By GREGORY ZELLER //
Adelphi University has gone on a serious innovation spree, adding new continuing-education workshops, advanced-business certificates and an ambitious bachelor’s degree program with an international mien.
The Garden City-based university has trumpeted a flurry of programmatic additions since March 24, when it announced more than 50 new certificate programs and workshops “in a number of high-demand areas.”
Held both in-person and online, the bounty of non-credit courses ranges from finance to educational leadership to technology, with a host of other professional fields – each critical to 21st century economics – in play. Andy Atzert, dean of Adelphi’s College of Professional and Continuing Studies, said the continuing-education bonanza was carefully curated to “reflect the most in-demand competencies that employers are seeking.”
Andy Atzert: Professional upgrade.
“Participants can earn digital credentials that are shareable on social media,” Atzert added, calling the workshops “convenient, affordable ways for adult learners to upgrade their professional skills and enhance their personal lives.”
Adelphi followed up with the March 31 announcement of three new advanced graduate-certificate programs at the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business.
The programs – in business analytics, digital marketing and marketing analytics – require a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in any discipline, and like the continuing-ed workshops are designed to balance work, family and other non-university obligations by offering flexible in-person and online schedules.
Willumstad School Interim Dean MaryAnne Hyland said the graduate-certificate courses – replete with universal marketing data, quantitative analytics and sophisticated digital-marketing strategies – “will prepare [students] for careers in these growing fields of business.”
“We are excited to offer our students the small classes, personalized approach and experiential learning … in these cutting-edge certificate programs,” Hyland said in a statement.
Raysa Amador: Multicultural method.
On Tuesday, Adelphi broke out the big guns: a new Bachelor of Arts Degree in Language and Cultures, a multifaceted program designed to give students the foreign-language and intercultural skills demanded by a global economy.
Among the required studies in the new degree program are two foreign languages and an intercultural-communication seminar, along with a smorgasbord of sensitivity training designed to create “informed citizens” in tune with “the wants and needs of multicultural populations,” according to Adelphi.
The new degree program, which kicks off with the Fall 2021 semester, will “prepare our students to meet the complex challenges of today as well as those that lie ahead,” according to Professor Raysa Amador, chairwoman of the university’s Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department.
“Adelphi helps America’s future leaders become academically and globally informed about the needs of our multicultural and diverse population,” Amador added.
