Helping her hometown understand the world
June 7, 2021
Becca Costello’s path to on-air reporter for Cincinnati’s WVXU started as young child — sledding down the hill behind the University of Cincinnati Clermont College.
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In the late 1960s, Clermont County community founders and University of Cincinnati leaders envisioned economic growth along the Appalachian corridor — and a college to provide academic and technical training for residents.
These early visionaries recognized the need for an educated workforce and partnerships between local business and education. They knew the community-based college needed to be an open-access institution, and that it must take an active role in removing social and financial barriers that would prevent students from enrolling.
On Sept. 25, 1972, Clermont General and Technical College opened its doors with 97 full-time and 184 part-time students. Fifty years later, UC Clermont College (the name was officially changed in 1987) boasts more than 2,300 students and 60 academic programs, including associate, bachelor, certificate and transfer pathways.
UC Clermont: 50 Years in Photos
Then. Now. Next: Profiles
UC Clermont alum inspires through barber business
February 3, 2021
UC Clermont College alumnus Nick Baynes’s path to success was anything but clear-cut. Before he was Cincinnati’s most sought-after barber, counting professional athletes and performers among his clientele, and giving motivational speeches to rooms full of local youth and cosmetology students — he was a struggling kid from Middletown, Ohio, searching for direction.
UC Clermont degree offers individualized education
March 9, 2021
At the end of 2016, Kirstin Parker Whitcomb found herself a newly single parent, uncertain of her future, with a newborn and toddler. A few months later, she enrolled at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College.
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Total students who have attended UC Clermont since 1972
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