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Two students awarded PICPA scholarships
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Accounting and Finance students attended the National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. (NABA) 40th Annual Eastern Region Student Conference titled, Infinite Possibilities: Connect with Success, Sept. 24-26 in Pittsburgh, PA.
NABA is nation’s premier professional associations representing the interests of more than 100,000 African Americans and other minorities in accounting, consulting, finance, and information technology.
Two of Lincoln’s students, Cherica Collie and Stanford Ganyo, each received $1,000 scholarships from the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA).
Collie, a senior accounting major, is the past president of Lincoln’s NABA chapter and the Caribbean Students Association. She has a 3.74 GPA in her major and a 3.79 GPA overall as well as is a PICPA Student Ambassador.
In addition, Collie is also a Lincoln University International Scholar, Dean’s List awardee and a member of Sigma Beta Delta International Honorary Society for Business, Management and Administration.
Ganyo, a senior accounting and finance major, is the vice president of Lincoln’s NABA chapter and has a 3.96 GPA in his major and a 3.80 GPA overall. A member and vice president of Lincoln’s Sigma Beta Delta chapter, has previously received a NABA Eastern Region scholarship and a merit-based scholarship.
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Founded in 1854, Lincoln University (PA) is the FIRST of four Lincoln Universities in the world and is the nation’s FIRST degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The University combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. Today, Lincoln, which enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women, possesses an international reputation for preparing and producing world-class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the FIRST African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Lillian Fishburne, the FIRST African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy; Langston Hughes, the noted poet; Kwame Nkrumah, the FIRST president of Ghana; Nnamdi Azikiwe, the FIRST president of Nigeria and a myriad of others.