Thursday,
March 4, 2004
Lincoln
Marks 150th with Birthday Celebration and Honors Convocation
on April 15; Event to Feature Founder of Future Focus 2020
at Wake Forest University, As Keynote Speaker
Dr.
Nat Irvin is the founder of a corporation dedicated to bringing
futuristic thinking to urban America and minority communities.
Lincoln
University, PA (www.lincoln.edu)– Lincoln University–-the
nation’s first Historically Black University---will mark
its 150th anniversary with a Honors Convocation and celebration
on Thursday, April 15, 2004 at 11 a.m. in the main gymnasium
of Manuel Rivero Hall.
The Honors
Convocation will recognize the University’s top academic
students.
The
event’s keynote speaker, Dr. Nat Irvin, is executive
professor of Future Studies and assistant dean for MBA Student
Development at Wake Forest University-Winston Salem, North
Carolina, will be the keynote speaker.
Dr. Irvin
is the founder of Future Focus 2020, a non-profit, non-partisan
corporation dedicated to providing leadership and bringing
futuristic thinking to urban America and minority communities.
As president of this groundbreaking initiative, Dr. Irvin
has engaged many groups and organizations in strategic conversations
about the future and focused on the significant social, political,
economic, technological as well as environmental trends and
events that will have the greatest impact on urban communities
by the year 2020.
Some
of the major companies and government agencies Dr. Irvin has
worked with include Global Business Network (GBN), Public
Broadcasting Stations (PBS), Ford Foundation, U.S. Customs,
U.S. Department of Education, Sara Lee Corporation and GlaxoSmithKline.
In addition to his academic and corporate endeavors, Dr. Irvin
has been a columnist for the Winston-Salem Journal
for 10 years and provides commentary for National Public Radio’s
(NPR) “Weekend Edition.” Dr. Irvin is also a partner
in the North Carolina firm of Irvin, Goforth & Irvin,
a training and communications consulting firm dedicated to
advancing communications in changing environments.
Dr. Irvin
has a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and Masters degree
in media arts from University of South Carolina. Dr. Irvin
earned his Doctorate of musical arts from the University of
North Texas and is a graduate of the Institute for Educational
Management at Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Located
in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Lincoln University
is nationally recognized as a major producer of African Americans
with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences (biology,
chemistry and physics); computer and informational sciences;
biological and life sciences. The University is in the midst
of a yearlong celebration of its sesquicentennial, or 150th
anniversary. Lincoln will hold 150th anniversary galas this
spring in Washington, D.C. (April 17) and New York City (May
6). For more information on Lincoln, please visit our Web
site at www.lincoln.edu.
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