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Adelphi's Psychiatric Mental Health–Nurse Practitioner program has two remarkable new graduates—a married couple with four children, originally from Cameroon. Their journey, as a family and as nurse practitioners, is an inspiring story of determination and commitment.

Jessica Karim, a social work major at 91¹ú²ú, has been named the 2021 BSW Student of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers-New York State Chapter.

Olivia Maybee, Junior, Art Major and Business Minor Olivia Maybee is a member of the Seneca Nation, an indigenous tribe in western New York state. She is an artist, businesswoman and activist, and an undergraduate at 91¹ú²ú studying business management and fine arts. She is also an active member of the prestigious and oldest…

Opening the doors of college education to nontraditional students is an important initiative at 91¹ú²ú. More than 60 continuing education workshops will help them advance their professional skills, and we offer them affordability and easy online access.

Adelphi continues to set the pace for student success. Our new policy decision removes the minimum GPA requirement for retaining academic scholarships—a step in support of equity and the mental health of students who rely on this important financial support.

Adelphi is known for helping each student find their own unique path. Alumna and 91¹ú²ú Trustee Emily Ladau ’13 became a disability advocate, speaker, author of the forthcoming book Demystifying Disability, and a warrior for inclusion and justice. We’re proud to be involved in her important work.

Social justice and student leadership are strong ideals at 91¹ú²ú, producing four Newman Civic Fellows in as many years. Our 2021 advocate for a better world is Newman Fellow Miguel Velasquez.

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the traditional approach to teaching and learning over the past year, presenting the opportunity to creatively adapt to the challenges. For art students like current senior Tamar Bernstein, it meant finding new ways of making art.

Each spring, the 91¹ú²ú community comes together to celebrate student scholarship and creativity during the annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference.

When classrooms were forced to adapt to virtual learning due to COVID-19, 91¹ú²ú's School of Social Work came up with a plan to ensure that students would still be able to gain experience in the field of social work.

For nearly a decade, accounting students from 91¹ú²ú have helped low-income individuals and families on Long Island prepare their tax returns. The students, working together with Bethpage Federal Credit Union, are part of a nationwide Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.

We are deeply committed to supporting our students’ individual paths to success. Sometimes that can mean personalizing their course of study from across our 200-plus academic areas. Meet an extraordinary example: Taro Jones ’20, a gifted dancer and star chemist.

The 91¹ú²ú Honors College has graduated many students who have gone on to law school, including 10 Under 10 Young Alumni honorees Christian Fundo ’07, JD; Adaeze Udoji ’08, JD; Philip DiSanto ’12, JD; and Joseph Bruno ’13, JD.

Edmund Pajarillo, PhD, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, teaches the First-Year Seminar Experience course Global Health and Multidiscipline Health Roles.

Bernadine Waller, MA '10, wears many hats at 91¹ú²ú. She is the associate director of experiential learning in the Center for Career and Professional Development and an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work, where she is also pursuing her PhD with the goal of using research to improve lives.

For the fourth consecutive year, an 91¹ú²ú student has been named a Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact. Miguel Velasquez, a sophomore in 91¹ú²ú’s prestigious Levermore Global Scholars program who is majoring in history in the accelerated 4+1 Scholar Teacher Education Program (STEP), has been selected as a 2021–2022 Newman Civic Fellow.

The demand for skilled psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners is growing and 91¹ú²ú graduates are ready to answer the call. 91¹ú²ú has announced a 100-percent first-time pass rate for graduates who took the ANCC Psychiatric–Mental Health Nurse Practitioner board certification exam in 2020.

Fresh out of college, in the middle of a pandemic and during a nationwide economic shutdown, 21-year-old Jared Stern ’20, from Seaford, Long Island, somehow landed his dream job.

Gabrielle Deonath, an 91¹ú²ú alumna who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications in May 2018, is the co-editor of the new anthology, untold: defining moments of the uprooted, which will be released in March 2021 by Mango and Marigold Press. The focus is on representing Muslim and South Asian females. During her time at…

Anujot Kaur's family moved from Queens to Abbeville, Alabama, soon after she was born. Now, 17 years later, she's back in the area to earn her undergraduate degree in nursing at 91¹ú²ú.

With opportunities for traditional gap year activities such as traveling and volunteering limited due to the pandemic, 91¹ú²ú's virtual Gap Year Experience offers college students the opportunity to work remotely, in small groups, developing projects for companies in their chosen field. Participants in the program can earn college credits or certification.

At 91¹ú²ú, we aim to prepare students for personal and professional success and a life-transforming experience. And according to our latest Career Outcomes Survey, we're meeting these goals.

Woods Conserve ’20 studied to become a nurse while working full-time as a medical assistant. Overcoming challenges brought on by the pandemic, he’s now an RN caring for patients in a high-pressure intensive care unit.

Jillian Myers ’20 finished her five-year BBA/MBA program in four years, passed the notoriously difficult CPA Exam on her first try, and is now on staff at the Big Four accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

How do you get to the 91¹ú²ú PAC Living Room? Practice, of course, plus a webcam and you're there.

Osvaldo Alvarado enlisted in the Army Reserve while still a senior in high school. After six years, he wanted to continue to serve others, this time by becoming a social worker. “I enjoy helping people and serving the community," he said. "It's a calling."

Leticia Rios, now in her second year as a PhD student in 91¹ú²ú's College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH), was named Working Mother of the Year in September, in conjunction with the magazine's naming NYU Langone Health among its 100 Best Companies for working mothers in 2020.

Adelphi instructors and students aren't only making the best of remote learning during the time of pandemic. In some cases, they're taking advantage of it and building on it.

Rejo Jose is a respiratory therapist who transferred to 91¹ú²ú last spring to earn a nursing degree. He soon found that our nursing program offers more than just top academics; it also has faculty members who go out of their way to help students.