Professor Waldron recently published a series of blog posts on the UD website about the challenges faced by the higher education, UD, faculty, and employees with the onset of Covid. The blogs connect the recent events to the broader changes taking place in academe and poses questions regarding the obligations of the institution and its members in this time of change.

The Arcade celebrated a virtual reopening on March 21st, 2021.  

Beginning in Nov. 2020 the Dayton Metro Library will be hosting an exhibit on the Arcade.  Content created by the students on the DHP’s Arcade website will play a featured role in the displays.

In fantastic news for the DHP,  the peer-reviewed journal Ohio History will publish a special edition featuring five essays about the Dayton Arcade written by DHP students.  The issue is expected to appear in the Spring of 2022, vol. 129, issue 1. It will feature more in-depth versions of the topical essays that appear on this website. Ohio History began publication in 1887 and is the oldest historical jounral published in the state of Ohio.  Published by Kent State University Press the journal was long the official organ of the Ohio Historical Society. According to the current editor of the journal it has never published a special edition dedicated to undergraduate student essays.

In May of 2020 an article about the first semester of the Arcade project was published in the collected edition Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Experiential Learning:  Multidisciplinary Case Studies, Reflections, and Strategies.  The article describes the teaching strategies, hoped for student outcomes, and students reflections.

In the Spring of 2019 students in the Department of History began a new community based research project.  Fourteen students began to research the history of the Dayton Arcade. Asked by the developers remodeling the Arcade to interview Daytonians with memories of the complex, the students combined these interviews with archival research, to write history of it.  This article from the University of Dayton Magazine describes the Universities wider commitment to the Arcade’s redevelopment and references the student’s work.