The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM , U of M , or The U ) is private, a nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. In 2016, the university enrolled 16,801 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, including the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in the Miami Health District, the law school on the main campus, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences focused on studying oceanography and atmospheric sciences at Virginia Key, with research facilities at Richmond Facility in south Miami-Dade County.
The University offers 116 undergraduate programs, 105 master's and 63 doctoral programs, 59 of which are research/scholarships and four professional areas of study. Over the years, university students have represented all 50 states and nearly 150 foreign countries. With more than 14,000 full-time and part-time staff and staff in 2005, UM is the sixth largest company in Miami-Dade County. The main campus of UM at Coral Gables has 239 hectares and more than 5.7 million square feet of buildings. In 2017 US. News and World Report study colleges and universities, UM is ranked the 44th best national university in the United States.
Research is a component of every academic division, with UM attracting $ 346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM boasts a large library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional ownership in Cuba's heritage and music. UM also offers a variety of student activities, including fraternity and student associations, student newspapers and radio stations. The UM interklegiate athletic team, collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes, competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The UM soccer team has won five national championships since 1983 and its baseball team has won four national championships since 1982.
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A group of citizens chartered the University of Miami (UM) in 1925 with a view to offering "a unique opportunity to develop inter-American studies, for further creative work in art and letters, and to undertake teaching and research programs in tropical studies". They believe that local universities will benefit their community. They are too optimistic about future financial support for MW because the South Florida land boom is at its peak. During the Jim Crow era, there were three major state-funded universities in Florida for white men, white women, and black students (UF, FSU, and FAMU, respectively); in this agreement, UM was established as a secondary educational institution.
The university began in 1925 when George E. Merrick, founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres (nearly 0.6 km 2 ) and nearly $ 5 million, ($ 69.8 million, adjusted for current inflation ) for business. This contribution is the land and mortgage contracts on real estate that have been sold in the city. The university was leased on 18 April 1925 by the Circuit Court for the Dade Territory. In the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM, the land explosion had collapsed, and hopes for a rapid recovery were slammed by a massive storm. For the next 15 years, the university can barely survive. The first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic hardships. Meanwhile, a class was held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with a partition separating the classroom, giving the university the initial nickname "Cardboard College."
In 1929, founding member William E. Walsh and other members of the Supervisory Board resigned amid the collapse of the Florida economy. The fate of the UM was so severe that students went door to door at Coral Gables raising funds to keep him open. The ten-member rebuilding board was led by UM Bowman's first president Foster Ashe (1926-1952). New councils include 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, some faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana was closed due to political unrest. UM filed for bankruptcy in 1932. In July 1934, the University of Miami was inaugurated and the Supervisory Board replaced the Bupati Council. In 1940, community leaders replaced faculties and administrations as guardians. The university survived this initial turmoil. During the presidency of Ashe, the university added the Law School (1928), School of Business Administration (1929), School of Education (1929), Graduate School (1941), Marine Laboratory (1943, renamed in 1969 as Rosenstiel School), School of Engineering 1947), and the School of Medicine (1952).
During World War II, UM was one of 131 national colleges and universities that took part in the V-12 Naval Training Program, which offered students a path to the Navy's commission.
One of Ashe's long-time assistants, Jay FW Pearson, took over the presidency in 1952. A charter faculty member and a marine biologist with trade, Pearson retained the position until 1962. During his presidency, UM gave his first doctorate and saw an increase in registration more than 4,000.
Social change in the 1960s and 1970s was reflected in the MW. In 1961, UM canceled the racial segregation policy and began accepting black students. African Americans are also allowed to participate fully in student activities and sports teams. After President Stanford urged minority athletes, in December 1966, UM signed Ray Bellamy, an African American football player. With Bellamy, UM became the first major college in Deep South with a black football player awarded a scholarship. UM established the Office of Minority Affairs to promote diversity both in admissions to undergraduate and professional schools. With the start of the 1968 football season, President Henry Stanford banned the screening of "Dixie" by the university band.
Historically, MWs regulating female students do more than men's behavior with staff under the Female Dean overseeing women. The UM incorporated the separate position of the Dean of Men and Women Deans in 1971. In 1971, MW established the Women's Commission which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus. The result was the first female speakers of UM, child care, and women's lessons. After the enactment of Title IX in 1972, and decades of litigation, all organizations, including honorary societies are open to women. The Women's Commission is also seeking fairer funding for women's sports. Terry Williams Munz became the first woman in America to be awarded an athletic scholarship when she received a golf scholarship from UM in 1973.
