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Our fifth consecutive Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award is a great honor for all ¹û½´ÊÓƵ students, faculty, staff and alumni as we work together to advance change.

At ¹û½´ÊÓƵ, from day one, our new PATH core curriculum—with its focus on Preparation, Awareness, Transformation and Hands-On Learning—points students in the right direction on their pathway to college and lifetime learning.

Taking Spanish at the Wantagh, New York, high school was “serendipity," said Laraine Fletcher '61, PhD, a longtime anthropology professor at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ. It was the decision of a lifetime.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ's 2022 Spirit Weekend, running from October 12–October 16, will offer five days of fun on campus and beyond—and more events than ever before.

On ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's busy campus, there's a place where students, faculty and staff can find a moment for prayer or reflection and meet with others to worship, enjoy a meal or share ideas.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ has earned the exceptional achievement of a five-star rating on the Campus Pride Index—a nationally recognized measure of LGBTQ+ friendliness and inclusivity. Campus Pride also chose ¹û½´ÊÓƵ as one of the Top 40 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Campuses.

Most colleges have programs to get incoming first-year students acquainted with the campus. ¹û½´ÊÓƵ takes that idea one step farther with a program that gets new students acquainted with the University's commitment to serving the surrounding community.

Throughout our 125-year history, many of ¹û½´ÊÓƵ’s women leaders were the only women in the classroom, boardroom or corner office—and had to blaze a trail for the women who followed in their respective fields.

The fall semester kicks off with Welcome Weekend, an opportunity for incoming students to start their journeys and for the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ community to welcome them aboard.

For the past year, a group of ¹û½´ÊÓƵ staffers has been quietly working on building the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Staff Council, the first on campus to serve the interests of staff at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ by acting as a liaison between the staff and the University’s executive leadership.

These boards—and their dedicated members—make critical contributions to advancing student success. For example, our Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology Advisory Board launched its first-ever fundraising initiative 10 years ago to help support PhD students from diverse backgrounds. That scholarship fund has since grown to $1.25 million.

Being a graduate student is different from being an undergraduate student.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ’s communication sciences and disorders program provides a broad range of treatment, care and support to people of myriad linguistic backgrounds—from toddlers to seniors. We are privileged to work with diverse communities across Long Island.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ's 22nd annual President's Gala on Saturday, June 11, raised more than $345,000 for the President's Student Success Scholarship, an endowment that has now surpassed $1 million. This year's event at The Garden City Hotel concluded ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's 125th-anniversary celebrations, honoring the University's legacy and those who support its longevity and mission.

There's something different about Swirbul Library: The wall at the entrance, outside the Innovation Center, has gone from blank to brilliant, displaying a stunning mural, courtesy of the Department of Art and Art History, specifically the Mural Arts Workshop class.

In Fall 2021, the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing (NBASLH, pronounced “in bahz la" or /nbazle/) welcomed ¹û½´ÊÓƵ as its newest affiliate.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ's Summer Pre-College program will return to an in-person format for Summer 2022. The program is open to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors in high school.

Nola Jackson, 59, of Brentwood, New York, was 30 credits away from earning her 120-credit BA in Social Science in ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's College of Professional and Continuing Studies (CPCS) in 2014 when she became ill and was unable to work or attend classes.

Responses to the political tensions of the past year and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic will take center stage at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's Fall Arts Festival.

Earlier this year, ¹û½´ÊÓƵ co-debuted an interdisciplinary series that combined art and social action to engage people in transforming society. This fall, the series, Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation, restarts with several virtual and in-person events that showcase how the arts can redress inequities, reflect all voices and push society forward. The…

Illuminating COVID's toll on African American mothers and children.

An article by Kirkland Vaughans, PhD ’85, clinical director of the Derner Hempstead Child Clinic, explains how traditional psychotherapy misses the impact of structural racism on Black boys’ psyches—and suggests what to do about it.

If you're on campus the week of August 16, you may notice camera crews. That's because The College Tour is coming to ¹û½´ÊÓƵ.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ has been awarded the 2021 Digital Inclusion Grant from internet and software services provider Kajeet. The grant comes with the provision of free internet connectivity hardware and managed service on Kajeet's platform, Sentinel.

Like many first-year students, Alberto Cruz didn’t come to ¹û½´ÊÓƵ with a career planned out. He was from nearby Hicksville, New York, and wanted to stay local. He also knew he wanted to help people. “Coming out of high school, I wanted either to be a nurse or a social worker,” he said, adding that…

For nearly a decade, accounting students from ¹û½´ÊÓƵ 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.

For the fourth consecutive year, an ¹û½´ÊÓƵ student has been named a Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact. Miguel Velasquez, a sophomore in ¹û½´ÊÓƵ’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.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ is determined to advance women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. See how our mentoring approach, small class sizes and commitment to overcome a historic imbalance are yielding results.