A Historic Milestone: The University of Cincinnati is the 18th oldest public institution in the United States, tracing its origins to the founding of the Medical College of Ohio and Cincinnati College in 1819. Reaching this historic milestone puts UC in prestigious company of other pioneering and enduring institutions including Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and the University of Virginia. Home of the first cooperative education program, the nation’s first teaching hospital, the oral polio vaccine, and the first antihistamine, UC is rooted in innovation, grit, and tenacity to learn more, to be more, and to do more. It was with this perspective and these themes in mind that we pulled together a multitude of stakeholders to plan and execute such a momentous occasion.
UC’s Bicentennial Homecoming will go down in history for the memorable and historic celebration that brought the curtain down on UC’s Bicentennial year festivities and formally launched a $2 billion campaign—Next, Now: The Campaign for Cincinnati.
