2019 Founder's Day

Celebrating 165 years: You are invited to an event for Founder's Day at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 29, 2019 at the arch. 

Celebrating our Inheritance – Our Unending Commitment

Lincoln University: The oldest degree-granting Historically Black College and University founded on American soil!  As we reflect and celebrate Founder’s Day 2019, we cannot forget the work of our fore fathers and mothers. 

On Monday, April 29, 2019, The University community will gather to symbolically observe the remembrance of our Founder’s Day wreath ceremony.  The wreath has significant meaning for the season. Its circular shape represents eternity, for it has no beginning and no end.   We celebrate our founders.  Like the wreath, we must continue to pledge ourselves to the work and witness in our collective past gave birth to our Lincoln Legacy.

As we celebrate Founder’s Day 2019, the aim is to be remind ourselves that the past is the foundation on which we build. It was our forbearers who opened the paths and blazed the trails we now travel.  It also symbolizes our unending commitment to represents an unending circle of life to inspire students to learn, liberate and lead.

Learn more at www.lincoln.edu/foundersday.