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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Lincoln University’s ongoing series, dedicated to introducing the community to leaders in various fields, is headlining Arthur Spears, Ph.D. for its Fall Amos Scholarly Lecture.
On November 18, 2010, Dr. Spears will be discussing “Race, Color and Language” in the Ware Center Theater at 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Arthur K. Spears is an internationally recognized expert on language and race. He is a professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). At The City College (CUNY), he is professor and chair in the Anthropology Department and the former director of the Black Studies Program. Among Dr. Spears’s many books are Race and Ideology, Black Linguistics, and The Haitian Creole Language. He is the founding editor of the black anthropologists’ journalTransforming Anthropology. His media communications include those on the British Broadcasting Corporation (“The Story of English”), Groupe France Télévisions, Black Entertainment Television, ABC, National Public Radio, WBAI, and Inner City Broadcasting’s WLIB.
The Amos Scholarly Lecture Series was established by two Lincoln alumni Ernest C. Levister ’58, a former member of the Lincoln University Board of Trustees, and his brother, Harold H. Levister ’64, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Ruth Amos Levister.
The two alumni are descendants of Reverend Thomas Hunter Amos, founder and president of Harbison College in Abbeville, S.C. His father, Thomas Henry Amos, was a member of Lincoln University’s first graduating class in 1859. Thomas Henry Amos died as a missionary in Liberia, Africa.
The purpose of the lecture series is to “stimulate the minds of the Lincoln family in their Liberal Arts studies, with emphasis on the theological, philosophical, classical, historical, and the mathematical and scientific disciplines.”
The event is free and open to the public.
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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.