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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – The Lincoln University is competing against other HBCUs for $50,000 in scholarships in the Fifth Annual Allstate Quotes for Education program in partnership with the Tom Joyner Foundation.
From now until November 30, 2013, cast your vote for The Lincoln University by visiting: https://www.allstatequotesforeducation.com/ and scroll down the window for “Lincoln University of Pennsylvania,” select it and then press the “Vote” button. Be sure to select this institution and not “Lincoln University of Missouri,” who is currently leading.
Site visitors also have the opportunity to get a quote from an Allstate Agent. Allstate will donate $10 for every quote to the Tom Joyner Foundation to provide up to $150,000 in scholarship funds to assist students attending HBCUs.
The Lincoln University, founded in 1854 as the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), combines the elements of a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate curriculum along with select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly-technological and global society. Today, the University enrolls a diverse student body of approximately 2,000 men and women. Internationally recognized for preparing and producing world class leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Lillian Fishburne, the first African American woman promoted to Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, Langston Hughes, the noted poet, Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria.