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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Dr. Ivory V. Nelson, who has fulfilled an extensive and satisfying career in higher education, still continues to demonstrate his commitment to the challenge of advancing Lincoln University despite his impending retirement.
Since assuming the presidency in 1999, Dr. Nelson has moved the University to an elevated level of financial stability and has initiated changes to establish an improved campus environment that better supports academic learning and cultural enrichment.
“My primary focus is to meet the needs and aspirations of the students and faculty at this University,” President Nelson said. “Fulfilling the University’s “Advance to the Top” strategic plan will allow the University to recapture its position of achieving greater academic prominence both nationally and internationally.”
Lincoln University’s “Advance to the Top” strategic plan focuses on four areas of national standards, which are: 1) Recruitment of select or academically talented students; 2) Raising freshman-to-sophomore retention rates; 3) Raising six-year graduation rates; 4) Enhancing Lincoln’s national rankings among all colleges.
Although Dr. Nelson’s retirement is approaching, he has yet to announce a date.
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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.