In the early 1990s, then-President Wendell Rayburn said Lincoln University had the "most-integrated campus" in the United States.
Current LU President Kevin Rome agrees - and wants to expand the image.
"The ultimate goal is to have a global campus, with students coming from all over the world to exchange ideas, exchange language and exchange culture," Rome said Wednesday. "And so, we hope to have a campus that looks like the world.
"That's critically important at this particular time in history, because it is a global world - and our students will have to be able to navigate the world economy."
Rome recently traveled to South Korea and China to further that goal.
"This past academic year, the Korean National University of Transportation came to visit us, and signed an MOU (memorandum of understanding)," he said. "It's customary for us to go over, in turn, and sign an MOU over there, and visit their campus.
"So, we went over and visited with them, and we are hoping to have student exchanges and faculty exchanges" beginning with fall 2016 classes.
Rome noted many Asian universities, including the South Koreans, are "really focused on the STEM areas" - science, technology, engineering and mathematics - "and I think we can benefit from having our students participate. We're not preparing our students to just work in one place.
"We hope to prepare our students to be able to work anywhere in the world - and the more exposure they have to internationalization, the more prepared they are to operate in a global society."
For its part, at least initially, LU's contribution to the exchange will be developing an English as a Second Language, or ESL, program, to help the Koreans who come to Lincoln "communicate better in English," Rome said. "We hope, long term, to get the Korean students to a point where they can actually enroll in some of our degree programs ... and pursue degrees at Lincoln."
Although he hopes the LU students going to Korea would learn some Korean, the classes there would be taught in English.
Rome envisions a similar exchange with Chinese universities, and his trip last month included visits with some of them.
"The Chinese government has set up scholarships to assist students from the United States, particularly coming from HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) to study in China - and we hope to be a part of that program," he said.
"What we have to do is find universities that will partner with us so that we can exchange the students."
Rome would like to see that exchange begin next year, as well.