Ohio University to Remove Slave Owner’s Name From School to Improve ‘Diversity and Inclusion’

The University of Cincinnati campus in April 2016. Shutterstock

A year after a student government voted to strip the name of Charles McMicken from the University of Cincinnati’s (UC) College of Arts and Sciences, the university administration decided not to commemorate the 19th-century slave owner who founded it.

In a message published online and emailed to students, faculty, and staff, UC President Neville Pinto wrote that he recommends the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences be changed to simply “the College of Arts and Sciences.”