Congratulations are in order for Micah Wilson, a UCO Mass Communication student who recently received a national award from The Carole Simpson Radio Television Digital News Association. Micah is one of only two students in the country to receive this prestigious award.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of higher education, and intercollegiate speech and debate were no exception. The timing of the pandemic in the Spring of 2020 led to the cancellation of the activities’ national championships (the first such cancellation since the National Debate Tournament started in 1947). Despite an early end to the […]
The University of Central Oklahoma is hosting a new popup exhibition from the National Archives, Rightfully Hers, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Rightfully Hers contains simple messages exploring the history of the ratification of the 19th amendment, women’s voting rights before and after the 19th, and its impact today. Despite decades of marches, petitions, […]
The UCO Department of Political Science student organization, Pi Sigma Alpha, received national recognition as the 2019-2020 National Best Chapter Award out of the 800 other national chapters. Pi Sigma Alpha is the only political science honor society. Dr. Jan Hardt, the group’s advisor shared, “We host the voter registration event every year, host speakers […]
The Sherman Chaddlesone Arts and Letters Lecture Series hosted heather ahtone, Ph.D., as 2020’s guest speaker. ahtone is the senior curator at the First Americans Museum in downtown Oklahoma City. She is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and is of both Chickasaw and Choctaw descent. ahtone’s interdisciplinary doctorate degree is in art history, anthropology […]
In 2017, the College of Liberal Arts, in partnership with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Native American Faculty and Staff Association, and several passionate administrators, faculty and staff – including Dr. Myron Pope, Dr. J. David Macey, Dr. Catherine Webster, Dr. Timothy Petete, Ms. Meredith Seagraves, Ms. MeShawn Green, Ms. Liliana Renteria Mendoza, […]
In 2017, the College of Liberal Arts, in partnership with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Native American Faculty and Staff Association launched the Native American Success Initiative (NASI). The program seeks to address the challenges of retaining Native American students at the University of Central Oklahoma. The graduation rate for Native American […]
We in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma add our voices to the growing chorus that calls for change at the local, regional, and national level. The frequent killings of unarmed Black people, including the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, have brought much-needed attention to the Black Lives […]
The Department of English at the University of Central Oklahoma deplores the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, and it condemns the continuing, disproportionate, and frequently deadly physical, psychological, and socio-economic violence directed against Black people and People of Color across the country and in our own communities. […]
Theresa Vaughan is the assistant dean and a professor of humanities in the UCO College of Liberal Arts. Where are you from? I was born in Detroit, MI. My grandparents were immigrants from Ireland who came to work in the auto factories. About half of my male relatives and a few female relatives over the […]
