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{{Infobox University|name = Miami University|image = |motto = Prodesse Quam Conspici (Latin: To Accomplish Rather Than To Be Conspicuous)]|type = Public University
National University US News & World Report Top School Rankings & Classifications|president = David C. Hodge,
[Hamilton, Ohio,
Middletown, Ohio,
Differdange, Luxembourg and [White            ] Division 1 / Football Bowl Subdivision NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Teams teams in the Mid-American Conference the [Red-tailed hawk|affiliations = Miami University System, State of Ohio American [public university founded in 1809 in the university town of Oxford, Ohio with its primary focus on educating undergraduates Business Profile Miami University, accessed June 29, 2007 UNF finds role model in university in Ohio, accessed July 6, 2007 It is considered one of the original eight Public Ivys listed by Richard Moll in 1985.

Overview The seventh public college founded in the United States, Miami University dates back to a grant of land made for its support by the United States Congress by George Washington on May 5, 1792. The university's first president, Robert Hamilton Bishop, envisioned Miami as the "Yale of the West" and planned the first several buildings accordingly. Ohio statesmen Phillip Shriver, accessed 6 September 2006

Miami is located in southwestern Ohio approximately thirty miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Miami in this school's name refers to the Miami River valley, cut by two medium-sized rivers, the Little Miami River and the Great Miami River, that flow through southwestern Ohio; the rivers were in turn named after the Miami tribe Native Americans in the United States who lived in the area before European settlement.

Miami is currently ranked 67th{{cite web| url = http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/natudoc_pub.php| title = Top Public National Universities| accessdate = 2006-12-28| publisher = U.S. News and World Report--> among 252 "National Universities" according to U.S. News & World Report. In this same report the university ranks, tied with Clemson University, as 27th{{cite web]--> among public National Universities. BusinessWeek ranks the undergraduate business program for the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at 35th{{cite web| url = http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/07rankings/index.asp| title = Undergrad Rankings| accessdate = 2006-12-28| publisher = Business Week--> among U.S. business schools, 12th among public business schools, and 1st among Ohio business schools.

Miami University is reputed to be one of the most beautiful university campuses in North America The campus features modified neo-Georgian red brick buildings on an open, tree-shaded campus void of high rise skyscraper dormitories. Robert Frost once declared Miami the "prettiest campus that ever there was." Miami is also striking in that the entire campus is consistent in design and appearance except for the Miami University Art Museum.

Miami was named one of eight original "Public Ivies" in Richard Moll's 1985 book, The Public Ivys: America's Flagship Undergraduate Colleges. Miami is known as the "Cradle of Coaches" because several prominent American football coaches were student/athletes and/or coaches at Miami before achieving greater fame at more prominent college programs or the National Football League. Among these coaches were Earl Blaik, Paul Brown, Sid Gillman, Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, Weeb Ewbank, Bo Schembechler, Randy Walker (football coach), Ron Zook, and Joe Novak.

Miami graduated an American President, Benjamin Harrison, putting it in a prestigious category of a league of Presidential alma maters. Miami is only one of four colleges (Stanford University, University of Michigan, and the U.S. Naval Academy) to produce both a U.S. President and a Super Bowl winning quarterback (Ben Roethlisberger). It is also the alma mater of many United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, U.S. military leaders, Governor of Ohio and Fortune 500 business executives.

For many years, the athletic teams at Miami were nicknamed Redskins, but in 1997 the nickname was changed to RedHawks. Some controversy surrounded this change and some aspects of the old identity persist. The RedHawks participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I in all sports (I-A in college football). Miami's primary conference is the Mid-American Conference; its ice hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

Miami is also famous for its School of Education, the McGuffey School, named for Professor William Holmes McGuffey, who taught there and wrote America's most widely used pioneer text books - the McGuffey Readers - while at the school.

History Miami University was first provided for under the Northwest Ordinance, which would regulate the free states of the Midwest. On May 5, 1792, "the President of the United States was authorized to grant letters patent to John Cleves Symmes and his associates . . . provided that the land grant should include one complete township . . . for the purpose of establishing an academy and other public schools and seminaries of learning. After Ohio became a state in 1803, the Ohio General Assembly assumed responsibility for making sure that John Cleves Symmes would set aside a township of land for the support of an academy. Such a law was passed by the State legislature April 15, 1803. . . . Finally, on February 17, 1809, the State legislature created Miami University and provided that one complete township in the State of Ohio in the district of Cincinnati was to be vested in Miami University for its use, benefit, and support." This was known as the "College Township".

