July 10, 2024
Proposed federal legislation would allow eligible students to access the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Choice Voucher Program — or section 8 housing vouchers — to pay for on- and off-campus housing.
July 23, 2024
Professor Kimberly D. Bailey has been named Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Cincinnati Law.
November 13, 2018
In April of 2018, Maurice Adkins received the The Herbert Shapiro Scholarship in African-American History, a $2,000 award that will support him as he completes his dissertation. Named for the beloved UC history professor Dr. Herbert Shapiro, the scholarship and its recipient honor Dr. Shapiro's legacy of learning and activism.
July 13, 2020
By Adam Cline Jeff Zalar, associate professor of History at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has won the annual DeLong Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). The award was conferred last month for his recently published book, "Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914" from Cambridge University Press (2019). SHARP awards the prize to the
September 2, 2021
A University of Cincinnati doctoral candidate in the History Department has been awarded the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellowship. A doubly sweet victory was earned on the same day that he received this award. Maurice Adkins completed the final stage in the Ph.D. process by successfully defending his dissertation titled “Leadership in the Shadow of Jim Crow: Race, Labor, Gender, and Politics of African American Higher Education in North Carolina, 1860-1931.”
September 28, 2021
Nontraditional students can be hard to define and even harder to teach in a traditional environment. UC’s College of Arts & Sciences makes it a point to offer flexible scheduling, learning and asynchronous options, aspects that helped Kathy Silbernagel and Al-Raheim Washington earn their liberal arts degrees this year. “In actual class setting, I saw little or no difference between my approach and those of my fellow classmates,” Silbernagel says. “If there is a difference it might be in that many—maybe most—students coming out of high school do not have clear career choices in mind and this was not an issue for me.” Nontraditional students are defined by one or more of seven characteristics: delayed enrollment in college; attends college part-time; works full time; is financially independent; has dependents other than a spouse; is a single parent; or does not have a high school diploma, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. How about a 70-year-old retired CEO and a family advocate and success coach in his mid-30s with a GED?