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| Adelphi Honors College promotional poster |
This year marks
the 20th anniversary of the Adelphi Honors College which opened in
the fall of 1995 during a turbulent period in the history of the university.
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Brochure for Honors College
Day |
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Program booklet for
"25 Years of Honors"
anniversary (2003)
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Modeled on
the Oxbridge collegiate system, the Honors College was, as Dr. Jennifer
Fleischner describes it in her recent book, A History of Adelphi University, “[s]uccessful (and controversial) from the
start.” Throughout
its 20 years, the Honors College has offered a group of specially admitted students
majoring in a variety of fields the opportunity to supplement their studies at Adelphi with
a liberal arts based curriculum delivered in small honors specific courses and
seminars.
With a
dedicated facility in Earle Hall, and an emphasis on shared academic and
cultural experiences, Honors College students constitute a smaller academic
community within the larger university.
Among the records
and ephemera in the Adelphi University Archives documenting the history of the
Honors College are a range of promotional items such as pamphlets, brochures, and
posters; the letter circulated to students and faculty announcing the
appointment of its founding and current dean, Dr. Richard Garner; copies of Symposium, the journal produced by
Honors College students; and architectural plans for the Earle Hall Honors
College renovation. The University Archives also holds copies of senior theses completed by Honors College students.
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Segment of the architectural plans for the Earle Hall
Honors College renovation |
A program booklet
produced for an earlier anniversary celebration, held in 2003, of “25 Years of
Honors” at Adelphi is a reminder that the Honors College was established as an expansion
of an existing honors program at Adelphi, the Honors Program in Liberal Studies,
which had opened in 1978.
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