University Of St. Thomas School Of Law

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVz6cUaiT7uGFm0YpP20J7Z9d0mWYvvzro21KHHXmCcPJMThz94woDMs_fzp2UDRtIUvvhjNmctVyHdtNedLwGYkH-2phPB73IntgwrIzlzPxpRQMDUIep4SoLuvQrNEybGGzt1HbFdLc/s1600/200px-UST_Seal-703691.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6142031742751994978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVz6cUaiT7uGFm0YpP20J7Z9d0mWYvvzro21KHHXmCcPJMThz94woDMs_fzp2UDRtIUvvhjNmctVyHdtNedLwGYkH-2phPB73IntgwrIzlzPxpRQMDUIep4SoLuvQrNEybGGzt1HbFdLc/s320/200px-UST_Seal-703691.png" /></a></p><p>The <b>University of St. Thomas School of Law</b> is one of the professional graduate schools of the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) and is one of four law schools in the Twin Cities. It currently enrolls 410 students. The School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association. It is also a member of The Association of American Law Schools.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><br> <p>The School of Law was originally founded in 1923, but closed in 1933 in the wake of the Great Depression and World War I. The School of Law re-opened in 1999 and accepted a class of 120 students in the fall of 2001. David T. Link, then current Dean of Notre Dame Law School, was credited as the founding Dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in July, 2001. The School of Law was granted accreditation by the American Bar Association in 2006, and membership in the American Association of Law Schools in 2012. </p> <h2><span id="Campus">Campus</span></h2><br><br> <p>The University of St. Thomas School of Law is located in the heart of downtown Minneapolis. The 158,000 square foot building opened in 2003, and sits at the corner of 11th Street and LaSalle Avenue. The $34.8 million building includes a four-story atrium, a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m²) law library, a two-story chapel, and a classically designed moot court room. The law school is connected by skyway to the downtown Minneapolis legal and business communities.</p> <h2><span id="Mentor_Externship_Program">Mentor Externship Program</span></h2><br><img alt="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas School of Law - Minneapolis, MN - College ... - University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN. 1093 likes · 84 talking about this · 2135 were here. The #3 law school in the nation for..." src="https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQC8Fnm3rlgQhbdD&w=470&h=246&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.minnpost.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2Fthumbnails%2Farticles%2FAdjaGildersleveThumb.png&cfs=1&upscale=1&sx=0&sy=0&sw=400&sh=209" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas School of Law - Minneapolis, MN - College ..."><br> <p>Students at UST Law participate in a mentor externship program where students are partnered with Minnesota lawyers and judges to experience the law in practice. With more than 700 placements for a student body of 410, the School of Law is one of just two law schools in the country that offer more externships than full-time enrollment. In 2005, the Mentor Externship Program was awarded the prestigious E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism. It has been ranked the #1 law school in the nation for externships since 2010. </p> <h2><span id="Clinics">Clinics</span></h2><br><img alt="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas | Best Law School | US News - Is University of St. Thomas the best law school for you? Find out at US News. See if University of St. Thomas is ranked and get info on programs, admission, ..." src="http://otile4.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/map/13/1972/2947.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas | Best Law School | US News"><br> <p>For the first time, UST School of Law ranked in the U.S. News and World Report "Best Law Clinics" for 2016 at #27. Among the school's 11 clinics are:</p> <ul><li>Bankruptcy Litigation Clinic</li> <li>Community Justice Project</li> <li>Consumer Bankruptcy Clinic</li> <li>Elder Law Practice Group</li> <li>Federal Appellate Clinic</li> <li>Federal Commutations Clinic</li> <li>Immigration Appellate Clinic</li> <li>Immigration Law Practice Group</li> <li>Misdemeanor Clinic</li> <li>Nonprofit Organizations Clinic</li> <li>Religious Liberty Appellate Clinic</li> </ul><h2><span id="Employment_Outcomes_.26_Cost_of_Attendance">Employment Outcomes & Cost of Attendance</span></h2><br><img alt="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas School of Law | LinkedIn - The University of St. Thomas School of Law is the nation's top law school for practical training (ranked #1 by National Jurist), and is home to exceptional..." src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_674_240/p/6/005/07c/2e4/281b6ce.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas School of Law | LinkedIn"><br> <p>According to UST's ABA-required employment disclosures, 44.9% of the Class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term employment requiring a J.D. St. Thomas' Law School Transparency under-employment score is 31.6%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2013 who were unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation. </p> <p>Tuition at St. Thomas for the 2015-16 academic year is $37,580. The estimated cost-of-living for St. Thomas students is $19,963. Assuming no tuition or cost-of-living increases, over the course of three years St. Thomas costs $172,629 to attend, or $57,543 per academic year. The school currently has a tuition freeze in place for current and incoming students.</p> <h2><span id="Rankings">Rankings</span></h2><br><br> <p>The University of St. Thomas School of Law is ranked #135 by <i>U.S. News & World Report,</i> making it the top private law school in Minnesota.</p> <ul><li>The school is ranked #1 in the country for practical training by National Jurist.</li> <li>The school is ranked #1 in the country for having the most externship placements per full-time student in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by National Jurist. The school’s Mentor Externship program matches every current law student with a mentor during all three years of law school.</li> <li>In 2011, 2013 and 2014, UST School of Law professors ranked in the top 10 on Princeton Review’s “Best Professors” list. The faculty currently is ranked at #8 in the nation. </li> <li>The school was ranked between #1 to #4 for the “Best Quality of Life for Students” by the Princeton Review for five straight years from 2004 to 2009 and again in 2014, where the school currently sits at #4.</li> <li>The scholarly impact of the School of Law's faculty ranked #30 out of 200 law schools nationwide, using the methodology developed by University of Chicago law professor Brian Leiter.</li> <li>UST Law achieved the #1 spot for the percentage of living alumni contributing to annual giving campaigns in the nation for five straight years.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Student_body_profile">Student body profile</span></h2><br><img alt="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - SSRN University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) Legal ... - SSRN eLibrary Search Results. University of St. Thomas School of Law ( Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper Series. 74,259 Total downloads | Link to this ..." src="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/journalcovers/803505_2041.gif" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - SSRN University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) Legal ..."><br> <p>The 406-member student body at the UST School of Law represents a wide range of experiences and beliefs. The population is made up of recent undergraduates as well as established professionals who are making a change into a legal career.</p> <p>The class of 2016 is made up of 115 students. 43% are female and 57% are male. 15% of the class represents minority students. 44% identify as Roman Catholic, with others identifying as Christian, Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopalian, Baptist, Muslim, Orthodox Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Presbyterian, or no religious affiliation. The median undergraduate GPA was a 3.38 and the median LSAT score was 155.</p> <h2><span id="Curriculum">Curriculum</span></h2><br><img alt="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas School of Law - Ranking, LSAT, & Reviews - See details for University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota . LSAT scores, GPAs, employment, Bar Exam performance and more." src="http://img3.findthebest.com/sites/default/files/419/media/images/t/University_of_St_Thomas_School_of_Law_5737209.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="University Of St. Thomas School Of Law - University of St. Thomas School of Law - Ranking, LSAT, & Reviews"><br> <p>The school is best known for its emphasis on real world practice and influence. The school offers the three-year Juris Doctor, as well as combined degrees: the JD/MBA; the JD/MA in Catholic studies, and public policy and leadership; and the JD/MSW. In fall 2014, the School of Law will launch a new master's program in Organizational Ethics and Compliance, and new LL.M. degree programs in Organizational Ethics and Compliance, and U.S. Law.</p> <p>Some of the most popular programs of study include courses in the areas of family and community law, public policy, civil procedure, advocacy, environmental law, international law, as well as human rights law. UST Law students are placed at the top firms and companies in the Midwest through the On Campus Interview program and through the extensive mentorship program. The school has a 13:1 student to faculty ratio.</p> <h2><span id="Terrence_J._Murphy_Institute_for_Catholic_Thought.2C_Law_and_Public_Policy">Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy</span></h2><br><br> <p>The Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy is a partnership between the Center for Catholic Studies and the School of Law at the University of St. Thomas. The Institute explores the various interactions between law and Catholic thought on topics ranging from workers' rights to criminal law to marriage and family.</p> <h2><span id="Holloran_Center_for_Ethical_Leadership_in_the_Professions">Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions</span></h2><br><br> <p>The Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions is one of 13 national centers in law schools devoted to ethics and professionalism that is recognized by the American Bar Association's Center for Professional Responsibility. Its mission is to provide innovative interdisciplinary research, curriculum development, and programs focusing holistically on the formation of both students and practicing professionals into ethical leaders in their communities.</p> <h2><span id="Notable_faculty">Notable faculty</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Mark Osler, author and critic of capital punishment in the United States. At St. Thomas, he founded the nation's first law school clinic on federal commutations,[3] and he has advocated for an expansive use of the presidential pardon power.[4]</li> <li>Robert Delahunty, author of controversial memos under the Bush Administration related to the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to the War on Terror</li> <li>Robert Vischer (dean), who was named to National Jurist’s 2011 list of "23 Law Profs to Take Before You Die." </li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/media/schooloflaw/pdf/Standard509InformationReport2014.pdf</span></li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span><b>^</b></span> <span><span>"Alphabetical School List".</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUniversity+of+St.+Thomas+School+of+Law&rft.btitle=Alphabetical+School+List&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanbar.org%2Fgroups%2Flegal_education%2Fresources%2Faba_approved_law_schools%2Fin_alphabetical_order.html&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span><b>^</b></span> <span><span>"Member and Fee-Paid Schools"<span>. Retrieved <span>21 August</span> 2012</span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUniversity+of+St.+Thomas+School+of+Law&rft.btitle=Member+and+Fee-Paid+Schools&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aals.org%2Fabout_memberschools.php&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/law/about/history/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools/in_alphabetical_order.html</span></li> <li id="cite_note-history-6"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>A History of the University of St. Thomas School of Law</span></li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/prelaw_2013backtoschool/#/12</span></li> <li id="cite_note-whychoose-8"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[1]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/law/about/rankings/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/clinical-training-rankings?int=9d0608&int=acf809</span></li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/ipc/legal/bankruptcylitigationclinic/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span><b>^</b></span> <span><span>"University of St. Thomas : Interprofessional Center : Legal Services Clinic : Community Justice Project". Stthomas.edu<span>. Retrieved <span>2012-12-12</span></span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUniversity+of+St.+Thomas+School+of+Law&rft.btitle=University+of+St.+Thomas+%3A+Interprofessional+Center+%3A+Legal+Services+Clinic+%3A+Community+Justice+Project&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stthomas.edu%2Fipc%2Flegal%2Fjustice%2Fdefault.html&rft.pub=Stthomas.edu&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-stthomas1-13"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[2]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span><b>^</b></span> <span><span>"University of St. Thomas : Interprofessional Center : Legal Services Clinic : Elder Law Practice Group". Stthomas.edu<span>. Retrieved <span>2012-12-12</span></span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUniversity+of+St.+Thomas+School+of+Law&rft.btitle=University+of+St.+Thomas+%3A+Interprofessional+Center+%3A+Legal+Services+Clinic+%3A+Elder+Law+Practice+Group&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stthomas.edu%2Fipc%2Flegal%2Felderlaw%2Fdefault.html&rft.pub=Stthomas.edu&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/ipc/legal/appellateclinic/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span><b>^</b></span> <span><span>"University of St. Thomas : Interprofessional Center : Legal Services Clinic : Federal Commutation Clinic". Stthomas.edu<span>. Retrieved <span>2012-12-12</span></span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUniversity+of+St.+Thomas+School+of+Law&rft.btitle=University+of+St.+Thomas+%3A+Interprofessional+Center+%3A+Legal+Services+Clinic+%3A+Federal+Commutation+Clinic&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stthomas.edu%2Fipc%2Flegal%2Ffedcom%2Fdefault.html&rft.pub=Stthomas.edu&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/ipc/legal/appellateimmigrationclinic/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span><b>^</b></span> <span><span>"University of St. Thomas : Interprofessional Center : Legal Services Clinic : Immigration Law Practice Group". Stthomas.edu<span>. Retrieved <span>2012-12-12</span></span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUniversity+of+St.+Thomas+School+of+Law&rft.btitle=University+of+St.+Thomas+%3A+Interprofessional+Center+%3A+Legal+Services+Clinic+%3A+Immigration+Law+Practice+Group&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stthomas.edu%2Fipc%2Flegal%2Fimmiglaw%2Fdefault.html&rft.pub=Stthomas.edu&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/ipc/legal/misdemeanorclinic/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/ipc/legal/nonprofitorganizations/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/ipc/legal/religiouslibertyappellateclinic/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>"Employment Summary Reports Accessed July 16, 2015.</span></li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>"University of St. Thomas Profile" Accessed July 16, 2014.</span></li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>"Financing Your Education" Accessed July 16, 2015.</span></li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings?int=a1d108</span></li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist0314/#/22</span></li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.nationaljurist.com/content/another-look-top-schools-externships</span></li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.princetonreview.com/schoollist.aspx?type=r&id=742</span></li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www2.princetonreview.com/schools/1041315/law/university-stthomas-school-law</span></li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2109815</span></li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/law/news/title-97396-en.html</span></li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.stthomas.edu/murphyinstitute/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span><b>^</b></span> <span><span>Big, The. "St. Thomas still employs potential war criminal Robert Delahunty". MN Progressive Project<span>. Retrieved <span>2012-12-12</span></span>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUniversity+of+St.+Thomas+School+of+Law&rft.au=Big%2C+The&rft.aufirst=The&rft.aulast=Big&rft.btitle=St.+Thomas+still+employs+potential+war+criminal+Robert+Delahunty&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mnprogressiveproject.com%2Fdiary%2F2753%2Fst-thomas-university-still-employees-potential-war-criminal-robert-delahunty&rft.pub=MN+Progressive+Project&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"><span> </span></span></span></li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[3]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/olcmemos_2009_0305.pdf</span></li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist0311/#/24</span></li> </ol><p></p></h2><br><br>

