Adelphi University
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| Motto | Vita Sine Litteris Mors Est (from Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca the Younger) |
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Motto in English
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Literal translation: "Life without learning is death" "The Truth Shall Make Us Free" |
| Type | Private |
| Established | June 24, 1896 |
| Endowment | $175 million |
| President | Christine Riordan |
| Provost | Sam L. Grogg (interim) |
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Academic staff
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1,013 (336 full-time, 677 part-time) |
| Students | 7,859 (6,154 full-time, 1,705 part-time) |
| Undergraduates | 5,103 (4,525 full-time, 578 part-time) |
| Postgraduates | 2,756 (1,629 full-time, 1,127 part-time) |
| Location |
Garden City, New York, U.S. 40°43′13″N 73°39′06″W / 40.7202°N 73.6517°WCoordinates: 40°43′13″N 73°39′06″W / 40.7202°N 73.6517°W |
| Campus | Suburban, 75 acres (300,000 m2) (304,000 m²) |
| Colors | Brown and Gold |
| Athletics | NCAA Division II – NE-10 |
| Sports | 23 Varsity Teams |
| Nickname | Panthers |
| Mascot | Panther |
| Website | www.adelphi.edu |
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| U.S. News & World Report | 153 |
| Washington Monthly | 82 |
Adelphi University is a private, nonsectarian university located in Garden City, in Nassau County, New York, United States. Adelphi also has centers in Manhattan, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County. It is the oldest institution of higher education in suburban Long Island. For the tenth year, Adelphi University has been named a "Best Buy" in higher education by the Fiske Guide to Colleges. The university was also named a 2010 Best College in the Northeastern Region by The Princeton Review. The institution was awarded the 2010 Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.U.S. News & World Report ranked Adelphi University #153 among national universities.
Adelphi University began with the Adelphi Academy, founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1863. The academy was a private preparatory school located at 412 Adelphi Street, in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, but later moved to Clinton Hill. It was formally chartered in 1869 by the board of trustees of the City of Brooklyn for establishing "a first class institution for the broadest and most thorough training, and to make its advantages as accessible as possible to the largest numbers of our population." One of the teachers at the Adelphi Academy was Harlan Fiske Stone, who later served as the Chief Justice of the United States.
In 1893, Dr. Charles Herbert Levermore was appointed as the head of Adelphi Academy. Seeking to establish a liberal arts college for the City of Brooklyn, Levermore received a charter from the Board of Regents of the State of New York, officially establishing Adelphi College on June 24, 1896. The college received its charter through the efforts of Timothy Woodruff, former Lieutenant Governor of New York and future first president of the board of trustees. Adelphi was one of the first coeducational institutions to receive a charter from the State of New York. At the time of its foundation, the college numbered only 57 students and 16 instructors. The Adelphi Academy continued to exist as a separate but nonetheless connected entity to the college. The new college was located in a building behind the Adelphi Academy, on the corner of St. James's Place and Clifton Place, in Brooklyn. The building that originally housed Adelphi is now used by Pratt Institute for their School of Architecture.
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