迈阿密大学｜Miami University－Oxford

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校训：Prodesse Quam Conspici （Latin）To Accomplish Rather Than To Be Conspicuous（English）

创建：1809

类型：公立

校长：David C. Hodge

位置：Location: Oxford, Ohio,

Hamilton, Ohio,

Middletown, Ohio,

Differdange, Luxembourg

校园：Campus: 2,000 acres

颜色：Red and White

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迈阿密大学牛津分校（Miami University,Oxford以下简称MU）是美国俄亥俄州的一所州立大学，它成立于1809年，是美国最优秀、最美丽的公立大学之一。学校本部位于美国俄亥俄州牛津（Oxford）市的公立大学，同时在俄亥俄州的Hamilton市和Middletown市，以及在欧洲的卢森堡（Luxembourg）设有三个分校。

迈阿密大学牛津分校拥有相当好的声誉，《美国新闻与世界报道》将其学术水平列入美国公立大学的前25名；《2005年Fiske大学指南》（Fiske Guide to Colleges 2005）给予其4.5颗星的学术评分（5颗星制）。MU被称赞为能够提供私立大学的教育环境，有公立常青藤大学的美誉（Public Ivy）。

2008年USNEWS综合排名67位。

英文版介绍

Miami University (colloquially and incorrectly rerred to as Miami of Ohio for clarification purposes) is a selective coeducational public university founded in 1809 in the college town of Oxford, Ohio with its primary focus on educating undergraduates.

Overview

Miami University is reputed to be one of the most beautiful university campuses, as poet Robert Frost described Miami as the most beautiful college there ever was. The campus features modified Georgian revival red brick buildings on an open, tree-shaded campus void of high rise skyscraper dormitories. Miami is also striking in that the entire campus is consistent in design and appearance except for the buildings on the former Western College campus and the Miami University Art Museum. Parts of the campus can be seen in the 1991 film Little Man Tate with Jodie Foster, which was largely filmed on the Oxford campus.

Miami was named one of eight original Public Ivys 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 football coaches were student/athletes and/or coaches at Miami bore 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, Ron Zook, Joe Novak, and Jim Tressel.

Miami graduated an American President, Benjamin Harrison, placing the school in a prestigious category of Presidential alma maters. Miami is only one of four colleges (Stanford, 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 U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives, U.S. military leaders, State Governors and Fortune 500 business executives.

Miami also was the first U.S. public university to have an Artist-in-Residence program, with Percy MacKaye as the first poet in residence.

The Miami Student claims to be ithe oldest university newspaper, tracking its founding to 1826 although Dartmouth College s student newspaper contests this claim as being the oldest college newspaper.

Freedom Summer training was at Western College now a campus in the summer of 1964.

Academic Divisions

Miami University has six academic divisions the College of Arts Science, the Farmer School of Business, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the School of Education, Health, and Society, the School of Fine Arts, and the Graduate School.

(1)The College of Arts and Science is the oldest and largest college at Miami, with nearly half of the undergraduate student body enrolled. The college offers 56 majors, 48 minors, and 2 co-majors (Environmental Science and Environmental Principles Practice). Ten of the eleven doctoral degrees offered by Miami are provided through the College of Arts and Science.

(2)Miami s Farmer School of Business offers eight majors, and is ranked by U.S. News World Report (as of 2007) as 21st among the top public universities in the nation. The School also offers graduate MBA, Accountancy, and Economics degrees. Although the Farmer School of Business is currently housed in multiple academic buildings on campus, construction is underway on Farmer Hall, which will house all aspects of the Farmer School of Business under one roof, enabling us to pursue our mission and make significant progress in achieving our goal of excellence in business education.

(3)The School of Engineering Applied Sciences offers 12 accredited majors at the Oxford Campus, and recently moved into the new Engineering Building a $22 million-dollar facility finished in 2007. The School also offers masters degrees in Computer Science and Paper Chemical Engineering.

(4)The School of Education, Health, and Society formerly known as the School of Education Allied Professions offers 26 undergraduate degrees spanning areas from teacher education, kinesiology health, educational psychology, and family studies social work. As of fall 2007, nearly 2,800 undergraduates were enrolled in the School.

(5)Miami s School of Fine Arts comprises four departments Architecture Interior Design, Music, Theater and Art. Each department has its own admission requirements separate from the standard admissions requirements for the University. Art majors choose a concentration in areas such as ceramics, metals, photography, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design, and interior design. Music majors specify either music performance or music education..

(6)Miami offers master s degrees in 50 areas of study, and doctoral degrees in 11. In order to enroll in graduate courses, students must first be accepted into The Graduate School, and then into the department through which the degree is offered.For all students (in-state and out-of-state), tuition for the Graduate School is roughly the same as for an undergraduate degree. Out-of-state students still pay approximately $13,000 more than in-state students.

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 fective 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 rlected in a broad array of forts 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 benit 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.

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?

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-Newsweek College Catalog calls Miami a hidden treasure-terrific schools that deserve more national attention .

A 2004 article from The Education Trust, a non-profit program of the American Association for Higher Education, praised Miami University for its statistically superior graduation rates among both its student body and student athletes.

At the same time, The Princeton Review (of 2009) ranks Miami University 17th for best food on campus, 4th for most homogeneous1 population, 19th for Greek Life, 11th for alternative lifestyle rejection, and 2nd for little race/class interaction.

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.Also, The (October) 2007 Public Accounting Report named Miami s undergraduate accountancy program 11th in the nationThe business school is endowed by Richard T. Farmer, founder and chairman of the Cintas Corporation and one of the wealthiest men in Ohio.

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.