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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has appointed Dr. Ivory V. Nelson, president of Lincoln University, to the Pennsylvania State Board of Education.
Dr. Nelson will serve on the board for six years, with his term ending on October 1, 2016.
The State Board of Education was established in 1963, with a principal purpose to engage in a constant review and appraisal of education in the Commonwealth. The board is “an advocate for all levels of education in Pennsylvania that shapes policy and regulations that will promote and encourage quality learning in the Commonwealth.”
Governor Rendell and the majority of the members of the Senate appointed Nelson based on his prudence, integrity and ability.
Because of Dr. Ivory V. Nelson’s leadership, Lincoln has experienced unprecedented transformation and academic growth. He established a master development plan, implemented a new organizational structure, and established five Centers of Academic Excellence in Science, Business, Teacher Education, Mass Communications, and Visual Arts.
Additionally, Dr. Nelson secured over $18 million in information technology improvements, increased faculty salaries, revised the University’s core curriculum, implemented a comprehensive outcomes assessment process for measuring student success and improving student retention, reduced all majors to a total of 120-124 semester credit hours, increased University enrollment, and, after 48 years, brought back football and established a marching band.
He is an active member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), and the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinctions. They are: Lincoln-Barnes Visual Arts, Grand Research Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Mass Communications, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy and Business and Information Technology.