Cocurricular Programs

Because of Adelphi’s proximity to Manhattan, the Honors College can offer an unparalleled series of events and activities in which the students confront the best achievements and the leading figures in cultural and intellectual life.

For example, artists and authors are brought to campus to meet with the students in intimate gatherings for stimulating and pro- vocative discussion that will illuminate the art that has been created from the standpoint of the artist, director, or impresario who has created or staged it. Several times a semester groups of students attend events off campus in Manhattan and the greater New York area. These visits to the theatre, concerts, and museums are made an active rather than passive experience in a variety of ways, especially through discussions before or after a cultural event in the home of an Honors professor.

Moreover, the cultural activities themselves are arranged to allow the students the closest and most intense experience. (For example, students have attended special exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for private showings when the Museum is closed. They have been invited to the Board Room of the New York Philharmonic for a conversation with the conductor before attending a Philharmonic concert.)

Recent On-Campus Cultural Events

• Visiting lecturers have included:
  • Harvard historian Daniel Goldhagen
  • George Stephanopoulos
  • John Updike
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Shimon Peres
  • Rita Moreno

Recent Off-Campus Cultural Events

• 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
  • 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.

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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