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Goal 4: Forge Key Relationships
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 Regional Collaboration – UC assumes an active role in two initiatives vital to the region's future – the shared regional action plan known as Agenda 360 and the city-wide economic development initiative called GO Cincinnati.
- Seamless Transitions – UC agreement with Cincinnati State establishes Cincinnati Pathways, an admissions program to UC baccalaureate programs for qualified Cincinnati State students, soon followed by a similar agreement with Sinclair Community College.
- Carnegie Designation – UC stands among an elite group of 76 colleges and universities around the country that received the Carnegie Foundation's new classification as "community engaged" institutions.
- Shandong Agreement – Our first comprehensive strategic partnership overseas results in the creation of the Joint Center for Urban Research, as well as a commitment to create a Joint Management Innovation Research Center and a potential Executive MBA Program, all with Shandong University in Jinan, China.
- Baby Boomer Innovation – Major corporations including P&G, General Mills, CitiGroup, Hillenbrand/Hill-Rom and LPK join forces with UC in the Live Well Collaborative, an interdisciplinary incubator focused on consumers age 50 and older.
- Focused on Student Success – Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky’s Strive regional coalition attracts more than $2 million in in-kind support mobilizing education, business, civic and non-profit partners in an effort to ensure all students graduate from high school and a college or certificate program.
- Urban Collaboration – President Nancy Zimpher leads the Urban Serving Universities, a national coalition working to revitalize urban America by harnessing the knowledge and intellectual resources of urban-serving public research universities.
- City Fellow – The Center for the City's first Fellow serves at National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
- Justice Served – The College of Law and the School of Social Work have teamed with the Hamilton County (Ohio) Public Defender’s office, the Ohio Justice & Policy Center, and Northern Kentucky University to create a Criminal Defense Clinic.
- Cincinnati Goes Green – Seniors in DAAP’s graphic design program worked side-by-side with leadership from the Cincinnati Park Board to create a communications strategy and tools for the Cincinnati Parks’ 100-year master plan. Many of the materials produced by the students are 100% recyclable.
- Treating Chronic Disease – In a collaboration supported by the Harriette R. Williams Downey Fund, the Visiting Nurse Association and UC’s Diabetes Center partnered on a new study that may improve the long-term health of patients with diabetes through better care management.
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