University of Cincinnati

University of Cincinnati
Motto	Juncta Juvant (Latin for "Strength in Unity")
Established	1819
Type	Public (state university)
Endowment	$937 million (December 2010)[1]
President	Gregory H. Williams
Provost	Santa J. Ono
Academic staff	5,802[2]
Admin. staff	3,932[2]
Students	41,357[2]
Undergraduates	31,523 (all campuses), 22,449 (main)[2]
Postgraduates	9,834[2]
Location	Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Campus	Urban; All Campuses: 473 acres (1.91 km²) Uptown Campus (Main and Medical): 194 acres (0.79 km2)
Athletics	18 Varsity sports
Colors	Red & Black
Nickname	Bearcats
Mascot	The Bearcat
Affiliations	Big East Conference
Website	www.uc.edu

The University of Cincinnati, commonly referred to as UC or Cincy, is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio.

UC was founded in 1819, and has an annual enrollment of over 40,000 students, making it one of the 100 largest universities in the U.S. In the 2010 survey by Times Higher Education (UK), the University of Cincinnati is ranked 76th in North America (this includes American and Canadian institutions of higher education) and as the 190th in the world.^[3][4] Additionally, the 2011 US News and World Report has ranked the University of Cincinnati as the 156th-best school in the nation, making it a Tier One university.^[5] UC was also selected as one of only 20 "Up-and-coming National Universities" by the same publication.

It offers over 300 degree granting programs and over 600 total programs of study, ranging from two-year Associate's degrees to doctoral and post-doctorate education. With an economic impact of over $3 billion per year, it is the largest single employer in Greater Cincinnati. After extensive renovations through the implementation of the 1989 Master Plan, the university has been recognized by campus planners and architects as one of the most distinguished campus settings in the world.^[6][7]

History

Cincinnati College

In 1819, Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio were founded in Cincinnati. Local benefactor Dr. Daniel Drake founded and funded the Medical College of Ohio. William Lytle of the Lytle family donated the land, funded the Cincinnati College and Law College, and served as its first president. The college survived only six years before financial difficulties forced it to close. In 1835, Daniel Drake reestablished the institution, which eventually joined with the Cincinnati Law School.

McMicken University

In 1858 Charles McMicken died of pneumonia and in his will he allocated $1 million to the City of Cincinnati to found a university, and after several controversies and delays, the University of Cincinnati was officially chartered by the Ohio legislature in 1870.^[8] Originally known as McMicken University, a month after the college's founding, the university's board of directors changed the institution's name to the University of Cincinnati.^[9]

Move up the hill

By 1893 the University had outgrown its old home on Clifton Ave. and moved to its current location in the Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati, which was formally part Burnet Woods. As the university continued to grow it merged with the Cincinnati Law School which become the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1896 and while the Medical College of Ohio was loosely affiliated with UC from about 1896, it joined with a splinter medical school, Miami Medical College, to form the Ohio-Miami Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati in 1909. As the need for higher education grew, the university also created colleges such as a Teacher's College in 1905 and a Graduate School in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1906. In 1962 the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music joined the university as well. UC became a "municipally-sponsored, state-affiliated" institution in 1968. During this time, UC was the second oldest and second-largest municipal university in the country. It became one of Ohio's state universities in 1977.

Campus Master Plan and UC|21

In 1989 university president Joseph A. Steger and Hargreaves Associates unveiled a Master Plan for the university.^[10] This has been amended in both 2000 and 2005 but has helped create one of the most beautiful university campuses in the world. It included renovation and construction of multiple buildings, adding dozens of acres of green-space to the campus, and adding MainStreet, which is a central path through campus highlighting all of the most frequented buildings on campus. After becoming president of the university in 2005, Nancy L. Zimpher implemented plan named UC|21. This was designed to help redefine UC as the "new urban research university" for the 21st century. This included putting students at the center, increasing research funding, expanded involvement in the surrounding city, and making UC a "premier" urban research university.