Miami was chartered by the government, but was considered a private college engaged in classical training. Antebellum Miami University took students from all over the West, and was known as the "Yale of the Early West". It was at one point the 4th largest university in the United States after Harvard University, Yale University, and Dartmouth College. As the East-West rivalries subsided, but the North-South rivalries surged, Miami University split apart at the time of the American Civil War. Most graduates volunteered for the Union, more than any other school except the military academies. The majority of those that didn't, primarily from Southern states (such as Jefferson Davis' nephew) volunteered in the Confederate States of America armies. Because its students had left for war, because many alumni and professors died in the War, because the West opened up to other universities, and because Southern families no longer sent their sons to the North for an education, "Old Miami" passed on and Miami University nearly died. The university, unable to pay its huge debts, closed in 1873 and did not reopen until 1885.

With the help of alumni and Ohio legislators, "New Miami" was restarted as a coeducational school of education and liberal arts. Although the Ohio State University, then the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College (Ohio A&M), had been launched in the interim, Miami University gained a fair share of Ohio students by the 1890s, and by the 1950s had massively grown. The rural Oxford campus with Georgian architecture is considered to be similar to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia campus and one of the most beautiful in the U.S; Robert Frost once called it "the prettiest campus there ever was."

Several women's colleges in Oxford were associated with or effectively merged with Miami University including Oxford College and the Western College for Women (now the Western College Program), a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College. Miami University was coeducational long before most schools in the Ivy League. Miami has been a non-sectarian school as were other pioneer universities in the Midwest, though its early leaders were often Presbyterianism. Miami University's current enrollment is approximately 15,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students. In addition to its Oxford campus, Miami has additional campuses in Hamilton, Ohio and Middletown, Ohio, and a Miami University Dolibois European Center in Differdange, Luxembourg.

Miami University is known around the Greek World for the Miami Triad, three fraternities founded in the 19th century that spread throughout the United States, and is called "Mother of Fraternities." These were Beta Theta Pi (1839), Sigma Chi (1855), and Phi Delta Theta (1848). The Delta Zeta sorority was also founded at Miami University in 1902 as was the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity in 1906. Alpha Delta Phi was the first fraternity to arrive on campus in 1833.

In 2004, the Oxford campus theoretically abolished tuition differentials between state residents and nonresidents (all Ohio residents receive an automatic scholarship). This effort was undertaken to make Miami more affordable to moderate-income families in Ohio by giving the university more flexibility in the disbursement of state funds. As of the 2004–05 academic year, all students pay tuition of over $19,000 per year; Ohio resident scholarships are $10,000 or more depending upon financial need, extraordinary ability, talent in mathematics or science, or declared interest in teaching.

Miami University System

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Mission statement The mission of Miami University is to preserve, add to, evaluate, and transmit the accumulated knowledge of the centuries; to develop critical thinking, extend the frontiers of knowledge, and serve society; and to provide an environment conducive to effective and inspired teaching and learning, promote professional development of faculty, and encourage scholarly research and creativity of faculty and students.

Miami's primary concern is its students. This concern is reflected in a broad array of efforts to develop the potential of each student. The University endeavors to individualize the educational experience. It provides personal and professional guidance; and, it offers opportunities for its students to achieve understanding and appreciation not only of their own culture but of the cultures of others as well. Selected undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs of quality should be offered with the expectation of students achieving a high level of competence and understanding and developing a personal value system. Since the legislation creating Miami University stated that a leading mission of the University was to promote "good education, virtue, religion, and morality", the University has been striving to emphasize the supreme importance of dealing with problems related to values.

Miami is committed to serve the community, state, and nation. It offers access to higher education, including continuing education, for those who can benefit from it, at a reasonable cost, without regard for race, creed, sex, or age. It educates men and women for responsible, informed citizenship, as well as for meaningful employment. It provides both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the pursuit of knowledge and to the solving of problems. It sponsors a wide range of cultural and educational activities which have significance beyond the campus and the local community.

Alma Mater Miami Glee Club singing the Miami Alma Mater

Old Miami from thy hillcrest,
Thou hast watched the decades roll,
While thy sons have quested from thee,
Sturdy hearted, pure of soul.
Old Miami! New Miami!
Days of old and days to be;
Weave the story of thy glory,
Our Miami, here's to thee!

Fight Song Miami March Song
(adopted from the University of Chicago's Wave the Flag)

Love and honor to Miami,
Our college old and grand,
Proudly we shall ever hail thee,
Over all the land.


Alma mater now we praise thee,
Sing joyfully this lay,
Love and honor to Miami,
Forever and a day.

