Adelphi University

Get to know Adelphi University at a glance.

A brief history of Adelphi University.

Adelphi University's roots reach back to 1863 and the establishing of the Adelphi Academy, a private academy in Brooklyn, New York. The Academy was consolidated in 1869 and its Board of Trustees was accused of building up a top notch foundation for the broadest and most careful preparing, and to make its points of interest as open as would be prudent to the biggest quantities of our populace. The school immediately picked up a notoriety for its imaginative educational modules, especially in physical society and early adolescence instruction. 

The arrangement of Charles H. Levermore, Ph.D., as the leader of the Academy in 1893 was a vital crossroads in Adelphi's history. Understanding the city of Brooklyn was without a human sciences school, Levermore grabbed the chance to set up Adelphi College. Through the endeavors of Timothy Woodruff, previous lieutenant legislative leader of New York State and future president of Adelphi's Board of Trustees, Adelphi College, with 57 understudies and 16 educators, was allowed a sanction—one of the most punctual contracts conceded to a coeducational school by the Board of Regents of the State of New York—on June 24, 1896. From now on, degrees issued bore the seals of Adelphi College and of the University of the State of New York and were marked by the officers of the College and by the chancellor and the secretary of the University. For the following 25 years, the Academy stayed in place yet isolate from the College. 

Through the span of the following 100 years Adelphi developed and changed altogether. In 1929, Adelphi University turned into the principal private, coeducational foundation of advanced education on Long Island. Since that time, more than 100,000 understudies have gone through our entryways, leaving their blemish on the University and the world past. 

Today, Adelphi is flourishing. Our universities and schools incorporate the College of Arts and Sciences; the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies; the Honors College; the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business; the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education; the School of Nursing; the School of Social Work; and University College. We have reinvigorated our scholarly group and put resources into our future. Our workforce is driving the best approach to guarantee that our understudies get the finest training in the district and that Adelphi keeps on serving as an imperative asset to our neighborhood groups. As we transform our key arrangement into a dream for our future, the grounds group has met up to finish shared objectives focused on grant and understudy accomplishment. 

While colleges around the nation have been wiping out personnel, Adelphi has procured more than 280 new educators since 2001. Current full-and low maintenance staff absolute 956, with an understudy/workforce proportion of 10:1. To guarantee that our researchers have the assets expected to achieve their objectives, we have put a great many dollars in base. We have redesigned our offices; overhauled our innovation and made brilliant classrooms; drastically enhanced our libraries—both offices and accumulations; and put resources into new hardware, including best in class lasers for two new material science research centers, a nuclear checking magnifying instrument and an atomic attractive reverberation machine for the science program, new pianos from Steinway and Sons, and upgraded computerized music offices to bolster our music and performing expressions programs. An aggressive grounds development venture has, in the course of the most recent decade, brought about the fruition and opening of the Adele and Herbert J. Klapper Center for Fine Arts with space for painting, printmaking, model and pottery; the Center for Recreation and Sports, containing rec centers and an indoor track; the Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) incorporates a 500-seat Concert Hall and extra execution, practice and classroom space for music, theater and move; an open air sports complex; a complete redesign of Woodruff Hall with an advanced activity room, pool, showing rec center and classroom; the Alice Brown Early Learning Center; and extra stopping. 

Researchers all through the University are making noteworthy commitments to their controls. As of late, Adelphi employees have been perceived as Fulbright and Hartford Scholars, and have gotten financing from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The School of Social Work is licensed for the greatest time that the certifying organization stipends. Truth be told, our School of Social Work was reaccredited without any proposals for development by the Council on Social Work Education's site assessment advisory group, and the School's self-study report so awed the board that it is presently utilized as a model as a part of reaccreditation instructional meetings for different pro