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March
8, 2002
Lincoln to Recognize Students for Outstanding Academic
Achievements at Honors Convocation, Wednesday, March
13 Keynote Speaker is Dr. N. Joyce Payne, Director,
Office for the Advancement of Public Black Colleges,
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges |
Lincoln University, which has earned a national reputation
for its distinguished role in higher education, will recognize
its undergraduate students for their high academic achievements
at the annual Student Honors Convocation, on Wednesday,
March 13, 2002, at 11 a.m., in the main Gymnasium of Manuel
Rivero Hall, on the campus in southern Chester County.
The keynote speaker is Dr. N. Joyce Payne, director of
the Office for the Advancement of Public Black Colleges
of the National Association of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges. The organization operates in cooperation
with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
The Honors Convocation at Lincoln -- America's first
Historically Black University -- is being presented as
a formal occasion with full academic regalia. A reception
for honored students, members of their family, and donors
will be held at the hall immediately following the convocation.
Students earning a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 and
above during the spring 2001 and fall 2001 semesters are
being recognized.
Students with 3.3 and above GPAs during the spring 2001
and fall 2001 semesters will be given certificates and
in some cases cash awards. Special recognition -- the
prestigious President's Award -- is being given to sixteen
students who achieved a cumulative GPA of 4.0 and above.
In addition, fifteen Dean's Awards will be presented,
five from each of the University's three academic Schools:
Humanities, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social
Sciences and Behavioral Studies. Also, students on the
spring 2001 and fall 2001 Dean's List are being honored
for their academic achievements.
Dr. Payne's organization, the Office for the Advancement
of Public Black Colleges, is an information and advocacy
office that represents 35 of the largest and most prestigious
historically Black public colleges and universities in
the nation. She formerly served as president of Global
Systems, Inc. and as a senior staff member under the Carter
administration with the President's Advisory Committee
for Women; President's National Advisory Council on Women's
Educational Programs and the White House Conference on
Families. In 1987, she created the nationally recognized
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, a merit scholarship
program that is designed exclusively for exceptional students
at public Black colleges and universities.
Dr. Payne is an authority on women's issues in relation
to higher education and labor force participation. She
has published and presented a number of papers, including
"Women in Administration in Higher Education;" "Women
in Urban School Systems;" "Men, Women, & the Consequences
of Power;" "Maintaining the Competitive Tradition" in
Minorities in Higher Education; "Hidden Messages in the
Pursuit of Equality" in Academe; and "Black Colleges in
an Expanding Economy" in the American Council on Education's
Educational Record.
Dr. Payne recently completed Strategically Approaching
the Future -- 1890 Land-Grant System -- A Strategic Plan,
and is primarily responsible for coordinating implementation
of the plan for 18 Black land-grant universities. She
also played a major role in developing the "Revitalization
Plan" for Coppin State College and continues to work with
the University of the District of Columbia Coalition to
advance the land-grant mission in Washington, DC.
Dr. Payne is one of the founders of the D.C. Chapter
of the Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. and a member
of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. She has received awards from
the Ford Foundation, Hall of Fame for the District of
Columbia, Spencer Foundation, and the U.S. Air Force,
and serves on the Foreign Service Performance Evaluation
Board, U.S. Department of State.
An alumna of the District of Columbia Teachers Colleges,
where she received the bachelor of science degree, Dr.
Payne earned her master's and doctorate degrees from Atlanta
University. She taught at the former Federal City College
and at George Washington University. She served on the
board of trustees of the University of the District of
Columbia for nine years and was elected chair of the board
from 1985 to 1988. She has traveled extensively throughout
the world, including to Cuba, the Caribbean, Germany,
Mexico, Nigeria, Paris and South Africa.
Founded in 1854, Lincoln University provides the best
elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate
core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet
the needs of students living in a highly technological
and global society.
Besides its main campus in southern Chester County, Lincoln
also operates the Center for Graduate and Continuing Education
in Philadelphia.
The University enrolls 1,871 undergraduate and graduate
students. Lincoln has achieved several recent national
distinctions.
The University is:
· ranked 2nd in the nation in graduating African Americans
with baccalaureate degrees in the physical sciences.
· ranked 12th in the nation in graduating all minorities
with baccalaureate degrees in the physical sciences.
· ranked in the top 2% in the nation in graduating African
Americans with baccalaureate degrees in computer and information
sciences.
· ranked in the top 2% in the nation in graduating African
Americans with baccalaureate degrees in biological and
life sciences.
· ranked in the top 3% in the nation in graduating African
Americans in all academic disciplines.
· one of 20 universities nationwide where 40% or more
of its physics graduates are women.
· noted for graduating 7% of African American physics
majors in the U.S. in 1999.
· ranked first in Pennsylvania in graduating African Americans
with baccalaureate degrees in the physical sciences.
These national distinctions are continuations of the
Lincoln University tradition of educating an impressive
list of African Americans who have distinguished themselves
as doctors, lawyers, educators, businesspersons, theologians
and heads of state.
The University is led by President Ivory V. Nelson, Ph.D.,
who has achieved a national reputation for his distinguished
leadership in higher education and as a scientist. Under
President Nelson's leadership, the University is being
restored as the Institution of Choice for students seeking
a world-class higher education.
For more information, contact Samuel W. Pressley, Director,
Lincoln University's Office of Marketing & Communications,
610-932-1094; e-mail: spressley@lu.lincoln.edu;
home: 856-582-9574. * * * *
