The Adelphi community is proud to welcome such prestigious guests to its Garden City campus on the occasion of the Inauguration of Christine M. Riordan, Ph.D., as the 10th president of the University:
| Name (first) | Name (last) | Institution | Institution Date of Founding |
| Christopher A. | Maher, Ph.D. | College of William & Mary | 1693 |
| Eric | Gebaide, J.D. | Columbia University | 1754 |
| Timothy | Collins | Transylvania University | 1780 |
| Donald J. | Hendler | Franklin & Marshall College | 1787 |
| Larry | Keith | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1789 |
| Jonathan M. | Jackson, Ph.D. | Williams College | 1793 |
| David | Peirez, J.D. | 1794 | |
| Maureen | Dobert | Hartwick College | 1797 |
| Patrick | Kennelly, Ph.D. | Allegheny College | 1815 |
| Elizabeth T. | Kelly | Amherst College | 1821 |
| Cindy | Maguire, Ph.D. | New York University | 1831 |
| Jane | Hollinshead | Wittenberg University | 1842 |
| Elizabeth | Romanelli | Muhlenberg College | 1848 |
| Daniel | Frankel | Rhodes College | 1848 |
| David | D’Amato | Elmira College | 1855 |
| Jennifer | Theiff | Boston College | 1863 |
| Lynne | DiStasio | Wilson College | 1869 |
| Ann | Louden | Texas Christian University | 1873 |
| Jacquelyn C. | Harvey, Ph.D. | Duquesne University | 1878 |
| Polly | Schmitz | Whitman College | 1882 |
| Miki | Kashiwagi | Cottey College | 1884 |
| Brian | Daughney, J.D. | Clark University | 1887 |
| Robert | Padala | St. Leo University | 1889 |
| Mrinalini | Lhila | Randolph College | 1891 |
| Elizabeth S. | Armetta | College of Saint Elizabeth | 1899 |
| Philip | Wachtler | Skidmore College | 1903 |
| Jill | Brown, Ph.D. | Bentley University | 1917 |
| Warren | Rosenberg, Ph.D. | The College of Westchester | 1915 |
| Jacqueline Jones | LaMon | UCLA | 1919 |
| Lorna | Bodian | Sarah Lawrence College | 1926 |
| Victoria | Shoaf, Ph.D. | Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University | 1927 (1870) |
| Catherine | Hennessy | Hofstra University | 1935 |
| Kerry | Walk, Ph.D. | Marymount Manhattan College | 1936 |
| Joseph | Posillico | Caldwell University | 1939 |
| Vincent | Calluzzo, Ph.D. | Iona College | 1940 |
| Wendy | Robinson | Helene Fuld College of Nursing | 1945 |
| Anne | McCall, Ph.D. | Binghamton University, State University of New York at Binghamton | 1946 |
| Kathleen | Murphy Alcock | Le Moyne College | 1946 |
| Chrisann M. | Newransky | Brandeis University | 1948 |
| Bill | Martinov, Ed.D. | Mercy College | 1950 |
| Edward | Guiliano. Ph.D. | New York Institute of Technology | 1955 |
| Robert B. | Catell | Stony Brook University | 1957 |
| Thomas | Dolan | Nassau Community College | 1959 |
| Paul | Beaudin, Ph.D. | Suffolk County Community College | 1959 |
| Calvin O. | Butts III, D.Min. | SUNY College at Old Westbury | 1965 |
| James | Mabry, Ph.D. | Middlesex Community College | 1970 |
| Chris | Whann, Ph.D. | SUNY Empire State College | 1971 |
| Louis H. | Primavera, Ph.D. | Touro College School of Health Sciences | 1972 |
| Patricia | Salkin, J.D. | Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsburg Law Center | 1980 |