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Miami, University of, main campus at Coral Gables, Fla.; partly supported by city, county, and state; coeducational; chartered 1925, opened 1926. Notable programs include a school of marine and atmospheric sciences and a graduate school of international studies. Research facilities include the Center for Theoretical Studies and the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Evolution. The university maintains extension centers throughout the state.

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This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University.
University of Miami
UMiamiSeal.svg
Motto Magna est veritas (Latin)
Motto in English Great is the truth
Established 1925
Type Private
Endowment $736 million USD[1]
Chairman Phillip T. George, M.D.
President Donna Shalala
Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc
Faculty 2,505 full time[2]
Staff 10,876 full time[2]
Students 15,449
Undergraduates 10,379
Postgraduates 5,070
Location Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Campus Suburban
Sports football, basketball, baseball
Colors Orange, Green and White             
Nickname Hurricanes
Mascot Sebastian the Ibis
Athletics NCAA Division I, Atlantic Coast Conference
Website www.miami.edu
Umiami prime logo.svg

The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, Miami, or The U[3][4]) is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 in the city of Coral Gables, Florida within Miami-Dade County. Miami's Miller School of Medicine and its teaching hospital are located in the city of Miami at the Miami Civic Center and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is on Virginia Key.

As of 2008, the university currently enrolls 15,323 students[5] in approximately 115 undergraduate, 114 master’s, 51 doctoral, and two professional areas of study. The University's students represent all 50 states and 148 foreign countries. With more than 13,000 full and part-time faculty and staff,[2] UM is the sixth largest employer in Miami-Dade County.[6]

Contents

History

The University of Miami was chartered in 1925 by a group of citizens who believed an institution of higher learning was needed for the development of their young and growing community. The South Florida land boom was at its peak, leading the founders to be confident of future financial support. Supporters of the institution believed that the community offered unique opportunities to develop inter-American studies, to further creative work in the arts and letters, and to conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies.

The University began in earnest in 1926 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gifted 160 acres (0.6 km2) and nearly $4 million dollars to the effort. The University was chartered by the Circuit Court for Dade County[7] with an initial Board of Regents chaired by William E. Walsh, a Miami Beach municipal judge. By the fall of that year, when the first class of 560 students enrolled at the University of Miami, the land boom had collapsed, and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by a major hurricane. In the next 15 years the University barely kept afloat. The construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was put on hold for over two decades due to economic hard times. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, giving the University the short-lived nickname of "Cardboard College."[8]

In 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. A reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UM's first president Bowman Foster Ashe (1926-1952). The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E.B. Douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C. Penney. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest.[8] In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated and a Board of Trustees replaced the Board of Regents. By 1940, community leaders were replacing faculty and administration as trustees.[7] The University survived this early turmoil. During Ashe's presidency, the University added the School of Law (1928), the School of Business Administration (1929), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (1943), the School of Engineering (1947), and the School of Medicine (1952).

One of Ashe's longtime assistants, Jay F. W. Pearson, assumed the presidency in 1952. A charter faculty member and a marine biologist by trade, Pearson ushered in a decade of unprecedented growth for the University. During his presidency, UM awarded its first doctorate degrees.[9] Enrollment increased by more than 4,000 during his tenure, which ended in 1962.

The social changes of the 1960s and 1970s were reflected at UM. In 1961, UM dropped its policy of racial segregation and began to admit African-American students.[9] African-American students were allowed full participation in student activities and sports teams. However, it was not until December 1966 that UM signed an African-American athlete, football player Ray Bellamy. With Bellamy, UM became the first major college in the Deep South with an African-American football player on scholarship.[10] UM established an Office of Minority Affairs to promote diversity in both undergrade and professional school admissions.[11] Historically, UM regulated female student conduct more than men's conduct with a staff under the Dean of Women watching over the women. In 1971, UM formed a Women's Commission which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus.[12] The result was UM's first female commencement speaker, day care, and a Women's Study minor. Following the enactment of Title IX in 1972, and decades of litigation, all organizations, including honorary societies were open to women. The Women's Commission also sought more equitable funding for women's sports. Today, UM is a diverse institution with an undergraduate enrollment that is 53% female, 28% Hispanic and 10% African-American.[13]

From 1961 to 1968, UM leased buildings on its South Campus to serve as the covert headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency's JMWAVE operation against Fidel Castro's government in Cuba.[14] In 1968, after Ramparts magazine exposed CIA operations on other campuses, JMWAVE was moved off the UM campus out of concern for embarrassing the university.[15]

Henry King Stanford became UM's third president in 1962. The Stanford presidency saw increased emphasis on research, reorganization of administrative structure and construction of new facilities. Among the new research centers established were the Center for Advanced International Studies (1964), the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (1964), the Center for Theoretical Studies (1965), and the Institute for the Study of Aging (1975).

