Lincoln’s Spring Open House on March 28 Provides Up-Close Look of University to Potential Undergraduates and Their Parents

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Lincoln University, PA (www.lincoln.edu)— The Lincoln University campus will take front stage when the University hosts its annual Spring Open House on Friday, March 28, 2003 at Manuel Rivero Hall. Registration for the Open House runs from 9 a.m.–10 a.m., with the main program beginning at 10 a.m.

Each Spring semester, the University invites potential undergraduates and their parents to Lincoln’s main campus in Southern Chester County, Pa. to learn about the University’s academic and financial aid programs and meet the faculty and students. Space is limited. 


The U.S. Postal Service has added to the Lincoln legacy by honoring the achievements of two of the University’s renowned alumni—world-acclaimed poet Langston Hughes ’29, and famed civil rights attorney and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ’30—with commemorative stamps.

Founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University, Lincoln University combines 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. The University is nationally recognized as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics); computer and information sciences; and biological and life sciences

From April 2003 through May 2004, the University will celebrate its sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary, with an array of campus and external events, activities and announcements.

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.