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Lincoln University
Established	April 29, 1854
Type:	Public, state-related
President:	Dr. Ivory V. Nelson
Undergraduates:	1,827
Postgraduates:	596
Location	Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, USA
Campus:	Rural 350 acres (1.4 km²)
Colors:	Orange and Blue
Mascot:	Lions
Website:	www.lincoln.edu

Lincoln University (LU) is an American historically black university located in southern Chester County , Pennsylvania. The University also hosts a Center for Graduate Studies which is located within the City of Philadelphia. Currently, Lincoln University provides undergraduate and graduate coursework to approximately 2,500 students. As Horace Mann Bond noted in his book Education for Freedom (A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania), "This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent."

Today, Lincoln University is an institution of higher learning that provides a liberal arts and science-based undergraduate core curriculum and select graduate programs to prepare students of every race and nationality. Lincoln is a "state-related" university, meaning it receives public funds and offers reduced tuition for Pennsylvania residents but is under independent control.

The Lincoln University Urban Center (LUUC) is an extension campus in the University City section of Philadelphia. This campus offers Graduate level programs and continuing education. ^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Presidents 3 Notable Alumni 4 Athletics 5 Alma Mater 6 Further reading 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links

Lincoln University was founded as Ashmun Institute in 1854 by the Rev. John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson (a Quaker) and named after Jehudi Ashmun, a religious leader and social reformer. Lincoln University's (Ashmun Institute's) ties to Africa and youth of African descent was a significant component of the framework for the institution's creation. Specifically, John Miller Dickey's first students - the Reverend James Ralston Amos, his brother the Reverend Thomas H. Amos, and the Reverend Armistead Miller - were trained to support the establishment of Liberia upon their graduation.

In 1866, Ashmun Institute was renamed Lincoln University after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1972 Lincoln University formally associated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a state-related institution.

Lincoln was chosen in the Thirties by philanthropist and art collector Albert C. Barnes to house his important collection of modern art, now valued at two billion dollars, not as a museum, but as a school for Lincoln's students. The limited public access brought the Foundation near bankruptcy by the Nineties, as David Carrier describes in Museum Skepticism. Plans were made to move the collection to a more public spot and maintain it as a museum. (See Wikipedia article on the Barnes Foundation.)

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In 2002, the Barnes Foundation contested Albert C. Barnes' will, arguing that the Merion location of the collective and the small number of Board members limited the Foundation's ability to sustain itself financially.

A settlement was brokered between The Barnes Foundation and Lincoln by Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell in 2005. Since this time, the collection has evolved into a three-campus model, with a new facility in Center City, Philadelphia.

• 1854–1856 John Miller Dickey, Founder and President of the Board of Trustees Ashmun Institute and Lincoln University
• 1856-1861 John Pym Carter
• 1861-1865 John Wynne Martin
• 1865-1906 Isaac Norton Rendall
• 1906-1924 John Ballard Rendall
• 1924-1926 Walter Livingston Wright (Acting President)
• 1926-1936 William Hallock Johnson, Ph.D.
• 1936-1945 Walter Livingston Wright
• 1945-1957 Horace Mann Bond '23, Ph.D. (First Alumni President)
• 1957-1960 Armstead Otey Grubb, Ph.D. (Acting President)
• July 1960-June 1961 Donald Charles Yelton (Acting President)
• 1961-1969 Marvin Wachman, Ph.D.
• January 1970-July 1970 Bernard Warren Harleston (Acting President)
• October 1970-1985 Herman Russell Branson, Ph.D.
• 1985-1987 Donald Leopold Mullett '51, Ph.D. (Acting President)
• 1987-1998 Niara Sudarkasa, Ph.D.
• October 1998-August 1999 James Donaldson '61, Ph. D (Acting President)
• 1999-Present Ivory V. Nelson, Ph.D.

Lincoln University has many notable alumni, including Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, Hildrus Poindexter, Horace Mann Bond, Roscoe Lee Browne, Robert L. Carter, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah, and Melvin B. Tolson. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Kwame Nkrumah were the first President/Prime Minister of Nigeria and Ghana respectively, fulfilling John Miller Dickey's vision of Lincoln University as a training institution for African leadership.

Lincoln University alumni have held key leadership positions at more than 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches.^{[citation needed]} Seven Lincoln alumni founded the following U.S. or foreign universities: South Carolina State University , Livingstone College , Albany State University , Texas Southern University , Ibeme Memorial College, Nigeria, Ibibio State College, Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. At least 10 of its alumni have served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs. Many are federal, state and municipal judges, and many others have served as mayors or city managers.