In 1981, Edward T. Foote II became the school's fourth president. Under Foote's leadership, on campus student housing was converted into a system of residential colleges. In addition, Foote initiated a five-year $400 million fundraising campaign that began in 1984 and surpassed its goal raising $517.5 million.[16] UM's endowment grew almost tenfold during Foote’s tenure, from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.[16]

The old University of Miami "bar" logo, replaced in 2009.

Foote was succeeded by Donna Shalala, who assumed the UM presidency in 2001. Under Shalala, Miami has built new libraries, dormitories, symphony rehearsal halls, and classroom buildings. The university's academic quality and student quality also have improved as a result.[17] During Shalala's leadership of the University of Miami, Miami hosted one of three nationally televised U.S. presidential debates of the 2004 U.S. Presidential election[18] and endured the two-month 2006 UNICCO workers strike.[19][20]

Starting in 2002,[21] UM conducted a fundraising campaign titled "Momentum: The Campaign for the University of Miami" with an initial goal of $1 billion that ultimately raised $1.37 billion,[22] the most money raised by any college in Florida as of February 8, 2008 (2008 -02-08).[23] Of that amount, $854 million went to the medical campus.[22] On November 30, 2007, UM acquired the Cedars Medical Center and renamed it the "University of Miami Hospital", giving the Miller School of Medicine an in-house teaching hospital rather than being merely affiliated with area hospitals.[24]

In 2008-09, UM has responded to the economic slow down by: instituting a hiring freeze and reducing expenditures for travel, supplies, and other miscellaneous expenses; freezing employee salaries for the next academic year; and delaying almost all construction projects.[25] UM's endowment lost more than a quarter of its value due to market declines and spending distributions. However, UM's endowment income represents less than 2 percent of its operating budget, which is far less than many of UM's peer institutions. Hence, the endowment losses will have only a $3 to $4 million budget impact.[25]

Campus

The John C. Gifford Arboretum at the University of Miami.

UM's main campus spans 260 acres (1 km²) in Coral Gables, located immediately south of the city of Miami. Most of the University of Miami's academic programs are located on the main campus in Coral Gables, which houses seven schools and two colleges including the University of Miami School of Law. The campus has over 5,900,000 sq ft (548,000 m2) of building space valued at over $657 million.[26] A few graduate and undergraduate programs are located off the Coral Gables campus. Several university satellite campuses are located off the primary campus, including the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (located on Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay) and the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (located at Jackson Memorial Medical Center in downtown Miami). Several other programs, including bilingual Continuing and International Education classes, are offered at the Koubek Center in Miami's Little Havana, the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami, and the South and Richmond campuses in southwest Miami-Dade county.

The university also has a campus theater, the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, which is used for student plays and musicals. The John C. Gifford Arboretum, a campus arboretum and botanical garden, is located on the northwest corner of the main campus in Coral Gables.

Since 2005, UM has a "Green U" initiative which includes LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for buildings and the use of biofuels by the campus bus fleet.[27] UM established the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, to foster innovative interdisciplinary approaches to environmental management and decision-making.[28]

Student housing

UM has five residential colleges, one apartment area and a University Village.