From 1961 to 1968, UM hired a building on its Southern Campus to serve as a secret hub of JMWAVE's operations from the Central Intelligence Agency against Fidel Castro's government in Cuba. In 1968, after the Ramparts magazine exposed CIA operations on another campus, JMWAVE was moved from the UM campus for fear of embarrassing the university. The university no longer has land on the southern campus.
Henry King Stanford became the third president of UM in 1962. The Stanford presidency saw an increasing emphasis on research, the reorganization of administrative structures and the construction of new facilities. Among the newly established research centers are the Center for Advanced International Studies (1964), Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (1964), Center for Theoretical Studies (1965), and Institute of Aging Studies (1975). Under Stanford, in 1965, UM began to recruit international students.
In 1981, Edward T. Foote II became the fourth president of the school. Under the leadership of Foote, in college student housing is transformed into a residential college system. In addition, Foote started a $ 400 million fundraising campaign that started in 1984 and raised $ 517.5 million. He saw the endowment expand from $ 47.4 million in 1981 to $ 465.2 million in 2000.
Foote was replaced by Donna Shalala, who became president of UM in 2001. Under Shalala, Miami built a new library, dormitories, symphony training rooms, and classroom buildings. The academic quality and quality of university students has also increased as a result. During Shalala's leadership at the University of Miami, Miami hosted one of three US presidential debates broadcast on television in the 2004 US presidential election.
Started in 2002, UM conducted a fundraising campaign entitled "Momentum: Campaign for the University of Miami" that eventually raised $ 1.37 billion, the most money raised by any college in Florida on February 8, 2008. Of that amount, $ 854 million went to medical campus. On November 30, 2007, UM acquired Cedars Medical Center and renamed it "University of Miami Hospital", giving Miller School of Medicine a home teaching hospital rather than affiliated with a local hospital.
On February 28, 2006, custodial workers at the University of Miami, contracted by a Boston-based university, the Massachusetts-based company, UNICCO, initiated a strike sparked by allegations of unfair employment, substandard payments, lack of medical benefits, and workplace security. After students started a hunger strike and vigil on campus, the strike was completed on 1 May 2006. The settlement resulted in the number of cards that led to the recognition of the first union bargaining unit at UM. UM raises wages from $ 6.40 to $ 8.35 per hour and provides health insurance.
In 2008-09, MWs responded to the economic slowdown by tightening spending. While its waqf loses more than 26.8% of its value, impacting on lasting income, schools receive more than 98% of its operating budget from other sources.
In 2011, UM ranked the most responsible nonprofit organization by magazine Worth , in a report released in collaboration with the nonprofit supervisor, Charity Navigator.
On April 13, 2015, the university announced that Julio Frenk would become the sixth university president. Frenk previously served as dean of Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Mexico's health minister.
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Coral Gables Campus
The main campus of UM includes 239 acres (0.97 km 2 ) at Coral Gables, located just south of Miami. Most of the University of Miami's academic programs are located on the main campus of 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 (550,000 m 2 ) of building space worth over $ 657 million.
The university also has a campus theater, Jerry Herman's Ring Theater, which is used for student and musical dramas. The John C. Gifford Arboretum, campus arboretum and botanical gardens, is located on the northwest corner of the main campus at Coral Gables. The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center is a lecture hall and gallery of the School of Architecture featuring exhibitions that focus on architecture and design.
The Coral Gables campus is served by Miami Metrorail at University Station. Metro connects UM to downtown Miami, Brickell, Coconut Grove, Civic Center, and other Miami neighborhoods. UM Campus is about 15 minutes by train from Downtown and Brickell. Hurry 'Canes shuttle bus service operates two routes on campus (as well as to the University Station) and weekend routes to off-campus shops and facilities during the school year; Additional shuttle routes provide services to the RSMAS campus at Virginia Key and Vizcaya Station. Miami also has a Zipcar service. There is also a lake named Lake Osceola located in the center of the campus. It contains a large fountain, which serves as a landmark for many students.
Student housing
The Coral Gables campus has 4,500 enrolled students. This group is a disproportionate new student (84% of freshmen live on campus compared to 43% of all undergraduate degrees). Housing on the UM campus consists of five residential dormitories and an apartment-style residential area that is only available to students seeking a college degree. The residential college is divided into two dorm boarding dorms and three stylish dormitory suites. The McDonalds and Pentland Towers of Hecht Residential College and Walsh and Rosborough Towers of Stanford Residential College are often referred to as the "New Student Tower", since single-person bedrooms with floors (with shared bathroom facilities) along with dorms are generally new student homes. Eaton Residential College, which initially only accommodates women, and Mahoney/Pearson Residential Colleges have a suite-style housing with every two double-occupancy rooms connected by shared bathrooms.
