UCO Ranked Among Top Universities Nationwide for Pandemic, Social Justice Response

Feb. 25, 2021

Media Contact: Sarah Ward, Communications and Marketing Coordinator, UCO University Communications, 405-974-2106, sward24@uco.edu

UCO Ranked Among Top Universities Nationwide for Pandemic, Social Justice Response

Great Value Colleges ranked the University of Central Oklahoma No. 28 in the nation on its list of “30 U.S. Colleges That Handled the Crises of 2020 Well.” Central is the only institution in the state of Oklahoma to be ranked. 

The ranking is based on evidence of a college keeping on-campus coronavirus cases low, making significant changes to promote racial justice and having strong overall university strategies at the start of 2021.

“Successful responses to crises are based on a future-focus and require unified action across the university. Our world has experienced the confluence of these two powerful moments in time; both invoking significant disruption to the status quo,” said UCO President Patti Neuhold-Ravikumar. 

“We made the choice to face and embrace both of these situations as opportunities that have high stakes and require our urgent and unified attention. Our responses model what we teach our students: awareness of self and others and an openness to learn.”

The ranking recognized Central for its shift to virtual learning and its ongoing commitment to making transformative learning more equal. UCO joins other notable universities on the list, such as Howard, Rice, Brown, Princeton, Cornell, Georgetown and Harvard.

To view a complete list of Great Value Colleges’ rankings, visit www.greatvaluecolleges.net/colleges-handling-2020-crises. 

For more information about Central, visit www.uco.edu. 

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