| Lincoln
University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Lincoln
University, Pennsylvania
Lincoln is
surrounded by the rolling farmlands and wooded hilltops of southern
Chester County, Pennsylvania. Its campus is conveniently located
on Baltimore Pike, about one mile off US Route 1 – 45 miles
southwest of Philadelphia, 15 miles northwest of Newark, Delaware,
25 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware, and 55 miles north of Baltimore,
Maryland.
Since its inception,
Lincoln has attracted an interracial and international enrollment
from the surrounding community, region, and around the world.
The University admitted women students in 1952, and formally associated
with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1972 as a state-related,
coeducational university. Lincoln currently enrolls approximately
2,000 students.
Located in southern
Chester County, Lincoln is accredited by the Middle States Association
of Colleges and Schools and offers academic programs in undergraduate
study in the arts, sciences as well as graduate programs in human
services, reading, education, mathematics, and administration.
The University is proud of its faculty for the high quality of
their teaching, research, and service, and of its alumni, among
the most notable of whom are: Langston Hughes, '29, world-acclaimed
poet; Thurgood Marshall, '30, first African-American Justice of
the US Supreme Court; Hildrus A. Poindexter, '24, internationally
known authority on tropical diseases; Roscoe Lee Browne, '46,
author and widely acclaimed actor of stage and screen; Jacqueline
Allen, '74, judge for the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia;
and Eric C. Webb, '91, author, poet and editor-in-chief of Souls
of People.
Many of Lincoln's international
graduates have gone on to become outstanding leaders in their
countries, including Nnamdi Azikiwe, '30, Nigeria's first president;
Kwame Nkrumah, '39, first president of Ghana; Rev. James Robinson,
'35, founder of Crossroads Africa, which served as the model for
the Peace Corps; and Sibusio Nkomo, Ph.D., '81, chairperson, National
Policy Institute of South Africa.
During the first one
hundred years of its existence, Lincoln graduated approximately
20 percent of the Black physicians and more than 10 percent of
the Black attorneys in the United States. Its alumni have headed
over 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches.
At least 10 of its alumni have served as United States ambassadors
or mission chiefs. Many are federal, state and municipal judges,
and several have served as mayors or city managers.
www.lincoln.edu
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