UC2019

As the university approaches it's bicentennial and after President Zimpfer left in 2009, Gregory H. Williams was named the 27th president of the University of Cincinnati. He has begun an aggressive plan to increase outside validation of the university. The plan was designed to catapult UC into its bicentennial and continue increasing academic profile and the size and academic quality of the university. His plan is titled UC2019, Accelerating our Transformation which focuses on Transforming lives, Transforming education, and Transforming knowledge. This will be accomplished through learning, discovery, community, economy, sustainability, global engagement, diversity, mission-based health care, and collaboration based on several 5 year targets.^[11]

Professional Practice Program

UC is the originator of the co-operative education (co-op) model. The concept was invented at UC in 1906 by Herman Schneider, Dean of the College of Engineering at the time. The program generally consists of alternating quarters of coursework on campus and outside work at a host firm, giving students over one year of relevant work experience by the time they graduate. All programs in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, as well as Architecture and all design programs in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, require co-operative education experience to graduate. Programs in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business, and other colleges offer optional co-op opportunities. For a number of years, this system was referred to as "The Cincinnati Plan." Ranked fourth in the U.S., UC's Professional Practice (Co-op) Program is one of the largest co-op programs at any public institution in the United States with nearly 5,000 participating students at over 2,000 companies in 44 countries. The office of Professional Practice is housed in the Steger Student Life Center.

Campuses

Uptown Campus

The Uptown campus includes the West (main), Medical, and Victory Parkway campuses.

• West (main) Campus^[12]

This campus is comprised of 62 buildings on 137 acres (0.55 km²). The university moved to this location in 1893. Most of the undergraduate colleges at the university are located on main campus. The exceptions are part of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center on the Medical campus. In spring of 2010 the University of Cincinnati was honored by being one of only 13 colleges and universities named by Forbes as one of "The World's Most Beautiful College Campuses".^[13]

• Medical Campus^[14]

This campus is compromised of 19 buildings on 57 acres (230,000 m²). It is caddy corner to West campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The undergraduate colleges of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing and graduate colleges of Medicine and the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy are located there. The hospitals located there include University Hospital, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati VA Medical Center, and the Shriners Hospital for Children.

• Victory Parkway Campus

This campus was formally home to the College of Applied Science. It is roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) from main campus in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati and overlooks the Ohio River. When it merged with the College of Engineering to become the College of Engineering and Applied Science many of the classes were moved to main campus, however limited courses are still taught there. There is a shuttle that runs between this and main campus throughout the day.

Branch campuses and institutes

• Clermont College (CLER) (regional campus, located in Batavia, Ohio)
  • UC East (expansion space for Clermont College and select College of Nursing and College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services programs)
• Raymond Walters College (RWC) (regional campus, located in Blue Ash, Ohio)^[15]
• Center Hill Research Facility
• UC Reading Campus & UC Metabolic Diseases Institute

Architecture

The university has had a strategic plan for the last decade for new architecture to be built by "signature architects." UC itself has an outstanding architecture and design program, and the efforts to have these famous architects design new campus buildings have encouraged students to attend the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP). In recent years, the university has received attention from architects and campus planners as one of the most beautiful in the world.^[16]

• Engineering Research Center, Michael Graves (UC alumnus) (1994)
• Aronoff Center for Art and Design, Peter Eisenman (1996)
• College-Conservatory of Music, Pei Cobb Freed and Partners (Henry Cobb) (1999)
• Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, Frank O. Gehry (1999)
• Tangeman University Center, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (2004)
• Steger Student Life Center, Moore Ruble Yudell (2005)
• Campus Recreation Center, Morphosis (Thom Mayne) (2006)
• Lindner Athletic Center, Bernard Tschumi (2006)
• Care/Crawley Building, STUDIOS Architecture (Eric Sueberkrop, UC alumnus) (2008)

Sustainability

In recent years the University of Cincinnati has made significant strides to include more green initiatives and encourage sustainability. In autumn of 2010 the University of Cincinnati maintained its position in green and sustainability initiative by being named one of only 286 "Green Colleges" by The Princeton Review.^[17] UC was the only public university in Ohio and the only university in the Southern Ohio region named on this list. The university has instituted several programs as part of this initiative. These include a bike share program where UC students can rent bikes from the university, a greatly expanded recycling program, improved campus transportation, greatly decreased energy and water use throughout campus, and the addition of 6 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified buildings since 2005.^[18]

