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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA — Lincoln University will hold a Fulbright Gateway Orientation for 56 graduate students who come from 30 countries. The grantees will spend five days, August 8-12, 2011, on Lincoln’s campus and participate in workshops and seminars presented by Lincoln University faculty and staff.
The seminars will cover a wide range of topics related to graduate student life in the United States. The five-day experience also includes leisure trips to Lancaster, Pa. and colonial Philadelphia.
After completion of the Gateway program, the students will travel onward to their U.S. host institutions where they will pursue master’s and doctoral degrees. Dr. J.K. Van Dover, professor of English, and Dr. Emery Petchauer, assistant professor of Education will serve as academic coordinator and graduate student mentor and workshop coordinator, respectively. Connie Lundy, director of the Office of International Programs and Services, will also serve as program and logistics director.
The program is sponsored by Lincoln University’s Office of International Programs and Services and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The University is in its second year of a three-year grant agreement with the Fulbright Gateway Orientation program.
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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.