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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – The Lincoln University Board of Trustees unanimously re-elected its principal slate of officers to a consecutive term last Saturday at its annual meeting. The new terms expire June 30, 2017.
Those re-elected officers include: Chairwoman Kimberly A. Lloyd ’94, Vice-Chairman Rev. Dr. Kevin Johnson and Secretary Kevin E. Vaughan.
Kimberly A, Lloyd ’94, Chairwoman, Lincoln University Board of Trustees
Rev. Dr. Kevin Johnson, Vice-Chairman, Lincoln University Board of Trustees
Kevin Vaughan, Secretary,
Lincoln University Board of Trustees
“Continuity in leadership is very important as we help to move Lincoln University forward into its next chapter,” said Lloyd. “It is both an honor and a privilege that our fellow Trustees saw fit to unanimously re-elect myself and other officers to consecutive terms so that we can continue the work we have begun.”
Lloyd was first elected to the board in August 2004, while Johnson was elected in September 2010 and Vaughan in September 2012.
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.