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UC College of Arts and Sciences releases statement on equity, inclusion and excellence

June 25, 2020

Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when Union Army General Gordon Granger read the federal proclamation of freedom from slavery in Galveston, Texas, two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Now 155 years later, we feel it is important for us to make public our position and commitment to be a more just and inclusive civic and educational community.

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Two Bearcats fell in love and made history

August 31, 2020

Jim Obergefell (CECH, ’90) and his late husband, John Arthur, (Bus, ‘88) met at UC. Their love story would go all the way to the Supreme Court and make same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States.

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UC honored for diversity, inclusion

October 14, 2020

The University of Cincinnati and three of its colleges have been honored with the 2020 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. In all, only 46 U.S. colleges and universities received the award.

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A&S doctoral student receives P.E.O. Scholar Award

October 15, 2020

Shaonta’ is a Black Christian millennial scholar. These intersecting aspects of her identity inform the way she conducts and makes sense of her research. Her dissertation project, Unapologetically Black and Unashamedly Christian: Exploring the Complexities of Black Millennial Christianity, looks “specifically at how religion plays a role in how young Black Christians are making sense of racial inequality and how they go about responding to some of the racist conditions that they may experience.”

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Designing her path

October 15, 2020

Cameryn Blake remembers January 21, 2017 in vivid detail. On that day she was cheerleading at a high school basketball game. When halftime rolled around, she got some news that gave her another reason to cheer – she had been accepted to her dream school, the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). She nearly fell from the bleachers in excitement.