UM residence halls[29] Year built Room capacity
Apartment Area 1948 est. 500
Eaton Residential College 1954 400
Mahoney Residential College 1958 750
Pearson Residential College 1962 750
Hecht Residential College 1968 900
Stanford Residential College 1968 900
University Village 2006 800
Total 5,000 students

Medical campus

The medical campus is located in the Health District near downtown Miami. It consists of 68 acres within the 153-acre University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center complex. The medical center includes three University-owned hospitals: University of Miami Hospital, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital. The medical school is also affiliated with other hospitals on the medical campus: Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children’s Hospital, and the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In 2006, UM opened the new 15-story Clinical Research Building, which accommodates researchers from a wide range of disciplines. The nine-story, Biomedical Research Institute building, opening in 2009, will significantly increase the medical school’s basic science space. Plans are also underway to build a 2,000,000 sq ft UM Life Science Park adjacent to the UM medical campus.[30]

Virginia Key campus

In 1953, UM built classroom and lab buildings on a 16 acre (65,000 m²) campus on Virginia Key in the city of Miami to house what became the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. It is located near the Miami Seaquarium and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

South Campus

In 1946, UM acquired the former Richmond Naval Air Station, in southwestern Miami, located 12 miles south of the main campus in order to accommodate the post-war increase in students. For two years the South Campus provided housing, dining and recreational facilities and classrooms for about 1100 students, mainly freshmen.[31] From 1948 to present it has been used as a research facility and storage area. Buildings currently house: the Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human Genomics, Forensic Toxicology Laboratory (for analysis of Driving Under the Influence (D.U.I.) motorist blood samples), and Microbiology & Immunology.[32] In the 1960s, some of the buildings were leased to the Central Intelligence Agency. The South Campus Grove is a 350-acre plot for agricultural research and horticultural studies that was established in 1948.[31]

The Richmond campus, established in 2001, is a 76-acre site near South Campus. The Rosenstiel School’s Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS) and Richmond Satellite Operations Center (RSOC) have research facilities located on a portion of the new campus.[33]

Student body

University of Miami demographics
Ethnic enrollment, 2008[34] Undergraduates Graduates
African American 10% 7%
Asian American 7% 13%
Hispanic (of any race) 28% 22%
White (non-Hispanic) 55% 58%
Total 100% 100%

There were nearly 20,000 applications for 2,000 slots in the fall 2008 freshman class. The mean SAT scores and high school GPAs for entering freshmen were the highest ever.

As of 2007, the university has a total student body of 15,449.[35] In 2008, the average weighted grade point average for students granted admission to the university was 4.2 and the average SAT score was 1282.[36] Sixty-six percent of UM students ranked in the top 10% of their high school class.

As of 2002, UM graduation rates had 64.1% graduating within 4 years, 75.1% graduating within 5 years, and 76.8% graduating within 6 years.[37] Male student athletes have a 52% 4-year graduation rate, and 72% of female student athletes graduate within 4 years.[38]

Academics

There are currently 2,348 full-time faculty members, ninety-one percent of the which hold doctorates or terminal degrees in their field.[39] The University of Miami is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and 23 additional professional and educational accrediting agencies. It is a member of the American Association of University Women, the American Council on Education, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Association of American Colleges, the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Organization

UM is lead by a Board of Trustees, which holds two meetings each year.[7] The Board has 48 elected members, 3 alumni representatives, 23 senior members, 4 national members, 6 ex-officio members, 14 emeriti members, and 1 student representative. Ex-officio members, who serve by virtue of their positions in the University, include the President of the University, the President and Immediate Past President of the Citizens Board, and the President, President-Elect, and Immediate Past President of the Alumni Association.[7]

Since 1982, the Board has eleven visiting committees, which include both Trustees and outside experts, to help oversee the individual academic units.[7] UM separates the honorary aspect frequently associated with Board service by having a separate Iron Arrow Honor Society, a highly selective honor organization for UM students, staff, faculty and alumni. Membership in the Iron Arrow Honor Society, rather than Trustee service, is considered the university's highest honor.[40][41][42]

UM's President, currently Donna Shalala, is the university's chief executive officer with a salary of $783,420,[43] and each academic unit is headed by a Dean.

2009-2010 Tuition[44]
School Tuition Total Cost
Undergraduate $35,540[45] $52,044
Graduate School $26,640 $44,968
Law School $37,418 $54,022
Medical School (FL) $29,289[46]
Medical School (non-FL) $38,504
Undergraduate & Graduate
Graduate only

In addition, UM also has a Division of Continuing and International Education and a program in Executive Education as part of the School of Business Administration.

The Graduate School does not have a separate faculty, but rather coordinates the faculties from the other schools and colleges with respect to master and doctorate degree program.[48] A partnership with nearby Florida International University also allow students from both schools to take graduate classes at either university, allowing graduate students to take a wider variety of courses.

