SAVE THE DATE: The Lincoln University’s Annual Founder’s Day Observance

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SAVE THE DATE!

The Lincoln University’s Annual Founder’s Day Observance

Ambassador Horace G. Dawson, Jr. ‘49Ambassador Horace G. Dawson, Jr. ‘49 will keynote The Lincoln University’s Annual Founder’s Day Convocation on Friday, Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. at the International Cultural Center.  The Convocation is free and open-to-the-public.  More details to follow.


Founded in 1854, The 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. 

 

Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), educates and empowers students to lead their communities and change the world. Lincoln offers a rigorous liberal arts education to a diverse student body of approximately 2,200 men and women in more than 35 undergraduate and graduate programs.