University Of St. Thomas School Of Law

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<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitV_9dO5Tz8mfJFVKNoPhrJRjjRd6Qc12VqHhVtCvQoKAP5IGXOgJqExN-wQBF0uyaCpOm5xwxwlFl_PYzNSZWArvFPOYD15Do_rhsNijKRkzqfJXtnrNsHg_zeKEGhbaBjEFYIm2a6_s/s1600/university-center-heroimage-670x412-705496.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6142008556647425762" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitV_9dO5Tz8mfJFVKNoPhrJRjjRd6Qc12VqHhVtCvQoKAP5IGXOgJqExN-wQBF0uyaCpOm5xwxwlFl_PYzNSZWArvFPOYD15Do_rhsNijKRkzqfJXtnrNsHg_zeKEGhbaBjEFYIm2a6_s/s320/university-center-heroimage-670x412-705496.jpg" /></a></p><p><b>The New School</b> is a university in New York City, United States, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York educators, and for most of its history, the university was known as the <b>The New School for Social Research</b>. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as <b>New School University</b>. The university and each of its colleges were renamed in 2005.</p> <p>The university is renowned for its teaching and its open intellectual environment. It has also launched or housed a range of important institutions such as the international think tank World Policy Institute, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the India China Institute, the Observatory on Latin America, and the Center for New York City Affairs. It also hosts the prestigious annual National Book Awards. Parsons The New School for Design is the university's highly competitive art school.</p> <p>Some 9,300 students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs, organized into seven different schools, which teach a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, design, music, drama, finance, psychology and public policy.</p> <p>The graduate school of The New School began in 1933 as the University in Exile, an emergency rescue program for threatened scholars in Europe. In 1934 it was chartered by the New York state board of regents and its name was changed to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, a name it would keep until 2005 when it was renamed New School for Social Research.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - The New School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The New School is a university in New York City, United States, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/The_new_school.jpg/220px-The_new_school.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - The New School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"><br> <h3><span id="Founding">Founding</span></h3> <p>The New School for Social Research was founded by a group of university professors and intellectuals in 1919 as a modern, progressive, free school where adult students could "seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth and present working." Founders included economist and literary scholar Alvin Johnson, historian Charles A. Beard, economists Thorstein Veblen and James Harvey Robinson, and philosophers Horace M. Kallen and John Dewey. Several founders were former professors at Columbia University.</p> <p>The school was conceived and founded during a period of fevered nationalism, deep suspicion of foreigners, and increased censorship and suppression during and after the involvement of the United States in World War I.</p> <p>In October 1917, after Columbia University passed a resolution that imposed a loyalty oath to the United States government upon the entire faculty and student body, the board of trustees fired Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department James McKeen Cattell for having sent a petition to three US congressmen, asking them not to support legislation for military conscription. Other firings included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (grandson of the poet) and Leon Fraser. Charles A. Beard, Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest. James Harvey Robinson, an associate of Beard's at Columbia and Professor of History, commented on the resignation: "It is not that any of us are pro-German or disloyal. It is simply that we fear that a condition of repression may arise in this country similar to that which we laughed at in Germany." Robinson would resign in 1919 to join the faculty at the New School.</p> <p>Founder Charles A. Beard had, in 1899, collaborated with Walter Vrooman at Oxford to start Ruskin Hall, a progressive institution of higher learning for workingmen. The New School would offer the rigorousness of postgraduate education without degree matriculation or degree prerequisites. It was theoretically open to anyone, as the adult division today called The New School for Public Engagement remains. The first classes at the New School took the form of lectures followed by discussions, for larger groups, or as smaller conferences, for "those equipped for specific research." In the first semester, 100 courses, mostly in economics and politics, were offered by an ad hoc faculty that included Thomas Sewall Adams, Charles A. Beard, Horace M. Kallen, Harold Laski, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson, Graham Wallas, Charles B. Davenport, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Roscoe Pound. John Cage later pioneered the subject of Experimental Composition at the school.</p> <h3><span id="University_in_Exile">University in Exile</span></h3> <p>The University in Exile was founded in 1933 as a graduate division of the New School for Social Research to be a haven for scholars who had been dismissed from teaching positions by the Italian fascists or had to flee Nazi Germany. The University in Exile was initially founded by the director of the New School, Alvin Johnson, through the generous financial contributions of Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation. It was later renamed the "Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science," and bore this name until changing to its present one in 2005. The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the intellectual heart of the New School. Notable scholars associated with the University in Exile include psychologists Erich Fromm, Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch, political philosophers Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, and philosopher Hans Jonas.</p> <p>The New School played a similar role with the founding of the École Libre des Hautes Études after the Nazi invasion of France. Receiving a charter from de Gaulle's Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson. The École Libre gradually evolved into one of the leading institutions of research in Paris, the <i>École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales</i>, with which the New School maintains close ties.</p> <p>Between 1940 and 1949, the New School was host to the "Dramatic Workshop," a theatre workshop and predecessor of The New School for Drama that was founded by German emigrant theatre director Erwin Piscator. Important acting teachers during this period were Stella Adler and Elia Kazan. Among the famous students of the Dramatic Workshop were Beatrice Arthur, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Ben Gazzara, Michael V. Gazzo, Rod Steiger, Elaine Stritch, Shelley Winters and Tennessee Williams.</p> <p>Following the collapse of totalitarian regimes in Europe, the University in Exile was renamed the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005 the Graduate Faculty was again renamed, this time taking the original name of the university, the New School for Social Research.</p> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>I attended The New School for Social Research for only a year, but what a year it was. The school and New York itself had become a sanctuary for hundreds of extraordinary European Jews who had fled Germany and other countries before and during World War II, and they were enriching the city's intellectual life with an intensity that has probably never been equaled anywhere during a comparable period of time.</p> </blockquote> <h3><span id="Philosophical_tradition">Philosophical tradition</span></h3> <p>The New School for Social Research continues the Graduate Faculty's tradition of synthesizing leftist American intellectual thought and critical European philosophy. True to its origin and its firm roots within the University in Exile, The New School for Social Research, particularly its Department of Philosophy, is in the minority in the United States in offering students thorough training in the modern continental European philosophical tradition known as "Continental philosophy." Thus, it stresses the teachings of Parmenides, Aristotle, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, Benjamin, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, et al. The thought of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School: Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, et al. holds an especially strong influence on all divisions of the school. After the death of Hannah Arendt in 1975, the philosophy department revolved around Reiner Schürmann and Ágnes Heller.</p> <h3><span id="2000s">2000s</span></h3> <p>Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey became president of The New School in 2000. Kerrey drew praise and criticism for his streamlining of the university, as well as censure for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, generally opposed by the university's faculty. In 2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai as provost. Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retained a tenured faculty position. He was succeeded by Joseph Westphal, yet on December 8, 2008 Kerrey announced that Westphal was stepping down to accept a position in President Barack Obama's Department of Defense transition team. Kerrey then took the highly unorthodox step of appointing himself to the provost position while remaining president. This decision was strongly criticised by faculty and other members of the university community as a power-grab involving potential conflicts of interest. This was seen as a threat to scholarly integrity since the role of provost in overseeing the academic functions of a university has traditionally been insulated from fundraising and other responsibilities of a college president. After a series of rifts including protests involving student occupations of university buildings, Kerrey later appointed Tim Marshall, Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, as Interim Provost through June 2011. Marshall has since been reappointed in this role.</p> <p>On May 7, 2009, Kerrey announced he would fulfill his presidency at the University through the end of his term and expressed his intent to leave office in June 2011. However, he ended up resigning a semester early, on January 1, 2011. His successor was Dr. David E. Van Zandt.</p> <p>In 2014, The New School opened its new University Center at 14th Street and Fifth Avenue. This building, designed by the New York firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, adds new residences, classrooms, and event facilities to the downtown New York City campus.</p> <h2><span id="Academics">Academics</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - The New School - New York, New York - College & University ... - The New School, New York, New York. 49010 likes · 893 talking about this · 12037 were here. Official Facebook page of The New School, a legendary..." src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xat1/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/10981354_10153217009049679_2289924493207115746_n.png?oh=0d7643efaa727a5981df1fc37ce06efd&oe=55D4D76D&__gda__=1440194562_a1465002ae8d9522668ccddd58e2b2f8" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - The New School - New York, New York - College & University ..."><br> <h3><span id="Curriculum">Curriculum</span></h3> <p>Unlike most U.S. universities, The New School has a "student-directed curriculum", which does not require its undergraduates to take general education courses. Instead, students are encouraged to explore before focusing on a major, selecting topics that are of interest to them. Although all "New Schoolers" are required to complete rigorous core trainingâ€"usually of a literary, conservatory, or artistic natureâ€"students are expected to be the primary designer of their own individualized and eclectic education.</p> <p>The New School's curriculum is highly experimental and avant-garde, offering classes such as: "Heterodox Identities," "Games 101," "NYC: Graphic Gotham," "Punk & Noise," "Masculinity in Asia," "Queer Culture," and "Play and Toil in the Digital Sweatshop." The New School also offers a course titled "Social Media: The Power to Speak the Truth." The course explores the transformative history of the Internet and provides a working knowledge of the tools it offers for journalism and public action.</p> <p>The university offers 81 degree/diploma programs and majors, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. This small class size allows The New School to teach most of its classes in the seminar styleâ€"especially at Eugene Lang College, which consistently ranks at the top of The Princeton Review's "class discussions encouraged" national listing.</p> <h3><span id="The_New_School_Institutes_and_Research_Centers">The New School Institutes and Research Centers</span></h3> <p>There are several important <b>Institutes</b> and <b>Research Centers</b> at The New School which are focused on various study fields. Their work is concentrated in the following areas:</p> <ul><li>International Affairs and Global Perspectives</li> <li>Philosophy and Intellectual Culture</li> <li>The Humanities Action Lab</li> <li>Politics, Policy, and Society</li> <li>Art, Design, and Theory</li> <li>Environment</li> <li>Urban and Community Development</li> <li>Education</li> <li>The Center for New York City Affairs</li> </ul><h3><span id="Academic_journals">Academic journals</span></h3> <p>The New School publishes the following journals:</p> <ul><li><i>Constellations</i></li> <li><i>Social Research</i></li> <li><i>The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal</i></li> <li><i>International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society</i></li> <li><i>New School Economic Review</i></li> <li><i>New School Psychology Bulletin</i></li> <li><i>The Journal of Design Strategies</i></li> <li><i>The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM)</i>, a quarterly publication by the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping</li> </ul><h3><span id="Other_university_publications">Other university publications</span></h3> <ul><li><i>The New School Free Press</i>, The New School's only student-run newspaper, with a monthly print edition distributed around campus and continually updated online content</li> <li><i>LIT</i>, a nationally distributed literary journal â€" contains works selected by the MFA Creative Writing Program</li> <li><i>12th Street</i>, a nationally distributed literary journal from The New School's Riggio Honor Program that contains work from undergraduate writers at the university</li> <li><i>Voices</i>, the literary journal of New School's The Institute For Retired Professionals</li> <li><i>Eleven and a Half</i>, the literary journal of Eugene Lang College</li> <li><i>NEW_S</i>, an e-newsroom showcasing The New School in major media, major student and alumni achievements, university programs, and other news</li> <li>"Canon Magazine", a quarterly publication of student writings published by The New School for Social Research</li> <li><i>re:D</i> is the magazine for Parsons alumni and the wider Parsons community, published by the New School Alumni Association.</li> <li><i>Scapes</i>, the annual journal of the School of Constructed Environments</li> <li><i>BIAS: Journal of Dress Practice</i> published by the MA Fashion Studies Dress Practice Collective started in the spring of 2013 and aims to join elements of "visual culture, fashion theory, design studies and personal practice through a variety of media."</li> <li><i>The Weekly Observer</i>, an online newsletter showcasing major student and alumni achievements, special program announcements, and other university-wide news. Distributed via MyNewSchool web portal</li> </ul><h3><span id="Enrollment_demographics">Enrollment demographics</span></h3> <p>Twenty-five percent of New School students are international, with 105 foreign countries being represented at the university. U.S. students come from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. 41% of them are people of color, and 38.5% of American students identify as more than one race. Of the entire student population, 74% receive financial aid, and 17% study abroad before graduating.