On December 1, 2007, the University purchased the Cedars Medical Center and renamed it the University of Miami Hospital. The hospital is located in the Miami Health District, across the street from the Miller School campus and near Jackson Memorial Hospital, where UM faculty-physicians and students have been caring for patients for more than a half century.[49]

The Department of Community Service, staffed by volunteer medical students and physicians from UM's Leonard M. School of Medicine, provides free medical and other community services in Miami and surrounding communities.

For the fiscal year ending May 2008, UM had $2,048,588,166 in total revenues and $1,992,907,677 in functional expenses with the excess going to endowment or other fund accounts.[43]

Rankings

University rankings
ARWU World[50] Top 200
ARWU North & Latin America[51] Top 100
ARWU Clinical Medicine[52] Top 100
ARWU Social Sciences[53] Top 75
USNWR National University[54] 50
USNWR Law[55] 71
USNWR Medical (research)[56] 51
USNWR Education[57] 41
Washington Monthly National University[58] 130
Forbes[59] 479
Other UM Rankings
CMUP Research Universities[60] 78
USNWR Earth Sciences[61] 43
USNWR Fine Arts[62] 119
Wuhan International ESI[63] 106

University

In the 2010 issue of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges," the University of Miami was ranked in the top tier of all national universities, placing 50th.[64] U.S. News's 2008 ranking of U.S. medical schools ranked the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine as the 52nd best medical school in the nation, while the School of Law ranked as the 71st best law school in the nation in the 2009 US News rankings.[65]

The Academic Ranking of World Universities rates UM one of the world's top 200 academic institutions[66] In Forbes Magazine's 2009 rankings of 600 undergraduate institutions, UM ranked 479th.[67]

In the 2009 edition of Best 371 Colleges, The Princeton Review ranks UM one of the 141 "Best Southeastern Colleges"[68] and ranks it first in the nation in its "Lots of Race/Class Interaction" category.[69][70][71]

In addition to these overall rankings, University of Miami has been ranked in the fields of business, education, law, medicine, music, philosophy and other disciplines.

School of Business Administration

BusinessWeek includes the School of Business Administration in its ranking of 51 top U.S. undergraduate business programs in the nation, ranking it 50th.[72] BusinessWeek also ranks UM's full time MBA program as being in its third tier (with 45 schools in the first two tiers.)[73] In 2007, The Wall Street Journal, ranked the School of Business Administration 16th in its regional ranking category, based on interviews with corporate recruiters. The school did not place in the national or international ranking categories.[74]

Fall freshman statistics[75]
  2008 2007 2006 2005
Applicants 21,774 19,807 19,031 18,810
Admits 8,411 7,527 7,704 8,678
 % Admitted 38.6 38.0 40.4 46.1
This table does not account deferred
applications or other unique situations.

The Executive MBA (EMBA) program at the University of Miami School of Business Administration, in 2008, was ranked 33rd among all such programs in North and South America and 76th among all EMBA programs worldwide.[76] The research ranking of the UM School of Business Administration, which is a measure of the caliber of its faculty, is ranked 31st among all programs worldwide.[77]

The Financial Times ranks the University of Miami MBA program as 98th in MBA programs worldwide.[78]

Other rankings

U.S. News & World Report ranks the School of Education's graduate program as the 41st best in the nation and the Earth Sciences graduate program as the 43rd best such program in the nation.[79][80]

According to the 2008 Philosophical Gourmet Report, UM has the 32nd best graduate program in philosophy in the nation.[81]

The University of Miami reported that its business, law, and medical schools all hold top rankings in Hispanic Business magazine’s lists of top ten schools for Hispanics. The School of Business Administration ranks third on its list of top business schools in the nation,[82] while the Miller School of Medicine ranks second on the list of all medical schools[83] and UM’s School of Law ranks fifth in the nation among all law schools.[84] The rankings are based on questionnaires sent in by the schools, reporting on enrollment, percentage of Hispanic faculty, the number of programs that recruit Hispanic students, retention rates, and student services.[85]

