Cheyney University

Founded 1837

Dr. W. Clinton Pettus, President
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
Cheyney , PA 19319
Phone: 610-399-2220
Fax #: 610-399-2415

http://www.cheyney.edu/

ENROLLMENT 1,496

BACKGROUND

Cheyney is a state-supported comprehensive that was founded as a part of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Cheyney was originally founded as the Institution for Colored Youth and is the oldest HBCU in America .  Today, Cheyney University students represent a variety of races, cultures, and nationalities

HEALTH RELATED ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

The School of Allied Health prepares students for nursing, medicine, dentistry and medical education.

OTHER ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Degrees granted at Cheyney are the bachelor's in more than 30 disciplines and master's in education.  In addition the graduate programs provide certification for post-baccalaureate teacher educational programs in 12 areas, including elementary and secondary principalship.

Contact

Institutional Advancement

610/399-2027

HBCU CAPABILITIES

1.  Information Systems

• Internet Access

2.  Health Services Research Development

• Access to health care

3.  Community Health Outreach/Education Services

• Conduct health fairs

• General information research services

• Selecting meeting sites convenient for beneficiaries

• Preparing meeting notifications and other correspondence

• Corresponding with presenters, resource persons

4.  Program Evaluation

• Meeting Evaluation

5.  Technical Assistance

• Consulting service

6.  Training

• The institution trains students to provide community service.

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Lincoln University of Pennsylvania

Founded 1854

Dr. Ivory V. Nelson
President
Lincoln University
610-932-8300, Extension 3400

Fax 610-932-8316

1570 Old Baltimore Pike, P.O. Box 179 ,

Lincoln University , PA 19352-0999  

http://www.lincoln.edu/

inelson@lu.lincoln.edu

ENROLLMENT 1951

BACKGROUND

Lincoln University is a state comprehensive institution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that was chartered in April 1854 as Ashmun Institute. This was the first institution found anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African decent. The story of Lincoln University goes back to the early years of the 19th century and to the ancestors of its founder, John Miller Dickey, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson. The Institute was renamed Lincoln University in 1866 after President Abraham Lincoln.  Since its inception, Lincoln has attracted an interracial and international enrollment from the surrounding community, region, and around the world. The University admitted women students in 1952, and was formally associated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1972 as a state-related, coeducational university.

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HEALTH RELATED ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Through the Lincoln University 's Multidisciplinary Center On Aging there are opportunities for those seeking continuing education in the area of aging. Continuing education courses are available for: Seniors and Caregivers, Social Service Professionals, and Health Care Professionals.   Lincoln offers a Health Science major which is designed to prepare students for graduate study in the allied health disciplines. 

OTHER ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

Lincoln offers academic programs in undergraduate study in the arts, sciences as well as graduate programs in human services, reading, education, mathematics, and administration.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

During the first one hundred years of its existence, Lincoln graduated more than 10 percent of the Black attorneys in the United States . Its alumni are administrators over 35 colleges and universities and scores of prominent churches. At least 10 of its alumni have served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs. Many are federal, state and municipal judges, and several have served as mayors or city managers. The Lincoln University Multidisciplinary Center On Aging provides opportunities for graduate and undergraduate education, research, technology training for seniors, Technology training for health and human service professionals, training and continuing education for professionals working in Gerontology and Geriatrics to increase the number of African-American gerontologists/geriatricians in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.  The Department of Biology has conducted notable research and takes the lead role in conducting collaborative research with both majority institutions and other HBCUs.

OTHER CAPABILITIES

The Therapeutic Recreation program at Lincoln University prepares students for entry-level therapeutic recreation positions upon graduation. Students graduating with a bachelor’s degree in this program are eligible to sit for the national certification exam given by the National Council on Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC). Upon passing the exam, the individual becomes a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) and is qualified to work with individuals with disabilities in numerous settings and disability groups.

Contacts:

Dr. Renford A. B. Brevett,

Director, Institutional Research

610/932-8300

Ext. 3213
Fax 610-998-6016

B. Marshall Henderson, D.V.M.

Professor/Chairman of Biology

610/932-8300

Ext. 3507

 henderson@lu.lincoln.edu

HBCU CAPABILITIES

1.  Information Systems

• Computer network including Internet Access

• Local Area Network (LAN) services

• Satellite down-links

• Data Entry, collection, storage and management

• On-site hardware services and maintenance

• Printed materials productions department

• Web development and management

• Own or operate a digital materials productions department

• Radio and/or video broadcast facilities

• Video conferencing capabilities

2.  Health Services Research Development

• Testing improved ways of providing services to different ethnic and racial groups, languages and cultures

• Prevention of diabetes

• Prevention and education of HIV/AIDS

• Health services provided to the gerontology beneficiary

• Health disparities in vulnerable at risk populations

• Physical activity

• Overweight and obesity

• Mental health

• Environmental quality

• Access to health care

• Secondary collection of existing data files and databases

• Survey Instruments

• Needs Assessment Instruments

• Economic barriers to health care access

• Coordinating activities related to health care reform

• Rural health care network development, financing and assistance

• Managed care for the elderly and other low-income adults

3.  Community Health Outreach/Education Services

• Conduct health fairs

• Distribute health care information materials

• Maintain a working relationship with a local Community Development Corporation (CDC)

• Serve on community advisory boards

• Conduct promotions at job fairs and career conventions

• Prevention of Cancer in special populations project

• General Information research services

• Consumer information research

• News releases

• Catered entrees, buffets and packaged lunch boxes on campus

• Capability of providing meeting management for beneficiary education

• Selecting meeting sites convenient for beneficiaries

• Preparing meeting notifications and other correspondence

• Developing the content and structure for the meeting

• Preparing meeting notifications and other correspondence

• Developing the content and structure for the meeting

• Developing agenda items and meeting objectives

• Corresponding with presenters, resource persons

• Securing and confirming meeting logistics

• Arranging media production and press coverage

• Workshop facilitation

• Equipment leasing

• Registration of beneficiaries and others

• Recording the proceeding of the meeting

• Providing student and volunteer support for logistical services through out the meeting

• Provisions for disabled beneficiaries

• Follow-up correspondence to beneficiaries

• Evaluation of meeting

• Submitting meeting reports

• Processing reimbursements

• Preparing and distributing proceedings of meeting

• Development of cost reporting and analyses system

• Spanish translation services-general

• Services for beneficiaries that have low literacy

• Production of consumer pamphlets and beneficiary booklets

4.  Program Evaluation

• Social program evaluation

• State or regional financing mechanisms

• Effects of information and consumer knowledge on choice of health care plans

5.  Technical Assistance

• Statistical analyses

• Interview techniques

• Production of educational directory

• Speech writing

• Publications, evaluation and improvement services

• General editorial services

• Production of awards, plaques/certificates

6.  TRAINING

• The university has many special training programs but a noted one is the training of students to work with persons with disabilities in numerous settings and disability groups.

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