University of Miami

This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University.

University of Miami

Motto	Magna est veritas (Latin)
Motto in English	Great is the truth
Type	Private
Established	1925
Endowment	$538 million USD
Chairman	Phillip T. George, M.D.
President	Donna Shalala
Provost	Thomas J. LeBlanc
Academic staff	2,505 full time
Students	15,629
Undergraduates	9,855
Postgraduates	5,259
Location	Coral Gables , Florida , USA
Campus	Suburban
Colors	Orange, Green and White
Nickname	Hurricanes
Mascot	Sebastian the Ibis
Website	www.miami.edu
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The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, Miami, or The U) is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in the city of Coral Gables, Florida within Miami-Dade County. In addition to its main campus, the University of Miami maintains a medical campus in the City of Miami at the Miami Civic Center and a marine research facility on Virginia Key.

As of 2009, the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12 separate colleges, including a medical school, law school, and a school focused on the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences. These colleges offer 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, UM is the sixth largest employer in Miami-Dade County.

Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $326 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM also offers a large library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage and music. UM also offers a wide range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities, a student newspaper and radio station. UM's intercollegiate athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and its football team has won five national championships.

History

A group of citizens chartered the University of Miami in 1925 with the purpose of offering unique opportunities to develop inter-American studies, furthering creative work in the arts and letters, and conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies. They believed that a local university would benefit their community. They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM because the South Florida land boom was at its peak. At the time, there were three large state funded universities in Florida for white males, white females, and African-Americans. Originally, UM was intended to be a private college to serve white students.

The University began in earnest in 1925 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 with an initial Board of Regents chaired by William E. Walsh, a Miami Beach municipal judge. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 560 students enrolled at UM, 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 remained solvent. The construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. 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."

In 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UM's plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open. 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. UM filed for bankruptcy in 1932. 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. 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).

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

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 growth for UM. During his presidency, UM awarded its first doctorate degrees. 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. 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. UM established an Office of Minority Affairs to promote diversity in both undergraduate and professional school admissions. With the start of the 1968 football season, President Henry Stanford barred the playing of "Dixie" by the University's band. Historically, UM regulated female student conduct more than men's conduct with a staff under the Dean of Women watching over the women. UM combined the separate Dean of Men and Dean of Women positions in 1971. In 1971, UM formed a Women's Commission which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus. 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.

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. 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.

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). Under Stanford, in 1965, UM began to recruit international students. 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 raised $517.5 million. UM's endowment grew almost tenfold during Foote’s tenure, from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.

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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. 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.

Starting in 2002, UM conducted a fundraising campaign titled "Momentum: The Campaign for the University of Miami" that ultimately raised $1.37 billion, the most money raised by any college in Florida as of February 8, 2008. Of that amount, $854 million went to the medical campus. 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.

On February 28, 2006, custodial workers at the University of Miami, who are contracted to the university by a Boston, Massachusetts-based company, UNICCO, began a strike prompted by allegations of unfair labor practices, substandard pay, lack of health benefits, and workplace safety. After students began a hunger strike and on-campus vigil, the strike was settled on May 1, 2006. The settlement resulted in a card count which lead to the recognition of the first union-representated bargaining unit at UM. UM raised wages from $6.40 to $8.35 per hour and provided health insurance.

In 2008-09, UM has responded to the economic slowdown 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. 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% 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. Between the end of fiscal year 2008 and 2009, the UM endowment dropped 26.8%.

Campus

Coral Gables 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 (550,000 m²) of building space valued at over $657 million. 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. The Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center is the gallery of the School of Architecture that displays exhibitions focusing on architecture and design.

Student housing

UM residence halls	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

UM has five residential colleges, one apartment area and a University Village. Approximately 4,450 enrolled students live on campus, including 84% of new freshmen and 43% of all other degree-seeking undergraduates.

Medical campus

Main article: Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

The Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 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 Building, a 182,000 sq ft (16,900 m²) facility houses the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, the Miami Institute for Human Genomics and will serve as a wet lab facility with office space for researchers. The facility is also LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified. Plans are also underway to build a 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m²) UM Life Science Park adjacent to the UM medical campus. These additonal Gold LEED certified buildings are being built by Wexford Science & Technology, a private developer, on land leased from UM.