Also, in 2010 UC opened up a new $14 million privately funded athletic practice facility and Women's Lacrosse stadium named the Sheakley Athletic Complex. As a continued effort to go green, a chilled water thermal energy storage tank will be placed under the fields and at night the water will be chilled and then used to air-condition buildings on campus. The storage tank will help the university to reach annual energy savings of about $1 million.^[19]

Academic profile

University rankings (overall)

ARWU World[20]	201–300
ARWU National[21]	101–133
Forbes[22]	542
Times Higher Education[23]	190
USNWR National University[24]	156

The University of Cincinnati aims to be the premier urban research university, and currently offers 304 programs of study which include 49 Associate, 103 Baccalaureate, 85 Master's, 67 Doctoral, and 4 First Professional (MD, JD, etc.) degrees. The university is divided into 13 colleges.

Rankings

The university has dozens of highly ranked programs.

Colleges: Cooperative education, 4th in the U.S. Pharmacy, 32nd in the U.S. Medicine 40th in the U.S. Nursing (Undergraduate), 48th in the U.S Law, 56th in the U.S. Education, 66th in the U.S. Business, 71st in the U.S. Nursing (Graduate), 72nd in the U.S. Engineering, 73rd in the U.S.

Music and Arts Programs: Opera/Voice, 3rd in the U.S Interior Design, 3rd in the U.S. Musical Conducting, 5th in the U.S. Music, 6th in the U.S. Industrial Design, 6th in the U.S. Music Composition, 9th in the U.S. Orchestra/Symphony, 9th in the U.S. Drama, 37th in the U.S. Master of Fine Arts, 45th in the U.S. Creative Writing 46th in the U.S.

Science and Engineering Programs: Paleontology, 6th in the U.S. Environmental Engineering, 20th in the U.S. Aerospace Engineering, 31st in the U.S. Civil Engineering, 48th in the U.S. Materials Engineering, 50th in the U.S. Mechanical Engineering, 60th in the U.S.

Medical and Human Service Programs: Criminal Justice, 3rd in the U.S. Pediatrics, 3rd in the U.S. Nursing, Anesthesia, 11th in the U.S. Otolaryngology, 18th in the U.S. AIDS Center, 26th in the U.S. Neurology, 28th in the U.S. Geriatrics, 29th in the U.S. Pulmonary Disease, 32nd in the U.S.

Cancer Center, 33rd in the U.S. Rheumatology, 35th in the U.S. Speech and Language Pathology, 38th in the U.S. Endocrinology, 39th in the U.S. Cardiology, 43rd in the U.S. Audiology, 44th in the U.S.

Colleges

• College of Allied Health Sciences (CAHS)
  • School of Social Work (Part of the College of Allied Health Sciences as of Autumn 2010)

    

    

    McMicken Hall, home of the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences on main campus.

• McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), as the largest and most diverse college, A&S is the academic heart of UC and is home to twenty-one departments, eight co-op programs, several interdisciplinary programs, and 392 full-time faculty members. The Classics Department is one of the most active centers for the study of Bronze Age and Classical antiquity in the United States. UC's Creative Writing PhD program was ranked 6th in the nation by Poets and Writers' magazine. McMicken's paleontology program is ranked 7th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.^[25]
• College of Business (COB), one of the top business schools in southern Ohio, particularly known for its programs in operations management, accounting, and marketing as well as the prestigious Carl H. Lindner Honors-PLUS program which consists of some of the top future business professionals in the country, and the Kolodzik Business Scholars program, known for emphasizing innovation, collaboration and globalization in order for a student to reach his or her specialization^[26] UC is the fifth most influential real estate research institution in the U.S., based on the quality of faculty research and literary citations in journals.
• Clermont College (CLER) (regional campus)
• College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), a prestigious performing arts school, ranked 6th nationally by U.S. News and World Report and particularly renowned for its voice, composition, piano, musical theater, orchestra, wind studies, drama, and Theater Design departments.
• College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), a highly internationally-ranked design school,^[27] particularly known for its programs in interior design (ranked best in the nation), architecture, and industrial design (both ranked second), as well as graphic design and urban planning (both ranked in the top 20).
• College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services (CECH), its criminal justice program is ranked 3rd nationally by U.S. News and World Report
• College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS), as of June 2009, the College of Applied Science and the College of Engineering officially merged. The new college is now the College of Engineering and Applied Science with several different schools within the college.^[28]
  • College of Engineering (ENGR), recognized as having the first co-operative education program in the United States. Winston Koch invented the first electronic organ here.
  • College of Applied Science (CAS), organized as the Ohio Mechanics Institute (OMI) in 1828, it merged with UC in 1969 and was renamed the OMI College of Applied Science in 1979.^[29] Currently referred to as the College of Applied Science, CAS offers programs in the engineering technologies and related areas. In 1934, after WWI, OMI had a contract from the US government to train returning soldiers.^[30]
• The Graduate School, a collaborative unit of all the university's colleges responsible for providing centralized administrative services for all postgraduate programs.
• College of Law, the fourth oldest continually running law school in the country and alma mater of William Howard Taft, the only person to serve both as U.S. President and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Taft also served as the college's dean when it integrated with the University of Cincinnati in 1896. Cincinnati is one of only six law schools in America to have matriculated a U.S. President and a Supreme Court justice. A statue of the former president stands near the campus law building.

  

  

  CARE/Crawley building on the University of Cincinnati's Medical campus

• College of Medicine, ranked among the best 40 medical schools by U.S. News and World Report,^[31]] it includes both a leading teaching hospital and several biomedical research laboratories. In the 1950s Albert Sabin developed the live polio vaccine at the College of Medicine. Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) was developed here by George Rieveschl in 1946. UC also established the first emergency medicine residency program. UC offers a dual-admissions program known as Connections to high school students applying for undergraduate studies at the University of Cincinnati.^[32]
• College of Nursing, recognized as having the first bachelor’s degree program in nursing.
• James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, is one of the most prestigious and competitive pharmacy programs in the US and is ranked 32rd nationally by U.S. News and World Report. It was founded in 1850 as the first pharmacy school west of the Alleghenies, and its graduates have a 100% placement rate prior to graduation.
• Raymond Walters College (RWC) (regional campus, located in Blue Ash, Ohio)^[15]

UC is also the home of the Institute for Policy Research, a multidisciplinary research organization which opened in 1971. It performs a variety of surveys and polls on public opinion throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, primarily through telephone surveys.

International activities

The university has a large, diverse international student body, with approximately 2,500 students drawn from over 100 countries. The largest number of foreign students are from India and China with a significant number from France as well. Most international students study at the graduate level, although the university is now aggressively recruiting more talented students into undergraduate fields. To this end, UC is now creating a network of official representatives to assist interested students throughout the world.

A number of new international activities are positioning UC as a leading international innovator among US universities. UC is the first American university to benchmark its international student services, using an instrument known as the International Student Barometer (ISB). In the Fall 2006 survey, UC benchmarked with the highest overall international student satisfaction score among the 40 participating institutions. UC is also among the first universities to pilot the new Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad, created by the Forum on education abroad.^[33]

International collaboration

UC recently initiated a strategy of "comprehensive engagement" with key foreign institutions. The first of these with which a formal agreement was signed was Shandong University, of Jinan, China. In addition to developing a range of activities across their many colleges, the two universities have agreed to create a Joint Center for Urban Research, with offices on both campuses. UC's new COSMIC database (Cincinnati Online System for Managing International Collaboration) provides a view of its international relationships.^[34]

UC has offered the opportunity to study or work abroad in over 80 countries since 2003.^[35] These experiences include study abroad, student exchange, international co-op, internships, research and service learning abroad and can last anywhere from a week over spring break to a full academic year spent studying abroad. UC International is the office that oversees these programs and offers several scholarships and grants to help fund international experience as well. The programs offered can be program or college specific and apply directly towards degree completion, used to satisfy area studies or minors, or even used used to satisfy free elective requirements.

