Did You Know The Oldest Degree-Granting HBCU Was Founded 170 Years Ago Today?

On April 29, 1854, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted a charter to Ashmun Institute, which in 1866 would become renamed after President Lincoln, to what is now known as Lincoln University.

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