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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Lincoln University’s Center of Excellence in Business and Information Technology (CEBIT) has been awarded $64,578.20 from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to administer the Summer Transportation Institute (STI) program on its main campus from July 5-29.
The primary purpose of the STI program is to “create awareness and stimulate interest in secondary school students to take advantage of the opportunities that exist in the transportation industry.”
STI exposes secondary school students to all modes (land, water and air) of, and careers in transportation and provide academic enhancement activities during the four-week residential program.
“Two hundred and fifteen students, ages 12 to 14 years, have graduated from STI since 1999,” said Robert A. Allen, assistant professor and STI program coordinator.
Among many other activities, the Center has used transportation professionals to deliver lectures in their disciplines, take students on field trips to transportation and transportation related centers (NASA, Turner Fairbank Transportation Research Center, PHL International Airport, PENNDOT Highway Control Center, and others), conduct seminars in financial literacy (money/credit management, investments, wealth creation), tutor students about time management, university life, science, mathematics and computer science skills.
Students also engage in sports and recreational activities that provide a well-rounded educational and physical health experience.
Dr. Oswald Richards, CEBIT’s director, believes the STI program is a significant outreach to the secondary education community for Lincoln University and the Center.
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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.