Student Affairs Publications

The New Student Handbook is designed to introduce freshman, transfer, and international students to everything you need to know about your new life at Adelphi.

New Student Handbook (PDF 11MB)

The Guide to Student Life is here to acquaint students with services, policies, and opportunities. Above all, take full advantage of attending Adelphi and get involved in the life of the University.

Guide to Student Life (PDF 6.7MB)

At Adelphi, we want to help students make good choices—good academic choices, good choices about the activities in which they participate outside the classroom, and good choices for their lives and careers beyond their undergraduate experience. The Parent Handbook provides resources to help you guide your student during the college experience.

Parent Handbook (PDF 92KB)

This guidebook will give you basic information about life at the University, in the local area, and in the United States. We have included information from a variety of sources and hope that its contents will help make your adjustment period a very short one. We also hope that it will make you become familiar with the role of the Office of International Student Services and its services to students.

International Student Guidebook (PDF 4.8MB)

CSI is the Center for Student Involvement, the hub of campus life at Adelphi University. The Center houses a myriad of programs and activities, providing assistance to students from the first day of Orientation to the culmination of the Adelphi experience at Commencement.

Center for Student Involvement brochure (PDF 1.46MB)

The ability and freedom to teach, learn, and develop depends upon appropriate opportunities and conditions in the classroom, in the residence hall, elsewhere on campus, and in the greater academic community. The University has developed procedures and policies to safeguard this process and to maintain an environment conducive to the learning process.

Code of Conduct (PDF 418KB)

Bridges to Adelphi

Students embarking on college life often feel lost and anxious. But for students with Asperger's Suyndrome, Autism, Social Anxiety Diosrders, and toher nonverbal learning disabilities, the college experience can be confusing and isolating.

Bridges to Adelphi brochure (PDF 135KB)

Also called hate crimes, bias crimes are criminal acts such as aggravated harassment, arson, assault, criminla mischief, or murder committed by an individual(s) motivated by a bias against the victim's age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, religious practice, or sexual orientation.

Bias Crimes brochure (PDF 82KB)

Domestic violence and intimate partner violence are offenses which exhibit a pattern of coercive tactics, including physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and emotional abuse perpetrated by one person against an adult intimate partner, with the goal of establishing and maintaining power and control over the victim.

Violence Brochure (PDF 84.4KB)

Sexual assault describes all forms of sexual violence against male and female victims, including intercourse (rape), oral and anal penetration, penetration with an object, and touching and fondling sexual body
parts by force or threat of force and without consent.

Sexual Assault Brochure (166KB)

The Office of Disability Support Services assists student with disabilites in accessing the variety of resources available at Adelphi University. Our mission is to ensure that student with disabilities have equal access to all aspects of university life.

Disability Support Services brochure (PDF 139KB)

EXCEL is an acronym for Entering Students Excelling through the Contribution of Experience Leaders. Mentors live ont he same floor as the first-year students and are available to assist them with their transition to college life.

EXCEL brochure (PDF 3.10MB)

The Commuter Assistant Program matches incoming freshman commuter students with seasoned upperclassmen to help new freshmen in their transition from high school to college. Adelphi is committed to ensuring that each freshman commuter student feels engaged and connected to the University right from the start of their first days on campus.

Commuter Services brochure (PDF 1.8MB)

The Adelphi Health Servies Center provides multiple avenues of health education and awareness to the University Community. The Center is under the direction of a Nurse Practitioner. RNs/EMTs are available 24 hours a day to all registered students while school is in session.

Health Services brochure (PDF 815MB)

The Interfaith Center offers students, faculty, administrators, and staff members opportunities to worship, to enjoy mutual fellowship, to discuss spiritual values, to seek spiritual guidance, to learn about their religious traditions, and to discover those of others. Participation is voluntary, and members of all faiths are welcome to all activities, programs, and services.

Interfaith Center brochure (PDF 160KB)

The Office of Residential Life and Housing seeks to create an integrated academic and cocurricular environment for its residents by providing programs, services, and facilities to contribue to the intellectual, social and cultural development of students.

Residential Life and Housing brochure (PDF 119KB)

College can be a wonderful, but stressful experience, creating unanticipated pressures and problems. When this happens, the Student Counseling Center is here to help. We offer a variety of services, including individial and group counseling, outreach and consultation, crisis intervention, and referrals to both on- and off-campus resources.

Student Counseling Center brochure (PDF 163KB)