University of Cincinnati

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The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ranked as one of America’s top 25 public research universities and in the top 50 of all American research universities, UC has an annual enrollment of approximately 35,000 students — thus making it one of the 100 largest universities in the U.S. It offers nearly 600 programs of study, ranging from 2-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.

History

In 1819, Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio were founded in Cincinnati upon the suggestion and with the funds of local benefactors such as Dr. Daniel Drake who went before the Ohio Legislature in January 1819 and sought a charter for the Medical College of Ohio, the second medical school to be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains, and William Lytle of the Lytle family of Cincinnati.

In 1870, due to the estate of Charles McMicken, money was left to the City of Cincinnati to establish the University of Cincinnati, absorbing Cincinnati College. 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, several months prior to Abraham Flexner's visit. UC would again add another independent organization to its roster of colleges when it absorbed the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1962. 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. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies UC as a Research University-Very High Research Activity.

Professional Practice Program

UC is the originator of the co-operative education (co-op) model. The program generally consists of alternating periods 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. The concept was invented at UC in 1906 by Herman Schneider, Dean of the College of Engineering at the time. Ranked third in the U.S., UC's Professional Practice (Co-op) Program is the largest co-op program at any public institution in the United States with nearly 5,000 participating students at over 2,000 companies in 43 countries.

Academic profile

The university comprises several colleges:

College of Allied Health Sciences (CAHS)
College of Applied Science (OCAS)
McMicken College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), as the largest and most diverse college, A&S is the academic heart of UC and 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.
College of Business (COB), one of the top business schools in the Midwest and the U.S., particularly known for its programs in operations management and marketing.
Clermont College (CLER) (branch 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, and drama departments.
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), a highly internationally-ranked design school, 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 (ENGR), recognized as having the first co-operative education program in the United States. Winston Koch invented the first electronic organ here.
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.
College of Medicine, 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 Miami University, the University of Dayton, and the University of Cincinnati.
College of Nursing, recognized as having the first bachelor’s degree program in nursing.
James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, founded in 1850 as the first pharmacy school west of the Alleghenies, its graduates have a 100% placement rate prior to graduation.
Raymond Walters College (RWC) (branch campus)
School of Social Work

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 for Education Abroad, created by the Forum for Education Abroad. 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

Athletics

The school's athletic teams are known as the "Bearcats" and, since July 1, 2005, they have been members of the Big East Conference. They were previously members of Conference USA, a conference 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, although the Bearcat football team has had a resurgence in 2007 under new coach Brian Kelly. The Bearcats won the NCAA national championship in basketball in 1961 and 1962, both times against Ohio State. Notable athletic alumni include: Baseball Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax and Miller Huggins, Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, Boston Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis, Denver Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin and tennis great Tony Trabert.

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. Such as the Hockey team which hired former NHL star Blaine Stoughton, who is leading the bearcats to a wonderful season, and to their first regionals tournament. The athletic facilities at UC include Marge Schott Stadium, Armory Fieldhouse, Fifth Third Arena, Nippert Stadium, Ben and Dee Gettler Soccer Stadium, and Richard E. Lindner Varsity Village.

Fight song

Cheer Cincinnati
Cheer Cincinnati, Cincy will win.
Fight to the finish, never give in. Rah! Rah! Rah!
You do your best, boys,
We’ll do the rest, boys.
Onward to Victory!

Go Red!
Go Black!
Go Bearcats! Fight! Fight! Fight!
BE-AR-CATS Go U-C!

Repeat Verse

B--E--A--R--C--A--T--S,
B-E-A-R-C-A-T-S,
B--E--A--R--C--A--T--S
B-E-A-R-C-A-T-S
Bearcats!

The Bearcat

The Bearcat became the UC mascot on October 31, 1914 in a football game against the UK Wildcats. The key players in the birth of the Bearcat were a star UC player named Baehr, a creative cheerleader, and a talented cartoonist.

During the second half of that hard-fought football game, UC cheerleader Norman "Pat" Lyon, building on the efforts of fullback Leonard K. "Teddy" Baehr, created the chant: "They may be Wildcats, but we have a Baehr-cat on our side."

The crowd took up the cry: "Come on, Baehr-cat!"

Cincinnati prevailed, 14-7, and the victory was memorialized in a cartoon published on the front page of the student newspaper, the weekly University News, on November 3. The cartoon, by John "Paddy" Reece, depicted a bedraggled Kentucky Wildcat being chased by a creature labeled “Cincinnati Bear Cat".

The name stuck, but not immediately. Following Teddy Baehr's graduation in 1916, the name-dropped out of use, at least in print, for a few years. On November 15, 1919, Cincinnati played at Tennessee. Cincinnati Enquirer writer Jack Ryder's dispatch on the game was the first time that the major media called UC's teams "Bearcats." From then on, the university's teams were regularly called Bearcats.

Student life

The Student Activities & Leadership Development office oversees over 300 registered student organizations, including over 35 social fraternities and sororities.

Around 3,500 people live on campus in undergraduate, graduate, and family housing. UC Housing & Food Services manages seven undergraduate residence halls:

Calhoun Hall
Campus Recreation Center Housing (CRC)
Dabney Hall
Daniels Hall
Siddall Hall
Jefferson Complex consisting of Schneider Hall and Turner Hall.

Two off-campus university-affiliated (but not university-managed) housing options were introduced in 2005: Stratford Heights and University Park Apartments. On-campus graduate and family housing is available in the Scioto-Morgens Complex.

UC Housing & Food Services also runs two award winning dining centers: Center Court and MarketPointe. Many other eateries are also available on campus.

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).

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) Photos
Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, Frank O. Gehry (1999)
Tangeman University Center, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates (2004)
Steger Student Life Center, Moore Ruble Yudel (2005)
Campus Recreation Center, Morphosis (Thom Mayne) (2006)
Lindner Athletic Center, Bernard Tschumi (2006)

Famous alumni

See: List of University of Cincinnati people

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