Presidents of Miami
  • Robert Hamilton Bishop, 1824-1841
  • George Junkin, 1841-1844
  • Erasmus D. MacMaster, 1845-1849
  • William C. Anderson, 1849-1854
  • Orange Nash Stoddard, 1854 (pro tempore)
  • John W. Hall, 1854-1866
  • Robert B. Stanton, 1868-1871
  • Andrew Dousa Hepburn, 1871-1873 (pro tempore; later considered to be regular)
  • Robert W. McFarland, 1885-1888 (pro tempore; later considered to be regular)
  • Ethelbert D. Warfield, 1888-1891
  • William Oxley Thompson, 1891-1899
  • David Stanton Tappan, 1899-1902
  • Guy Potter Benton, 1902-1911
  • Edgar Ewing Brandon, 1909-1910 (acting), 1927-1928 (acting)
  • Raymond M. Hughes, 1911-1913 (acting), 1913-1927
  • Colin P. Kelly, 1928-1934
  • Alfred H. Upham, 1935-1945
  • Alpheus K. Morris, 1945-1946 (acting)
  • Ernest H. Hahne, 1946-1952
  • John D. Millett, 1953-1964
  • Charles Ray Wilson, 1964-1965 (acting)
  • Phillip R. Shriver, 1965-1981
  • Paul G. Pearson, 1981-1992
  • Paul G. Risser, 1993-1995
  • Anne Hopkins, December 1995-July 1996 (acting)
  • James C. Garland, 1996-June 2006
  • David C. Hodge, July 2006 - present


    • Commencement speakers

    Athletics Miami University has a rich history of intercollegiate athletics and today fields a Division I (I-A for football) athletic program in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division. There are men's sports teams for baseball, basketball, cross country running, American football, ice hockey, swimming and diving, and track and field. For women, Miami offers basketball, cross country, field hockey, football (soccer), softball, swimming and diving, volleyball, synchronized skating, track and field, and tennis. Though not the proper way to refer to the school, Miami is sometimes referred to as Miami of Ohio or Miami (OH) to distinguish it from the University of Miami in Florida. (Miami University was chartered when Florida was a Spanish colony.) Miami is well known among the sports world for its reputation as the Cradle of Coaches and is one of only 13 schools in the nation to have a Division I-A football team as well as Division I basketball and ice hockey teams.

    Miami historically has had some of the highest graduation rates of student-athletes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, second only to United States Naval Academy. Football and Ice Hockey are the most popular according to the student body. Miami is a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). Fred C. Yager Stadium is the main football facility on the Oxford campus.

    Track and Cross Country have been prominent over the last decade, producing several All-Americans and multiple top 3 conference finishes. Daniel Huling recently placed third in the steeple chase at the US Championships. Previous alumni include Brian Godsey (world/previous world record holder in the backwards 800m, 3000m, 10000m), Steve Padgett (a sub 9-minute two-miler in high school), David Mitchell (an All-American in NCAA Cross-country).

    Miami has two college sports rivalries: one with the University of Cincinnati called the 'Battle for the Victory Bell' and another with Ohio Bobcats called the 'Battle of the Bricks.'

    Miami and the University of Cincinnati square off each fall for the famed Victory Bell. The original bell hung in Miami's Harrison Hall (Old Main) near the site of the first football game in 1888 and was used to ring in Miami victories. The traveling trophy tradition began in the 1890s when some Cincinnati fans, purportedly led by local gunslinger Jeff Orlick, "borrowed" the bell. The bell went to the winner of the annual game for the next 40 years until it mysteriously disappeared in the 1930s. The original bell reappeared in 1946 and is on display in the lobby of the Murstein Alumni Center in Oxford. The current trophy is a replica of the original bell and is kept in the possession of the winning team each year. One side of the bell is painted red and black and shows Cincinnati's victories while the other side is red and white and shows Miami's victories. Miami leads the series 59-44-7 and has won three of the last four games.The Miami-Cincinnati series ranks fifth on the list of the most played rivalries in college football and the oldest rivalry west of the Allegheny Mountains. Of the more than 30 rivalries that include at least 89 games, none are older than Miami vs. Cincinnati.

    The Battle of the Bricks is an annual all-sports rivalry competition between the Ohio Bobcats and the Miami RedHawks athletic programs. The name "Battle of the Bricks" evolved from each school's reputation of a pristine campus of red brick buildings. Each varsity athletic competition in which the Bobcats and RedHawks meet, including tournament play, is counted as part of the year's series record. At the conclusion of each academic year, the school with the most varsity wins takes the trophy back to its campus for the following year.

