Editing University of Miami (section)

==History==
[[File:Lake Osceola.jpg|thumb|[[Lake Osceola (Coral Gables)|Lake Osceola]] on the University of Miami campus with the [[Greater Downtown Miami|Downtown Miami]] skyline in the background, in May 2022]]
[[File:U State.jpg|thumb|The iconic U statue, which stands nearly seven feet high and weighs nearly 1,000 pounds,<ref>[https://scc.studentaffairs.miami.edu/our-spaces/u-statue/index.html "U Statue"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601225731/https://scc.studentaffairs.miami.edu/our-spaces/u-statue/index.html |date=June 1, 2022 }}, University of Miami website, retrieved May 18, 2022</ref> on the University of Miami campus, in March 2020]]
[[File:Miami Herbert Business School.jpg|thumb|[[Miami Herbert Business School]], one of the world's top-ranked [[business school]]s,<ref>[https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022/RS0509 Miami Herbert Business School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820051632/http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022/RS0509 |date=August 20, 2022 }} at Academic Ranking of World Universities</ref> on the University of Miami campus, in September 2020]]
[[File:Lowe Museum.jpg|alt=Image of the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami's Coral Gables Campus|thumb|[[Lowe Art Museum]], the University of Miami's art museum, houses over 19,000 art objects spanning over 5,000 years.]]
[[File:Main Entrance to the University of Miami.jpg|thumb|The main gate entrance to the University of Miami campus in May 2022]]

=== Leadership ===
====Bowman Foster Ashe (1926 to 1952)====
{{Further|Bowman Foster Ashe}}
In 1925, the University of Miami was founded by a group of citizens who sought to offer "unique opportunities to develop [[Americas|inter-American]] studies, further creative work in the [[arts and letters]], and conduct teaching and research programs in [[Tropics|tropical]] studies", according to the university's founding charter.<ref name="umhist"/> They believed that a local university would benefit the [[Miami metropolitan area]] and were optimistic that the university would be a beneficiary of future financial support, especially since [[South Florida]] was benefiting from the historic [[Florida land boom of the 1920s|1920s land boom]].<ref name="umhist">{{cite web |url=http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/achievements_and_traditions/history/|title=History|work=miami.edu|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=November 13, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218021352/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/achievements_and_traditions/history/|archive-date=February 18, 2010}}</ref> During this era of [[Jim Crow laws]], there were three large state-funded universities in Florida for white male students, white female students, and black students: the [[University of Florida]] in [[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]] and [[Florida State University]] and [[Florida A&M University]], both in [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]. Like most private universities of the time, the University of Miami was founded as a [[mixed-sex education|coeducational institution]] but not yet open to Black students.