Research

The University of Cincinnati has a long history of both undergraduate and graduate research and in 2010 received the most research funding in the history of the university at more than $443 million, which is a 17% percent increase over 2009. Additionally, corporate research topped $15.2 million, and increase of 21% over the previous year. The university was first classified by The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as a "Research 1" university, since renamed "RU/VH: Research Universities (very high research activity)". Recently, The Center at Arizona State University placed the University of Cincinnati as a "Public University Ranking in the Top 20 public research universities in the United States^[36] and The Chronicle of Higher Education named UC as a "Research Heavyweight".^[37] However, research at the University of Cincinnati is not just limited to labs. Students have the opportunity to take part in opportunities from medical research, to engineering labs, to creating sustainable technologies and designing buildings. As recently as April 2010, the University of Cincinnati has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the prestigious Association of American Universities and has secured more research funding in recent years than several current members.^[38]

Ohio Centers of Excellence

The Ohio Centers of Excellence^[39] were designed to recognize the extensive research at universities in Ohio and encourage the development of new technologies and techniques to help retain and create Ohio jobs. UC is proud to be part of 4 of these 6 centers, thus far:

• Advanced Energy: Sustaining the Urban Environment^[40]
• Advanced Transportation and Aerospace: Intelligent Air & Space Vehicle Energy Systems^[41]
• Biomedicine and Health Care: Transforming Health Care in the 21st Century^[42]
• Enabling Technologies: Materials and Sensors, Nanoscale Sensor Technology^[43]

Discoveries

There have been several discoveries, inventions, accomplishments, and "firsts" at the University of Cincinnati and by its graduates such as, First co-operative education program – Herman Schneider, First oral polio vaccine – Albert Sabin, First observations leading to the National Weather Service – Cleveland Abbe, First antihistamine (Benadryl) – George Rieveschl, Designer of the Golden Gate Bridge Joseph B. Strauss, First electronic organ – Winston Kock, First use of YAG laser to remove brain tumor, First bachelor’s degree program in nursing, First emergency medicine residency program, and the First degree program offered via satellite.

Libraries

The University of Cincinnati has 14 libraries, which are housed in 11 different facilities. This also includes the Digital Projects Department. The university library system has holdings of over 3.6 million volumes and 70,000 periodicals. The average circulation is around 451,815 items and 116,532 reference transactions. The University of Cincinnati is a member of the Association of Research Libraries. This is a collection of 123 libraries at research-intensive institutions in the US and Canada. UC is also part of OhioLINK which gives students access to libraries across 16 public universities, 23 community/technical colleges, and 49 private colleges with tens of millions of volumes at their fingertips.

• Walter C. Langsam Library (main library)
  • Named after a former president of the university, Langsam Library is the main and largest library on campus. It offers a 24/7 computer lab named UCIT@Langsam which is available to students for computer, printing, copying and study use. It is also a Federal Depository Library Program, allowing students free access to thousands of federal publications.
• Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library (formerly AIT&L)
• Archives and Rare Books Library
• Business & Economics Library (Langsam)

  

  

  Van Wormer Library, the first library on campus

• Ralph E. Oesper Chemistry-Biology Library
• John Miller Burnam Classical Library
• Albino Gorno Memorial Music (CCM) Library
• Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)
• College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services
• College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) Library
• Geology-Mathematics-Physics Library
• Law Library
• Clermont College Library
• Raymond Walters College Library

Athletics

The university competes in 18 Division I (NCAA) sports and its athletics teams are known as the "Bearcats". Since July 1, 2005, they have been members of the Big East Conference. They were previously members of Conference USA, of which they were a founding member.

The university's most well-known rivalries are with Miami University, the University of Louisville and Xavier University. UC is known for its rich tradition in basketball, but have enjoyed recent a successful decade in football which is the fifth oldest program in college football, having started collegiate play in 1885. Besides its varsity sports, the university also has a diverse number of intercollegiate club sports teams and has recently passed legislation to distinguish some clubs as Club Varsity.^[44] Some include the Wrestling club and the club Rowing team, which produced 2004 Olympian Kelly Salchow.

