The UCO College of Liberal Arts (CLA) recently concluded a $360,029 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund programs and projects to advance diversity initiatives and provide opportunities to underserved communities in the Oklahoma City metro area. Central is one of two higher education institutions in the state to receive this […]
The UCO College of Liberal Arts honors students for outstanding academic achievement at its 2023 student honors and award ceremony on April 19, 2024 at the College of Liberal arts building lecture hall room LAS L01. This evening’s celebration invites us to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of our Liberal Arts students and on the […]
The UCO Department of History and Geography, The Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center will host “Gender and Rodeo: An Evening with Dr. Elyssa Ford” Friday, March 29. Pictured, Elyssa Ford, Ph.D., associate professor of history and director of public history and museum studies at Northwest Missouri State University.
The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference, hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma’s Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center in collaboration with the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women, is calling for submissions for its ninth annual conference. Themed “Recognition, Resistance, Resilience,” the conference aims to foster diverse perspectives on these […]
UCO students Emma Stewart and Alexis McKernan, and Lindsey Churchill, Ph.D., director of the UCO Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center, will help digitize eight-track tapes from activist and former producer Trella Laughlin’s television program “Let the People Speak.” Laughlin interviewed individuals who have been marginalized or discriminated against because of their race, national […]
UCO faculty are invited to schedule a class tour of The Center, which houses the UCO Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center, to learn about resources available to students. To schedule a tour fill out this form. Additionally, the Center’s sexual health ambassadors be available to present to classes about researched-based and sex-positive sexual […]
Earlier this summer, a group of students from the UCO women’s, gender and sexuality studies program marched in the Northwest Arkansas Pride Parade as representation for the Elder Tree Women’s Center, a lesbian-owned, women-centric event center and gathering place in Fayetteville, Ark. The students attended the pride festival as part of an oral history project, […]
