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Adelphi Offers Diversity Certificate Program to Long Island Schools and Organizations

Garden City, NY (04/21/2021) — An increasing number of school districts and organizations on Long Island have signed up to participate in Adelphi University's Diversity Certificate Program. Launched on Adelphi's main campus in Garden City in 2016, the program has been an opportunity for Adelphi's faculty and staff to learn how to promote a respectful and inclusive work and learning environment. In recent years, it has expanded to include a focus on engaging other area educational institutions.

The University's external diversity program, coordinated through Adelphi's College of Professional and Continuing Studies, is offered in two venues -a teacher and administrator cohort format offered to school districts, and a public option program open to human resource professionals, businesses, public health and healthcare professionals, law enforcement personnel, and educators who pursue the program on their own.

Previous and current clients include Sewanhaka Central High School District, Roosevelt Union Free School District, Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Nassau BOCES, and the Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School District.

This year, the Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead, and the Long Beach School District have come forward to offer the DCP workshops to their employees, and Adelphi is in conversations with several other Long Island educational institutions.

"The Diversity Certificate Program engages participants in conversations that enable a deeper understanding and appreciation for the importance, contributions, and value of diversity, equity and inclusion to an organization's creativity, and its productivity, vitality and well-being," said Marsha J. Tyson Darling, PhD, history professor and director of African, Black, and Caribbean Studies at Adelphi.

Applications are currently open for the public option of the diversity certificate program. For more information about Adelphi's Diversity Certificates, visit adelphi.edu/professional-continuing-studies.

About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning

Adelphi University, New York, is a highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training, with particular strength in our Core Four-Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.

Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves almost 8,000 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York-just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities-and at dynamic learning hubs in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.

More than 116,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities and the world.

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