In 1925, [[George E. Merrick]], founder of [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]], granted {{convert|160|acre|km2|1}} and nearly $5,000,000<ref>{{cite book |title=George Merrick's Coral Gables: Where Your 'Castles in Spain' Are Made Real |last=Parks |first=Arva Moore |year=2006 |publisher=Centennial Press |location=Indianapolis |isbn=0-9741589-6-8 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSSLfcREVV4C&pg=PA39 |access-date=December 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528093127/http://books.google.com/books?id=LSSLfcREVV4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA39 |archive-date=May 28, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> (${{Inflation|US|5|1925|r=1}} million, adjusted for current inflation) for the university's founding.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hmsf.org/rc/guides/1958-003.htm|title=A Guide to the George Merrick Papers|publisher=Historical Museum of Southern Florida|access-date=December 3, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717135247/http://www.hmsf.org/rc/guides/1958-003.htm|archive-date=July 17, 2011}}</ref> The contributions included land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had been sold in the city.<ref>{{cite book |title=The University of Miami |publisher=University of Miami Press |author=Tebeau, Charlton W. |year=1976 |location=Coral Gables, FL |page=19 |isbn=0-87024-297-0}}</ref> The university was formally chartered April 8, 1925<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ironarrow.miami.edu/history/index.html|title=History {{!}} Iron Arrow Honor Society {{!}} University of Miami|website=ironarrow.miami.edu|language=en|access-date=July 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707011139/http://ironarrow.miami.edu/history/index.html|archive-date=July 7, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> by the Circuit Court for Dade County.<ref name="bot">{{cite web|url=https://trustees.miami.edu/about-the-board/index.html|title=About the Board|website=Board of Trustees|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=December 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203224154/https://trustees.miami.edu/about-the-board/index.html|archive-date=December 3, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> But by 1926, as the first class of 372 students enrolled at the new university,<ref name="mnhist">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NLMyAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=4027%2C1109634|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NLMyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4OsFAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=4027%2C1109634 |url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2015|title=10,000 University of Miami Students Attest to Growth of Sunshine School|date=April 23, 1950|page=44|work=Miami News|first=Grade|last=Berlow|access-date=February 7, 2010}}</ref> the land boom had collapsed and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by the [[1926 Miami hurricane|Great Miami Hurricane of 1926]].<ref name="bb"/> For the next 15 years, the university struggled financially, bordering on insolvency. The first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to the economic difficulties,<ref name="bb"/> requiring that classes be held off-campus at the nearby Anastasia Hotel in Coral Gables. Partitions separated the classrooms, giving the university the early but long since discarded nickname Cardboard College.<ref name="bb">{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/fall01/boldbeginnigs.html|title=Bold Beginnings Bright Tomorrows|work=Miami |access-date=October 25, 2009|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522054105/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/fall01/boldbeginnigs.html|archive-date=May 22, 2010}}</ref><ref name="chron">{{cite web|url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/chronology.html|title=University of Miami History – Chronology 1920s|publisher=UM Library|access-date=November 13, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008113617/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/chronology.html|archive-date=October 8, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19680228&id=6JAyAAAAIBAJ&pg=5377,3227826|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19680228&id=6JAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DOoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5377,3227826 |url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2015|title=Cardboard College No More|work=The Miami News |date=February 28, 1968|page=18A |access-date= February 5, 2010}}</ref>

In 1929, University of Miami founding member William E. Walsh and other members of the university's board of regents resigned following the widespread collapse of Florida's economy. The university's plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open.<ref name="chron"/> A reconstituted ten-member board chaired by the university's first president [[Bowman Foster Ashe]] included Merrick, [[David Fairchild]], [[James Cash Penney]], and others. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students entered the University of Miami when the [[University of Havana]] closed amidst political unrest in [[Cuba]].<ref name="bb"/> While helpful to the University of Miami's early development, it still was not enough, and the university was forced to seek bankruptcy protection two years later, in 1932.<ref name="bb"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/12/11/archives/receiver-for-u-of-miami-federal-judge-names-board-member-to-handle.html|title=Receiver for U. of Miami.; Federal Judge Names Board Member to Handle Affairs|url-access=subscription|date=December 11, 1932|page=30|work=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701140431/https://www.nytimes.com/1932/12/11/archives/receiver-for-u-of-miami-federal-judge-names-board-member-to-handle.html|archive-date=July 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

The troubles, however, were short-lived. In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated and a board of trustees was installed, replacing the board of regents. By 1940, community leaders were replacing faculty and administration as trustees.<ref name="bot"/> During Ashe's presidency, the university grew considerably, adding the [[University of Miami School of Law|School of Law]] (1928),<ref>{{cite news|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FVctAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=5021%2C3910831|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FVctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6NcFAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20law-school&pg=5021%2C3910831 |url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2015|title=13 Law Students Will Get Degrees|work=Miami News|date=June 2, 1929 |page=8 |access-date=February 7, 2010}}</ref> the School of Business (1929, renamed the [[Miami Herbert Business School]] in 2019), the School of Education (1929), the Graduate School (1941), the Marine Laboratory (1943, renamed the [[Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science]] in 2022), the School of Engineering (1947), and the [[Miller School of Medicine|School of Medicine]] (1952).<ref name="bb"/>

