Honors Bestowed upon Dr. Judith A.W. Thomas, Special Assistant to the President of Lincoln University for Outreach Services

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Lincoln University – On February 24, 2012, Dr. Judith A.W. Thomas was honored with the President’s Award by Dr. John Craig, President of the Pennsylvania Black Conference on Higher Education.  On Saturday, March 24, 2012, Dr. Thomas received the “You Are My Sheroe” Award at the Sisters of Choice Celebration at the Imhotep Institute Charter School.

Additionally, Dr. Thomas will be honored at the Springfield Country Club on April 21, 2012 to receive the “Dr. Frank ‘Tick’ Coleman” Award sponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Lincoln University Alumni Association.

Dr. Thomas has served Lincoln University for 38 years in several professional roles: Professor of Education, Chair and Professor of Education, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Behavioral Studies and presently Special Assistant to the newly elected President, Robert R. Jennings.

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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 distinction. They are:  Business and Entrepreneurial Studies, Lincoln/Barnes Visual Arts, Mass Communications, Grand Research Educational Awareness, Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy.

 

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.