Lincoln’s Annual Spring Open House on March 26 Provides Up-Close Look of University to Prospective Students and Their Parents

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Lincoln University, PA (www.lincoln.edu) – The Lincoln University campus will take front stage when the University hosts its annual Spring Open House on Friday, March 26, 2004 at Manuel Rivero Hall.

Registration for the Open House runs from 9 a.m. – 9:45 a.m., with the main program beginning at 10 a.m. and lasting through 2 p.m.Each spring semester, the University invites prospective students and their parents to Lincoln’s main campus in southern Chester County, Pa. to learn about the University’s academic and financial aid programs and meet the faculty and students. Space is limited. To reserve a place, interested students and parents should contact the Office of Admissions at (800) 790-0191, ext. 3206.


n recent years, the U.S. Postal Service has added to the Lincoln legacy by honoring the achievements of two of the University’s renowned alumni—world-acclaimed poet Langston Hughes ’29, and famed civil rights attorney and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ’30—with commemorative stamps. Located in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Lincoln University is nationally recognized as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics); computer and informational sciences; biological and life sciences. The University is in the midst of a yearlong celebration of its sesquicentennial, or 150th anniversary. Lincoln will hold 150th anniversary galas this spring in Washington, D.C. (April 17) and New York City (May 6).

Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), educates and empowers students to lead their communities and change the world. Lincoln offers a rigorous liberal arts education to a diverse student body of approximately 2,200 men and women in more than 35 undergraduate and graduate programs.