This is a list of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania faculty.
Notable faculty
edit| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 University doctoral graduate | ||
| Octavius Catto | valedictorian in 1858 at the Institute for Colored Youth; taught at Cheyney briefly after graduating; influential in getting the 15th Amendment passed in 1870, which gave black men the right to vote; founder of the first black baseball team in the United States (The Pythians, 1867) and the Equal Rights League (1864) | ||
| John Chaney | 1972-82 Hall of Fame basketball coach | ||
| Fanny Jackson Coppin | first African American woman to become a school principal; was at the Institute for Colored Youth for 37 years; responsible for vast educational improvements in Philadelphia | ||
| Richard Theodore Greener | hired in 1870; first African American Harvard University graduate | ||
| Leslie Pinckney Hill | faculty 1913-1951; fifth and final principal, first president of Cheyney | ||
| William "Billy" Joe | former NFL and AFL player; College Football Hall of Fame coach | ||
| Mary Jane Patterson | 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 High School | ||
| Charles L. Reason | first principal; prolific writer of political journalism and poetry; known for poems "Freedom," "The Spirit Voice," and "Silent Thoughts" | ||
| C. Vivian Stringer | 1972-83 Hall of Fame basketball coach | ||
| Laura Wheeler Waring | hired in 1908; artist; art and music teacher |