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Most colleges have programs to get incoming first-year students acquainted with the campus. Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ community to welcome them aboard.

For the past year, a group of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ staffers has been quietly working on building the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Staff Council, the first on campus to serve the interests of staff at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ 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.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™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.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ as its newest affiliate.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s Fall Arts Festival.

Earlier this year, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ student has been named a Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact. Miguel Velasquez, a sophomore in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™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.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ 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.

In 2007, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ launched Bridges to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­, an award-winning program that helps students on the autism spectrum or who have nonverbal learning disabilities transition to college life and succeed academically and socially.

Admission to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ will continue to be standardized test optional for current high school juniors applying for admission this coming year, recognizing the difficulty of taking SATs or ACTs during the pandemic.

Over the past 20 years, sources of knowledge have rapidly increased. In addition to traditional media and library collections, we can find information in blogs, social media, Wikipedia, big data, Zoom Rooms and Google Hangouts, among many other sources. With this expansion come questions on how we create, obtain and share knowledge and how we make knowledge accessible while respecting privacy.

Osvaldo Alvarado enlisted in the Army Reserve while still a senior in high school. After six years, he wanted to continue to serve others, this time by becoming a social worker. “I enjoy helping people and serving the community," he said. "It's a calling."

First-year student Matthew Brophy is a winner of a 9/11 Promise scholarship for children of first responders. Affected by a friend's suicide, he came to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ for our top-tier psychology program.