Student Life and Development

The Office of Student Life and Development advances Lincoln’s Legacy by empowering students to learn, liberate, and lead through enriching co-curricular opportunities and learning experiences.

The Student Life and Development Office, which is in the Division of Student Success, works to fulfill Lincoln University’s mission by its own mission of promoting leadership development and extracurricular involvement. We invite students to advance Lincoln University in many ways – from engaging in co-curricular opportunities, getting involved with clubs and organizations, or representing Lincoln on the Royal Court. Essentially, the Office of Student Life and Development aims to create a seamless learning experience for our students between the classroom and student life, by advancing and enriching student involvement on the Lincoln campus one student at a time.

Effective Communication

• Value: ​Effectively and clearly communicate through oral, written, and visual means to increase knowledge and understanding or to promote change in a listener, reader, or observer respectively.
• Outcome: Students will effectively communicate in oral, written, and visual forms.

Critical Thinking

• Value: Critical thinking is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion and making inferences between concepts.
• Outcome: Students will reason abstractly and think critically to make connections between ideas and experiences and to solve novel problems.

Lincoln Legacy

• Value: Lincoln Legacy represents the intention of the University to highlight the institution’s rich historical development, alumni achievement, and the role of people of African descent and their ongoing global impact.
• Outcomes: ​Students will:
  • Demonstrate knowledge of Lincoln's heritage and legacy through assignments and related academic experiences.
  • Participate in activities and demonstrate behaviors that are indicative of forwarding Lincoln's legacy.
  • Examine and describe the role of people of African descent and their ongoing global impact as it pertains to Lincoln’s history.