During [[World War II]], the University of Miami was one of only 131 colleges and universities nationally to participate in the [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]], which offered students a path to commissioning as a [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] officer.<ref name="miami-v-12">{{cite web |url=http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=World+WarII |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902213539/http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=World+WarII |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 2, 2006 |title=World War II |publisher=[[Coral Gables, Florida]]: University of Miami |access-date=September 29, 2011 |year=2011}}</ref>

====Jay F. W. Pearson (1952 until 1962)====
{{Further|Jay F. W. Pearson}}
In 1952, [[Jay F. W. Pearson]], one of Ashe's long-time assistants, was appointed the University of Miami's second president.<ref name="jfwp">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5H0cAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20jay%20fw%20pearson&pg=3660%2C1972084|title=Dr. J.F.W. Pearson Named President of Miami University|work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=January 13, 1953|access-date=February 8, 2010|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904090933/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5H0cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zWQEAAAAIBAJ&dq=university-of-miami%20jay%20fw%20pearson&pg=3660%2C1972084|archive-date=September 4, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> A charter faculty member and [[marine biology|marine biologist]],<ref name="jfwp"/> Pearson held the university's presidency for a decade, until 1962.<ref name="umhist"/> Under Pearson's leadership, the University of Miami began awarding its first [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] degrees, and student enrollment increased substantially, exceeding 4,000.<ref name="umhist"/><ref name="Time"/>

From 1961 until 1968, the university leased buildings on its south campus to the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] that were used in [[JMWAVE]], a [[covert operation]] and intelligence gathering operation against [[Fidel Castro]]'s [[Communism|communist]] government in Cuba.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations in Cuba, 1959–1965 |publisher=Potomac Books Inc |isbn=978-1-57488-675-7 |first=Don |last=Bohning |year=2005 |page=[https://archive.org/details/castroobsessionu0000bohn/page/79 79] |url=https://archive.org/details/castroobsessionu0000bohn/page/79}}</ref> The university no longer owns land at the south campus.

In 1961, the university dropped its policy of racial segregation and began admitting Black students and allowing their full participation in student activities and athletic teams.<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894532,00.html|title=Education: Growing Up in Miami – TIME|access-date=September 8, 2009|date=June 23, 1961|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204203717/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894532,00.html|archive-date=February 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/01/archives/the-university-of-miami-drops-its-color-barrier.html?sq=%2522University%2520of%2520Miami%2522&scp=40&st=cse|title=The University of Miami Drops Its Color Barrier|date=February 1, 1961|page=33|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722214410/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/02/01/archives/the-university-of-miami-drops-its-color-barrier.html?sq=%2522University%2520of%2520Miami%2522&scp=40&st=cse|archive-date=July 22, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/043002aaa.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512013250/http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/043002aaa.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 12, 2006|title=Miami Football History – Miami Official Athletic Site|access-date=October 13, 2009|publisher=UM Sports Information}}</ref> Five years later, in 1966, Ray Bellamy, a Black student at the University of Miami, became the first major Black college athlete in the [[Deep South]] to receive an athletic scholarship.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/alexander_wolff/11/02/wolff.1102/index.html|title=Breaking down barriers How two people helped change face of college football|first=Alexander|last=Wolff|magazine=Sports Illustrated|date=November 2, 2005|access-date=February 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224182124/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/alexander_wolff/11/02/wolff.1102/index.html|archive-date=December 24, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Until the early 1970s, as was widespread practice at colleges and universities nationally, the university regulated female student conduct more strictly than that of male students, including employing a staff under the Dean of Women charged with watching over female students. Under Pearson, however, the university began incrementally liberalizing these policies. In 1971, he consolidated the separate Dean of Men and Dean of Women positions in one.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www6.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930084317/http://www.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2004|page=12|title=Women's Commission Dissertation|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=October 10, 2009}}</ref> The same year, the university established a Women's Commission, which issued a 1974 report on the status of women on campus,<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www6.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930084317/http://www.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2004|page=1|title=Women's Commission Dissertation|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=October 10, 2009}}</ref> leading to the university's first female commencement speaker,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/commencement/history.html|title=Commencement History and Traditions|publisher=University of Miami|access-date=February 6, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627143104/http://www6.miami.edu/commencement/history.html|archive-date=June 27, 2010}}</ref> day care, and the launch of a Women's Study minor. Following enactment of [[Title IX]] in 1972 and over a decade of litigation, University of Miami organizations, including honorary societies, were opened to women's participation and inclusion. The Women's Commission also secured more equitable funding for women's sports.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www6.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040930084317/http://www.miami.edu/womens-commission/dissertation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 30, 2004|pages=21–30|title=Women's Commission Dissertation|access-date=November 16, 2009|publisher=University of Miami}}</ref> In 1973, Terry Williams Munz became the first woman in the nation awarded an athletic scholarship when she accepted a University of Miami golf scholarship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.miami.edu/stories/2016/01/um-milestones.html|title=UM Milestones|date=January 30, 2016|work=University of Miami News and Events|access-date=February 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131002910/http://news.miami.edu/stories/2016/01/um-milestones.html|archive-date=January 31, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Henry King Stanford (1962 until 1981)====
{{Further|Henry King Stanford}}
[[Henry King Stanford]], then president of [[Birmingham–Southern College]], was appointed the University of Miami's third president in 1962.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=opAyAAAAIBAJ&dq=henry%20stanford%20king%20miami&pg=920%2C499145|work=Miami News|date=April 17, 1962|page=10A|title=The 3rd President |first=Bill |last=Baggs |access-date=February 7, 2010}}{{dead link|date=January 2017}}</ref> Stanford led an increased emphasis on the university's research, reorganization of its administrative structure, and construction of new campus facilities. New research centers established under Stanford included the Center for Advanced International Studies (1964), the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (1964), the Center for Theoretical Studies (1965), and the Institute for the Study of Aging (1975). In 1965, the University of Miami also began actively recruiting international students.<ref name="bb"/> Beginning with the 1968 football season, Stanford barred playing of "[[Dixie (song)|Dixie]]" by the [[Band of the Hour|university's band]].<ref name="bb"/>