National championships

• Sandy Koufax, baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers

The university has four individual and six team championships. The Bearcats won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1961 and 1962, both times against Ohio State. Charles Keating won the 1946 200m butterfly national title for UC as a member of the men's swimming team and most recently, Josh Schneider^[45] did the same in the 50-yard (46 m) freestyle in 2010. In women's diving, Pat Evans (3 m Dive – 1989) and Becky Ruehl (10 m dive – 1996) have brought home titles for the Bearcats. The UC Dance Team has won 4 National Championships from 2004 through 2006 and again in 2009. They are the first team in UC history to ever capture three consecutive national titles. They remain one of the top dance programs in the country and are the winningest team in University of Cincinnati history. In 2009 the dance team was also selected to represent the United States of America in the first ever world dance championships where they won the gold medal in all three dance categories.^[46]

Notable athletics alumni include: Baseball Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax and Miller Huggins; Basketball Hall of Famers Oscar Robertson and Jack Twyman; Boston Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis; Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin; and tennis great Tony Trabert.

Student athletes

In May 2006, Athletic Director (AD) Thomas introduced his vision for Bearcat Athletics, aptly titled CATAPULT. Thomas's five-year vision for UC's 18-sport intercollegiate program was launched six months after his hiring as AD. The plan focuses on three main initiatives: winning BIG EAST team championships, high-level academic achievement, and a comprehensive integration with the Greater Cincinnati Community. This action initiative tracks UC's 18 teams towards BIG EAST Championships in every sport within the next five years, encourages continued leadership by UC student-athletes in academics, and stresses community engagement. CATAPULT —an acronym for Championships, Academics, and Together— sets the goal that in the next five years UC will win a BIG EAST championship in every sport; UC's student-athletes will lead the general student body in graduation rate and grade point average; and UC's student-athletes and coaches will engage the Cincinnati community in service. During the 2006 Fall Quarter, the first under the CATAPULT plan, UC's sports teams made major improvements in academics, achieving an overall grade point average (GPA) of 2.938. Additionally, 11 of the 17 squads posted team GPAs higher than the general UC student body GPA of 2.965.

• The Bearcat men's basketball team made the greatest improvement in the classroom, as its 2.875 team GPA a half a grade point better than that of last year's squad for Fall Quarter. Five Bearcats had GPAs of 3.0 or above with two student-athletes making the Dean's List.
• The Bearcat women's soccer team also earned a national Team Academic Award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for having a team GPA of at least 3.2 for the 2005–06 school year.
• A total of 247 student-athletes from UC's 17 sports were named to either the Bearcat or the Topcat Honor Roll. To qualify for the Bearcat Honor Roll, a student-athlete must have earned a grade point average between 3.0 and 3.49 for the quarter, while Topcat honorees must maintain between a 3.5 and a 4.0 GPA.

In 2006, four of the six UC fall sports teams improved their finish in the final BIG EAST conference standings over that of Fall 2005. The Bearcat teams collectively posted an improvement of three places. UC's men's soccer team became the first Bearcat squad to claim a BIG EAST title, winning the Red Division of the league's regular season race.

In December 2007 ESPN stated that if Academics AND Athletics Achievement were factored in, that the University of Cincinnati football team would be playing in the BCS Championship game. UC finished the season with a 10–3 record and a #17 national ranking.

Athletic facilities

All of the athletic facilities (with the exception of Fifth Third Arena and Marge Schott Stadium) are open 24/7 for student use.^[47]

• Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village
  • Commissioned as part of UC's entrance into the Big East and serves as the centerpiece of UC's athletic facilities. It opened in 2006 and includes the Richard E. Linder Center, which provides training, meeting, studying, and classroom space, as well as the George and Helen Smith Athletics Museum. Also located here is the Sheakley Lawn, which is reserved for students and club sports.
• Marge Schott Stadium
  • Home to the UC Baseball team. It is named for the former owner of the Cincinnati Red's, Marge Schott, and replaced Johnny Bench Field. Shortly after this facility opened in 2006, it was named by Big East coaches and players as the best baseball facility in the conference.
• Armory Fieldhouse

