HBCUs Join Together in 'Fighting the Fat' News and Upcoming Events at Lincoln University -Pennsylvaniaĭucky Birts Foundation Awards Five Lincoln Students Scholarshipsįive Lincoln University(PA) students from the Greater Philadelphia area were awarded scholarships from the Ducky Birts Foundation at a Thursday mornin.
Many are federal, state and municipal judges, and several have served as mayors or city managers. At least 10 of its alumni have served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs. Its alumni have headed over 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches. James Robinson, '35, founder of Crossroads Africa, which served as the model for the Peace Corps and Sibusio Nkomo, Ph.D., '81, chairperson, National Policy Institute of South Africa.ĭuring the first one hundred years of its existence, Lincoln graduated approximately 20 percent of the Black physicians and more than 10 percent of the Black attorneys in the United States. Many of Lincoln's international graduates have gone on to become outstanding leaders in their countries, including Nnamdi Azikiwe, '30, Nigeria's first president Kwame Nkrumah, '39, first president of Ghana Rev. Webb, '91, author, poet and editor-in-chief of Souls of People. Poindexter, '24, internationally known authority on tropical diseases Roscoe Lee Browne, '46, author and widely acclaimed actor of stage and screen Jacqueline Allen, '74, judge for the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia and Eric C. The University is proud of its faculty for the high quality of their teaching, research, and service, and of its alumni, among the most notable of whom are: Langston Hughes, '29, world-acclaimed poet Thurgood Marshall, '30, first African-American Justice of the US Supreme Court Hildrus A. Located in southern Chester County, Lincoln is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and offers academic programs in undergraduate study in the arts, sciences as well as graduate programs in human services, reading, education, mathematics, and administration. Lincoln currently enrolls approximately 2,000 students. The University admitted women students in 1952, and formally associated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1972 as a state-related, coeducational university. Since its inception, Lincoln has attracted an interracial and international enrollment from the surrounding community, region, and around the world. Its campus is conveniently located on Baltimore Pike, about one mile off US Route 1 – 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, 15 miles northwest of Newark, Delaware, 25 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware, and 55 miles north of Baltimore, Maryland. Lincoln is surrounded by the rolling farmlands and wooded hilltops of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Institute was renamed Lincoln University in 1866 after President Abraham Lincoln. As Horace Mann Bond, '23, the eighth president of Lincoln University, so eloquently cites in the opening chapter of his book, Education for Freedom, this was "the first institution found anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent." The story of Lincoln University goes back to the early years of the 19th century and to the ancestors of its founder, John Miller Dickey, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson. Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was chartered in April 1854 as Ashmun Institute. Political Science (History & Political Science) Other links will provide direct access to selected information about the University, its Mission, Vision, Goals, and Philosophy.Ĭriminal Justice (Sociology & Anthropology) Please use the links provided below to learn more about Lincoln University's twelfth president, Ivory V.
During its 147-year history, Lincoln University has educated an impressive list of luminaries who have distinguished themselves as doctors, lawyers, educators, businesspersons, theologians and heads of state. Lincoln University is the newest of the state-related universities, having joined the Commonwealth System of Higher Education in 1972. The University also operates the Urban Center of Philadelphia for graduate students and community-outreach programs.įounded in 1854, Lincoln University is a nationally acclaimed institution of higher learning that provides the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of students living in a highly technological and global society. Located in Southern Chester County, Lincoln's main campus is 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, and an easy commute from other parts of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.
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