====Edward T. Foote II (1981 until 2000)====
{{Further|Edward T. Foote II}}
In 1981, [[Edward T. Foote II]], then dean of [[Washington University School of Law]], was appointed the University of Miami's fourth president.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iZYlAAAAIBAJ&dq=edward%20foote%20university%20of%20miami%20president&pg=6379%2C692876|title=It's first day on job for U-M's new president|date=June 24, 1981 |first=Rick|last=Thames|work=Miami News|page=1A|access-date=February 10, 2010}}{{dead link|date=January 2017}}</ref> Under Foote's leadership, the university focused on attracting high-quality faculty and students, and consciously limited or reduced undergraduate admissions as part of its strategic plan. Foote also oversaw the conversion of on-campus student housing into residential colleges<ref name="athdorm">{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/87829891.html?dids=87829891:87829891&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+17%2C+1990&author=RANDALL+MELL%2C+Staff+Writer&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=UM+TO+ELIMINATE+ITS+ATHLETIC+DORMS&pqatl=google|title=UM to Eliminate Its Athletic Dorms|url-access=subscription|work=Sun Sentinel|first=Randall|last=Mell|date=October 17, 1990|page=1C|access-date=February 10, 2010|quote=Next fall, incoming freshman athletes will draw for residential college rooms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604113032/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/87829891.html?dids=87829891:87829891&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+17,+1990&author=RANDALL+MELL,+Staff+Writer&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=UM+TO+ELIMINATE+ITS+ATHLETIC+DORMS&pqatl=google|archive-date=June 4, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the university launch of its largest fundraising campaign to date, a five-year, $400 million campaign that began in 1984 and exceeded that goal, raising $517.5 million. Foote established three new schools: the School of Architecture, the School of Communication, and the School of International Studies.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-02-17 |title=Foote Notes |url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |access-date=2023-05-13 |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217091148/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

