Lincoln Named Coker College Interim Provost

Hartsville, S.C. — Biology professor Dr. Patricia G. Lincoln has been appointed Coker College’s Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculty. 

“Pat is without question a leader on campus who demonstrates for all that combining teaching excellence with scholarly activity is the essence of daily life in the academy,” said college president Dr. James Dawson.

Lincoln, who lives in Columbia, S.C., joined the Coker College faculty in 1983. She holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a B.A. from Kalamazoo College. 

Lincoln has served as chair of Coker College’s Faculty Senate and on the college’s Board of Trustees. She also directs the college’s “Write On!” program, a campus-wide quality enhancement plan that focuses on developing writing skills for students.  

In the classroom, Lincoln teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from invertebrate and vertebrate biology to the biology of plants. She has been recognized as a Master Professor by Coker students and as a Distinguished Professor by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education.

Lincoln is a longtime appointee to the Grants in Aid of Research Committee for Sigma Xi, the national scientific research society, and she is a reviewer of grant proposals for the National Science Foundation. Lincoln has also been a Wye Fellow at The Aspen Institute.

Coker College’s former provost and dean of the faculty, Dr. Ronald L. Carter, resigned earlier this year to accept the presidency of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte.

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April 25 , 2008