Research

Sponsored research expenditures for fiscal year 2008 reached a record of more than $326 million.[86] Those funds support over 5,000 graduate students and postdoctoral trainees.[87] In Fiscal Year 2006, UM received $127 million in federal research funding, including $89.5 million from the Department of Health and Human Services and $16.7 million from the National Science Foundation.[88] Of the $8.2 billion appropriated by Congress in 2009 as a part of the stimulus bill for research priorities of the NIH, the Miller School received $40.5 million.[89] In addition to research conducted in the individual academic schools and departments, Miami has the following University-wide research centers:

  • The Center for Hemispheric Policy
  • The Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS)
  • Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy
  • The Miami European Union Center
  • The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies
  • John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics.[90][91]
  • Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE)[92]
  • Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research[93]

Libraries

Walkway leading to the Otto G. Richter Library on the campus of the University of Miami.

The Otto G. Richter Library, the University of Miami's main library, houses collections that serve the arts, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. It is a depository for federal and state government publications. Rare books, maps, manuscript collections, and the University of Miami Archives are housed in the Special Collections Division and in the Cuban Heritage Collection.

The Applied Marine Physics Building at UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

In addition to the Richter Library, the Libraries include facilities that support programs in architecture, business, marine science, and music:

  • Judi Prokop Newman Information Resources Center (Business)
  • Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library
  • Paul Buisson Reference Library (Architecture)
  • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library

The University also has specialized libraries for medicine and law:

  • Louis Calder Memorial Library (Medicine)
  • University of Miami Law Library

Within the Miller School of Medicine, there are two specialized departmental libraries for ophthalmology and psychiatry that are open to the public:

  • Mary and Edward Norton Library (Ophthalmology)
  • Pomerance Library (Psychiatry)

Combined holdings of the libraries include over 3.1 million volumes, 15,375 print serial subscriptions, 4 million microforms, and access to more than 42,800 e-journals and 479,000 e-books and databases.

Student life and activities

The University is affiliated with 31 fraternities and sororities.[94] Student organizations include service groups such as Amnesty International and Habitat for Humanity; religious-, ethnic- , and nationality-based affinity groups; professional and pre-professional organizations, including the Ad Group and American Society of Civil Engineers; hobby groups such as the Sailing Hurricanes and UM Film/Theater Club; and task-based groups such as the Ibis yearbook, UMTV, WVUM-FM.[95]

Since 1929, students have published The Miami Hurricane newspaper twice-weekly. The paper has been honored in the Associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame.[96]

The University has a number of student honor societies, including the Iron Arrow Honor Society (which also inducts faculty, staff and alumni), and a chapter of Mortar Board. In 1959, the Order of Omega was founded at UM, and it remained a one-campus honorary until 1967. It is now a national honorary for fraternity and sorority members with a chapter continuing at UM.[97]

Athletics

Main articles: Miami Hurricanes, Miami Hurricanes baseball, and Miami Hurricanes football
The distinctive "Split-U" logo of the University of Miami's athletic teams. This logo has since been incorporated as an element of the new logo for the whole institution

The university fields 15 athletic teams. Men's teams compete in football, baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, tennis, and track and field. Women's teams compete in basketball, cross-country, diving, golf, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball.

The university's sports teams are nicknamed the Hurricanes and compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Over the past three decades, the football program has been named national champion more times (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001) than any other Division I program. The football team was named in the AP Top 25 frequently during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s and many players are drafted into the NFL each year.

University of Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis makes "The U" symbol at the 2007 ACC Championship game.

Beginning with the 2008 season, the University of Miami began playing its home games at LandShark Stadium (recently renamed from Dolphin Stadium[98]) in Miami Gardens. The university signed a 25-year contract to play there through 2033. A smaller facility, Cobb Stadium, is located on the University of Miami campus and is used by the university's women's soccer and men's and women's track and field teams. UM's men's and women's basketball teams play their home games at BankUnited Center on the Coral Gables campus.

UM's traditional athletic rivals include the Florida State University Seminoles[99] and the University of Florida Gators.[100] Since 1987, however, the Hurricanes have only played the Florida Gators four times on the gridiron (three times during the regular season and once for a bowl game in the 2004 Peach Bowl).

Notable alumni

Main article: List of University of Miami alumni

Notable faculty

Main article: List of University of Miami faculty

See also

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