During Foote's tenure, the university's endowment increased nearly ten-fold, growing from $47.4 million in 1981 to $465.2 million in 2000.<ref name="foote">{{cite news |title=Foote Notes |work=Miami |issue=Spring 2001 |url=http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |url-status=dead |access-date=October 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217091148/http://www6.miami.edu/miami-magazine/spring01/footenotes.html |archive-date=February 17, 2012}}</ref>

====Donna Shalala (2000 until 2015)====
{{Further|Donna Shalala}}
{{See also|2011 University of Miami athletics scandal|The North-South Center|University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign}}
In November 2000, Foote was succeeded by [[Donna Shalala]], former [[Chancellor (education)|chancellor]] of the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] from 1988 to 1993 and [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services|U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services]] from 1993 to 2001, who was appointed the University of Miami's fifth president.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/us/shalala-is-to-lead-university-of-miami.html?scp=12&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|title=Shalala Is to Lead University of Miami|date=November 19, 2000|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523224845/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/us/shalala-is-to-lead-university-of-miami.html?scp=12&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|archive-date=May 23, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Under Shalala, the University of Miami built new libraries, dormitories, symphony rehearsal halls, and classroom buildings. The university's academic quality continued improving, a trend that began in earnest under Foote.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-03-na-miami3-story.html|title='Suntan U' Tries to Shed Cushy Image – Los Angeles Times|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=September 8, 2009|date=January 3, 2003|first=John-Thor|last=Dahlburg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018160009/http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jan/03/nation/na-miami3|archive-date=October 18, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

Roughly a year into Shalala's presidency, on November 5, 2001, an 18-year-old University of Miami fraternity pledge drowned while attempting to swim across [[Lake Osceola (Coral Gables)|Lake Osceola]], the campus lake, while intoxicated. Police reports later cited the student's dangerously high [[blood alcohol content]] in conjunction with dropping water temperatures and exhaustion as primary factors in his death, and two fraternity members who accompanied him were criminally charged with "negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of duty to aid and/or rescue."<ref name="hazing">{{citation|title=Florida's Law on Hazing: The Chad Meredith Act|url=https://hazing.fsu.edu/general-information/florida-law-on-hazing|website=Florida State University|publisher=The Miami Hurricane|access-date=December 5, 2017|archive-date=April 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410051044/https://hazing.fsu.edu/general-information/florida-law-on-hazing|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://fraternallaw.com/newsletter2/a-pledge-drowns-12-6-million-dollar-verdict |title="A pledge drowns: $12.6 million verdict", Fraternal Law, March 2004 |access-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601160756/https://fraternallaw.com/newsletter2/a-pledge-drowns-12-6-million-dollar-verdict |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/news_campaign_release.html |title=University of Miami Campaign Overview – Research |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=October 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306040509/http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/news_campaign_release.html |archive-date=March 6, 2010}}</ref> the University of Miami launched a new and even more ambitious multi-year fundraising campaign that ultimately raised $1.37 billion,<ref name="prog"/> the most ever raised by any university or college in Florida history as of 2008.<ref>{{cite news|title=UM fundraising drive brings in $1.4&nbsp;billion|date=February 9, 2008|first=Oscar|last=Corral|work=Miami Herald|page=A1}}</ref> From these proceeds, over half, $854 million, was allocated to construct and improve the [[Miller School of Medicine|University of Miami's Leonard M. School of Medicine]] medical campus.<ref name="prog">{{cite web |url=http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/By_campus.htm |title=University of Miami Campaign Overview – Progress |publisher=University of Miami |access-date=October 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706180119/http://www6.miami.edu/campaign/newsupdate/By_campus.htm |archive-date=July 6, 2008}}</ref> In November 2007, the University of Miami acquired Cedars Medical Center in Miami's [[Health District (Miami)|Health District]], renaming it University of Miami Hospital and giving the Miller School of Medicine its first dedicated in-house teaching hospital rather than having to rely on academic affiliations with area hospitals.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www6.miami.edu/ummedicine-magazine/spring2008/specialsection/specialsection4.html|date=Spring 2008|title=Prized Hospital Joins UM Tradition of Excellence|work=Medicine, the alumni magazine|access-date=October 9, 2009|publisher=University of Miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329033547/http://www6.miami.edu/ummedicine-magazine/spring2008/specialsection/specialsection4.html|archive-date=March 29, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2003, Shalala controversially chose to close the University of Miami's [[The North-South Center|North-South Center]], a university research organization dedicated to the study of contemporary issues in [[Latin America]] and the [[Caribbean]]. The North-South Center was established by the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] in 1984. It had secured a partnership with the [[Rand Corporation]] and was, as the [[Associated Press]] reported in 2003, "a respected public policy think tank specializing in Latin American and Caribbean issues including trade and economic policy, migration, security, public corruption, and the environment."<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20031225/academics-fired-at-u-of-miami-think-tank| title = Academics fired at U. of Miami think tank| author = The Associated Press| date = April 10, 2003| accessdate = February 16, 2018| publisher = Sarasota Herald Tribune| archive-date = February 17, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180217023959/http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20031225/academics-fired-at-u-of-miami-think-tank| url-status = live}}</ref>

