September 21, 2006

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY APPOINTS ANDREW BLAKE
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS & PUBLIC RELATIONS

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. -Lincoln University President Ivory V. Nelson announces the appointment of Dr. Andrew Blake as assistant director of communications and public relations.

“We are very pleased to have Andrew join the Lincoln University family,” Dr. Nelson said.  “His experiences will surely help us advance our promotional and marketing efforts.”

Dr. Blake joins Lincoln from Delaware State University, where he served on the faculty in the Department of English and Foreign Languages.  While at Delaware State, he also served as staff writer and assistant director of public relations.

He also has served as staff writer and freelance writer for newspapers in Delaware.

“I am extremely delighted with the opportunity to join the Lincoln University family,” Dr. Blake said.  “I am equally excited to be part of the effort to share Lincoln University’s rich history and future aspirations with its stakeholders and the public.”

Dr. Blake earned bachelor and master’s degrees from Delaware State and a doctorate from Wilmington College.

Founded in 1854, Lincoln University is a premier, historically Black University that combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society.  The 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.  Lincoln has an enrollment of 2,278 undergraduate and graduate students.