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The Philadelphia Tribune, the nation’s oldest continually running African-American newspaper, has selected Lincoln University President Ivory V. Nelson, Ph.D. as one of Philadelphia’s African American Leaders in 2010.
Dr. Nelson will attend a black tie gala reception and program on Wednesday, September 15. 2010. He will also be recognized in the Tribune Magazine on Sunday, September 19, 2010.
The list of individuals serves as a public record of those who have distinguished themselves as leaders through a culmination of hard work, dedication and sense of purpose. They yield from a pool of talented professionals comprising a variety of career disciplines and experiences who have left an indelible mark on the Philadelphia community and city.
Before Dr. Nelson was formally inaugurated president at Lincoln University on April 14, 2000, he served as the president of Central Washington University (CWU) for more than seven years.
In addition, he has a record of active community involvement throughout his 30-plus years in higher education. Dr. Nelson is on the College and University Presidents Council for the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. For the past decade, he has also been apart of the Brandywine Valley YMCA Board of Directors, the Presidents Council of the NCAA Division III, The Union League of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities.
Dr. Nelson was also a member of the Governor”s Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Arts in the state of Washington. His career in higher education includes receiving the Fulbright Lectureship, teaching graduate and undergraduate chemistry, and serving as department head, assistant dean of academic affairs, and vice president for research.
During the early 1980s, Dr. Nelson also served one year as acting president of Prairie View A&M University and three years as executive assistant to the chancellor of the Texas A&M University System. From 1986 to March 1992, he served as chancellor of the Alamo Community College District in San Antonio, Texas.
While at the University of Kansas pursing his Doctor of Philosophy degree in analytical chemistry, Dr. Nelson”s academic honors included induction into Phi Beta Kappa honorary society, Phi Lambda Upsilon honorary chemical society and the society of Sigma Xi for scientists. He has subsequently been inducted into Kappa Delta Phi education honor society, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Phi Sigma physics honor society.
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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.