On September 30, 2004, the University of Miami hosted one of three nationally televised [[2004 United States presidential debates|U.S. presidential debates]] between presidential candidates [[George W. Bush]] and [[John Kerry]] during the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 presidential election]]. The debate, moderated by [[Jim Lehrer]] of ''[[PBS NewsHour]]'', was held on the University of Miami campus inside the [[Watsco Center]]. It drew 62.5 million viewers.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611180215/http://www.debates.org/pages/his_2004.html|url=http://www.debates.org/pages/his_2004.html|title=CPD: 2004 Debates |access-date=October 6, 2009|publisher=Commission on Presidential Debates|archive-date=June 11, 2008}}</ref>

In February 2006, University of Miami custodial workers, who were contracted to the university through a [[Boston]]-based company, alleged unfair labor practices, substandard pay, lack of health benefits, and workplace safety concerns. They [[University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign|launched a strike]] that drew support from several University of Miami students, who began a hunger strike and on-campus vigil in support of it. The strike settled May 1, 2006 when a card count [[trade union|union]] vote was permitted and led to establishment of the first collective bargaining unit in the university's history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-umunionjun16,0,6394115.story?coll=sfla-news-miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619225716/http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-umunionjun16%2C0%2C6394115.story?coll=sfla-news-miami|archive-date=June 19, 2006|work=Sun Sentinel Miami News|title=UM janitors vote to unionize|date=June 16, 2006|first=Maya|last=Bell|access-date=February 1, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517002057/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14433014.htm |url=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14433014.htm|work=Miami Herald|date=April 26, 2006|first=Ana |last=Menèndez|title=At UM Tent City Among The Trees, Hope Resounds|page=B1|archive-date=May 17, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14438159.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060522201847/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14438159.htm|archive-date=May 22, 2006|work= Miami Herald|title=The Janitor's Fight|page=30A|date=April 27, 2006}}</ref> The university raised wages for its custodial workers from $6.40 to $8.35 per hour and provided health insurance.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/us/02labor.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|title=Walkout Ends at University of Miami as Janitors' Pact Is Reached|first=Steven|last=Greenhouse|date=May 2, 2006|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209004923/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/us/02labor.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=%22University%20of%20Miami%22&st=cse|archive-date=December 9, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2008 and 2009, partly stemming from the [[Great Recession]], the university endowment experienced a loss of 26.8% of its capital and additional associated losses from diminished endowment income. The university responded by tightening expenditures.<ref name="impact">{{cite web|url=http://www6.miami.edu/alumni/eblasts/specialmessage03052009a.htm|title=Letter to Alumni|access-date=October 26, 2009|date=March 5, 2009|first=Donna|last=Shalala|publisher=University of Miami|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031044426/http://www6.miami.edu/alumni/eblasts/specialmessage03052009a.htm|archive-date=October 31, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nacubo">{{cite web|url=http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf|page=3|publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers|title=NACUBO Endowment Study|access-date=September 9, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214124106/http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2009_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values.pdf|archive-date=December 14, 2017}}</ref> Damage from the endowment's negative performance was limited, however, because the university receives over 98 percent of its operating budget from non-endowment sources.<ref name="impact"/> In 2011, the university was ranked the nation's most fiscally responsible nonprofit organization in a [[Charity Navigator]] report published in collaboration with ''[[Worth (magazine)|Worth]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3404:the-10-most-fiscally-responsible-nonprofit-organizations&catid=3:grow|title=''Worth'' {{!}} ''Worth''|access-date=February 14, 2011|work=Worth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113195047/http://www.worth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3404:the-10-most-fiscally-responsible-nonprofit-organizations&catid=3:grow|archive-date=November 13, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Julio Frenk (2015 until 2024)====