    In October 2006 the Goggin Ice Center, a sparkling $34 million hockey arena seating 4,000 spectators, was christened. The old arena was opened in 1976, and closed in mid-2006, giving way to the new arena. It is now home to both the Miami University men's Ice Hockey team and the Women's Synchronized Skating team, which is the largest women's sport on campus. The Miami University Senior Synchronized Skating team has earned a spot in the World Synchronized Skating Championships in five of the past seven seasons. The RedHawks have finished among the top four teams at the past two World Championships, including a silver-medal 2nd-place finish at the 2007 World Synchronized Skating Championships -- the first time a U.S. team has medalled at the event. In its past five appearances at the World Synchronized Skating Championships, Miami has finished no lower than ninth. The collegiate Synchronized Skating team has won an unparalleled 9 U.S. championship titles since the division was created 11 seasons ago. The newly formed junior level team has also won great acclaim, earning a spot to compete internationally as part of Team USA in its first season (2006-2007).



    Notable sports alumni include Ben Roethlisberger, the current quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ara Parseghian, a former Notre Dame Fighting Irish football football coach, Milt Stegall, the current all time touchdown leader in the CFL, Weeb Ewbank, a former New York Jets football coach, Paul Brown, the founder of the former Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, Charlie Leibrandt, a MLB pitcher, Ron Harper, a former NBA basketball player, Wally Szczerbiak, a basketball player for the Boston Celtics, Ira Newble, a basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers, hockey players Kevyn Adams, Andy Greene, Brian Savage, Dan Boyle and Bo Schembechler, a former Miami and Michigan football coach.

    Recognition The Fiske Guide To Colleges rates Miami with 4.5 stars out of a possible 5 and cites it as a "rising star among state universities." In 2006, Kiplinger ranked Miami 38th among all American public four-year universities for "top flight academics and affordable costs," the top ranking of an Ohio college. In 2003, The Wall Street Journal named Miami a "feeder school" and ranked it 22nd among public universities in their article titled "Want to go to Harvard Law?" Want to go to Harvard Law? The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition. Accessed 21 July 2006.

    A July 2006 New York Times article cited Miami University as a "hidden gem" stating the "focus is truly on educating undergraduates. This is a medium-size institution with the advantages that confers but it still has the feel of a small liberal arts college." The Kaplan, Inc.-Newsweek College Catalog calls Miami a "hidden treasure-terrific schools that deserve more national attention".

    At the same time, The Princeton Review ranks Miami University first for little race/class interaction, fourth for homogeneous student population, 15th for alternative lifestyle rejection, and 20th for students dissatisfied with financial aid.

    In 2007, Business Week released their official rankings of the top undergraduate business schools in the United States and Miami's Farmer School of Business ranked 35th among all American universities, 12th among all public universities and 1st among all Ohio universities. Undergrad Rankings, BusinessWeek Online. Accessed 21 July 2006. Also, The Public Accounting Report named Miami's undergraduate accountancy program 12th in the nation Miami's Top Accounting Program The business school is endowed by Richard T. Farmer, founder and chairman of the Cintas Corporation and one of the wealthiest men in Ohio (according to Forbes). Forbes' List of the World's Richest People, 2003. Accessed 21 July 2006.

    Miami also offers one of the nations largest senior scholarships, the Goldman Prize. The prize is awarded to one graduating senior and is valued at $26,000 for use in a year long independent research study.

    Greek Life Miami University is home to the only endowed fraternity and sorority life and leadership office, The Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Leadership with one out of three Miami students claiming membership in a Greek letter society. A current roster of active Greek letter societies include:

    FraternitiesAcacia, Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Sigma Lambda Beta, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Pi, Sigma Tau Gamma, Tau Kappa Epsilon

    SororitiesAlpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Sigma Theta, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Zeta Phi Beta, Zeta Tau Alpha

    Notable campus features

    Closing of Western College Program On June 23, 2006 the Board of Trustees passed a controversial decision to remove the Western College Program as a separate college within Miami University. Keep Western Whole. Accessed July 21 2006. This, his final decision as Miami University president, Dr. James C. Garland moved along with the Board of Trustees in favor of transforming the historic Western College campus into an enlarged university honors program.

    Originally founded in the early 19th century as the Western College for Women by westward travelers from Mount Holyoke College, the women's college functioned for over 100 years until financial difficulties forced the Western College For Women into near bankruptcy. Through a partnership between Miami University and the Western College for Women, Miami agreed to purchase the Western College for Women and promised to preserve its unique character. It operated it as the School of Interdisciplinary Studies for over 30 years up until 2006 when Miami University removed it as an academic division within the university.