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.

Virginia Key campus

Main article: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

The Applied Marine Physics Building at UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on Virginia Key.

In 1945, construction began on the Rickenbacker Causeway to make Virigina Key accessible by car. A large part of the island was devoted to a black-only county beach. The county also offered to give UM a part of the island adjacent to the Miami Seaquarium in exchange for UM operating the aquarium. However, the aquarium construction was delayed when a bond referendum failed, so UM leased the land in 1951. 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. Additional buildings were added in 1957, 1959 and 1965. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory is located across the Rickenbacker Causeway from the campus. From 1947 to 1959, the State of Florida funded the UM Marine Lab on Virginia Key until the State built a separate marine lab in St. Petersburg. In 2009, UM received a $15 million federal grant to help construct a new 56,500 square feet (5,250 m²) Marine Technology and Life Sciences Seawater Research Building.

South Campus

In 1946, UM acquired the former Richmond Naval Air Station, in southwestern Miami, located 12 mi (19 km) south of the main campus in order to accommodate the post-war increase in students. For 1946-1948, the South Campus provided housing, dining and recreational facilities and classrooms for about 1100 students, mainly freshmen. From 1948 to present it has been used as a research facility and storage area. Its six buildings provide 63,800 sq ft (5,930 m²) to 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. In the 1960s, some of the buildings were leased to the Central Intelligence Agency. The South Campus Grove was a 350 acres (1,400,000 m²) plot for agricultural research and horticultural studies that was established in 1948. For 20 years, UM used radioactive isotopes in biological research on the South Campus, and buried materials, included irradiated animals on the site. In August 2006, UM agreed to reimburse the Army Corps of Engineers $393,473 for clean-up costs under the Superfund law.

The Richmond campus is a 76 acres (310,000 m²) site near South Campus that was formerly the United States Naval Observatory Secondary National Time Standard Facility, which already had buildings and a 20M antenna used for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). 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.

Sustainability

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. UM established the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, to foster innovative interdisciplinary approaches to environmental management and decision-making. As a part of the Abess Center, UM launched the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program to educate students on the importance of protecting the marine environment. In 2008, UM replaced the chiller plant on its Virginia Key campus to improve its carbon footprint. UM is also planting Mangroves, sea grape trees, and other dune plants on Virginia Key to protect its sand dunes and to protect the campus from storm damage. UM received a "C+" grade on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card and a "B-" for 2010 for its environmental and sustainability initiatives.

Student body

See also: List of Florida universities by admission rates

University of Miami demographics

Ethnic enrollment, 2009	Undergraduates	Graduates
African American	9%	8%
Asian American	9%	13%
Hispanic (of any race)	29%	22%
White (non-Hispanic)	53%	56%
Total	100%	100%

There were 21,845 applications for the fall 2009 freshman class, with 9,700 accepted and 2,006 enrolled. The mean SAT scores and high school GPAs for entering freshmen were the highest ever. The yield rate (percentage of accepted students who chose to attend UM over other schools where they are also accepted) for New Freshmen was 21%, which was down from 2008 (24%). The 2009 yield rate for New Transfers was 43%. The 2009 freshman class came from: 39% Florida (with 18% Dade County and 7% Broward County); 49% outside Florida in the United States, and 12% foreign students.

In 2009, the average SAT score of UM's incoming freshmen class was 1285, which is a 10 point increase from last year and a 110 point rise since 2001. Further, 40% of UM students ranked in the top 5% 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. Male student athletes have a 52% 4-year graduation rate, and 72% of female student athletes graduate within 4 years.

Academics

Fall freshman statistics

	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005
Applicants	21,845	21,774	19,807	19,031	18,810
Admits	9,700	8,411	7,527	7,704	8,678
% Admitted	44.4	38.6	38.0	40.4	46.1
This table does not account deferred applications or other unique situations.

There are currently 2,505 full-time faculty members, 91% of whom hold doctorates or terminal degrees in their field. UM has a student-faculty ratio of 11:1. 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 and Universities, the Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, the Independent Colleges & Universities of Florida, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Organization

UM is lead by a Board of Trustees, which holds two meetings each year. 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. Since 1982, the Board has eleven visiting committees, which include both Trustees and outside experts, to help oversee the individual academic units.