• • Home of UC indoor Track and Field teams and former home of the Men's and Women's Basketball teams
• Fifth Third Arena
  • Home to UC Men's and Women's Basketball teams
• Nippert Stadium
  • Home to UC's Football and Women's Lacrosse teams
• Ben and Dee Gettler Stadium
  • Home to UC Men's and Women's Soccer and Track and Field teams
• Trabert-Talbert Tennis Center
  • Home to UC Men's and Women's Tennis teams
• Keating Aquatics Center
  • Home to UC Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving teams
• Sheakley Athletic Complex
  • New facility constructed in 2010 that provides one full and one half football field field for varsity teams to practice on and after phase two finishes, a permanent home for the Women's Lacrosse team. From November to February a temporary bubble is inflated over the facility to provide teams practice space during cold months.

Student life

Learning communities

Most students at the University of Cincinnati are automatically placed in learning communities. These are groups of 20–25 students that students will have at least two classes with throughout their first year on campus. These groups have specialized courses with their academic adviser in some programs and colleges.^[48]

Organizations

Student Activities & Leadership Development (SALD)^[49] oversees over 300 registered student organizations ranging from student government to religious organizations to student government. Housed in the Steger Student Life Center, the divisions overseeing these groups include Club Sports Board, Diversity Education, Greek Life, Leadership Development, Programming, RAPP, and Student Government. Additionally, there are several other Student Life Offices on campus, such as the African American Cultural & Resource Center, Bearcat Bands, Early Learning Center, Ethnic Programs & Services, University Judicial Affairs, Resident Education & Development, Wellness Center, and the Women's Center.

Fraternity and sorority life

Fraternities and Sororities have been a part of the university since 1870. Currently, there are over 1,400 students participating in fraternities and sororities, which represents approximately 6% of the undergraduate population. 50 chapters have called UC home over the years, and currently includes 37 social fraternities and sororities: 20 Interfraternity Council fraternities, 7 Panhellenic Council sororities, 8 National Pan-Hellenic Council (4 fraternities and 4 sororities), and 2 non-affiliated (Alpha Psi Lambda and Delta Phi Lambda) organizations.

Student media

There are several media outlets for university students to take advantage of. The student newspaper is The News Record and has been in production for more than 130 years, taking its current name in 1936.^[50] It is an independent, student run newspaper and not attached to any academic program and therefore any student, regardless of program, is able to apply and work for the newspaper. There is a student-run radio station, named Bearcast that is housed in the College-Conservatory of Music on campus. The programming streams online as opposed to a traditional radio station and, like the News Record, is open to any student attending the university. There is also a television station called UCast.

Dining

UC Housing & Food Services^[51] runs three award winning dining centers: Center Court, MarketPointe, and Stadium View Café. Meal plans are purchased at the beginning of each year and students living in residence halls are required to purchase one. There are also independent meal plans that students not living in residence halls may purchase. There is also a food court in the Tangeman University Center (student union) and many other restaurants and cafes are also available on campus.

Housing

Around 4,000 students live on campus in eight residence halls that offer both traditional and suite style options. Students also have the option to live in themed housing which include (among others) honors, business, engineering, etc. specific floors. UC Housing & Food Services^[52] manages eight undergraduate residence halls:

• Calhoun Hall
• Campus Recreation Center Housing (CRC is only available to students who are sophomores or older)
• Dabney Hall
• Daniels Hall
• Siddall Hall
• Jefferson Complex which consists of Schneider Hall and Turner Hall. (JCSH, JSTH)
• Stratford Heights (as of Summer 2009)
• Morgens Hall (after significant renovation, re-opening as undergraduate housing in Autumn 2012)
• Scioto Hall (scheduled to re-open in 2013 as undergraduate housing)

Two off-campus university-affiliated (but not university-managed) housing options were introduced in 2005: Stratford Heights and University Park Apartments. All leases in the Stratford Heights housing area have been terminated, and control of the housing complex reverted to University control as residence hall in Summer 2009.

Famous alumni

See: List of University of Cincinnati people

References

External links

• Official webpage
• Official Athletics website
• Strategic Plan, UC|2019, Accelerating our Transformation
• 2010 Strategic Plan Report Card

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