    Historic landmarks

    Trivia Connecticut Hall

    See also

    References

    External links

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    [Hamilton, Ohio    ,
    Middletown, Ohio,
    Differdange, Luxembourg and [White            ] Division 1 / Football Bowl Subdivision NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Teams teams in the Mid-American Conference the [Red-tailed hawk|affiliations = Miami University System, State of Ohio American [public university founded in 1809 in the university town of Oxford, Ohio with its primary focus on educating undergraduates Business Profile Miami University, accessed June 29, 2007 UNF finds role model in university in Ohio, accessed July 6, 2007 It is considered one of the original eight Public Ivys listed by Richard Moll in 1985.

    Overview The seventh public college founded in the United States, Miami University dates back to a grant of land made for its support by the United States Congress by George Washington on May 5, 1792. The university's first president, Robert Hamilton Bishop, envisioned Miami as the "Yale of the West" and planned the first several buildings accordingly. Ohio statesmen Phillip Shriver, accessed 6 September 2006

    Miami is located in southwestern Ohio approximately thirty miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Miami in this school's name refers to the Miami River valley, cut by two medium-sized rivers, the Little Miami River and the Great Miami River, that flow through southwestern Ohio; the rivers were in turn named after the Miami tribe Native Americans in the United States who lived in the area before European settlement.

    Miami is currently ranked 67th{{cite web| url = http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/premium/natudoc_pub.php| title = Top Public National Universities| accessdate = 2006-12-28| publisher = U.S. News and World Report--> among 252 "National Universities" according to U.S. News & World Report. In this same report the university ranks, tied with Clemson University, as 27th{{cite web]--> among public National Universities. BusinessWeek ranks the undergraduate business program for the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at 35th{{cite web| url = http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/07rankings/index.asp| title = Undergrad Rankings| accessdate = 2006-12-28| publisher = Business Week--> among U.S. business schools, 12th among public business schools, and 1st among Ohio business schools.

    Miami University is reputed to be one of the most beautiful university campuses in North America The campus features modified neo-Georgian red brick buildings on an open, tree-shaded campus void of high rise skyscraper dormitories. Robert Frost once declared Miami the "prettiest campus that ever there was." Miami is also striking in that the entire campus is consistent in design and appearance except for the Miami University Art Museum.

    Miami was named one of eight original "Public Ivies" in Richard Moll's 1985 book, The Public Ivys: America's Flagship Undergraduate Colleges. Miami is known as the "Cradle of Coaches" because several prominent American football coaches were student/athletes and/or coaches at Miami before achieving greater fame at more prominent college programs or the National Football League. Among these coaches were Earl Blaik, Paul Brown, Sid Gillman, Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, Weeb Ewbank, Bo Schembechler, Randy Walker (football coach), Ron Zook, and Joe Novak.

    Miami graduated an American President, Benjamin Harrison, putting it in a prestigious category of a league of Presidential alma maters. Miami is only one of four colleges (Stanford University, University of Michigan, and the U.S. Naval Academy) to produce both a U.S. President and a Super Bowl winning quarterback (Ben Roethlisberger). It is also the alma mater of many United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, U.S. military leaders, Governor of Ohio and Fortune 500 business executives.

    For many years, the athletic teams at Miami were nicknamed Redskins, but in 1997 the nickname was changed to RedHawks. Some controversy surrounded this change and some aspects of the old identity persist. The RedHawks participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I in all sports (I-A in college football). Miami's primary conference is the Mid-American Conference; its ice hockey program competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

    Miami is also famous for its School of Education, the McGuffey School, named for Professor William Holmes McGuffey, who taught there and wrote America's most widely used pioneer text books - the McGuffey Readers - while at the school.

    History Miami University was first provided for under the Northwest Ordinance, which would regulate the free states of the Midwest. On May 5, 1792, "the President of the United States was authorized to grant letters patent to John Cleves Symmes and his associates . . . provided that the land grant should include one complete township . . . for the purpose of establishing an academy and other public schools and seminaries of learning. After Ohio became a state in 1803, the Ohio General Assembly assumed responsibility for making sure that John Cleves Symmes would set aside a township of land for the support of an academy. Such a law was passed by the State legislature April 15, 1803. . . . Finally, on February 17, 1809, the State legislature created Miami University and provided that one complete township in the State of Ohio in the district of Cincinnati was to be vested in Miami University for its use, benefit, and support." This was known as the "College Township".

