Lincoln University News

A university in Pennsylvania wants students to be fit to graduate, and it has nothing to do with academics.

This is probably going to mortify a few people: More than two dozen seniors at Lincoln University, in Oxford, Pa., are in danger of not being able to graduate this spring - not because theya re under disciplinary probation or havena t fulfilled the requirements of their majors, but because they were obese as freshmen.

A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.

Lincoln University , located 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia , is under scrutiny over its policy making it mandatory for heavy students to take a fitness course to graduate.

Some Pennsylvania college students are upset that their school is requiring those who are overweight to take a fitness class in order to graduate.

Overweight Pa. students unhappy about fitness class rule PHILADELPHIA Some Pennsylvania university students are upset that their college is requiring overweight students to take a fitness class in order to graduate.

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At Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, students who are deemed too heavy must pass a physical-fitness course.

High school students, parents and, yes, middle school students - College Awareness Week in Philadelphia leaves no excuses.

A local representative called for state legislators to give appropriations to Penn State and Pennsylvania's other three state-related schools at a press conference Thursday.

State funding for the four state-related universities, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Temple University and Lincoln University, is held up as the General Assembly continues negotiations over the final piece of the state budget.

Legislation on table games is holding up funding for state-related universities.

Tuition rates may rise if state legislators do not provide funding to Penn State within the next week and a half, university officials said.

Pennsylvania State, Temple, and two other state-related universities said yesterday that the delay in approving table-games legislation in Harrisburg could affect tuition rates, starting in January.

The honor student from Connecticut went on a hunger strike.It was a small but drastic measure designed to draw attention to the closure of the library at the Chester County institution and to food services that she and others insist are poor.

By the time Lincoln University junior Amelia Sherwood found a moth in her salad last month, she was fed up.

The upward march of college costs continued this fall despite the recession, though Pennsylvania's pricey four-year public campuses saw modest increases relative to other states, a new national survey finds.

Undercover police officers arrested six people on suspicion of underage drinking the night before Shippensburg University homecoming.

The year 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of Kwame Nkrumaha s birth in the old colonial Gold Coast.

While community colleges and state universities across Pennsylvania prepare to receive state funding, Penn State and Pennsylvania's three other state-related schools are no better off than they were 105 days ago.