Bill Text: PA SR80 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designating April 11, 2011, as "Lincoln University Day" in Pennsylvania.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-6)

Status: (Passed) 2011-04-11 - Introduced and adopted [SR80 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SR80-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1036
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No. 80 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY PILEGGI, RAFFERTY, STACK, ORIE, WARD, KITCHEN, COSTA AND DINNIMAN, APRIL 11, 2011
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, APRIL 11, 2011
A RESOLUTION
Designating April 11, 2011, as "Lincoln University Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Founded in April 1854, Lincoln University has
thrived as our Commonwealth's and our nation's oldest
historically black institution of higher education and has
attained distinction as part of the Commonwealth System of
Higher Education; and
WHEREAS, Lincoln University, originally known as the Ashmun
Institute, was chartered to provide instruction in science,
literature, the liberal arts, classics and theology to male
students of African descent; and
WHEREAS, The Reverend John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian
minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker,
established the institute in keeping with their commitment to
the classical tradition and equal opportunity in education; and
WHEREAS, The first institution of its kind anywhere in the
world and one of only a few church-affiliated black colleges to
prosper before the Civil War, the institute was renamed Lincoln
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University in 1866 in memory of slain President Abraham Lincoln;
and
WHEREAS, In 1950, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a world-class
collector of French early modern and Post-Impressionist
paintings, granted Lincoln University certain rights relating to
the nomination of prospective Barnes Foundation trustees; and
WHEREAS, Women students were first admitted in 1952; and
WHEREAS, Dr. Ivory V. Nelson, a chemist and author of
technical publications in analytical chemistry, is Lincoln
University's 12th president; and
WHEREAS, With a uniquely interracial and international
enrollment of more than 2,000 students, Lincoln University is
advancing its legacy in the 21st century at the Lincoln Campus
in southern Chester County, at the Center for Graduate Studies
and Continuing Education in Center City, Philadelphia, and at
international study-abroad sites; and
WHEREAS, Lincoln University provides notable community
outreach and continuing education programs and offers 46
undergraduate degree-granting programs in the arts and sciences,
graduate degree-granting programs in human services, reading,
education, mathematics, administration and school administration
and preprofessional programs in dentistry, engineering, nursing,
veterinary science, law and medicine; and
WHEREAS, The Lincoln University Barnes Foundation Center of
Excellence in Visual Arts is a collaborative degree-granting
program in studio art and museum studies; and
WHEREAS, The Center of Excellence in Mass Communications
focuses on journalism and broadcast media technology; and
WHEREAS, The Center of Excellence in Grand Research
Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health
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promotes partnerships and initiatives in minority health and
health disparities; and
WHEREAS, The Center of Excellence in Teacher Education and
Urban Pedagogy offers advanced training to produce certified
teachers with distinctive qualifications in elementary and
secondary educational reform; and
WHEREAS, The Center of Excellence in Business and Information
Technology grounds future entrepreneurs in principles of
accounting and finance and fosters strategic public-private
partnerships; and
WHEREAS, Lincoln University features a distinguished faculty
of highly motivated and skilled professors, with 77% of faculty
members having earned doctorate degrees; and
WHEREAS, Through Lincoln University's generous financial
supporters, approximately 93% of students receive multiple
sources of grant, loan or scholarship aid; and
WHEREAS, Lincoln University's proud tradition of
international study, research and exchange programs dates to
1859, when new Lincoln University graduates returned to Liberia
to serve as teachers; and
WHEREAS, Having set the standard for all institutions of
higher education when issuing the nation's first alumni
publication in 1884, Lincoln University continues to enjoy
extraordinary alumni support; and
WHEREAS, Lincoln University is expanding its athletic
programs, with an ambitious athletic facilities renovation
project nearing completion and with the Lions transitioning from
National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III status to
Division II status; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate designate April 11, 2011, as
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"Lincoln University Day" in Pennsylvania.
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