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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 ...
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.
Thanks to the investments in the budget, Cheyney University is set to receive an additional $992,500 for next year, bringing their total state appropriation to more than $21.7 million for the 2024 ...
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.
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.
William Adger. 1883, first African American University of Pennsylvania baccalaureate degree graduate. Edythe Scott Bagley. founder of the theater department; sibling of Coretta Scott King. Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett. second principal; first African American American diplomat. Edward Bouchet. hired in 1876; first African American Yale ...
Harvard University (BA, MA) Occupation (s) Educator, writer and community leader. Known for. First president of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Leslie Pinckney Hill (14 May 1880 – 15 February 1960) was an American educator, writer, and community leader. From 1913 to 1951, he served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in ...
C. Vivian Stringer. Charlaine Vivian Stringer[1] (born March 16, 1948) [2] is an American former basketball coach. She holds one of the best coaching records in the history of women's basketball. She was the head coach of the Rutgers University women's basketball team from 1995 until her retirement in 2022. [3]