Good News about Adelphi University

Founded in 1896, Adelphi University (Garden City, New York) is an independent, comprehensive university comprising eight colleges and schools: the Honors and University Colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Schools of Business, Education, Nursing, and Social Work, and the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies.
The University offers more than 40 undergraduate programs of study in the arts and sciences and pre-professional preparation. Adelphi also offers joint degree programs in dentistry (Tufts University), engineering (Columbia University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or Stevens Institute of Technology), environmental studies (Columbia University), law (New York Law School), and optometry (SUNY College of Optometry).
Adelphi provides graduate students with excellent practical preparation for professional and scholarly careers in business, the arts and sciences, education, nursing and health management, clinical psychology, and social work. In total, the University offers more than 40 graduate programs.
Building on a long tradition of service, the University dedicates its resources to improving the health and well-being of the community. Adelphi provides affordable mental health services, speech therapy programs, the most comprehensive breast cancer support service in New York, and innovative initiatives that emphasize sports as a positive learning experience and teach young athletes and their parents the value of sportsmanship.
Since 1999, one year before President Robert A. Scott joined Adelphi, total enrollment has increased by 25%; the size of the freshman class has increased by 47%; and the average SAT score of an incoming freshman is up 52 points.
Today, Adelphi enrolls nearly 4,425 undergraduate students from 38 states and 44 foreign countries. Adelphi’s student-to-faculty ratio is 14 to 1, and average class size is 25 students.
Students in Adelphi’s Department of Performing Arts have received numerous accolades including honors from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, the Northeast Regional American College Dance Festival Association, and Dance Magazine.

Adelphi’s students are taught by a full-time faculty of 254 that includes internationally renowned scholars, scientists, artists, and critics. In the last several years, members of the faculty were awarded grants by the prestigious national Fulbright Program, and in 2004 the chair of the Music Department won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for an original composition.
Adelphi’s heritage touches three centuries and now boasts over 96,000 alumni. Adelphi alumni now constitute 60% of the Board of Trustees, and for the first time in the University’s history, all three Board officers (chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary) are Adelphi alumni.
Among Adelphi’s alumni are two members of Congress; a co-founder of Nextel Communications; a former president of Allstate Insurance Company; a former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange; the author of the Broadway musical Rent; the current president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the founder and chairman of a major pharmaceutical company; the former vice chairman of Verizon Communications; and the former White House physician to President Clinton.
Every day, over 100,000 children in New York schools are taught by Adelphi graduates.
Adelphi is included in the nation’s best-selling college guide, The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2006. The Fiske Guide features “more than three hundred of the best and most interesting institutions in the nation,” and Adelphi is the only university on Long Island to be included in the 2006 Guide. Adelphi University was also named a 2005 and 2006 Best College in the Northeastern Region by The Princeton Review.
Adelphi sponsors 16 intercollegiate athletic teams, all at the Division II level, with the exception of men’s soccer, which plays at the Division I level. In 2004, in only its fourth year of play, the Adelphi women’s lacrosse team captured the NCAA Division II National Championship. In 2005, Adelphi’s department of intercollegiate athletics was awarded the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) Commissioner’s Cup as the best overall athletics program in the conference. This is the fourth time in five years that the Panthers have won the Cup.
In 2003, Adelphi University opened its first new residence hall in 36 years. The three-story, 60,000-square-foot, 181-bed, state-of-the-art facility is fully wired for Internet connectivity, and features private bathrooms. In 2005 Adelphi opened a new, 18,000-square-foot Fine Arts building that houses the departments of sculpture, ceramics, studio art, printmaking, and drawing. It is the University’s first new academic building in over 30 years.
Adelphi has a long tradition of inviting talented individuals to the University to enhance campus dialogue. In the past several years, notable guests have included: former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Perez; authors Alice Hoffman ’73, Salman Rushdie, Augustyn Burroughs, Malcolm Gladwell, and Peter Peterson; and journalists and political commentators David Gergen, Seymour Hersh, James Carville, Mary Matalin, and Frank Rich.
Alumni participation in the Adelphi Annual Fund has increased nearly 620% since 1997. Every gift, every year, at every level has an impact on the experience we are able to provide Adelphi students.