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===Adelphi College===
Adelphi University began with the Adelphi Academy, founded in [[Brooklyn]], New York, in 1863. The academy was a private preparatory school located at 412 Adelphi Street, in the [[Fort Greene, Brooklyn|Fort Greene]] neighborhood of Brooklyn, but later moved to [[Clinton Hill, Brooklyn|Clinton Hill]]. It was formally chartered in 1869 by the board of trustees of the City of Brooklyn for establishing "a first class institution for the broadest and most thorough training, and to make its advantages as accessible as possible to the largest numbers of our population."<ref>Fleischner, J. (2015). A history of Adelphi University. Pearson Learning Solutions. </ref> One of the teachers at the Adelphi Academy was [[Harlan Fiske Stone]], who later served as the [[Chief Justice of the United States]].
[[File:Levermore Hall.jpg|thumb|Levermore Hall - Administration Building]]
In 1893, [[Charles Herbert Levermore]] was appointed as the head of Adelphi Academy. Seeking to establish a liberal arts college for the City of Brooklyn, Levermore received a charter from the Board of Regents of the State of New York, officially establishing Adelphi College on June 24, 1896. The college received its charter through the efforts of Timothy Woodruff, former Lieutenant Governor of New York and future first president of the board of trustees. Adelphi was one of the first coeducational institutions to receive a charter from the State of New York. At the time of its foundation, the college numbered only 57 students and 16 instructors. The Adelphi Academy continued to exist as a separate but nonetheless connected entity to the college. The new college was located in a building behind the Adelphi Academy, on the corner of St. James's Place and Clifton Place, in Brooklyn. The building that originally housed Adelphi is now used by [[Pratt Institute]] for their [[Pratt Institute School of Architecture|School of Architecture]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CLINTON_HILL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119170748/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/CLINTON_HILL_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf |archive-date=2014-01-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 

In 1912, Adelphi became a women's college. In 1922, the school raised over one million dollars to expand the overcrowded facilities in Brooklyn. In 1925, Adelphi College severed its ties with the Adelphi Academy, the latter closing in 1930. In 1929, the college moved from its founding location in Brooklyn to the current location of its main campus in [[Garden City, New York]]. The original "academy" continues to function as a P–12 school in Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adelphinyc.org/pages/AdelphiNYC/About_Adelphi/Quick_Facts|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140319102356/http://www.adelphinyc.org/pages/AdelphiNYC/About_Adelphi/Quick_Facts|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 March 2014|title=Adelphi Academy: Quick Facts|access-date=27 December 2017}}</ref> The original three buildings of the Garden City campus, Levermore Hall, Blodgett Hall and Woodruff Hall, were designed by [[McKim, Mead and White]].  
In 1938, the Dance Program was founded by the world-famous dancer [[Ruth St. Denis]]. In 1943, the School of Nursing was established in response to the need for nurses due to American involvement in [[World War II]]. First Lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] presided over the opening of two federally funded residence halls on campus, in a speech entitled "The Challenge of Nursing for Young Women Today."

In 1946, after World War II ended, Adelphi reverted to a coeducational college and started admitting new students on the federal [[Servicemen's Readjustment Act (USA)|GI Bill]]. New sports teams were created following the readmission of men to the school. In 1952, the first program for clinical psychology was established at the school; it was the forerunner to the Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies, now the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology.