Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Roadmap: 2016-2026
Seven years later in 2013 in response to the resignation of Dr. Ronald Jackson the first and only Black Dean of Arts and Sciences college and a racist caricature of him and another Black female administrator Carol Tonge-Mack students once again demonstrated against the racist climate at the University of Cincinnati.
Nearly ten years ago 2006 Black students demonstrate on campus protesting the negative racial climate at the University of Cincinnati for Black students.
Over the last ten years the University of Cincinnati has done little to address the negative racial climate that exist on campus and off. Nor has it done much to move toward inclusive excellence of Black faculty, students and staff within the institution. It has also failed in its mission of being a true community partner to the surrounding Black community in addition to shutting out much of the Black business community from contracting with the University of Cincinnati. The University of Cincinnati's leadership, from the board of trustees to its Deans, continues to lack the kind of critical consciousness and moral grounding that would ultimately lead the university to engage in transformative struggle. Such a struggle would usher the University of Cincinnati into its third century a radically transformed institution of higher learning. This has resulted in what has been almost yearly protestations from students, community, faculty and staff who have been marginalized as a direct result of the university’s leadership. The Black Unity Coalition or BlackUC, a collaborative of Black business, black community, Black faculty, students and staff has formed to be the critical consciousness and moral grounder of the University of Cincinnati in order to help push for true and radical transformation of the University of Cincinnati as we move into our third century.
