UC Plans Special Delivery For Community School With Worldwide Connections

The University of Cincinnati is packing up notebooks, pencils and other necessities that kids request on their back-to-school lists to arrive at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at Cincinnati Public’s Academy of World Languages (AWL). The magnet school is temporarily located at the Heinold Building at 2240 Baltimore Ave., the former site of North Fairmount School.

The back-to-school welcome is the result of the second-annual UC school supply drive, sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and Services, to benefit students and teachers in Cincinnati Public Schools. Staff representing UC’s Office of Resident Education and Development set up collection boxes at 32 different locations across the Uptown West, Uptown East and regional campuses from Aug. 4-16. They’ll be delivering the supplies to AWL on Friday.

“Having the right school supplies is an essential part of learning,” says Mitchel D. Livingston, UC vice president of Student Affairs and Services. “My colleagues and I are proud of the part we play in preparing these children to make worldwide connections.”

The Academy of World Languages is a Cincinnati Public magnet program for children in pre-kindergarten through the eighth grade. The school prepares children for a globally linked society through excellence in world languages and cultural studies and offers Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and English as a second language, as well as German for grades 7-8.

AWL is temporarily located at the Heinold building on Baltimore while a new school is being constructed on the original AWL site as part of Cincinnati Public’s 10-year, $985 million Master Plan to upgrade the schools.

Children who attend Cincinnati Public Schools will head back to school on Aug. 23. At the University of Cincinnati, students head back to class on Sept. 21. Residence halls at UC will open to campus dwellers Sept. 15-16.