</p> <h3><span id="Rankings_and_lists">Rankings and lists</span></h3> <p><i>The Huffington Post</i> ranks The New School in "The Top Thirteen Non-Traditional Colleges" in the United States. In the <i>U.S. News & World Report ranked #1 in the nation for small class sizes, and #1 in the nation for international student enrollment. The Princeton Review ranks the university among "America's 371 Best Colleges" and the "Best Northeastern Colleges." Independent Magazine ranks it nationally in the "Top Ten Academic Programs for Aspiring Screenwriters", citing its MA in Media Studies and Certificate of Screenwriting.</i></p> <h2><span id="Campus">Campus</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - The New School Divests! - Responsible Endowments Coalition - Feb 4, 2015 ... This past Friday, President David Van Zandt published a message officially stating The New School's decision to divest its endowment portfolio ..." src="http://blogs.newschool.edu/news/files/2015/01/ClimateAction.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - The New School Divests! - Responsible Endowments Coalition"><br> <p>The New School's campus is composed of numerous buildings, most of which are minutes from Union Square.</p> <p>The university's Parsons division also has affiliations with schools that operate independently but embrace Parsons' philosophy and teaching methodology, including:</p> <ul><li>Parsons Paris, France</li> <li>La Escuela de Diseño at Altos de Chavón, La Romana, Dominican Republic</li> <li>Kanazawa International Design Institute, Kanazawa, Japan</li> </ul><p>Currently, the university is undergoing a "major expansion and renovation," as indicated on the back of 2009-2010 student handbooks. The New School is currently constructing a 16-story University Center at 65 5th Avenue. The tower, which was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's Roger Duffy, is the biggest capital project the university has ever undertaken, and will include new classrooms, dormitories, a library, and lecture hall. While the 65 Fifth Avenue plans were initially controversial among students and Village residents (spurring in 2009 a major student occupation was held at The New School's previous building on that site), plans for the University Center were adjusted in response to community concerns and have since been well received. In a review of the University Center's final design, New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff called the building "a celebration of the cosmopolitan city." The building is set to open in fall 2013.</p> <h3><span id="Historical_significance">Historical significance</span></h3> <p>Several of the university buildings are certified by New York City as historical landmarks. Prominent among these is the egg-shaped Tishman Auditorium, considered by many to be the first building to employ modern architecture. It was designed by architect Joseph Urban, along with the entirety of The New School's historic 66 West 12th Street building. Thousands of writer's forums, author visits, political debates, award ceremonies, academic lectures, performances, and public hearings are held for both the academic community and general public throughout the year in Tishman.</p> <p>Newer buildings have garnered a multitude of awards. Among these is The Sheila Johnson Design Center, which attracted media attention for its revolutionary design. In 2009, it won the SCUP's Excellence in Architecture Renovation/Adaptive Reuse Award. In addition to being a Parsons core academic building, the Center also serves as a public art gallery. The New School Welcome Center, located on 13th Street and Fifth Avenue, won the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter's Interiors Merit Award in 2010.</p> <p>The New School was also the first college in America to offer education to adults.</p> <h3><span id="Residence_halls">Residence halls</span></h3> <p>The university operates four residence halls:</p> <ul><li>13th Street Residence Hall: A facility primarily serving first-year students, 13th Street Residence is popular for its close proximity to academic buildings and location just seconds away from the university's flagship library, Fogelman.</li> </ul><ul><li>Loeb Hall: Loeb Hall is a co-ed residence hall located on 12th Street in the East Village. After the relocation of Student Health Services (which was once housed in Loeb), the lobby has been renovated.</li> </ul><ul><li>Stuyvesant Park Residence: Located in the East Village near Stuyvesant Town. It overlooks Stuyvesant Park and the Manhattan skyline. The residence consists of suite-style rooms and houses mostly first-year students.</li> </ul><ul><li>Kerrey Hall at the University Center Residence: The New School's newest dormitory, "located on floors 8-16 of [the] new University Center at 5th Avenue and 14th Street, is a LEED-certified state-of-the-art residence that will house 617 [primarily undergraduate] students."</li> </ul><p>Former residence halls:</p> <ul><li>20th Street Residence Hall: Located in Chelsea, 20th Street Residence offered some of the university's largest suites and housed mostly returning students and graduate students. It closed at end of the Spring 2014 semester.</li> </ul><ul><li>William Street Residence: Located in Lower Manhattan near South Street Seaport. William Street was one of The New School's largest residence halls. It closed at the end of the Spring 2013 semester.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Libraries">Libraries</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - The New School (@TheNewSchool) | Twitter - 20.6K tweets • 1591 photos/videos • 47.6K followers. Check out the latest Tweets from The New School (@TheNewSchool)" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/582505445442588672/WRXK6r1L_400x400.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - The New School (@TheNewSchool) | Twitter"><br> <p>The New School owns several libraries throughout New York City and is a member of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan. In 2009, its libraries counted a total of 1,906,046 holdings.</p> <ul><li>Fogelman Social Sciences and Humanities Library</li> <li>Kellen Archives (design and Parsons' history)</li> <li>Visual Resource Center</li> <li>Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library</li> <li>Scherman Music Library</li> <li>Archives & Special Collections (History of the New School)</li> <li>University Center Library (art and design)</li> <li>List Center Library (humanities and social sciences)</li> </ul><h3><span id="Art_collection">Art collection</span></h3> <p>The university's legacy of supporting the freedom of artistic expression began in 1931 with the commissioning of two historically significant mural cycles: José Clemente Orozco's "A Call for Revolution" and "Universal Brotherhood" and Thomas Hart Benton's epic America Today. The New School Art Collection was established in 1960 with a grant from the Albert A. List Foundation. The collection, now grown to approximately 1,800 postwar and contemporary works of art, includes examples in almost all media. Parts of it are exhibited throughout the campus. Notable artists such as Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, Richard Serra, and Sol LeWitt all have pieces displayed in New School's academic buildings.</p> <h2><span id="Organization">Organization</span></h2><br><img a="" alt="The New School - “The New School” - “The New School”. Reading Comprehension â€" answer="" below.="" directions:="" is="" new="" questions="" read="" school="" short="" starting="" stories.="" story.="" the="" then="" title="The New School - “The New School”" tracey=""><br> <p>The New School is divided into seven autonomous colleges called "divisions." Each one is led by a dean and has its own scholarships, standards of admission, and acceptance rates.</p> <h3><span id="New_identity">New identity</span></h3> <p>In June 2005, the university was officially renamed "The New School" and, in order to better promote the common affiliation of the divisions, the academic units were renamed to prominently feature the New School name.</p> <p>Some faculty, students, and alumni have expressed concern over the rebranding of the university, and especially the dramatic redesign of the logo from a six-sided shield against a green background to a spray-painted graffiti mark reading simply, in capital letters, "THE NEW SCHOOL" with, in smaller letters beneath, "A UNIVERSITY." They claim that the university's new identity campaign, while maintaining a slick urban edge, does little to suggest academic rigor or collegiate legacy.</p> <p>The name change came about in part to consolidate the divisions under one banner, and in part as an official recognition of the shorthand name for the school used by students, faculty and New Yorkers in general.</p> <blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.</p> </blockquote> <h2><span id="Student_life">Student life</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American ... - The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself [Glenn Harlan Reynolds] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying ..." src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jsTNBSJTL.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American ..."><br> <h3><span id="Student_government">Student government</span></h3> <p>There are several student government and leadership councils at The New School. Among them are:</p> <ul><li>University Student Senate (USS)</li> </ul><p>The University Student Senate is composed of students from every division. Its composition is Parsons - 5, Lang - 3, New School for Public Engagement - 3, New School Social Research -2, Jazz - 1, and Mannes - 1. The USS acts as the connection between students and administration, serving the needs and concerns of the students. The duties of the USS include giving a political statement regarding macro issues within the school (gender neutral bathrooms, divestment, etc.), as well as micro issues. Additionally, the USS provide a cap of $5,000 funding for initiatives that serves the entire New School.</p> <ul><li>Lang Student Union (LSU)</li> <li>Parsons Student Senate (PSS)</li> <li>Executive Director's Student Advisory Council (at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music)</li> <li>Residence Hall Councils</li> </ul><h3><span id="Student_organizations">Student organizations</span></h3> <p>The New School houses over 50 recognized student organizations, most of which are geared towards artistic endeavors or civic engagement. Notable among these are The Theatre Collective, which stages numerous dramatic productions throughout the year, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Debate Team, ReNew School (sustainability and environmental advocacy group) Moxie (feminist alliance), the New Urban Grilling Society (NUGS), and The Radical Student Union (RSU).</p> <h3><span id="Student-run_media">Student-run media</span></h3> <p>A noted student newspaper, <i>The New School Free Press</i>, is widely distributed throughout the campus. Hard print copies are available in most academic buildings, while an online edition is available as well. Students at Eugene Lang College can edit and submit to Release, a student-run literary magazine. WNSR, a student-run, faculty-advised online-only radio station, also operates at the university. Programming is currently delivered in the form of streamable mp3s and, in the near future, subscribable podcasts. It is a station for all divisions of The New School.</p> <h3><span id="Athletics_and_recreation">Athletics and recreation</span></h3> <p>Current Athletics and Recreation Director Diane Yee joined The New School in August 2012. On October 25, 2012 a school-wide election was held to select a mascot, where The New School Narwhals were born. On January 25, 2013 the athletics logo was launched, designed by Parsons’ student Matthew Wolff (G '14). Gnarls the Narwhal first came on the scene on August 29, 2013 at the 17th Annual Block Party. He has been a fan favorite ever since, making appearances at many sporting and campus events around the city.</p> <p>The department began in December 2008 under its original name Recreation and Intramural sports. The initial director, Michael McQuarrie, held the position for 4 years. He built a relationship with the McBurney YMCA where intramurals continue to be held on Wednesday night's and created the ongoing New School Olympics and charitable 5K Turkey Trot.</p> <p>The Narwhals feature several intercollegiate teams: basketball (2009), cross country (2010), cycling (2013), soccer (2013), tennis (2014), ultimate Frisbee (2014). The New School Narwhals are an independent school, unaffiliated with the NCAA, but regularly compete against NCAA Division III schools.</p> <p><b>Basketball</b> â€" competes regularly against Cooper Union, Culinary Institute of America, Pratt Institute, and Vaughn College</p> <p><b>Cross Country</b> â€" competes in CUNYAC and HVIAC conference invitationals as an unaffiliated school</p> <p><b>Cycling</b> â€" a member of the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference</p> <p><b>Soccer</b> â€" competes against Cooper Union, Culinary Institute of America, St. Joseph’s College, and Vaughn College</p> <p>In addition to sports, the recreation department offers a myriad of free fitness classes to its community including Bollywood, boxing, dance, HIIT, Pilates, T’ai Chi, yoga, and Zumba. Personal training is also offered at an affordable rate ranging from $16.50-$40/session.</p> <p>Outdoor Adventure trips are offered several times/week and what started to be wilderness in nature (camping, hiking, rafting) has expanded to include excursions such as archery, biking, horseback riding, skiing/snowboarding, surfing, rock climbing and trapeze.</p> <p>Yee has increased programming to include a second charitable race that takes place annually in April called the 5K Rabbit Run. She has also started the Urban Hunt (a scavenger hunt around campus and the Village) and Club New (a dance party for first-year students the weekend before first day of classes). Her biggest accomplishment is creating Narwhal Nation. The students now have a sense of community and a way to bring all seven schools together.</p> <h3><span id="Traditions">Traditions</span></h3> <ul><li>Each August, community residents, the university, and local businesses stop traffic on the 12th street block for one afternoon. A massive block party is then thrown, celebrating the return of New School students to Greenwich Village. Another block party is held in the spring, usually during one of the first warm weeks of the semester.</li> </ul><ul><li>The Fusion Fashion Show is one of The New School's, and New York City's, biggest industry events. Each year, first and second-year undergraduates from Parsons compete directly with the fashion program's fiercest rivalâ€"Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)â€"in the show, vying for awards and the title of best overall school.</li> </ul><ul><li>The New School annually hosts the Parsons Fashion Benefit, which is consistently attended by celebrities and industry moguls. It showcases the work of the current graduating class and raises money to fund scholarships for the fashion design program.</li> </ul><ul><li>Every April, the university celebrates V-Day for two weeks. Originally started by the student feminist organization Moxie (which has since disbanded), "V-Day at The New School" has been adopted by the community and become a major part of campus life. In conjunction with V-Day, the university also recognizes each April as Sexual Assault and Prevention Awareness Month. During this time, T-shirts painted with feminist art and statements against sexual and domestic violence are hung on a clothesline in the windows of every major academic building. This is done as part of the Clothesline Project, and seeks to engage the public with New School's activist community.</li> </ul><ul><li>New School's annual Take Back the Night March is also held during April. In this event, students lead the university community through the streets of Greenwich Village in a public demonstration against sexual violence.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Activist_culture_and_social_change">Activist culture and social change</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - The New School - The New School Celebrates the Arts: Arts Week April 25-May 2. Posted 04/23/ 2015 06:04PM. See the schedule of events for The New School's inaugural Arts ..." src="http://www.thenewschool.org/uploaded/MathFairThumb.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - The New School"><br> <p>Historically, The New School has been associated with leftist politics, campus activism, civic engagement, and social change. It is a "Periclean University", or member Project Pericles, meaning that it teaches "education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community." The New School is one of nine American universities to be inducted into Ashoka's "Changemaker" consortium for social entrepreneurship.</p> <p>In 2010, NYC Service awarded New School special recognition in The College Challenge, a volunteer initiative, for the "widest array of [civic] service events both on and off campus." Miriam Weinstein also cites the Eugene Lang division in her book, <i>Making a Difference Colleges: Distinctive Colleges to Make a Better World</i>.</p> <h3><span id="Environmental_sustainability">Environmental sustainability</span></h3> <ul><li>Currently, The Princeton Review gives the university a sustainability rating of 94 out of 99. In 2010, the organization also named The New School one of America's "286 Green Colleges."</li> <li>The university signed the Presidents' Climate Commitment and PlaNYC. The institution's sustainability website outlines many goals and projects for the future which will hopefully help The New School receive a good rating in the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.