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Causes: Education, Universities
Mission: Adelphi is a modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning. A highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university, adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training with particular strength in its core four - arts and humanities, stem and social sciences, the business and education professions, and health and wellness. Adelphi is dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support student success. Founded in brooklyn in 1896, adelphi is long island's oldest private coeducational university. Today adelphi serves nearly 8,000 students at its beautiful main campus in garden city, new york - just 23 miles from new york city's cultural and internship opportunities - and at dynamic learning hubs in manhattan, the hudson valley and suffolk county, and online. More than 100,000 adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive pr
Programs: Instruction and related academic support, student services and public support benefiting the community - the university provides a personalized education for all its undergraduate and graduate students, comprised of 4,664 undergraduate and 1,818 graduate/ postbaccalaureate full-time equivalent students. Students come from diverse backgrounds and are not only from the new york area, but from across the country and around the world. Adelphi's college and schools include the college of arts and sciences; gordon f derner school of psychology; honors college; ruth s ammon school of education; robert b willumstad school of business; college of nursing and public health; school of social work; and college of professional and continuing studies. Students have accessibility to student counseling, career counseling, financial aid and mentoring and other services and programs offered by the university. Adelphi has extensive community health and human services outreach programs, including the hy weinberg center for communication disorders, the center for psychological services, the adelphi new york statewide breast cancer support hotline as well as other community service programs. These programs are offered to students, faculty and staff as well as to members of the surrounding community.
residential housing and auxiliary enterprises - the university offers student housing in seven halls on its main campus in garden city, new york. There are numerous special living options within these halls, including those for students who identify as transgender or don't wish to be identified as gender, first-year students selected for the living-learning community, and students in the honors college. Accessible housing is available for students with disabilities. In 2016-17, approximately 1,114 students lived in university residence halls.