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The Women's Advisory Committe on Academic Affairs, created in 1972, was appointed to serve as a liaison between the Academic Affairs Divison and the Women's Commission. The representatives were members of the Women's Commission and represented all academic sectors of the University. They were asked to advise the administration on specific problems of women and to make the administration aware of any procedures that might demonstrate unequal treatment of women.

University Communications provides communications, marketing, and public relations services that advance the University of Miami’s mission as well as its reputation and identity as a leading academic and research institution. Through its communications to the media and the print and electronic materials it produces, it disseminates information about the programs, research, and activities of the University to external and internal audiences. The division also handles online social networking as well as video and new technology projects.

University Communications provides communications, marketing, and public relations services that advance the University of Miami’s mission as well as its reputation and identity as a leading academic and research institution. Through its communications to the media and the print and electronic materials it produces, it disseminates information about the programs, research, and activities of the University to external and internal audiences. The division also handles online social networking as well as video and new technology projects.

In the spring of 1967 the University of Miami extended formal recognition to the United Black Students group, which was organized and led by Harold Long (student representative) and William Butler (Vice President for Student Affairs).

The Undergraduate Student Body Government is made up of the Executive Branch, the Senate, the Court, and the Elections Commission. The Student Body Government plans and implements campus-wide initiatives affecting academics, campus life, and dining, among other activities.

Beginning in 1948 as the first collegiate nursing program in South Florida, the School of Nursing and Health Studies was formally established in 1968. The curriculum integrates evidence based practice, cutting edge simulated learning and real world experience. Rigorous academic and clinical preparation prepares the graduates to work in a variety of healthcare settings with diverse populations.

The University of Miami opened in the fall of 1926 with two academic units: the Conservatory of Music (later called the School of Music), and the College of Arts and Sciences. The School was founded by Bertha M. Foster, who became the University’s first music dean. It was renamed the Frost School of Music in 2003 in honor of a landmark naming gift by Dr. Phillip and Patricia Frost, ardent supporters of the arts in Miami.

The School of Music has survived many decades of change and growth to become a national music leader in higher education. It offers degrees in instrumental performance, vocal performance, music engineering, music education, music composition, and musical theatre. It also offers Studio Music and Jazz degrees for instrumentalists and vocalists. Its Studio, Music, and Jazz Program is consistently known as among the best in the nation. It was also the first music school in the nation to offer the innovative degree in Music Business and Entertainment Industries, as well as boasting a hands-on music therapy program.

The University of Miami School of Medicine (now known as the Miller School of Medicine), is an academic medical center located in downtown Miami. It serves South Florida, South America and the Caribbean through education, research, patient care and community service. Founded in 1952 as Florida’s first accredited medical school, the Miller School of Medicine provides medical staff for the nationally renowned University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center and the University of Miami Hospital.

The University of Miami School of Law, founded in 1926, began with a small graduating class of fourteen students. Today UM is one of the nation's leading institutions of legal education. Faculty members are leaders in their scholarly and professional fields which benefits the highly talented and diverse student body through a rich and challenging curriculum and a wide variety of professional skills training opportunities. The School of Law has more than 20,000 alumni practicing law throughout the United States and nearly eighty countries around the world.

The Department of Architectural Engineering was created in the School of Engineering, now College of Engineering, in 1950. In 1961, the Department of Architectural Engineering changes name to Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering. Later in 1978 the department is renamed as Department of Architecture and Planning. By 1983, after President Foote's arrival, the Department of Architecture and Planning separates from School of Engineering and Architecture to form The School of Architecture. New campus quarters established at Building 49 (Dickinson Drive) and part of first floor of adjacent Eaton student residences.

Education courses were offered at the university from the day its doors opened in 1926. Graduate courses in education were first offered in 1941. During the 1950’s the School of Education offered a four-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Education degree and a Master of Education degree. The School first offered a Doctor of Education and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1959. In 1963, the University’s Graduate School was formed and provided oversight for all the university’s various graduate programs. The School continued to expand, offering many additional undergraduate and graduate programs. In 2011, the School became the School of Education & Human Development to better capture the idea of the wide-ranging scope of the educational and developmental activities contained within the mission of the school.

In May 1957, the University of Miami and the American Society of Magazine Photographers held the first Wilson Hicks International Conference on Visual Journalism, nicknamed "The Miami Conference." Co-founded by LIFE executive editor and UM faculty member Wilson Hicks, this photojournalism conference dealt with "problems confronting the photographer, the writer and the editor in taking and making use of the photograph which, next to the word, is the most important instrument of communication in today's world." For three days, editors, writers, and photographers exchanged ideas about creative techniques and processes during panel discussions.

From 1957 to the mid-1970s and again from 1995 to 1997, "The Miami Conference" became a major rendezvous for visual communicators. Countless renowned speakers participated over the years, including Magnum Photos' Ernst Haas, author-photographer David Douglas Duncan, LIFE's Margaret Bourke-White, New York Times' Kathy Ryan, and National Geographic Magazine's Thomas Kennedy

The School of Communication was established as a separate unit of the University in 1985. It had previously been a department in the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to its various degree programs, its responsibilities include the student newspaper the Miami Hurricane, the Ibis yearbook, the radio station WVUM, the Bill Cosford Cinema, and the UMTV cable system. In 2001 the various divisons of the School were able to move into one location in the new Frances L. Wolfson Building.