</li> <li>The New School has a student led environment and sustainability group, called Renew School, as well as full-time employees devoted to the school's sustainability.</li> </ul><h3><span id="Labor_movement">Labor movement</span></h3> <p>In 2003, adjunct faculty in several divisions of the New School began to form a labor union chapter under the auspices of the United Auto Workers. Though the university at first tried to contest the unionization, after several rulings against it by regional and national panels of the National Labor Relations Board the university recognized the local chapter, ACT-UAW, as the bargaining agent for the faculty. As a result of a near strike in November 2005 on the part of the adjunct faculty, the ACT-UAW union negotiated its first contract which included the acknowledgment of previously unrecognized part-time faculty at Mannes College The New School for Music.</p> <h3><span id="The_McCain_protests">The McCain protests</span></h3> <p>John McCain's speech at the graduation ceremony of 2006 generated a large amount of media attention, due to vocal student opposition in print, radio, and television media, and the speech of Jean Rohe, a graduating senior who spoke before McCain and directly confronted the controversy, saying that the senator "does not reflect the values upon which the university was founded."</p> <h3><span id="Politics">Politics</span></h3> <ul><li>In 2007, New School trustee and long-time Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu was arrested after being found to fleeing from the authorities after a felony theft conviction. In 2008, he was convicted and sentenced to three years prison for defrauding millions of dollars of investors' money in an intricate Ponzi scheme. In response, the Hillary Clinton campaign returned $850,000 of his campaign contributions.</li> </ul><ul><li>Leo Strauss, the philosopher considered to be the founding figure of neoconservatism, once taught in New School of Social Research.</li> </ul><ul><li>Leo Hindery, a New School trustee, had donated nearly $270,000 to the John Edwards campaign by late 2007. Other politically involved New School trustees include Howard Gittis, who was a "bundler" for the John McCain campaign, and George Haywood, who was part of Senator Barack Obama's inner fund-raising circle. Fred P. Hochberg, former Dean of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and liaison to the gay community.</li> </ul><ul><li>The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States held its eleventh public hearing May 18â€"19, 2004, at New School University in New York City. The two-day hearing examined the response of local and federal emergency response departments on September 11, 2001, and considered how to improve these critical functions in the event of future terrorist attacks. The Commission heard from the current and former top-level officials in the fire, police, and emergency management departments of New York City, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Arlington County, Virginia. Secretary of Homeland Security Thomas J. Ridge and former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani also testified. Two staff statements were presented during the course of the hearing. "At this hearing, the Commission turns its attention to the day of September 11, 2001. We will focus on what confronted civilians and first responders during the attacks, how they made decisions under adverse conditions, and what first responders communicated to civilians and to each other," said Commission Chair Thomas H. Kean. “The Commission also will explore the state of the emergency preparedness and response today,” said Commission Vice Chair Lee H. Hamilton. "We will examine what steps have been taken since 9-11 to improve our preparedness against terrorist attacks and other emergencies, and whether we need national standards of preparedness."</li> </ul><h2><span id="2008-2009_Administration_crisis_and_occupation">2008-2009 Administration crisis and occupation</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - New School Beer- Dedicated To Craft Beer - The New School Beer aims to be the #1 source for craft beer, cider and mead industry news in the northwest. We focus on breaking stories about new breweries ..." src="http://newschoolbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Newschool.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - New School Beer- Dedicated To Craft Beer"><br> <p>On December 10, 2008, 74 of the New School's senior professors gave a vote of no confidence for the New School's former president, Bob Kerrey. By December 15, 98% of the university's full-time faculty had voted no confidence.</p> <p>On December 17, over 100 students barricaded themselves in at a dining hall on the campus while hundreds more waited on the streets outside. They considered the current school administration opaque and harmful. Their chief demand, among others, was that Bob Kerrey resign. The students soon enlarged their occupied area, blocking security and police from entering the building. At 3 AM the next morning, the students left the building after Kerrey agreed to some of their demands (the most important elements on their first list of demands were not agreed to), including increased study space and amnesty from any actions performed during the protest. He did not, however, concede to resignation. In total, the occupation lasted 30 hours.</p> <p>In January 2009, a student organization called The New School In Exile issued a public threat to shut down the university on April 1, unless the President and Chief Operating Officer were removed. They subsequently stole an entire edition of the student newspaper, after the paper published an article revealing their plans and names, and defaced the university's presidential residence.</p> <p>On April 10, 2009, students, mostly from New School but also from other New York colleges, reoccupied the building at 65 Fifth Avenue, this time holding the entire building for about six hours. Once again, the students demanded the resignation of Bob Kerrey. The New York Police Department arrested the occupiers; the New School students involved were then suspended. Controversy arose because some students who were not directly involved in the occupation were beaten by police and arrested as well.</p> <p>On August 26, 2010, a letter was sent out stating that the board of trustees had approved the appointment of Dr. David E. Van Zandt, who succeeded Bob Kerrey and become the 8th president of the New School.</p> <h2><span id="Appearances_in_media">Appearances in media</span></h2><br><img alt="The New School - The New School on Livestream. - Livestream.com Follow The New School's profile on Livestream for updates on live events." src="https://img.new.livestream.com/accounts/000000000014e58f/4b0162ac-80ea-4636-b6d8-8c6300fa92dc_170x170.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="The New School - The New School on Livestream."><br> <ul><li>The Bravo television program <i>Inside the Actors Studio</i>, hosted by James Lipton, was filmed at The New School until a contract with the Actors Studio concluded in 2005.</li> </ul><ul><li><i>Project Runway</i>, another Bravo program, prominently features the elite fashion design department of Parsons The New School for Design.</li> </ul><ul><li>In 1986, P.M. Rutkoff and W.B. Scott wrote <i>New School: A History of The New School For Social Research</i>, a book about the university's history.</li> </ul><ul><li>Claus-Dieter Krohn's <i>Intellectuals In Exile: Refugee Scholars at The New School for Social Research</i> was translated into English and released by the University of Massachusetts Press in 1993. The book is an in-depth examination of The New School, the University in Exile, and the work of scholars who worked within these institutions.</li> </ul><ul><li>After Eugene Lang College ranked #1 nationally in the Princeton Review's "Intramural Sports Unpopular or Nonexistent" category, ESPN featured "In Search of the Worst Sports College In America", an article about The New School.</li> </ul><ul><li>In the reality TV series <i>Driving Force</i>, John Force's daughter takes a tour of The New School.</li> </ul><ul><li>Student activism at The New School is mentioned in the graphic novel <i>Students For A Democratic Society: A Graphic History</i>.</li> </ul><ul><li>New School Political Science and Liberal Studies Professor James Miller's book <i>Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to The Siege of Chicago</i> (1987), which chronicles the rise and fall of the 1960s organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), was featured as recommended reading in the insert for the alternative band Rage Against The Machine's 1996 album <i>Evil Empire</i>.</li> </ul><ul><li>The New School is mentioned humorously in several New York City based sitcoms, such as 30 Rock and Will & Grace.</li> </ul><h2><span id="Noted_alumni.2C_faculty.2C_and_current_students">Noted alumni, faculty, and current students</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Since its founding 92 years ago, The New School has graduated hundreds of notable alumni, most of whom excelled in creative fields. Among distinguished graduates are Woody Allen, Peter L. Berger, President Shimon Peres, fashion designer Donna Karan, Madeleine L'Engle, Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur, Jake Shears, Sufjan Stevens, Jean L. Cohen, Bradley Cooper, Tony Curtis, Ani DiFranco, Lorraine Hansberry, Michael Marder, business executive Stewart Krentzman, opera stars Danielle de Niese and Yonghoon Lee, Tatiana Santo Domingo, actor Jonah Hill, art historian Nelson Ikon Wu, fashion designers Tom Ford and Marc Jacobs, Jack Kerouac, Will Wright, Thomas Luckmann, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Norman Rockwell, Tennessee Williams, Brian Willison, and experimental psychologist Howard S. Hoffman.</li> </ul> <ul><li>Past distinguished faculty have included Woody Allen, W. H. Auden, Rynn Berry, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josef Frank, Robert Frost, Martha Graham, Saul K. Padover, Leo Strauss, Eric Hobsbawm, Hannah Arendt, Eloise Harrington, Erich Fromm, Edith Hirsch and Frank Lloyd Wright.</li> </ul><ul><li>Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Paul Dano, and Stacy Farber are current students at The New School.</li> </ul><ul><li>According to the university's "Quick Facts" page, New School has a living alumni pool of over 56,000 and graduates live in 112 different countries.</li> <li>Jack Kerouac also attended the New School in the fall of 1949 under a G.I. benefits scheme for returned service men and women, (he lasted through only 10 days of boot camp) which included a stipend and book allowance.</li> </ul> <h3><span id="Fictional_alumni.2C_students.2C_and_faculty">Fictional alumni, students, and faculty</span></h3> <ul><li>In an episode of <i>Will & Grace</i>, Grace mentions that she'll be teaching an interior design class at The New School. She then teaches the class, and all the students dislike her and her teaching.</li> <li>Myra Breckinridge, protagonist of Gore Vidal's novel of the same name, mentions she studied the classics at the New School.</li> <li>Elaine Benes takes a drawing class at the New School in "The Doodle" episode of <i>Seinfeld</i>.</li> <li>On the television series <i>Friends</i>, multiple episodes feature references to, or scenes at, the New School. Monica and Joey take a culinary course in one episode, while Rachel and Phoebe take a literature course together in another.</li> <li>In Michael Mann's film <i>Heat</i> (1995), the Robert De Niro character Neil MacCauley's girlfriend Eady (Amy Brenneman) claims to have gone to school at Parsons for graphic design.</li> <li>Paul Weston, the psychotherapist who is the protagonist of the HBO drama <i>In Treatment</i>, received his Ph.D. from The New School.</li> <li>In the popular Adult Swim cartoon series <i>The Venture Brothers</i>, Dr. Orpheus mentions that he teaches "conjuring" at The New School.</li> <li>In <i>Music and Lyrics</i>, Drew Barrymore's character signs up for a writing class at The New School.</li> <li>In <i>Gossip Girl</i>, Taylor Momsen's character Jenny Humphrey has an interview for fashion for The New School.</li> <li>In the Fred Schepisi movie <i>Mr. Baseball</i>, starring Tom Selleck and Dennis Haysbert, Aya Takanashi's character, Hiroko, mentions she attended Parsons School of Design.</li> <li>In the HBO series Entourage (TV series) season 2, episode 4 "An Offer Refused" Drama claims "I almost went to Parsons."</li> </ul><ul><li>In the second book of the "The Carrie Diaries" series, "Summer and the City," a prequel to Sex in the City, Carrie attends a summer writing class at The New School. In the television adaptation, scenes were filmed at The New School.</li> </ul><ul><li>In the film Prom Yin Chang's character Mei gets accepted to Parsons The New School for Design.</li> </ul><h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Education in New York City</li> <li>National Book Award</li> <li>The New York Foundation</li> <li>The New York Intellectuals</li> <li>Project Pericles</li> <li>Free University of New York</li> </ul><h2><span id="Footnotes">Footnotes</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="Further_reading">Further reading</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>P. Magg, "Education for the Age of Labor," <i>The Kenyon Review,</i> vol. 6, no. 4 (Autumn 1944), pp. 632â€"644.</li> <li>Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott. <i>New School: A History of the New School for Social Research.</i> New York: Free Press, 1986.</li> </ul><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li><span><span>Official website</span></span></li> <li>New School for Social Research</li> <li>The New School Historical Timeline</li> <li>The New School Student Government (University Student Senate)</li> <li>ACT-UAW Local 7902</li> <li>New School in "America's Best Colleges"</li> <li><i>Canon Magazine</i>, a student-run interdisciplinary publication of the NSSR</li> <li>Unofficial site for Graduate Program in International Affairs</li> <li>The New School collected news and commentary at <i>The New York Times</i></li> <li>Student Financial Aid</li> <li>Race and Ethnicity Program Blog</li> <li>Global Studies Program Blog</li> <li>The New School Archives Digital Collections</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

The New School

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U.S. Army Engineer School

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fuok2g4AbyRfl5MnfDGiE3T3yOY1mPbz-XG67ZM0HrUHwlx00fBDV1HR-oUxlyQEoBZDQd6_QIwdFvDvvHpgdC9gl8jGkyijMFRhNqH65hEzvGKPcoZmBJYwEJsZtacyUHsV4fJEL-Y/s1600/200px-EngSchCrest101transbg3-703325.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6141985353602069266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fuok2g4AbyRfl5MnfDGiE3T3yOY1mPbz-XG67ZM0HrUHwlx00fBDV1HR-oUxlyQEoBZDQd6_QIwdFvDvvHpgdC9gl8jGkyijMFRhNqH65hEzvGKPcoZmBJYwEJsZtacyUHsV4fJEL-Y/s320/200px-EngSchCrest101transbg3-703325.png" /></a></p><p>The <b>United States Army Engineer School (USAES)</b> is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Originally founded as a School of Engineering by General Headquarters Orders, Valley Forge on 9 June 1778, the U.S. Army Engineer School provides training that develops a wide variety of engineering skills including: combat engineer, bridging, construction, geospatial, topography, diving, and firefighting.</p> <p>USAES defines its mission as:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>Generate the military engineer capabilities the Army needs: training and certifying Soldiers with the right knowledge, skills, and critical thinking; growing and educating professional leaders; organizing and equipping units; establishing a doctrinal framework for employing capabilities; and remaining an adaptive institution in order to provide Commanders with the freedom of action they need to successfully execute Unified Land Operations.</i></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><br> <p>As with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Engineer School traces its roots to the American Revolution. General Headquarters Orders, Valley Forge, dated 9 June 1778 read <i>3 Captains and 9 Lieutenants are wanted to officer the Company of Sappers. As the Corps will be a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, it opens a prospect to such gentlemen as enter it...</i> Shortly after the publishing of the order, the "school" moved to the river fortifications at West Point. With the end of the war and the mustering out of the Army, the school closed. However, the Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers was constituted a military school and was reopened at the same location in 1794. For four years it constituted a school of application for new engineers and artillerymen. Closing in 1798, due to a fire which destroyed many facilities, the engineers were without a school for three years.</p> <p>In 1801, the War Department revived the school, and Major Jonathan Williams became its superintendent. Less than a year later, Congress authorized the Corps of Engineers and constituted it at West Point as a military academy. For the next 64 years, the Military Academy was under the supervision of the Corps. Although the curriculum was heavily laced with engineering subjects, the Academy commissioned officers into all branches of the service. Following the American Civil War (1861-1865), supervision of the Academy passed to the War Department.