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Nickname. Wolves. Website. cheyney.edu. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, [5] it is the oldest of all historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It is a member of the Pennsylvania State System ...
Cheyney Wolves. The Cheyney Wolves are the athletic sports teams for Cheyney University. They compete as an independent and formerly played in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). [2] Women's sports include basketball, cheerleading and volleyball. Basketball is the only men's sport the university currently offers as of 2019.
Lincoln University (LU) is a public state-related historically black university (HBCU) near Oxford, Pennsylvania. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972 and is the second HBCU in the state, after Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. [5] Lincoln is also recognized as the first college-degree ...
UTC-4 (EDT) ZIP code. 19319. Area code (s) 610 and 484. Cheyney is an unincorporated community that sits astride Chester and Delaware counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It corresponds to the census-designated place known as Cheyney University, which had a population of 988 at the 2010 census, [1] and 565 at the 2020 census. [2]
Cole was the second African-American woman physician in the United States and the first black woman to graduate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. James B. Dudley. ca. 1870. Graduated from the Institute for Colored Youth around 1875 (now Cheyney University). For college Dudley attended Shaw College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Richard Humphreys (February 13, 1750 – 1832) [1] was an American silversmith and philanthropist who founded a school for African Americans in Philadelphia. Originally called the African Institute, it was renamed the Institute for Colored Youth and eventually became Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest historically black university in the United States.
This category is for articles related to the varsity sports teams of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.