In addition to these five residential campuses, Miami also has an area called University Village which consists of seven buildings with annual apartment-style apartment housing, complete with kitchen facilities. The University Village is only open to junior and senior, but was previously open to graduate students and students of the School of Law until 31 July 2009; after this date, no housing is available for graduate students on the Coral Gables campus. The University of Miami also has a series of fraternity houses, across the intramural grounds at San Amaro Drive, dubbed the "Brotherhood of Brotherhood"; student associations do not have such facilities.
Miami previously had a set of seven buildings set aside for student residence called Apartment Area, which consists of the oldest dormitory on campus originally built for the homes of married veterans and their families. The building also features fully furnished apartments with kitchen facilities, but not rented to students like at University Village. This residence closed at the end of Spring 2010, although some others from this original dormitory continued to be used as office space for departments such as the Student Employment Office, the ROTC 155 Air Force Detachment, and the Center for Alcohol and Other Education Drugs PIER 21.
The University of Miami does not offer housing for students with children or for married students. UM abolished separate dormitories for athletes in 1990.
Medical campus
The Leonard M. Miller Medical School campus, located in the city of Miami right at the Civic Center, trains 1,000 students in health-related programs. It consists of 68 acres (280,000 m 2 ) within the 153 acre Miami/Jackson Memorial complex (620,000 m 2 ). The medical center includes three UM hospitals: Miami University Hospital, Comprehensive Cancer Center Sylvester, and Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital. Jackson Memorial Hospital, Holtz Children's Hospital, and Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center are also part of a medical center and affiliated with MW, but are not owned by MW. The heart of this campus is "The Alamo" - The original city of Miami Hospital, which opened in 1918, at the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006, UM opened 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m 2 ), a 15-story Clinical Research Building and Wellness Center. In 2009, the Certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is certified, the ninth-floor Biomedical Research Building, a laboratory and 182,000 square-foot office facility (16,900 m) and opened for the Interdisciplinary House of Stem Cell Institute and the Miami Institute for Human Genomics. UM has started building 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000m 2 ) UM Life Science Park is adjacent to UM medical campus. These additional LEED Gold certified buildings are being built by Wexford Science & amp; Technology, private developers, on land leased from MUs. Medical Campus is connected to the main campus of UM by Miami Metrorail with direct stations at University Station for main campus, and Civic Center Station for medical campus.
On December 1, 2007, the university purchased the Cedars Medical Center, changing its name to University of Miami Hospital. Located in the Miami Health District, this hospital is close to Jackson Memorial Hospital, which has been used by UM students and faculty to provide patient care for many years.
Starting in 2004, Miller School began offering instruction at the Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton, Florida. MD candidates are admitted to the Miami or Boca Raton program and spend the first two years studying on selected campuses and the last two campuses on major campuses in Miami. In April 2005, the Boca Raton program expanded to include a third clinical year in Palm Beach County. In 2010, when Florida Atlantic University made plans to establish their own medical school, no future class of accepted regional campus. The last class to complete the first three years of training in Boca Raton is Class 2013.
There is nothing in campus housing for students at Miller Medical School in Miami or Boca Raton. Campus Miami and Boca Raton charge identical tuition fees, with lower tuition fees for students in the state.
RSMAS/Marine Campus
In 1945, construction began at Rickenbacker Causeway to make Virginia Key accessible by car. The County offers to provide UM sections of the island adjacent to the Miami Seaquarium in exchange for MWs operating the aquarium. However, aquarium construction was delayed when the referendum on the bonds failed, allowing UM to lease the land in 1951. In 1953, UM built classrooms and lab buildings on a 16-acre (65,000 mÃ, ²) campus to house the Rosenstiel Marine School and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS). Additional buildings were added in 1957, 1959 and 1965. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric National Atlantic and Atlantic Meteorological Laboratory is located opposite the Rickenbacker Causeway from the campus. From 1947 to 1959, the State of Florida funded the UM Sea Lab in Virginia Key until the State built a separate marine laboratory in St. Louis. Petersburg. In 2009, UM received a $ 15 million federal grant to help build the new $ 43.8 million, 56,500 square foot (5,250 m) Seawater Research and Technology Research Seawater Building.
There is no housing on RSMAS campus. As part of a free shuttle service across campus, UM operates a route from the Coral Gables campus to the RSMAS campus, which includes stops at the Vizcaya Metrorail station on weekdays.