</p> <p>When the Engineer Battalion took station at Willets Point in 1866, Engineer leaders saw the opportunity to develop a school oriented exclusively to engineers. From 1868 to 1885, an informal School of Application existed. Part of this effort involved the creation of the Essayons Club. This was an informal group which met during the winter months and presented professional engineer papers. In 1885, the School of Application received formal recognition by the War Department. In 1890, the name was changed to <b>United States Engineer School</b>.</p> <p>In 1901, the School moved from Willets Point (later renamed Fort Totten) to Washington Barracks in Washington D.C. and was renamed the <b>Engineer School of Application</b>. This name lasted only a few years. In 1904, the name was changed back to the <b>Engineer School</b>. The Engineer School remained at Washington Barracks for the next 19 years, although it closed from time to time because of a shortage of officers, or national emergencies. In 1909, certain courses associated with the field army moved to Ft. Leavenworth, and the Army Field Engineer School opened in 1910. That school, a part of the Army Service Schools, closed in 1916. The First World War forced a closing of the Engineer School as the instructors and students were needed to officer the expanding engineer force. The school resumed its instruction in 1920, but at a different location. Washington Barracks was transferred to the General Staff College and the Engineer School moved to Camp A. A. Humphreys, south of Mount Vernon, in Virginia. This was a WWI camp built on land acquired by the War Department in 1912. The original name for the tract was Belvoir. In 1935, Camp Humphreys was renamed Fort Belovir.</p> <p>After 68 years, in 1988, the home of the Engineer School was moved to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri "due to a shortage of land for training at Fort Belvoir" The move also allowed engineer training of officers, warrant officers and enlisted to be conducted in the same location.</p> <h2><span id="USAES_and_Engineer_Regiment_Symbology..5B5.5D">USAES and Engineer Regiment Symbology.</span></h2><br><br> <p>The distinctive insignia for the U.S. Army Engineer School was approved by the War Department on June 27, 1929. It had been used on diplomas and stationery since 1924. Scarlet and white are the colors of the Engineers. Scarlet represents the shared heritage with the Artillery. From 1794 to 1802, the Engineers were part of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers. White is the traditional color of the Infantry. Its use on the shield reflects the Engineers’ secondary mission of fighting as infantry. Above the shield is the “Lamp of Knowledge”. The lamps represents the Engineer Schools mission to train and educate.</p> <p>Under the shield is the motto of the Engineers-Essayons. It is a French term which means “Let us strive”, “Let us try”. The use of this term reflects the contributions of French Engineers to the Nation’s struggle for independence and the influence of the French Engineers on the early development of the Corps.</p> <p>The castle symbolizes the classical role of Engineers as those who build fortifications and those who breach their walls. The castle has been used by the Corps since 1840, when it was adopted as a device on the uniform of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy.</p> <h2><span id="Organization">Organization</span></h2><br><br> <p>The U.S. Army Engineer School is composed of Headquarters staff, the Directorate of Training and Leader Development, the Directorate of Environmental Integration, 1st Engineer Brigade, the Counter Explosive Hazards Center and the Engineer Personnel Development Office.</p> <h2><span id="Command">Command</span></h2><br><br> <p>As of 2013, the Commandant of the U.S. Army Engineer School is Brigadier General Anthony C. Funkhouser. The regimental Command Sergeant Major is CSM Butler J. Kendrick III. The Regimental Chief Warrant Officer is CW5 Scott R. Owens</p> <h2><span id="U.S._Army_Engineer_School_Commandants">U.S. Army Engineer School Commandants</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="U.S._Army_Engineer_School_and_Engineer_Regimental_Command_Sergeants_Major">U.S. Army Engineer School and Engineer Regimental Command Sergeants Major</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="U.S._Army_Engineer_Regimental_Chief_Warrant_Officers">U.S. Army Engineer Regimental Chief Warrant Officers</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>U.S. Army Corps of Engineers</li> <li>Prime Power School</li> <li>Engineer Officer Basic Course</li> </ul><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>U.S. Army Engineer School Official Website</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br></h2><br><br>

U.S. Army Engineer School

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Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business

<p><b>The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business</b> is part of Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. The undergraduate school offers degrees in Bachelor of Science in Accounting, the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and the Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Minors are also offered in Accounting, Business Administration and Economics. The school offers concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Administration, Human Resources, International Business, Leadership/Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management. The graduate school offers a Master of Business Administration. Its goal is to provide a general background for students in managing business assets.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><br> <p>Spencer Love earned an Honorary Law Degree in 1951 from Elon University. The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business was established in 1985 when the first $1 million donation was made to Elon University. It was originally located in the Long Building, but was moved to Koury Business Center, which was completed in 2007. The Koury Business Center, home to the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, is a $10 million facility with the latest technology.</p> <h2><span id="Approval">Approval</span></h2><br><img alt="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business - Elon ... - Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, Elon, NC. 456 likes · 17 talking about this · 242 were here. The Martha & Spencer Love School..." src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-1/1424568_731852640163123_807639730_n.jpg?oh=605caab830ea3d85de7629b93c7c9186&oe=5598000B&__gda__=1440621179_8e3422977537dfe3047cc1ff09de13e7" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business - Elon ..."><br> <p>The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business was approved by AACSB in 2004.</p> <h2><span id="Departments">Departments</span></h2><br><img alt="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University - Martha and Spencer Love School of Business ... - The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business is a leader in transformative business education. Its mission is to provide an exceptional learning experience." src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_674_240/p/2/005/088/246/0e38abf.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University - Martha and Spencer Love School of Business ..."><br> <h3><span id="Accounting">Accounting</span></h3> <p>This department teaches students how to measure business activities and communicate this information to investors, creditors, and other decision makers who use it to make strategic and informed financial decisions.</p> <h3><span id="Economics">Economics</span></h3> <p>Students are taught that the economic climate is always changing, what causes these changes, and predict how consumer behavior will alter over a period of time.</p> <h3><span id="Finance">Finance</span></h3> <p>Students acquire an informed background in basic financial principles and practices required in negotiations between business professionals.</p> <h3><span id="Management">Management</span></h3> <p>This program focuses on teaching students the skills of managing people and processes in small and large business organizations.</p> <h3><span id="Marketing_and_Entrepreneurship">Marketing and Entrepreneurship</span></h3> <p>This department focuses on building a foundation in the traditional arts and sciences through hands-on learning and development of ethic principles.</p> <h2><span id="Degree_programs">Degree programs</span></h2><br><br> <h3><span id="Business_Fellows_Program">Business Fellows Program</span></h3> <p>Students work with other Business Fellows on a student-run financial services program that manages part of the Elon endowment and receive experience in the national and global business world through internships with major companies and other opportunities. Business Fellows also complete a study abroad experience in their freshman year.</p> <h3><span id="Chandler_Family_Professional_Sales_Center">Chandler Family Professional Sales Center</span></h3> <p>Students practice professional selling and sales management through instruction by experienced sales executives and research in sales.</p> <h3><span id="Doherty_Center_for_Entrepreneurial_Leadership">Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership</span></h3> <p>Students learn through experience in entrepreneurial thinking.</p> <h3><span id="William_Gerrard_Reed_Finance_Center">William Gerrard Reed Finance Center</span></h3> <p>This program provides students with the opportunity to follow stock, bond, futures, currency, and options markets and actively participate in them.</p> <h3><span id="New_York_Program">New York Program</span></h3> <p>This program is for rising juniors and seniors to experience life and work in the real world in New York City.</p> <h3><span id="LSB_Summer_Business_Institute">LSB Summer Business Institute</span></h3> <p>This program offers juniors, seniors, and new graduates in non-business majors to practice and improve their skills in marketing.</p> <h3><span id="PRME:_Principles_for_Responsible_Management_and_Education">PRME: Principles for Responsible Management and Education</span></h3> <p>This program engages an international group of institutions, including Elon, to "encourage social responsibility in the creation of a sustainable global economy” (Elon).</p> <h2><span id="Student_organizations">Student organizations</span></h2><br><img alt="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - The Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business ... - Aug 3, 2011 ... The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business aims to provide exceptional learning experiences that facilitate the transformation of ..." src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0XdXHbSdUUI/maxresdefault.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - The Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business ..."><br> <ul><li>Alpha Kappa Psi</li> <li>Beta Alpha Psi</li> <li>Beta Gamma Sigma</li> <li>Economics Club</li> <li>Elon Microfinance Initiative</li> <li>Omicron Delta Epsilon International Economics Honor Society</li> <li>Financial Management Association International</li> <li>Phoenix Capital Investment Club</li> <li>Pi Sigma Epsilon</li> <li>Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)</li> <li>Student Entrepreneurial Enterprise Development (SEED)</li> </ul><h2><span id="Rankings">Rankings</span></h2><br><img alt="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University: Love School of Business - Undergraduate Profile ... - As a leader in transformative business education, the mission of Elon's Martha and Spencer Love School of Business is to provide an exceptional learning ..." src="http://images.businessweek.com/bschools/images/bschools/profiles/2012/2099352/405x225.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University: Love School of Business - Undergraduate Profile ..."><br> <p>In 2013, BusinessWeek evaluated graduate business schools across the nation and, in the category of part-time MBA programs, the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business was ranked 1st in North Carolina, 1st in the Southeast, and 5th in the United States.</p> <p>IN 2014, Princeton Review’s Best 301 Business Schools ranked Martha and Spencer Love School of Business 2nd in the United States for Best Administered MBA Program.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img alt="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University (Love) | Best Business School | US News - The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University offers these departments and concentrations: entrepreneurship, general management, ..." src="http://otile2.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/map/13/2286/3211.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Elon University (Love) | Best Business School | US News"><br> <ul><li>List of business schools in the United States</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/school_finder#da0dbe94-a1f8-3b70-985f-f57a66b79527</span></li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.princetonreview.com/ElonUniversityMarthaandSpencerLoveSchoolofBusiness.aspx</span></li> </ol><ul><li>Official Website</li> <li>Elon Website</li> <li>Stokes, Durward T. (1982). Elon College: Its History and Traditions. Elon: Elon College Alumni Association.</li> </ul><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img alt="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Meet the Dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business ... - Oct 29, 2012 ... Dr. Raghu Tadepalli joined Elon in July 2012. He comes to Elon from Babson College in Massachusetts where he served as Murata Dean and ..." src="https://elonuniversitymba.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/on_the_leather_couch1.jpg?w=300" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Martha And Spencer Love School Of Business - Meet the Dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business ..."><br> <ul><li>List of Faculty - complete listing of the Love School of Business</li> </ul><p></p></h2><br><br>

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<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1eZhqosVyZ8MHyD-bhwP1HgvOapsvTDMGl2kuRweZiFQquGZYWNj3QWz_LXLbuOcLI0CUootbu9v8PgCqCn_pVKrOS-V6z9wEnJXEPYsh7pxRnq1k9GlRYKczfyPF2HvKKvn3TNRQLJM/s1600/fiu-social-705110.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6141938987577336578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1eZhqosVyZ8MHyD-bhwP1HgvOapsvTDMGl2kuRweZiFQquGZYWNj3QWz_LXLbuOcLI0CUootbu9v8PgCqCn_pVKrOS-V6z9wEnJXEPYsh7pxRnq1k9GlRYKczfyPF2HvKKvn3TNRQLJM/s320/fiu-social-705110.jpg" /></a></p><p><b>Florida International University</b> (<b>FIU</b>) is an American public research university in Greater Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park in Miami-Dade County. Florida International University is classified as a research university with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation and a first-tier research university by the Florida Legislature. Founded in 1965, FIU is the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the country's oldest academic honor society.</p> <p>FIU belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and is one of Florida's primary graduate research universities, awarding over 3,400 graduate and professional degrees annually. The university offers 191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools. FIU offers many graduate programs, including architecture, business administration, engineering, law, and medicine, offering 81 master's degrees, 34 doctoral degrees, and 3 professional degrees.</p> <p>FIU is the largest university in South Florida, the 2nd-largest in Florida, and the 7th-largest in the United States. Total enrollment in 2012 was 50,394 students, including 14,177 graduate students, and 2,974 full-time faculty with over 180,000 alumni around the world. In 2012, FIU's research expenditure was $104.6 million, with an endowment of $140 million. The university has an annual budget of $1.07 billion.</p> <p>Since 2007, more valedictorians from South Florida choose to attend FIU than any other university in the country. As Miami's public research university, competition to enroll at FIU has heightened as more students apply each year.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Florida International University - Florida International University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Florida International University (FIU) is an American public research university in Greater Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/Florida_International_University_Seal.png/200px-Florida_International_University_Seal.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Florida International University - Florida International University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"><br> <h3><span id="Founding:_1943.E2.80.9369">Founding: 1943â€"69</span></h3> <p>The story of Florida International University's founding began in 1943, when state Senator Ernest 'Cap' Graham (father of future Florida governor and U.S. senator Bob Graham) presented the state legislature with the initial proposal for the establishment of a public university in South Florida. While his bill did not pass, Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues, advising them of Miami's need for a state university. He felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the city's growing population.