Adelphi University is pulling back the curtain.
Deep in the Galactically Underrated File sits Adelphi, a 125-year-old private institution that’s routinely overlooked on an Island heavy with world-class universities and laboratories – though not by U.S. News & World Report, which praises Adelphi as a top college for veterans, nursing students, career guidance and social mobility, and ranks it high in several key categories defining the nation’s best schools.
Keeping Adelphi, its roughly 8,000 students and its impressive academic staff ticking is Christine Riordan, an internationally acclaimed leadership-development expert who in 2015 became the first woman to serve as the Garden City-based university’s president. A former University of Kentucky provost, one-time University of Denver Business School dean and enormous proponent of diversity, she brings lengthy experience to the job – and a savvy that served Adelphi well during the COVID crunch.
In today’s conversation, the president joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss Adelphi’s post-pandemic renaissance, featuring new academic programs, new student-housing plans and a host of COVID-era lessons learned that will help Adelphi grow in the coming years.