    Miami was chartered by the government, but was considered a private college engaged in classical training. Antebellum Miami University took students from all over the West, and was known as the "Yale of the Early West". It was at one point the 4th largest university in the United States after Harvard University, Yale University, and Dartmouth College. As the East-West rivalries subsided, but the North-South rivalries surged, Miami University split apart at the time of the American Civil War. Most graduates volunteered for the Union, more than any other school except the military academies. The majority of those that didn't, primarily from Southern states (such as Jefferson Davis' nephew) volunteered in the Confederate States of America armies. Because its students had left for war, because many alumni and professors died in the War, because the West opened up to other universities, and because Southern families no longer sent their sons to the North for an education, "Old Miami" passed on and Miami University nearly died. The university, unable to pay its huge debts, closed in 1873 and did not reopen until 1885.

    With the help of alumni and Ohio legislators, "New Miami" was restarted as a coeducational school of education and liberal arts. Although the Ohio State University, then the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College (Ohio A&M), had been launched in the interim, Miami University gained a fair share of Ohio students by the 1890s, and by the 1950s had massively grown. The rural Oxford campus with Georgian architecture is considered to be similar to Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia campus and one of the most beautiful in the U.S; Robert Frost once called it "the prettiest campus there ever was."

    Several women's colleges in Oxford were associated with or effectively merged with Miami University including Oxford College and the Western College for Women (now the Western College Program), a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College. Miami University was coeducational long before most schools in the Ivy League. Miami has been a non-sectarian school as were other pioneer universities in the Midwest, though its early leaders were often Presbyterianism. Miami University's current enrollment is approximately 15,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students. In addition to its Oxford campus, Miami has additional campuses in Hamilton, Ohio and Middletown, Ohio, and a Miami University Dolibois European Center in Differdange, Luxembourg.

    Miami University is known around the Greek World for the Miami Triad, three fraternities founded in the 19th century that spread throughout the United States, and is called "Mother of Fraternities." These were Beta Theta Pi (1839), Sigma Chi (1855), and Phi Delta Theta (1848). The Delta Zeta sorority was also founded at Miami University in 1902 as was the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity in 1906. Alpha Delta Phi was the first fraternity to arrive on campus in 1833.

    In 2004, the Oxford campus theoretically abolished tuition differentials between state residents and nonresidents (all Ohio residents receive an automatic scholarship). This effort was undertaken to make Miami more affordable to moderate-income families in Ohio by giving the university more flexibility in the disbursement of state funds. As of the 2004–05 academic year, all students pay tuition of over $19,000 per year; Ohio resident scholarships are $10,000 or more depending upon financial need, extraordinary ability, talent in mathematics or science, or declared interest in teaching.

    Miami University System

    Divisions

    Mission statement The mission of Miami University is to preserve, add to, evaluate, and transmit the accumulated knowledge of the centuries; to develop critical thinking, extend the frontiers of knowledge, and serve society; and to provide an environment conducive to effective and inspired teaching and learning, promote professional development of faculty, and encourage scholarly research and creativity of faculty and students.

    Miami's primary concern is its students. This concern is reflected in a broad array of efforts to develop the potential of each student. The University endeavors to individualize the educational experience. It provides personal and professional guidance; and, it offers opportunities for its students to achieve understanding and appreciation not only of their own culture but of the cultures of others as well. Selected undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs of quality should be offered with the expectation of students achieving a high level of competence and understanding and developing a personal value system. Since the legislation creating Miami University stated that a leading mission of the University was to promote "good education, virtue, religion, and morality", the University has been striving to emphasize the supreme importance of dealing with problems related to values.

    Miami is committed to serve the community, state, and nation. It offers access to higher education, including continuing education, for those who can benefit from it, at a reasonable cost, without regard for race, creed, sex, or age. It educates men and women for responsible, informed citizenship, as well as for meaningful employment. It provides both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the pursuit of knowledge and to the solving of problems. It sponsors a wide range of cultural and educational activities which have significance beyond the campus and the local community.

    Alma Mater Miami Glee Club singing the Miami Alma Mater

    Old Miami from thy hillcrest,
    Thou hast watched the decades roll,
    While thy sons have quested from thee,
    Sturdy hearted, pure of soul.
    Old Miami! New Miami!
    Days of old and days to be;
    Weave the story of thy glory,
    Our Miami, here's to thee!

    Fight Song Miami March Song
    (adopted from the University of Chicago's Wave the Flag)

    Love and honor to Miami,
    Our college old and grand,
    Proudly we shall ever hail thee,
    Over all the land.


    Alma mater now we praise thee,
    Sing joyfully this lay,
    Love and honor to Miami,
    Forever and a day.