Southern Campus
In 1946, UM acquired the former Richmond Naval Air Station, southwest of Miami, located 12 miles (19 km) south of the main campus to accommodate post-war student upgrades. Campus was acquired shortly after World War II and provided classrooms, housing, and other facilities for about 1,100 students (mostly freshmen) for two academic years. In 1948 it was changed as a research facility. In the 1960s, several buildings were leased to the Central Intelligence Agency. The South Campus Grove is a 350-hectare plot (1,400,000 m 2 ) for agricultural research and horticultural studies established in 1948. For 20 years, MWs use radioactive isotopes in biological research on the Southern Campus, buried including irradiated animals on site. In August 2006, UM agreed to replace the Engineer Corps Army $ 393,473 for a cleaning fee under Superfund legislation. Six buildings provide 63,800 sq ft (5,930 m 2 ) for the current home: Global Public Health Research Group, Miami Institute for Human Genomics, Forensic Toxicology Laboratory (for analysis of suspect DUI blood samples), and Microbiology and Immunology. The University of Miami once planned to build a southern campus on the property but chose to sell 80 hectares of land instead. The university no longer has land on the southern campus.
Richmond Campus
The Richmond Campus is a 76 acre (310,000 m 2 ) site that was once the National Standard Facility of the Second National Navy Observatory of the United States, which already has 20M buildings and antennas used for Very Long Distance Interferometry VLBI). The Rosenstiel School Center for Remote South-Eastern Remote Sensing (CSTARS) and Richmond Satellite Operating Center (RSOC) have research facilities located in some of the new campuses.
Sustainability
Since 2005, MU has a "Green U" initiative that includes LEED certification for building and use of biofuels by the campus bus fleet. UM established the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. As part of the Abess Center, UM launched R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program to educate students about the importance of protecting the marine environment. In 2008, UM replaced the chiller factory on the Virginia Key campus to improve its carbon footprint. UM also planted mangroves, vineyards and other mounds in Virginia Key to protect its sand dunes and protect the campus from storm damage.
Student body
In 2017, UM received 30,634 applicants for 2,211 vacancies available in the new class. Average GPA of 3.7 (not weighted), average ACT score was 30, and average SAT score was 1315.
By 2015, undergraduates consist of: 27% of Greater Miami area, 10% from other parts of Florida, 48% from other US states, and 15% are international students. Graduate students consist of: 36% of Greater Miami area, 12% from other parts of Florida, 33% from other US states, and 19% are international students.
In 2011, UM reported the following graduation rates: 72% graduated in 4 years, 82% graduated in 5 years, and 84% graduated in 6 years. Male athletes have a 4-year graduation rate of 52%, and 72% of female athletes graduate students in 4 years.
Academics
There are currently 2,616 permanent faculty members, with 96% of regular lecturers holding doctoral degrees or terminal titles in their fields. UM has a student-faculty ratio of 12: 1. The University of Miami is accredited by the Association of Colleges and South Schools and 23 professional and additional educational accreditation 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 Colleges and American Universities, the Association of Colleges and Universities of Florida, the Independent Colleges & amp; University of Florida, and National Association of Colleges and Independent Universities.
Organization
The MW is led by a supervisory board, which holds two meetings each year. The Council has 48 elected members, 3 alumni representatives, 23 senior members, 4 national members, 6 members of ex officio, 14 emeriti members and 1 student representative. Ex officio members, serving according to their positions at the university, including university presidents; president and direct president of the citizen council; and president, elected president and former president of the alumni association soon. Since 1982, the council has eleven guest committees, which include guardians and outside experts, to help oversee the individual academic units.
President UM is the university's chief executive officer, with a 2012 salary of $ 1.16 million, and each academic unit is led by a dean.
- Bachelor & amp; pass
- School Architecture
- Academy of Arts and Science
- Faculty of Business Administration
- School of Communication
- School of Human Education and Development
- Technical College
- Rosenstiel School of Naval Sciences and Atmosphere
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Music School
- School of Nursing and Health Sciences
- Graduate only
- Graduate School
- Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
- The Law School of the University of Miami
In addition, UM also has a division of continuing and international education and executive education programs as part of its business administration school.
The partnership with the nearby Florida International University also allows students from both schools to take postgraduate classes at one of the universities, allowing postgraduate students to take a wider range of courses. In addition, the Miller School of Medicine offers separate PhD and MD/PhD programs in some biomedical sciences.
The Public Service Department, run by medical students and volunteers from Leonard M. School of Medicine UM, provides free medical and community services in Miami and surrounding communities.
For the fiscal year ending in May 2012, UM has $ 2,403,500,000 in total revenue and $ 2,431,500,000 in functional costs.
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