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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.
faculty 1862-1869; first African American woman to receive a bachelor's degree when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862; taught at ICY in Philadelphia for seven years; in 1869 she moved to Washington, D.C. to teach; in 1871 became the first black principal of the newly established Preparatory High School for Negroes, later renamed Dunbar ...
In 2000 a fourth College, the College of Allied Health Sciences joined the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. On June 6, 2007, the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Pharmacy changed its name to the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. The college is only the second in UC's history to be named.
The school's official name changed several times during the 20th century. In 1983, Cheyney was taken into the State System of Higher Education as Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. The university has traditionally offered opportunities to many students from Philadelphia's inner city schools. [8] Its alumni have close ties in the city and state.
Cedarville University: 2009 College of Pharmacy Rootstown: Northeast Ohio Medical University: 2005 Raabe College of Pharmacy Ada: Ohio Northern University: 1884 College of Pharmacy Columbus: Ohio State University: 1885 James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati: 1850 College of Pharmacy Findlay: University of ...
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.
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 Philadelphia and oversaw the institution's move to Cheyney, Pennsylvania, and its establishment as Cheyney State Teachers College.
Hugh Mason Browne (1851–1923) was an American educator and civil rights activist who served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth (now the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) from 1902 to 1913. Browne was born and raised in Washington, D. C., and attended public schools before entering Howard University. [1]