    Presidents of Miami
  • Robert Hamilton Bishop, 1824-1841
  • George Junkin, 1841-1844
  • Erasmus D. MacMaster, 1845-1849
  • William C. Anderson, 1849-1854
  • Orange Nash Stoddard, 1854 (pro tempore)
  • John W. Hall, 1854-1866
  • Robert B. Stanton, 1868-1871
  • Andrew Dousa Hepburn, 1871-1873 (pro tempore; later considered to be regular)
  • Robert W. McFarland, 1885-1888 (pro tempore; later considered to be regular)
  • Ethelbert D. Warfield, 1888-1891
  • William Oxley Thompson, 1891-1899
  • David Stanton Tappan, 1899-1902
  • Guy Potter Benton, 1902-1911
  • Edgar Ewing Brandon, 1909-1910 (acting), 1927-1928 (acting)
  • Raymond M. Hughes, 1911-1913 (acting), 1913-1927
  • Colin P. Kelly, 1928-1934
  • Alfred H. Upham, 1935-1945
  • Alpheus K. Morris, 1945-1946 (acting)
  • Ernest H. Hahne, 1946-1952
  • John D. Millett, 1953-1964
  • Charles Ray Wilson, 1964-1965 (acting)
  • Phillip R. Shriver, 1965-1981
  • Paul G. Pearson, 1981-1992
  • Paul G. Risser, 1993-1995
  • Anne Hopkins, December 1995-July 1996 (acting)
  • James C. Garland, 1996-June 2006
  • David C. Hodge, July 2006 - present


    • Commencement speakers

    Athletics Miami University has a rich history of intercollegiate athletics and today fields a Division I (I-A for football) athletic program in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division. There are men's sports teams for baseball, basketball, cross country running, American football, ice hockey, swimming and diving, and track and field. For women, Miami offers basketball, cross country, field hockey, football (soccer), softball, swimming and diving, volleyball, synchronized skating, track and field, and tennis. Though not the proper way to refer to the school, Miami is sometimes referred to as Miami of Ohio or Miami (OH) to distinguish it from the University of Miami in Florida. (Miami University was chartered when Florida was a Spanish colony.) Miami is well known among the sports world for its reputation as the Cradle of Coaches and is one of only 13 schools in the nation to have a Division I-A football team as well as Division I basketball and ice hockey teams.

    Miami historically has had some of the highest graduation rates of student-athletes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, second only to United States Naval Academy. Football and Ice Hockey are the most popular according to the student body. Miami is a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). Fred C. Yager Stadium is the main football facility on the Oxford campus.

    Track and Cross Country have been prominent over the last decade, producing several All-Americans and multiple top 3 conference finishes. Daniel Huling recently placed third in the steeple chase at the US Championships. Previous alumni include Brian Godsey (world/previous world record holder in the backwards 800m, 3000m, 10000m), Steve Padgett (a sub 9-minute two-miler in high school), David Mitchell (an All-American in NCAA Cross-country).

    Miami has two college sports rivalries: one with the University of Cincinnati called the 'Battle for the Victory Bell' and another with Ohio Bobcats called the 'Battle of the Bricks.'

    Miami and the University of Cincinnati square off each fall for the famed Victory Bell. The original bell hung in Miami's Harrison Hall (Old Main) near the site of the first football game in 1888 and was used to ring in Miami victories. The traveling trophy tradition began in the 1890s when some Cincinnati fans, purportedly led by local gunslinger Jeff Orlick, "borrowed" the bell. The bell went to the winner of the annual game for the next 40 years until it mysteriously disappeared in the 1930s. The original bell reappeared in 1946 and is on display in the lobby of the Murstein Alumni Center in Oxford. The current trophy is a replica of the original bell and is kept in the possession of the winning team each year. One side of the bell is painted red and black and shows Cincinnati's victories while the other side is red and white and shows Miami's victories. Miami leads the series 59-44-7 and has won three of the last four games.The Miami-Cincinnati series ranks fifth on the list of the most played rivalries in college football and the oldest rivalry west of the Allegheny Mountains. Of the more than 30 rivalries that include at least 89 games, none are older than Miami vs. Cincinnati.

    The Battle of the Bricks is an annual all-sports rivalry competition between the Ohio Bobcats and the Miami RedHawks athletic programs. The name "Battle of the Bricks" evolved from each school's reputation of a pristine campus of red brick buildings. Each varsity athletic competition in which the Bobcats and RedHawks meet, including tournament play, is counted as part of the year's series record. At the conclusion of each academic year, the school with the most varsity wins takes the trophy back to its campus for the following year.