</p> <p>In 1964, Senate Bill 711 was introduced by Florida Senator Robert M. Haverfield. It instructed the state Board of Education and the Board of Regents (BOR), to begin planning for the development of a state university in Miami. The bill was signed into law by then-governor W. Haydon Burns in June 1965, marking FIU's official founding.</p> <p>FIU's founding president Charles "Chuck" Perry was appointed by the Board of Regents in July 1969 after a nationwide search. At 32 years old, the new president was the youngest in the history of the State University System and, at the time, the youngest university president in the country. Perry recruited three co-founders, Butler Waugh, Donald McDowell and Nick Sileo. Alvah Chapman, Jr., former <i>Miami Herald</i> publisher and Knight Ridder chairman, used his civic standing and media power to assist the effort. In the 1980s, Chapman became chair of the FIU Foundation Board of Trustees.</p> <p>The founders located the campus on the site of the original Tamiami Airport on the Tamiami Trail (U.S. Route 41) between Southwest 107th and 117th Avenues, just east of where the West Dade Expressway (now the Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike) was being planned. The abandoned airport's air traffic control tower became FIU's first building. It originally had no telephones, no drinking water, and no furniture. Perry decided that the tower should never be destroyed, and it remains on campus, where it is now known variously as the "Ivory Tower," the "Tower Building," or the "Public Safety Tower," and is the former location of the FIU Police Department.</p> <h3><span id="Opening_of_the_doors:_1969.E2.80.9375">Opening of the doors: 1969â€"75</span></h3> <p>In September 1972, 5,667 students entered the new state university, the largest opening day enrollment at the time. Previously, Miami had been the largest city in the country lacking a public baccalaureate-granting institution. Eighty percent of the student body had just graduated from Dade County Junior College (now Miami-Dade College). A typical student entering FIU was 25 years old and attending school full-time while holding down a full-time job. Forty-three percent were married. Negotiations with the University of Miami and Dade County Junior College led FIU to open as an upper-division only school. It would be 9 years before lower-division classes were added.</p> <p>The first commencement, held in June 1973, took place in the reading room of the ground floor of Primera Casa â€" the only place large enough on campus for the ceremony. More than 1,500 family members and friends watched FIU's first class of 191 graduates receive their diplomas.</p> <p>By late 1975, after seven years at the helm, Charles Perry felt he had accomplished his goal and left the University to become president and publisher of the Sunday newspaper magazine <i>Family Weekly</i> (now <i>USA Weekend</i>), one of the country's largest magazines. When he left, there were more than 10,000 students attending classes and a campus with five major buildings and a sixth being planned.</p> <h3><span id="Crosby_and_Wolfe:_1976.E2.80.9386">Crosby and Wolfe: 1976â€"86</span></h3> <p>Harold Crosby, the University's second president and the founding president of the University of West Florida in Pensacola, agreed in 1976 to serve a three-year "interim" term. Under his leadership, FIU's North Miami Campus (which was officially renamed the Bay Vista Campus in 1980, the North Miami Campus in 1987, the North Campus in 1994, and the Biscayne Bay Campus in 2000) â€" located on the former Interama site on Biscayne Bay â€" was opened in 1977. State Senator Jack Gordon was instrumental in securing funding for the development of the campus. President Crosby emphasized the university's international character, prompting the launching of new programs with an international focus and the recruitment of faculty from the Caribbean and Latin America. President Crosby's resignation in January 1979 triggered the search for a "permanent" president.</p> <p>Gregory Baker Wolfe, a former United States diplomat and then-president of Portland State University became FIU's third president, from 1979 to 1986. After stepping down as president, Wolfe taught in the university's international relations department. The student union on the Biscayne Bay Campus is named in his honor.</p> <h3><span id="Maidique:_1986.E2.80.932009">Maidique: 1986â€"2009</span></h3> <p>Cuban born Modesto A. Maidique assumed the presidency at FIU in 1986, becoming the fourth in the university's history. Maidique graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), before joining the private sector. He held academic appointments from MIT, Harvard and Stanford Universities, and has been named to several US Presidential boards and committees.</p> <p>Under his leadership, FIU heralded in an era of unprecedented growth and prestige with all facets of university undergoing major transformations. Physically, the university tripled in size and its enrollment grew to nearly 40,000. During his 23 years as president, the school established the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, the FIU College of Law, the FIU School of Architecture and the Robert Stempel School of Public Health. Also during his tenure, endowment grew from less than $2 million to over $100 million.</p> <p>During Maidique's tenure, the university added 22 new doctoral programs. Research expenditures grew from about $6 million to nearly $110 million as defined by the National Science Foundation. In 2000, FIU attained the highest ranking in the Carnegie Foundation classification system, that of "Doctoral/Research University-Extensive." FIU's faculty has engaged in research and holds far-reaching expertise in reducing morbidity and mortality from cancer, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, diabetes and other diseases, and change the approaches to the delivery of health care by medical, public health, nursing and other healthcare professionals, hurricane mitigation, climate change, nano-technologies, forensic sciences, and the development of biomedical devices.</p> <p>The arts also flourished while Maidique was at the helm, with the university acquiring The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum on Miami Beach and building the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum on its main campus. In athletics, FIU made inroads in becoming a powerhouse athletic university during Maidique's time as president and he championed the eventual establishment of a NCAA football program. Finally, the school earned membership into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honor society.</p> <p>Maidique was the second longest-serving research university president in the nation. Now President Emeritus, he currently serves as the Alvah H. Chapman, Jr., Eminent Scholar Chair in Leadership and Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor of Management at FIU.</p> <h3><span id="Recent_history">Recent history</span></h3> <p>On November 14, 2008, Maidique announced that he would be stepping down and asked FIU's Board of Trustees to begin the search of a new president. He said he would remain president until a new one was found. On April 25, 2009, Mark B. Rosenberg was selected to become FIU's fifth president. He signed a five-year contract with the Board of Trustees. On August 29, 2009, Rosenberg became FIU's fifth president.</p> <p>Having started as a two-year upper division university serving the Miami area, FIU has grown into a much larger traditional university and serves international students. More than $600 million has been invested in campus construction, with the addition of new residence halls, the FIU Stadium, recreation center, student center, and Greek life mansions, as well as the fielding of the Division I-A Golden Panthers football team in 2002.</p> <p>Since 1986, the university established its School of Architecture, College of Law and College of Medicine (named the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in 1999 after Herbert Wertheim donated $20 million to the college, which was matched by state funds and is the largest donation in the university's history, and acquired the historic Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach.</p> <p>FIU now emphasizes research as a major component of its mission and is now classed as a "very high research activity" university under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Sponsored research funding (grants and contracts) from external sources for the year 2007â€"2008 totaled some $110 million. FIU has a budget of over $649 million</p> <p>FIU's School of Hospitality & Tourism Management collaborated with China's Ministry of Education to work on preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics. FIU was the only university in the United States invited to do so. Royal Caribbean is building a $20 million 130,000 sq. ft. training facility for its performers at the school. It is scheduled to open in 2015. The buildings will serve architecture, art, and hospitality students including lighting, set design, marketing, and other internship and training opportunities.</p> <p>On October 2nd, 2014, it was announced that Florida International University would play host to the Miss Universe 2014 pageant on January, 25, 2015. FIU also hosted a talk from President Barack Obama in February 2015.</p> <h3><span id="University_presidents">University presidents</span></h3> <h2><span id="Academics">Academics</span></h2><br><img alt="Florida International University - Florida International University - Miami, FL - Educational ... - Florida International University is on Facebook. To connect with Florida International University, sign up for Facebook today. Sign UpLog In · Cover Photo  ..." src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/488302_10151409621872585_480839018_n.jpg?oh=12bc1b81a77c7b99f82b6054706fc5b0&oe=55E2691D&__gda__=1439788198_9eb3c9131c9bcb79e9a824b8520599ea" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Florida International University - Florida International University - Miami, FL - Educational ..."><br> <p>FIU offers 191 academic programs, 60 baccalaureate programs, 81 master's programs, 3 specialist programs, 34 doctoral programs, and 4 professional program in 23 colleges and schools. In addition, 97% of the faculty have terminal degrees, and 50% currently have tenure at the university with a student/teacher ratio of 27:1.</p> <h2><span id="Enrollment_and_admissions">Enrollment and admissions</span></h2><br><br> <p>Enrollment for Fall 2011 consisted of 47,966 students, 39,147 undergraduates and 8,819 graduate students, including students enrolled in professional programs. Women accounted for 56% of student enrollment and minorities made up 75% of total enrollment. Enrollment included students from all 50 U.S. states and more than 119 countries. The most popular College by enrollment is the College of Arts and Sciences. The freshman retention rate for 2009 was 83%. The fall 2011 incoming freshman class had an average 3.7 GPA, 1139 SAT score, and a 25 ACT score.</p> <p>In 2008, 7% of FIU students were international students. Of those, the most popular countries of origin were: China (20%), India (13%), Jamaica (10%), Venezuela (6%), Colombia (5%), and Trinidad and Tobago (4%).</p> <p>Students from New York, New Jersey, and California make up the largest states for out-of-state students. Floridians make up 90% of the student population. Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, and Orange County make up the largest Florida counties for in-state students.</p> <p>University Park accounted for 87% of the student population and 94% of housing students. The Biscayne Bay Campus accounted for about 13% of the student population, mostly of lower-division undergraduates and students of the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management. Fall 2009, the average age for undergraduates was 23 and 31 for graduate students.</p> <h3><span id="Undergraduate_admissions">Undergraduate admissions</span></h3> <p>In 2010, FIU had an admission rate of 39.5% for first-time-in-college freshmen, the lowest in the State University System. As Miami's public research university, competition to enroll at FIU has heightened as more students apply each year. The preliminary Fall 2012 FIU freshman class had an average SAT score of 1141, a 25 ACT score and a 3.74 high school GPA. The freshmen 2010 acceptance rate was 39%. FIU received 16,626 freshmen applications and admitted 6,545, of which 2,607 enrolled.</p> <h3><span id="Graduate_admissions">Graduate admissions</span></h3> <p>For Fall 2011, 14,722 students applied for graduate admissions throughout the university. Of those, 30.5% were accepted. The Wertheim College of Medicine admitted 4.6% of its applicants, and the College of Law admitted 19%. Admission to the Wertheim College of Medicine is competitive, and the college has one of the highest number of applicants in the state, greater than the University of Florida. For Fall 2010, 3,606 students applied for 43 spots.</p> <p>The FIU School of Architecture is the most competitive in Florida, with the lowest admission rate in the state at 14% (2011). For Fall 2009, the School of Architecture received over 1,000 applications for the first-year Master of Architecture program, with 60 being accepted, giving the School of Architecture a 6% admissions rate. The average high school GPA for the freshman class in the School of Architecture was 3.98, also making it one of the most selective schools at FIU.</p> <h2><span id="Rankings">Rankings</span></h2><br><img alt="Florida International University - FIU Libraries - Principal facilities are located in Miami, Florida. Principal areas of research include religious studies, Latin American history and Everglades restoration." src="http://ee.fiu.edu/sites/all/themes/xc_theme/fiulib_theme/css/images/partners_fiu.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Florida International University - FIU Libraries"><br> <p>In 2010, FIU was listed as one of 16 universities with the toughest grading system nationally.</p> <p>In 2000, FIU became the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, the country's oldest and most distinguished academic honor society. FIU is one of only 78 universities nationwide to hold both designations.</p> <p><i>U.S. News & World Report</i> reported that FIU students are among the least indebted college students in the nation, and recognized the university as a "best buy" in higher education.</p> <p>In 2011, FIU ranked 97th as one of the best values in public higher education in the country, according to a survey by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. FIU is no longer ranked in the top 100.</p> <p>FIU is ranked 2nd in the U.S. for granting bachelor's degrees to minorities, and 6th in granting master's degrees to minorities, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education.</p> <p>From 2007 to 2010, FIU has ranked 1st in the State University System of Florida in energy conservation and sustainability.</p> <h3><span id="College_of_Business">College of Business</span></h3> <p>The College of Business is among the top 5% of elite business schools worldwide accredited by the AACSB International â€" the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.</p> <p><i>U.S. News & World Report</i>‍ '​s "America's Best Colleges" (2015) ranks the undergraduate international business program 8th best in the nation and ranks the Chapman Graduate School of Business 11th in the nation. FIU has been ranked in the top 10 every year since 2005. FIU is also the only university in Florida to be ranked in the top 15.</p> <p><i>BusinessWeek</i> (2008) ranks the College of Business among the top 15% of graduate business schools in the U.S., 1st in South Florida, and in the top 25 among public business schools in the U.S. The Landon Undergraduate School of Business was ranked in the top 5% in the U.S., ranked 8th in the country in the area of "Operations Management", and in the top 20 for "Accounting".</p> <p><i>América Economía</i> ranks the Chapman Graduate School of Business 22nd in the nation.</p> <p>The <i>Financial Times</i> (2008) ranks the Executive MBA in the top 85 MBA programs in the world, and in the top 35 among U.S. Executive MBAs.</p> <p><i>Hispanic Business</i> (since 1998) and <i>Hispanic Trends</i> (since 2003) have placed the College of Business among the top 25 business schools for Hispanics. In 2008, it was ranked #8.</p> <p><i>Fortune Small Business</i> recognized the college as among the best in the United States for entrepreneurship in its listing of “America’s Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs,” (August 2007), in the “Cross-Disciplinary/Cross Pollination” category.</p> <p><i>Hispanic Trends</i> ranks the Executive MBA program 8th in its list of the best Executive MBA programs for Hispanics.</p> <p><i>QS</i> in 2012 ranked FIU's MBA program #35 in North America.</p> <h3><span id="College_of_Law">College of Law</span></h3> <p>The Florida International University College of Law has consistently ranked 1st in the state of Florida with the state's highest bar-passing rates (2005, 2007, and 2009), and 1st in Florida in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam at 96% in 2007.</p> <p>In 2006, 2007, and 2009, the College of Law was ranked 1st in bar passing rates in Florida and in 2007, the College of Law was also ranked 1st in Florida in the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam at 96%. In July 2008, the College of Law achieved a 90.6% passing rate, which placed it 2nd among Florida's ten law schools. In February 2009, the College of Law achieved an 81.5% passing rate, which placed it 1st among Florida's ten law schools.