Cocurricular Programs

For these on-campus cultural events, Honors students gather for dinner and attend lectures and performances together. Recent visiting lecturers have included Harvard historian Daniel Goldhagen, George Stephanopoulos, John Updike, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Rita Moreno.

In New York, Honors students are able to choose from the nation's best theater, music, and museums. Often, on a trip to New York, Honors administrators or faculty host a brunch or reception at a Manhattan apartment before or after the event. Through connections with major institutions in New York we are able to make special arrangements for our students. Recently, Honors students toured the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Origins of Impressionism exhibit when the museum was closed to the public. They were also invited to the board room of the New York Philharmonic before concert time for a conversation with the artistic director and conductor Kurt Masur.

Since the founding of the Honors College in 1995, the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center has generously donated many of the best seats in the house for several performances each semester. This gift makes it possible for all Honors students to learn the great operas of Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, and others. Some recent events in other venues include Shakespeare's Othello and Much Ado About Nothing; Chekhov's Ivanov with Kevin Kline; O'Niell's The Iceman Cometh, with Kevin Spacey; RENT, the Broadway musical by Jonathan Larson, an Adelphi alumnus; a new version of Swan Lake; Jazz Women, a festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and a variety of concerts at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. In fall of 2002 Honors College students attended a performance of the Broadway hit Metamorphoses and were treated to a special look behind the scenes after the performance. Photographs of the evening were taken by an Honors College student.

Student Activities

Honors College Student Council
The Honors student council meets in the student seminar room in the Earle Basement. The council helps organize a great variety of activities, from parties to community service.

Symposium, A Journal of Ideas
One of the Council's projects is editing and publishing a journal of the best student work including fiction, poetry, essays, and opinion pieces.

Artists' Forum
Once a semester the Honors students organize an event in Olmsted Theatre at which students perform or make presentations of their creative work and the audience interacts with the artists.

Intramural Sports
Recent teams have included volleyball and floor hockey. In recent years the floor hockey team has been one of the most successful in the league.

Campus life
The Honors College provides a home base for Honors students as they get involved in all areas of campus life and student activities. Honors College students provide leadership in student government, the Student Activities Board, sports teams, the campus newspaper, and many other areas as well.

Richard Garner, Dean
Adelphi University
Honors College
Earle Hall, Room 100
1 South Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530

p - 516.877.3800
f - 516.877.3803
e - garner@adelphi.edu

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