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

2009-2010 Tuition

School	Tuition	Total Cost
Undergraduate	$35,540	$52,044
Graduate School	$26,640	$44,968
Law School	$37,418	$54,022
Medical School (FL)	$29,289
Medical School (non-FL)	$38,504

Undergraduate & Graduate

• School of Architecture
• College of Arts and Sciences
• School of Business Administration
• School of Communication
• School of Education
• College of Engineering
• Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
• Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music
• School of Nursing and Health Studies

Graduate only

• The Graduate School
• Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
• University of Miami School of Law

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. 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.

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.

Rankings

Academic rankings
National
Forbes	479
U.S. News & World Report	50
Washington Monthly	130
Global
ARWU	Top 200

Other UM Rankings
CMUP Research Universities	78
USNWR Earth Sciences	43
USNWR Fine Arts	119
Wuhan International ESI	106

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. U.S. News's 2009 ranking of U.S. medical schools ranked the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine as the 51st 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.

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

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

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.

Libraries

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.

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 3.3 million volumes, 77,159 current serials titles, 67,894 electronic journals, 550,974 electronic books, 4 million microfroms, and 153,700 audio, film, video, and cartographic materials. The Libraries has a staff of 37 Librarians and 86 support staff.

Research

Sponsored research expenditures for fiscal year 2008 reached a record of more than $326 million. Those funds support over 5,000 graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. 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. Of the $8.2 billion appropriated by Congress in 2009 as a part of the stimulus bill for research priorities of the National Institutes of Health, the Miller School received $40.5 million. 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 - has uncovered critical clues to the origins of diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and macular degeneration.
• Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE)
• Wallace H. Coulter Center for Translational Research

The Miller Medical School has more than 1,500 ongoing projects funded by more than $200 million in external grants and contracts to UM faculty. The medical campus includes more than 500,000 square feet of research space with plans underway to build the UM Life Science Park, which will add an additional two million square feet of space adjacent to the medical campus. One of them, UM's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute seeks to understand the biology of stem cells and translate basic research into new regenerative therapies. In 2007, Joshua Hare, MD and colleagues reported that a new stem cell therapy was safe for the treatment of myocardial infarction and reduced complications from the condition.

As of 2008, RSMAS receives $50 million in annual external research funding. Their laboratories include a salt-water wave tank, a five-tank Conditioning and Spawning System, multi-tank Aplysia Culture Laboratory, Controlled Corals Climate Tanks, and DNA analysis equipment. The campus also houses an invertebrate museum with 400,000 specimens, and operates the Bimini Biological Field Station, an array of oceanographic high-frequency radar along the US east coast, and the Bermuda aerosol observatory. UM also owns the Little Salt Spring, a site on the National Register of Historic Places, in North Port, Florida, where RSMAS performs archaeological and paleontological research.

UM is building a brain imaging annex to the James M. Cox Jr. Science Center within the College of Arts and Sciences. The building will include a human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) laboratory, where scientists, clinicians and engineers can study fundamental aspects of brain function. Construction of the lab is funded in part by a $14.8 million in stimulus money grant from the National Institute of Health.

Student life

The University is affiliated with 31 fraternities and sororities. 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, UniMiami (a spanish speaking Cable TV broadcast), and WVUM-FM.

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

UM has appointed individuals in the various departments to handle students' problems and complaints called "Troubleshooters." UM also has an Ombudsman to mediate complaints that cannot be resolved by the troubleshooters. Since 1986, UM has a Honor Code governing student conduct.

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 1964. It is now a national honorary for fraternity and sorority members with a chapter continuing at UM.

Athletics

Main articles: Miami Hurricanes, Miami Hurricanes baseball, and Miami Hurricanes football

University of Miami mascot Sebastian the Ibis makes the signature U hand gesture.

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.

Since 2004, the university's sports teams (nicknamed the Hurricanes) compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The football program was named national champion five times (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 2001.) 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.

Beginning with the 2008 season, the University of Miami began playing its home football games at Sun Life Stadium (recently renamed from Dolphin Stadium) 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. The UM baseball team plays their home games at the on-campus stadium Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field.

Notable UM people

Main article: List of University of Miami alumni

Main article: List of University of Miami faculty

External links

• Official website