</p> <p>In 2010, the FIU College of Law was ranked among the Top 10 Best Value schools by The National Jurist. The Best Value rating was based on three criteria: bar passage rate, average indebtedness after graduation, and employment nine months after graduation.</p> <p>FIU College of Law also ranked 3rd amongst Florida schools for the scholarly impact of its faculties, behind University of Florida and Florida State University. According to the Leiter Rankings, the College of Law has already made a scholarly impact that dramatically outpaces its academic reputation.</p> <p>FIU has jumped from 132nd to 113th place to currently being ranked 100th place in the U.S. News & World Report 2015 Best Law Schools rankings.</p> <h3><span id="FIU_Model_United_Nations_Program">FIU Model United Nations Program</span></h3> <p>The FIU Model United Nations Program is one of FIU's premier academic programs. FIU MUN is a program of the School of International and Public Affairs and is housed within the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies. Each year between 24 and 32 delegates participate in FIU MUN. The acceptance rate for new delegates is usually between 8 and 10 percent. FIU MUN is currently ranked as the 6th best Model UN Team in North America and is the top ranked team in the State of Florida.</p> <p>FIU MUN also hosts an annual high school conference: Florida International Model United Nations (FIMUN). The conference traditionally hosts over 400 high school students from 20, or more, high schools from Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties.</p> <h3><span id="Other_colleges_and_schools">Other colleges and schools</span></h3> <p>The <i>Journal of Criminal Justice</i> ranks the Criminal Justice program 10th in the U.S. (November 2007)</p> <p>The creative writing program is ranked among the top ten in the country by "Who Runs American Literature?".</p> <p>Faculty of the PhD program in social welfare rank 4th in the United States in their scholarly accomplishment, according to Academic Analytics. FIU faculty were the only social work faculty in Florida to rank in the Top 10. (December 2007)</p> <h2><span id="Campus">Campus</span></h2><br><img alt="Florida International University - FIU Jobs - Message from Director of Recruitment... Congratulations! You are one step closer to joining the Golden Panther Family. Clery Notice Act. In compliance with ..." src="http://hr.fiu.edu/pshr/images/right_banner_new.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Florida International University - FIU Jobs"><br> <p>Florida International University has two major campuses in Miami, the main campus, University Park and its regional campus, the Biscayne Bay Campus, as well as several branch campuses and research facilities throughout South Florida, in Tianjin, China, and in Nervi and Genoa, Italy.</p> <h3><span id="University_Park_.28Modesto_A._Maidique_Campus.29">University Park (Modesto A. Maidique Campus)</span></h3> <p>The main campus, University Park, renamed Modesto Maidique Campus in 2009, encompasses 344 acres (1.4 km²) in the Miami neighborhood of University Park, (from which the area derives its name).</p> <p>University Park houses almost all of the university's colleges and schools as well as all the administrative offices and main university facilities. University Park is also home to the Ronald Reagan Presidential House, the home of FIU's president, the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, the Frost Art Museum, the International Hurricane Research Center, and the university's athletic facilities such as FIU Stadium, FIU Arena, and the FIU Baseball Stadium.</p> <p>Located five blocks north of University Park, is the 38-acre (145,000 m²) Engineering Center which houses a part of the College of Engineering and Computing and is the home of FIU's Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility. The Engineering Center is serviced by the CATS Shuttle, FIU's student buses, which run throughout the day on weekdays connecting the two parts of campus.</p> <h4><span id="University_Park_history">University Park history</span></h4> <p>Construction on the campus began in 1965 with the complete destruction of Tamiami Airport in 1969. At the time, very little was located around FIU, and the campus was referred to as University Park. As Miami grew west, the area came to be known as University Park after the university's campus name.</p> <p>Until the early-1990s, aerial pictures of the campus clearly revealed the features of the airport that used to occupy the land until 1969. Construction has removed all of these features, and only the University Tower remains as a memory of the university's past. University Park is a lush, heavily vegetated campus, with many lakes and a 15-acre nature preserve, as well as a palm arboretum and has over 90 buildings. As of late 2009, current construction at University Park includes the Nursing and Health Sciences Building, the School of International and Public Affairs Building, and a fifth parking garage.</p> <p>On June 12, 2009, FIU's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename the University Park campus to the Modesto Maidique Campus. However, the change created a large backlash from the FIU community, as many felt it unfitting to name the campus after him. A campaign by FIU students and alumni was created to revert the name change, and to keep the name University Park. A Facebook group, "No to Maidique's Campus" with over 2,000 supporters has made national news, in many newspapers, TV news stations, and collegiate magazines, supporting to keep the name "University Park".</p> <h4><span id="Main_University_Park_buildings.5B94.5D.5B95.5D">Main University Park buildings</span></h4> <h3><span id="Biscayne_Bay_Campus">Biscayne Bay Campus</span></h3> <p>The Biscayne Bay Campus in North Miami is FIU's second-largest campus. It was opened in 1977 by Harold Crosby and occupies about 200 acres (809,000 m²), directly on the bay and adjacent to the Oleta River State Park, with which FIU has a research partnership. Access to these resources inspired the creation of a marine biology program on the Biscayne Bay Campus, which has become one of the university's most recognized programs. The Biscayne Bay Campus also houses the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Aquatic Center, and the Kovens Conference Center. The Golden Panther Express, FIU's student buses, connect the main campus and the Biscayne Bay Campus throughout the day on weekdays.</p> <h3><span id="Regional_centers">Regional centers</span></h3> <p>FIU also has other smaller regional centers located throughout South Florida in both Miami-Dade County and Broward County, serving the local communities in research, continuing studies, and in culture. In Broward County, there is the FIU Pines Center in Pembroke Pines, opened to satisfy the demand from Broward County residents. This center serves mostly night students in programs within the College of Business Administration. In Miami-Dade County, there are four regional FIU facilities, the Downtown Miami Center, the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in Miami Beach (Washington Avenue and 10th St), the FIU-Florida Memorial research center in Miami Gardens, and a research site in Homestead.</p> <h4><span id="Downtown_Miami_Center">Downtown Miami Center</span></h4> <p>FIU has a center on Brickell Avenue in Downtown Miami at 1101 Brickell Avenue dubbed "FIU Downtown on Brickell". FIU's College of Business Administration has had classes at the Burdines Building on Flagler Street and the Metropolitan Center had offices at 150 SE 2nd Ave since 2004. In August 2011, FIU expanded its Downtown center to 1101 Brickell with the expansion of course offerings for the College of Business Administration and the School of International and Public Affairs, as well as with FIU's research center, the Metropolitan Center. Most programs in Downtown are graduate-level evening courses geared for Downtown professionals and residents. As of Spring 2011, there were approximately 500 students enrolled at the Downtown center, with plans to grow the center to over 2,000 students by 2021.</p> <h3><span id="International_campuses">International campuses</span></h3> <p>FIU also has international campuses in Asia and Europe. The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum has a regional facility in Nervi, Italy, the School of Architecture has facilities in Genoa, Italy for FIU's upper-division and graduate Architecture students, and the Florida International University Tianjin Center in China, from which a branch of the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management operates. The Tianjin Center was constructed as a cooperative venture with the local municipal government and was opened in the Summer of 2006. FIU has also exchanged agreements with the American University in Dubai so that FIU students can now take a semester abroad in Dubai.</p> <h3><span id="Student_housing">Student housing</span></h3> <p>Florida International University's student housing facilities are managed by the Office of Housing and Residential Life and are available on both the main campus and the Biscayne Bay Campus. Currently, there are 3,009 beds distributed throughout 10 apartment buildings and 6 residence halls. At University Park, these are the University Park Apartments, Panther Hall, the University Park Towers, Everglades Hall, Lakeview Hall North, and Lakeview Hall South. At the Biscayne Bay Campus, housing is available in Bay Vista Hall. Together, approximately 7% of FIU's student population lives on-campus in student housing (not including Greek housing).</p> <p>The Office of Housing and Residential Life also offers optional communities in the residence halls. These communities include the Architecture and Arts Community, for students majoring in Architecture or art-related majors, Honors Place for Honors College students, F.Y.R.S.T. (First Year Residents Succeeding Together) for all freshmen in any major, F.Y.R.S.T. Explore, for undecided freshmen, Leader's in Residence for students interested in civic service and leadership opportunities and the Law Community for College of Law students.</p> <p>As of 2011, plans are underway for two new residence halls for 1,240 students, called Parkview Hall to be built on the Panther Hall parking lot, north of FIU Stadium. Parkview Hall will be built in two phases in two separate buildings, each housing 620 and 600 students respectively, to be completed by Fall 2013 and Fall 2016.</p> <h3><span id="Libraries">Libraries</span></h3> <p>FIU has six libraries, Green Library, FIU's main library; the Glenn Hubert Library (Biscayne Bay Campus), the Wolfsonian Library, the Engineering Library, the Law Library, and the Medical Library. The Green Library, Hubert Library, and Engineering Library Service Center are under the direction of the Dean of University Libraries. Other libraries are overseen by their appropriate schools or organizations.</p> <h4><span id="Green_Library">Green Library</span></h4> <p>The Green Library is FIU's main library, and is the largest building on campus, and one of the largest library buildings in the Southeastern United States. Originally designed by Architect David M. Harper in 1973, the Green Library was expanded by the architecture firm M. C. Harry & Associates, Inc. in the early 1990s to its current eight floors, with a capacity to expand to a total of 15 floors if necessary. The eight-floor structure was built over, through, and around the original three-story library while it was still in use.</p> <p>The first floor has numerous classrooms, auditorium spaces, and support services for students, such as tutoring, the writing center, and technology assistance. Also on the first floor is a snack stop and a Starbucks. The second floor has the reference section, cartography (GIS Center), circulation, and numerous computer and printing labs. The third floor is the home of the Medical Library, and includes study lounges as well as a resource center for students of the Honors College. The fourth floor houses the special collections department and university archives. The fifth floor is the home of the School of Architecture Library, as well as the music and audiovisual collections. The sixth and seventh floors are strictly quiet floors, and contain the general book collection plus numerous student study lounges. The eighth floor contains the library's administration offices and technical services departments.</p> <h4><span id="Engineering_Library_Service_Center">Engineering Library Service Center</span></h4> <p>The Engineering Library is located on the second floor of the main building of the Engineering Center.</p> <h4><span id="Law_Library">Law Library</span></h4> <p>The Law Library opened in 2002, and has three floors, with all three holding the library's general collection. The third floor has a two-story, quiet reading room, as well as numerous study lounges. Although the Law Library is restricted to Law students, other students may use the library for research purposes.</p> <h4><span id="Medical_Library">Medical Library</span></h4> <p>The FIU Medical Library opened in August 2009 at the same time as the opening of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. The Medical Library offers a rich array of resources, services, and instructional support to advance the teaching and learning, discovery, and healthcare programs of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and is currently located on the third floor of Green Library building. Future construction of buildings for the College of Medicine will include a new space for the Medical Library outside of Green Library, based upon funding and space availability.</p> <h4><span id="Glenn_Hubert_Library">Glenn Hubert Library</span></h4> <p>The Glenn Hubert Library, previously named the 'Biscayne Bay Library', is the library for the Biscayne Bay Campus. Although a smaller structure, three stories, the Hubert Library is nonetheless important to the research and information needs of the BBC Campus students and faculty. All services at the Green Library are available in the Hubert Library.</p> <h4><span id="Wolfsonian_Library">Wolfsonian Library</span></h4> <p>The Wolfsonian Library is located at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum in South Beach, on the corner of Washington Avenue and 10th Street. The collection focuses exclusively on architecture, art, design, and history of the Western World from 1885 to 1945. The library serves mostly as a research library with an extensive collection of primary sources. For students, prior approval from the staff is needed to enter the library.</p> <p>Together, the entire FIU university-wide Library holdings include over 2,097,207 volumes, 52,511 current serials, 3,587,663 microform units, and 163,715 audio visual units.</p> <h3><span id="International_Hurricane_Research_Center">International Hurricane Research Center</span></h3> <p>The International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) is the nation's only university-based research facility dedicated to mitigating the damage tropical storms inflict on people, the economy, and the environment. The IHRC is home to four institutes: the Laboratory for Coastal Research; the Laboratory for Social Science Research; the Laboratory for Insurance, Financial & Economic Research; and the Laboratory for Wind Engineering Research, as well as the FIU Wall of Wind. This first-of-its-kind testing system consists of a series of large industrial fans powered by race car engines. It produces a wind field equivalent to a Category Four hurricane. Not to be confused with the National Hurricane Center (also located at University Park), the IHRC is located on the western side of the campus.</p> <h3><span id="Construction_and_expansion">Construction and expansion</span></h3> <p>In the early 2000s (decade), emphasis at FIU was placed on growth in degree programs and student enrollment. Since 2005 however, student enrollment has been capped and emphasis is now being placed on improving the quality of the existing academic programs. With the addition of the College of Medicine, the demand for facilities and classroom space has greatly increased. Future projects and/or buildings under construction include:</p> <h4><span id="Construction:_2012_and_onward.5B118.5D">Construction: 2012 and onward</span></h4> <ul><li>Ambulatory Care Center (Stempel Complex) â€" to be completed by 2013</li> <li>Expansion to FIU Stadium â€" Expansion for 45,000 fans to be done in four separate phases (Phase I and II have been completed, Phase III and IV are projected to be completed from around 2011 to 2013)</li> <li>Stocker Astroscience Center â€" to be completed in December 2012</li> <li>Parkview Hall- 1,200-bed residence hall, broke ground in March 2012</li> <li>Stempel Medical Complex â€" to be completed in late 2013</li> <li>Student Academic Support Center â€" to be completed in late 2013</li> <li>Alumni Center- funding plans underway</li> </ul><h3><span id="Campus_transportation">Campus transportation</span></h3> <p>The main campus is located on the south side of the Tamiami Trail (U.S. Route 41/SW 8th Street) between SW 107th and SW 117th Avenue next to Florida's Turnpike and near the western terminus of the Dolphin Expressway.</p> <p>Miami-Dade Transit serves University Park with Metrobus lines 8, 11, 24, and 71. Metrobus lines 75 and 135 serve the Biscayne Bay Campus. Bus lines 8, 11 and the 24 directly connect FIU with Downtown Miami.</p> <p>Two distinct FIU-operated bus lines are available. The CATS Shuttle runs between University Park and the Engineering Center, and the Golden Panther Express, from University Park to the Biscayne Bay Campus.