic changed education, childbirth, memory function, mental health and even the foods we eat.
With a new emphasis on student outcomes in its 2025 list of America's Best Colleges, The Wall Street Journal now ranks Adelphi as the top university on Long Island. Numerous initiatives promoting career readiness have propelled Adelphi's rise.
Strong support for successful programs and an openness to voices from the campus community helped Adelphi become one of just 10 universities out of approximately 200 in New York state to earn a 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity.
Spanish-speaking families often miss critical information about college choices because English is not their first language. Adelphi addressed this equity issue for families by creating our first admissions video in Spanish, shot and edited by Adelphi’s Guatemalan American digital media creator, Ana Rodriguez ’22.
An Adelphi education is an exceptional one—and this new University-wide marketing effort sets out the reasons why. Students of all ages—undergraduate, graduate and adult—can expect smaller classes, more personalized attention, higher graduating salaries and award-winning career planning.
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To the extent that we can monitor what teens do on these platforms and create healthy, open dialogues about their risks, we can certainly mitigate this very real, and constantly evolving, risk.”