    In October 2006 the Goggin Ice Center, a sparkling $34 million hockey arena seating 4,000 spectators, was christened. The old arena was opened in 1976, and closed in mid-2006, giving way to the new arena. It is now home to both the Miami University men's Ice Hockey team and the Women's Synchronized Skating team, which is the largest women's sport on campus. The Miami University Senior Synchronized Skating team has earned a spot in the World Synchronized Skating Championships in five of the past seven seasons. The RedHawks have finished among the top four teams at the past two World Championships, including a silver-medal 2nd-place finish at the 2007 World Synchronized Skating Championships -- the first time a U.S. team has medalled at the event. In its past five appearances at the World Synchronized Skating Championships, Miami has finished no lower than ninth. The collegiate Synchronized Skating team has won an unparalleled 9 U.S. championship titles since the division was created 11 seasons ago. The newly formed junior level team has also won great acclaim, earning a spot to compete internationally as part of Team USA in its first season (2006-2007).



    Notable sports alumni include Ben Roethlisberger, the current quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ara Parseghian, a former Notre Dame Fighting Irish football football coach, Milt Stegall, the current all time touchdown leader in the CFL, Weeb Ewbank, a former New York Jets football coach, Paul Brown, the founder of the former Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals, Charlie Leibrandt, a MLB pitcher, Ron Harper, a former NBA basketball player, Wally Szczerbiak, a basketball player for the Boston Celtics, Ira Newble, a basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers, hockey players Kevyn Adams, Andy Greene, Brian Savage, Dan Boyle and Bo Schembechler, a former Miami and Michigan football coach.

    Recognition The Fiske Guide To Colleges rates Miami with 4.5 stars out of a possible 5 and cites it as a "rising star among state universities." In 2006, Kiplinger ranked Miami 38th among all American public four-year universities for "top flight academics and affordable costs," the top ranking of an Ohio college. In 2003, The Wall Street Journal named Miami a "feeder school" and ranked it 22nd among public universities in their article titled "Want to go to Harvard Law?" Want to go to Harvard Law? The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition. Accessed 21 July 2006.

    A July 2006 New York Times article cited Miami University as a "hidden gem" stating the "focus is truly on educating undergraduates. This is a medium-size institution with the advantages that confers but it still has the feel of a small liberal arts college." The Kaplan, Inc.-Newsweek College Catalog calls Miami a "hidden treasure-terrific schools that deserve more national attention".

    At the same time, The Princeton Review ranks Miami University first for little race/class interaction, fourth for homogeneous student population, 15th for alternative lifestyle rejection, and 20th for students dissatisfied with financial aid.

    In 2007, Business Week released their official rankings of the top undergraduate business schools in the United States and Miami's Farmer School of Business ranked 35th among all American universities, 12th among all public universities and 1st among all Ohio universities. Undergrad Rankings, BusinessWeek Online. Accessed 21 July 2006. Also, The Public Accounting Report named Miami's undergraduate accountancy program 12th in the nation Miami's Top Accounting Program The business school is endowed by Richard T. Farmer, founder and chairman of the Cintas Corporation and one of the wealthiest men in Ohio (according to Forbes). Forbes' List of the World's Richest People, 2003. Accessed 21 July 2006.

    Miami also offers one of the nations largest senior scholarships, the Goldman Prize. The prize is awarded to one graduating senior and is valued at $26,000 for use in a year long independent research study.

    Greek Life Miami University is home to the only endowed fraternity and sorority life and leadership office, The Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Leadership with one out of three Miami students claiming membership in a Greek letter society. A current roster of active Greek letter societies include:

    FraternitiesAcacia, Alpha Delta Phi, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Sigma Lambda Beta, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Pi, Sigma Tau Gamma, Tau Kappa Epsilon

    SororitiesAlpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Sigma Theta, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Zeta Phi Beta, Zeta Tau Alpha

    Notable campus features

    Closing of Western College Program On June 23, 2006 the Board of Trustees passed a controversial decision to remove the Western College Program as a separate college within Miami University. Keep Western Whole. Accessed July 21 2006. This, his final decision as Miami University president, Dr. James C. Garland moved along with the Board of Trustees in favor of transforming the historic Western College campus into an enlarged university honors program.

    Originally founded in the early 19th century as the Western College for Women by westward travelers from Mount Holyoke College, the women's college functioned for over 100 years until financial difficulties forced the Western College For Women into near bankruptcy. Through a partnership between Miami University and the Western College for Women, Miami agreed to purchase the Western College for Women and promised to preserve its unique character. It operated it as the School of Interdisciplinary Studies for over 30 years up until 2006 when Miami University removed it as an academic division within the university.

    Historic landmarks

    Trivia Connecticut Hall

    See also

    References

    External links



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