• Ebenezer Ako-Adjei Ghanaian Politician & member of the United Gold Coast Convention Big Six .
• Nnamdi Azikiwe, class of 1930, first President of Nigeria
• Harry W. Bass, class of 1888, first African American elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1910.
• Horace Mann Bond,class of 1923, educator, scholar, and first African-American and Alumnus to become President of Lincoln University
• Oscar Brown, Jr., class of 1940, renowned singer, actor, playwright, and director in the 1960s
• Roscoe Lee Browne, actor and former 800-meters record holder
• Cab Calloway, left Lincoln in 1930, world-renowned entertainer and bandleader
• Robert L. Carter, class of 1937, general counsel of the NAACP and a United States District Judge
• Dr. Frank "Tick" Coleman educator
• Lillian E. Fishburne, class of 1971, first African American woman promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, in 1998
• Christian Fleetwood, served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and earned the Congressional Medal of Honor
• Archibald H. Grimke, class of 1870, lawyer, journalist, public speaker and a member of the Niagara Movement, a precursor to the NAACP
• Francis J. Grimké, class of 1870, pastor of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C., member of the Niagara Movement, a precursor to the NAACP
• Gil Scott-Heron, attended in the early 1970s, activist, singer-songwriter
• Joseph Winthrop Holley Founder of Albany State University
• Langston Hughes, class of 1926, world-renowned poet
• Robert L. Ireland, class of 1966, first African American associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in 1997
• Montford "Monte" Irvin, former New York Baseball Giants attended Lincoln University
• Brian Jackson, keyboardist and writer
• Robert Walter "Whirlwind" Johnson, class of 1924, noted educator and tennis instructor (including tennis greats Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe)
• Thurgood Marshall, class of 1930, first African-American Supreme Court Justice
• Thomas E. Miller, class of 1872, former South Carolina Congressman, and First President of South Carolina State University (1896-1911).
• Aaron Albert Mossell, attorney, and first African American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
• Nathan Francis Mossell, physician, first African American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Robert N.C. Nix, Sr., class of 1921, first African American elected to Congress from Pennsylvania
• Sibusio Nkomo, class of 1981, Chairperson, National Policy Institute of the Republic of South Africa
• Kwame Nkrumah, class of 1939, first President of the modern Ghana
• Hildrus Poindexter, world-renowned expert on tropical diseases
• Charles L. Preston, Jr., class of 1950, first African American U.S. Postal Inspector (1962)
• William Drew Robeson I, class of 1876, minister, father of Paul Robeson
• Rev. James Robinson, class of 1935, founder of Crossroads Africa (used as a model by President John F. Kennedy for the Peace Corps)
• Wilbert "Bill" Tatum, class of 1958, Publisher Emeritus of The New York Amsterdam News
• Clive Terrelonge, class of 1994, Olympic track and field athlete from Jamaica
• Melvin Tolson, world renowned poet
• James L. Usry, class of 1946, first African American Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
• Hon. Herb J. Wesson Jr., class of 1999, elected Speaker of the California State Assembly in 2002
• Albert H. Wheeler, first African American Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Hon. Bruce M. Wright, class of 1942, Retired Judge in New York and Connecticut, author of "Black Robes, White Justice"

Lincoln University participates in the NCAA Division III level. Lincoln has won 17 NCAA Division III Track & Field championships since 1985. Lincoln currently competes as a Division III independent, with no conference affiliation other than the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and the Association of D3 Independents.

The success of the Track and Field program led to the creation of the co-ed athletic fellowship of Track Phi Track at Lincoln in 1983. Some of the requirements include being an All-American and/or striving to become an All-American, meeting and exceeding academic requirements in your major, and participation in Lincoln's Track & Field program for four years.

The men's basketball team achieved a 46-12 record from 2004- 2006 seasons. The 2005-2006 season witnessed Lincoln's first national basketball ranking, led by All American, D3Hoops & Basketball News National Player of the Year Kyle Myricks who was dubbed by ESPN as D3's "Most Exciting Player". The Lions made the sweet sixteen for the first time in school history.

On 2006-04-11, Lincoln's Board of Trustees voted to revive the Football program, and establish Marching & Pep Bands. The University has petitioned membership in the CIAA, of which Lincoln was a founding member of the league. Lincoln will be moving from the NCAA's Division III to Division II. A club football team is scheduled for the 2008 followed with a full Division II schedule in 2009.

On 2006-12-02, Lincoln's basketball team set 5 Division III records in a 201-78 victory over Ohio State Marion. They included points in a half and a game, as well as the NCAA record for margin of victory. The record-setting game has received significant publicity, both positive and negative. The coach and team have been criticized for "humiliat[ing] a helpless opponent",^[2] as Ohio State Marion is a non-NCAA school that only was able to suit six players. Lincoln played "full-court press in the second half" and one player "attempted 41 three-pointers, continuing to launch treys when the school was ahead by more than 100 points."^[2] Lincoln coach Garfield Yuille defended the actions of himself and his team, saying that "he could not tell his team to stop playing hard" and "late in the game... [he] told his team to walk the ball up the floor, even at the risk of a shot-clock violation."^[3]

Dear Lincoln, Dear Lincoln To Thee We'll e're be true! The golden hours we've spent beneath The dear old Orange and Blue

Will live fore'er in memory, As guiding stars through life; For thee our Alma Mater dear, We'll rise in our might.

For we love every inch of thy sacred soil Every tree on thy campus green; And for thee with our might We will ever toil That thou mightest be supreme.

We'll raise thy standard to the sky, Midst glory and honor fly; And constant and true, We will live for thee anew, Our Dear Old Orange and Blue Hail! Hail! Lincoln!

—A. Dennee Bibb, '13

• Education For Freedom -A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania by Horace Mann Bond. Copyright 1976 by Lincoln University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education of Pennsylvania. Printed by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

1. ^ Lincoln University Urban Center
2. ^ ^{a b} Easterbrook, Gregg (2006-12-12). Tuesday Morning Quarterback - Ravens good, Manning bad. ESPN.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.
3. ^ Caldwell, Dave (2006-12-09). University on the Defensive for Scoring 201 Points. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2006-12-12.

• The Einstein File - Fred Jerome; ISBN 0-312-28856-5
• Philadelphia Inquirer;TheDeal of the Art

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