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On April 13, 2015, the University of Miami announced the appointment of [[Julio Frenk]], former dean of [[Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health|Harvard University School of Public Health]] and former [[Secretariat of Health (Mexico)|Secretary of Health]] for the [[Federal government of Mexico|government of Mexico]], as the university's sixth president.<ref>[http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/leadership/office_of_the_president/president-elect_dr_julio_frenk/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416185458/http://www.miami.edu/index.php/about_us/leadership/office_of_the_president/president-elect_dr_julio_frenk/|date=April 16, 2015}}</ref> On March 10, 2016, the University of Miami hosted the [[2016 Republican Party presidential primaries|2016 Republican presidential primary]]'s [[2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums|twelfth and final debate]] at [[Watsco Center|BankUnited Center]] on the university campus, which aired nationally on [[CNN]] and drew 11.9 million viewers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politics/republican-debate-what-to-watch/|title=Republican Debate in Miami: What to Watch|publisher=CNN.com|date=March 10, 2016|access-date=August 9, 2022|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204213410/https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/10/politics/republican-debate-what-to-watch/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On June 12, 2024, the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] announced that Frenk would be joining UCLA as the university's [[chancellor (education)|chancellor]] on January 1, 2025.<ref>[https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/dr-julio-frenk-named-first-latino-chancellor-ucla "Dr. Julio Frenk named first Latino chancellor of UCLA"], [[University of California]], June 12, 2024</ref> The same day, the University of Miami announced that the university's chief executive officer, Joe Echevarria, had been appointed acting president of the University of Miami "effective immediately."<ref>[https://messages.miami.edu/messages/2024/06/06-12-24-message-regarding-president.html University of Miami letter from Manny Kadre, chairman, University of Miami board of trustees, June 12, 2024]</ref> On June 19, 2023, the University of Miami student newspaper, ''[[The Miami Hurricane]]'', labeled Frenk's departure "shocking", and criticized his leadership. "Frenk was rarely a prominent influence on UM’s campus," the student newspaper reported.<ref>[https://themiamihurricane.com/2024/06/19/frenks-choice-to-leave-um-before-the-centennial-is-shocking/ "Frenk's choice to leave UM before the centennial is shocking"], ''[[The Miami Hurricane]]'', June 19, 2024</ref>

Under Frenk's nine years of leadership of the University of Miami, the university slipped notably on ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''{{'s}} ranking of national universities, which ranked the university 48th in the nation upon his arrival in 2015<ref>[https://dilemma-x.net/2014/09/09/2015-best-colleges-rankings-u-s-news-world-report/ "2015 best colleges rankings"], ''U.S. News & World Report''</ref> and 67th in the nation upon his departure in 2024.<ref>[https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities "2024 Best National Universities", ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''</ref>

====Joe Echevarria (2024 to present)====
On October 18, 2024, the University of Miami Board of Trustees appointed Joe Echevarria, former chief executive officer of [[Deloitte]] and the university's interim president since June 12, 2024, as the seventh president of the University of Miami.<ref>[https://president.miami.edu/about/index.html "About Joe Echevarria"], Office of the President, University of Miami website, retrieved March 8, 2025</ref>