In service to the city : a history of the University of Cincinnati / David Stradling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stradling, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Cincinnati.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati Press, [2018]

Summary:

With roots reaching back to 1819, the University of Cincinnati has long been at the frontier of higher education in the Ohio Valley. While it has aspired to fulfill its mission to serve the public good, some residents, particularly those living near campus, have wondered how university decisions benefited the city at large. Long a municipal university, UC struggled to serve a broad diverse population, even as Cincinnati itself struggled in the late twentieth century. Through it all, the university has maintained its importance to the city and its alumni. In Service to the City: A History of the University of Cincinnati , the first history of the university written in over fifty years, explores the evolving, complex relationship between UC and the city of Cincinnati. In Service to the City casts an unvarnished lens on the details of student demographics, faculty research, curricular changes, and athletic controversy to challenges associated with campus architecture and planning, neighborhood relations, regional and national consequences of urban decline, and the roles of municipal, state, and federal governments within American higher education. Urban, environmental historian David Stradling traces UC's story through starts and stops, growth and contraction. In the 1870s the institution began its transformation into a comprehensive, municipal university located in America's thriving heartland. Expansion continued through mergers with Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Cincinnati Medical College, among others. In 1977, University President Warren Bennis and Governor Jim Rhodes signed papers ending UC's municipal status while securing its future as part of the state university system of Ohio. UC maintains its strong relationship with Cincinnati, pioneering countless community and regionally oriented programs, from its expanding co-op education system, the first in the nation, to the Niehoff Urban Studio. Stradling describes the social and political activism of UC students and faculty--front and center in the civil rights and women's rights movements, as well as the public health and environmental movements. Often they struggled to change the culture within their own institution, which at times appeared conservative or reactionary. Drawing on archival research, Stradling recounts in lively prose and through dozens of illustrations, two-hundred years of UC history, setting the story in the context of changes within higher education in the United States. With the cost of higher education on the minds of legislators and the public, questions first posed by Daniel Drake in 1819 upon the founding of Cincinnati College remain relevant. Who should the college serve? What and how should students learn? How can we pay for it? In Service to the City encourages readers to consider how the University of Cincinnati--with a history so entwined with its city--can balance its urban-serving tradition with its aspiration to be a leader global research university.

Contents:

A frontier institution: The college edifice in the commercial city

A very eligible situation for a seat of learning

Neatly and scientifically arranged

The Philadelphia of the West

Drake's battle for the Marines and a place in the city

Well lighted, comfortably warm

Shall it all be in one place? Building a University of Cincinnati

Charles Mcmicken's will

The completion of our present system of education

Alphonso Taft's questions

The best opportunities consistent with available funds

To the woods: An urban university moves away from urban problems

Ruined almost entirely by the smoke

There must be some sentiment connected with it

A building appropriate to the location

University purposes

Subversive of the interests of the law school

The university belongs to them

A progressive institution: The university in the age of reform

A source of friction and unpleasantness

A people's university on a municipal foundation

The university will go radiating out

Learn practice where the thing is practiced

In the interest of the patients, science and the city

A useful university

The Cincinnati way

In the service of the nation: The University in war and depression

Responding fully to the call of democracy

Building a laboratory nursery school

Joys and hardships in the field

A consultant of the corporation

The foremost representative of this branch of learning

Building bridges and stopping floods

A patriotic resolution to keep a stout heart

Echoes of war

Growing pains and opportunities: An expanding campus and mission

Shall burnet woods be a university or a park?

There is some divergence of opinion at the university

Parking for everyone an image of difference and superiority

For the enrichment of a listening public

A university at war with itself: Campus unrest in the 1960s

Involved action is the only response

A more relevant education

One solidified university community

None of us has lost faith in the young people

To the suburbs

A university without walls: The urban crisis and the end of the municipal university

A command post to revitalize the city

Metropolitan affairs

A people's hospital?

You deserve a beak today

UC women are organizing

A university island

We feel powerless to preserve this relationship

Toward a third century: Competing on the national and international stage

A campus of distinction

Transformation of the neighborhood was necessary

A change in focus

A big gamble on big-time sports

Seeing it realized.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-947602-09-8