</p> <p>The CATS Shuttle connects University Park from the Graham Center bus stop and the Engineering and Computer Sciences Building, to the Engineering Center on Flagler Street and 107th Avenue. The CATS Shuttle is free and runs roughly every 30 minutes between 7am to 10pm Monday through Friday. The Golden Panther Express connects the Biscayne Bay Campus to University Park. It runs from 7am to 11pm Monday through Thursday, 7am to approximately 8pm on Fridays, and costs $2.50 each way. The Golden Panther Express departs from the Graham Center bus stop at the main campus, and the Academic 1 bus stop at the Biscayne Bay Campus.</p> <p>There has long been plans for Metrorail, the local heavy rail rapid transit system to be extended west, with two proposed lines terminating at Florida International University's main campus. This would ease traffic and parking problems at and around the main campus.</p> <h2><span id="Student_life">Student life</span></h2><br><img alt="Florida International University - Department of Architecture - 3 days ago ... Florida International University Department of Architecture. Modesto A. Maidique Campus Paul L. Cejas School of Architecture Building" src="http://carta.fiu.edu/architecture/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/04/Growlight-Brochure-5_Page_1.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Florida International University - Department of Architecture"><br> <h3><span id="Greek_life">Greek life</span></h3> <p>FIU has over 30 fraternities and sororities divided into four governing councils: the Interfraternity Council (IFC), the Panhellenic Council (PC), the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), and the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC). The Order of Omega, a Greek honor society, has had a chapter at the university since 1991 and represents the academic top 3% of FIU Greeks.</p> <p>The Interfraternity Council (IFC) comprises 13 fraternities. The Panhellenic Council (PC) is made up of 7 sororities. The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) comprises 6 historically black organizations, (4 fraternities and 2 sororities). The Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) consists of 9 cultural organizations for Latinos, Asians, and South Asians, (5 fraternities and 4 sororities).</p> <h3><span id="Student_media">Student media</span></h3> <p>FIUSM is the umbrella organization for The Beacon, the student-run newspaper; FIUSM.com, the student-run news and media website; and WRGP Radiate FM, the student-run radio station. Each organization's directors are selected by the Student Media board on a yearly basis.</p> <p><i>The Beacon</i> is the FIU student newspaper since 1965. <i>The Beacon</i> is published thrice weekly in a compact format during the Fall and Spring semesters (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and once a week on Wednesday during the Summer.<i>The Beacon</i> is available free campus-wide in the residence halls, the Graham Center and all campus buildings.</p> <p><i>FIUSM.com</i> is the FIU student-run media website since 2008. FIUSM.com publishes content generated by the Student Media team, including text, audio, and video.</p> <p>WRGP Radiate FM is FIU's student-run radio station since 1984. It broadcasts on 95.3 MHz at the University Park Campus and on 96.9 MHz at the Biscayne Bay Campus. The signal originates in Homestead on 88.1 MHz and a broadcast translator rebroadcasts WRGP's signal to the University Park Campus and later again translated to the Biscayne Bay Campus.</p> <h3><span id="Arts_and_culture">Arts and culture</span></h3> <p>FIU has two museums, the Frost Art Museum and the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. The Frost Art Museum is located on Modesto A. Maidique campus and was opened in 1977 as The Art Museum at Florida International University. The Frost Art Museum's Permanent Collection consists of a broad array of art objects from ancient cultural artifacts to contemporary works of art. The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum is located in Miami Beach and promotes the collection, preservation and understanding of decorative art and design from the period from 1885 to 1945. FIU also has a large sculpture collection, named the Sculpture Park at FIU, with sculptures from such prominent artists as Anthony Caro, Jacques Lipchitz, Daniel Joseph Martinez, and Tony Rosenthal. Many different art structures, statues, paintings and mosaics can be seen throughout campus in gardens, buildings, walkways, and on walls.</p> <p>The School of Music presents an annual series of concerts that showcase talent in a variety of genres. School of Music at FIU offers a dynamic learning environment for informed, creative musicians. Students are fully involved in their chosen fields, where they can recognize clearly what they need to learn in order to become contributors to those fields. FIU's School of Music embraces an evolving world for its possibilities and the new opportunities and challenges that it affords, while providing the tools necessary to empower young musicians in their quest to carve out careers. FIU School of Music's concert season incorporates music of all styles including jazz, early music, chamber music, choral/vocal, contemporary music, wind, and opera theater performed by world class musicians and ensembles. Many masterclasses and lectures are also open to the public and offered at no charge. The season runs from August through April each year.</p> <p>The Department Theatre presents a season of four professionally designed, produced and directed productions each year that serve as a laboratory for students to put their learning into practice. This Main Stage season is presented at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. In addition to Main Stage productions students write, direct and perform productions in the Student Theatre Lab Studio, the annual New Plays Festival, and the summer Alternative Theatre Festival. The summer Alternative Theatre Festival includes a development project of a new work by an established playwright, a faculty directed piece, one student directed piece, and may include Alumni showcase and reunion productions.</p> <p>FIU annually hosts the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival in South Beach through the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, a major national culinary event.</p> <h3><span id="Student_Government_Association">Student Government Association</span></h3> <p>The Student Government Association presides over and funds the over 300 student clubs and organizations and honor societies at the university and has an operating budget of over $14 million. The Student Government Association is split into three branches, with the Executive, a Legislative Student Senate, and Judicial Supreme Court. Due to the unique nature of a multi-campus university, the President of Modesto Maidique Campus (University Park) serves as the Student Representative on the University's Board of Trustees, while the President for the Biscayne Bay Campus serves as a member of the Foundation Board.</p> <p>The Student Government contains five separate governing councils- the Student Programming Council, the Council for Student Organizations, which represents the over 200 or more student clubs and organizations, the Homecoming Council, Black Student Union, and Panther Power, the student spirit group. The Panther Power group can be seen in all Golden Panthers athletic events along with the Golden Panthers Band, the Golden Dazzlers dance team and the Golden Panthers cheerleaders. In 2004, MTV's Campus Invasion Tour was held at FIU, bringing numerous bands such as Hoobastank to FIU.</p> <h3><span id="Order_of_the_Torch">Order of the Torch</span></h3> <p>The Order of the Torch is a semi-secret honorary leadership society akin to other secret societies in the state such as Florida Blue Key at the University of Florida, and the Iron Arrow Honor Society at the University of Miami. The organization is rumored to have been founded in 2003 as a way of organizing student leadership to restructure student life to mirror that of a traditional university. Members now include students, faculty, staff and community members, including FIU alumni Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez (class of 1974). Top leadership in Student Government, Homecoming, and the most elite campus fraternal organizations, rank among its members.</p> <h3><span id="Traditions">Traditions</span></h3> <h4><span id="Spirit_traditions">Spirit traditions</span></h4> <p>FIU has many traditions from student spirit groups, alumni association events and student spirit events. Panther Rage, one of FIU's largest student spirit groups are seen at all the athletics events.</p> <p>FIU also holds many Golden Panther spirit events throughout the year. Some of these include, Panther Camp held in the Summer prior to the Fall term for incoming freshmen, where students spend a weekend in a retreat center learning all the traditional Golden Panther cheers, chants, traditions meeting other incoming students. Started in 2006, Panther Camp has grown quickly in popularity from only 25 participants in 2006 to over 120 participants in 2007. In 2008, Panther Camp expanded to two camps with a combined total of 240 freshman participants. Panther Camp is expected to grow in size for Summer 2010, as the waiting list has continued to double from year to year. Freshmen who participate are more likely to get involved in Student Life than other students.</p> <p>Week of Welcome, usually held the first or second week of the Fall semester holds many spirit events, such as Trail of the Torch. Trail of the Torch is another university tradition that has continued to grow annually, where a pep rally is held in the Housing Quad with music, food, giveaways and dancing. After the pep rally, the torch of knowledge is lit and blue and gold candles are distributed to the crowd for the procession around the campus, trailing the torch from the Housing Quad to the torch in front of the Primera Casa building. Rage Week and Homecoming Week are other major back-to-back spirit weeks held in the Fall semester. They include the Homecoming Parade, Greek Row parties, Homecoming football game, Blue/Gold Party, pep rallies and other Panther Rage events.</p> <h4><span id="Alma_Mater">Alma Mater</span></h4> <h4><span id="Superstitions_and_legends">Superstitions and legends</span></h4> <p>There are many other traditions at FIU that are not spirit-related. The "Kissing Bridge" tradition in Turtle Pond in between the Ryder Business Building and Green Library. The tradition is that if you kiss someone on the bridge you will stay with them forever. The top floor of Green Library is said to be haunted; students have reported a friendly ghost that wanders the halls minutes before the library closes at night. Another superstition is that if a student steps on the seal engraved in front of the Graham Center and in the WUC at the Biscayne Bay Campus, the university's student union, it is said that they will delay their graduation for many years, or never graduate at all, and thus even on crowded days, students go around the seal to avoid stepping on it.</p> <h2><span id="Athletics">Athletics</span></h2><br><img alt="Florida International University - Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management - 3 days ago ... Florida International University. Want to learn how you can study abroad in the Marriott Tianjin Program? Come to an upcoming information ..." src="http://hospitality.fiu.edu/media/price_destinobles_1-700x368.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Florida International University - Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management"><br> <p>Florida International University has seventeen varsity sports teams, named the Panthers. The Panthers' athletic colors are blue and gold, and compete in the NCAA Division I as part of Conference USA in all sports. Three main sports facilities serve as home venues for Panther athletics. The Panthers football team plays at FIU Stadium ("The Cage"), the men and women's basketball and volleyball teams play at the FIU Arena, and the men's baseball team plays at FIU Baseball Stadium. Other athletics venues include the Aquatic Center, Tennis Complex, softball fields, and various other recreational fields. FIU Arena underwent expansion to add more seating and a modernization of the exterior that was completed in late 2011. On July 1, 2013, FIU became a member of Conference USA.</p> <p>Traditional rivals of the FIU Panthers include Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami. The Panthers football team competes in the annual Shula Bowl, a yearly football game played for the Don Shula Award against in-state rival Florida Atlantic University. Due to this competition in the Shula Bowl, the rivalry between the two schools has grown, with the rivalry extending into the men's baseball and basketball teams as well.</p> <p>The Panthers football team plays home games at FIU Stadium nicknamed "The Cage" and are currently coached by Ron Turner. In 2005, the Panthers moved to the Sun Belt Conference, making their transition from Division I-FCS to Division I-FBS complete. In their first season in the conference, the Panthers began by finishing 5â€"6. FIU's athletics department has produced many professional and Olympic athletes, including current players in Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, National Basketball Association, National Football League and the Women's National Basketball Association. Notable alumni include Mike Lowell (Boston Red Sox), Raja Bell (Utah Jazz), and Carlos Arroyo (Boston Celtics).</p> <p>In 2009, FIU hired NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas as head coach of the men's basketball team. In 2010, the Panthers football team finished the season #1 as Sun Belt Conference champions, and went on to the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl against Toledo on December 26, 2010. The game was won 34â€"32 in a fourth quarter play that became known as the "Motor City Miracle."</p> <h2><span id="Notable_alumni">Notable alumni</span></h2><br><img alt="Florida International University - University Graduate School: FIU - About Us. Contact Us · Request Information · UGS Staff Directory · Dean's Welcome · Annual Report · Campus Maps · Webmaster · Future Students." src="http://gradschool.fiu.edu/images/Orientation-Banner-Summer.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Florida International University - University Graduate School: FIU"><br> <p>With over 180,000 alumni around the world, the FIU Golden Panthers constitute one of the fastest-growing university alumni groups in the state of Florida. FIU graduates more than 10,000 students a year and confers more than half of all degrees awarded by universities in Miami. Alumni services is run by the FIU Alumni Association, which sponsors numerous alumni events, galas, and ceremonies annually.</p> <p>In conjunction with the Office of Alumni Relations, the Division of External Affairs publishes a quarterly news and alumni magazine, "FIU Magazine". FIU Magazine is distributed free of charge to all FIU alumni, faculty and donors.</p> <center> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional" style="max-width: 815px;_width: 815px;"><li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> </li> </ul></center> <h2><span id="FIU_in_television_and_entertainment">FIU in television and entertainment</span></h2><br><br> <p>FIU's campus has been the set for many films, television shows, and music videos. One of the earliest television shows to have filmed at FIU was <i>Miami Vice</i> in 1985. In the episode, "The Fix", the FIU Arena was used as one of the scenes. The TV show <i>Burn Notice</i> has also filmed various episodes at FIU, with scenes at the College of Business Buildings and the Diaz-Balart College of Law Building. In 2007, Chris Brown filmed the music video for his song "Kiss Kiss" at FIU, with scenes near the Frost Art Museum and around the Graham Center. Various telenovelas for Telemundo and Univision have filmed television episodes at FIU as well. In 2007, Telemundo's <i>Pecados Ajenos</i> was filmed in the Graham Center.</p> <p>In 2009, TLC's <i>What Not to Wear</i> filmed an episode on campus at the Management and Advanced Research Center. In October 2009, former CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez broadcast his CNN show from the Graham Center at FIU. The new A&E show The Glades shot an episode at University Park, using the Frost Art Museum as a background and the Health and Life Sciences building as the façade for a NASA Administrative Building.</p> <p>In 2011, the FIU Drumline appeared in the music video "Champion" by Nelly. The FIU Band and Drumline continue to take part in many parades, and shows, including appearances on Univision, the 2011 Florida Lottery commercial, and many others.</p> <p>In 2012, G4TV held the Northeast and Southeast regional qualifying rounds of the television show American Ninja Warrior at FIU. The competition took place in the traffic loop between the School of Architecture and the College of Business.</p> <p>In 2015, Florida International University hosted the Miss Universe 2014 pageant in the FIU Arena.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <p></p> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Official website</li> <li>Official athletics website</li> </ul><p><span></span></p> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-162"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2014_Endowment_Market_Values_Revised.pdf</span></li> </ol></h2><br><br>

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