Goal 6: Enhanced Facilities

Miami's campus is obviously more than a beautiful environment for students. Miami's facilities, including our grounds, buildings, infrastructure, equipment, and technology, are essential to the work of the campus. Each contributes to the attraction and retention of top students and faculty and supports meaningful interactions across constituencies and disciplines to create the lively spirit of inquiry and investigation that characterizes the university.

Accomplishments

• Exterior Campus Master Plan Developed - Stewardship of Miami's verdant and historic campus is important to all our consituencies, and a new master plan, completed in 2001, outlines steps and strategies to ensure that our Oxford campus maintains its distinctive beauty and character for generations to come.
• Long-Range Facilities Plan Created - Examining issues such as capacity and overcrowding in academic and recreational buildings, vehicular and pedestrian traffic and residence hall condition and functionality, this new strategic plan sets forth an agenda for the next 20 years.
• New Division of Information Technology Approved - Because the ways that information is communicated is ever-changing, Miami has created a new vice-presidential division devoted to the application of technology in administration, teaching, research, and learning. In 2003, this division spearheaded and completed a long-term strategic plan for information and learning technology which will help us to stake out a leadership position in this increasingly vital area of higher education.
• New Buildings Erected and Others Renovated – Since embarking on the First in 2009 initiative, Miami has created a new student health center, parking structure and apartment-style residence halls. Plans are underway for many other new structures, including a new building for Psychology and the School of Engineering & Applied Science. Yager Stadium, Hanna House, McMillan Hall, McGuffey Hall and the Heritage Room of Shriver Center have been renovated.