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The Office of Admissions processes the applications submitted by students applying to the university. The applications are evaluated and a decision is made whether or not to admit the prospective student.

All activities related to commencement ceremonies are managed by the Office of Commencement of the University of Miami.

The ceremonial mace in the collection of the University Archives was donated by the Office of Commencement of the University of Miami in 2010.  It is a symbolic weapon to protect the ideals of truth, justice, and leaning carried at the head of the academic procession during the commencement ceremony by the Grand Marshal, whose symbolic duty is the protection of the University, its people, and its processes.

There are no documents on the ceremonial maces used by the university in the past and present, but the Archives assumes that the item donated was the second mace used from 1950s to 1980s.  Historical images of the first and second maces are available in the University of Miami Historical Photograph Collection.

According to the Office of Commencement, the current mace dates back to 1986, which was sculpted by UM professor of art William Ward.

The Office of Financial Assistance, formerly known as the Department of Student Financial Aid Services, provides advisement and assistance services for the students regarding educational costs.

The Office of Media Relations is responsible for communicating information regarding the University’s achievements, faculty research, programs, and events to the local, regional, national, and international news media. The staff also responds to daily media requests for information and faculty experts. The Media Relations staff works closely with the Department of Public Safety to manage all external communications in emergency situations and play a key role in crisis contingency planning.

The Office of Media Relations is responsible for communicating information regarding the University’s achievements, faculty research,  programs, and events to the local, regional, national, and international news media. The staff also responds to daily media requests for information and faculty experts. The Media Relations staff works closely with the Department of Public Safety to manage all external communications in emergency situations and play a key role in crisis contingency planning.

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, sometimes known as the Office of Planning and Institutional Research and now named the Office of Planning, Institutional Research, and Assessment (PIRA), engages in a wide range of institutional research and assessment activities as part of its mission to support planning, policy analysis, institutional management, and assessment by analyzing student, faculty, and other data to address issues related to a wide range of topics. The Office provides services in two areas: 1) planning and institutional research and 2) assessment and accreditation for the university. PIRA publishes a pocket-size Fact Finder each fall summarizing key statistics about the institution; in addition, the office produces a more comprehensive Fact Book, available in the fall, spring, and summer, that includes five-year trends and data by school, college, and department.

The Office of Student Employment (OSE) is part of the Division of Enrollment Management, which is responsible for assisting and guiding degree-seeking students through the job search and placement process while attending the University of Miami.

The Office of the Registrar is charged with the overall responsibility for activities relating to course registration, students' academic records, course scheduling and enrollment and academic systems maintenance.

The Pep Club was established in 1950 to promote student enthusiasm at the University. Its Hail to the Spirit student magazine was devoted to furthering school spirit.

Planet Kreyol was founded in 1993 at the University of Miami as the Haitian Student Organization and later renamed as Planet Kreyol. Their mission is to promote cultural awareness while servicing the community and preserving the ancestry of Haiti.

The University of Miami Press published its first book, 'Atlantic Coral Reefs' by F. Walton Smith, in 1948. The Business Services of the university took over the operation in 2002, but new titles have not been published since then. There are 315 University of Miami Press publications listed in Richter's online catalog.

Courses in architecture were first offered at the University of Miami as early as 1926, however programs in architecture and the allied arts did not survive the effects of the Great Miami Hurricane, and the Great Depression. Architectural engineering courses resurfaced under the auspices of the School of Engineering in the late 1940s following World War II, and by 1983, during President Thaddeus "Tad" Foote's administration, the Department of Architecture became independent from the School of Engineering developing into the School of Architecture proper. New campus quarters established at Building 49 (Dickinson Drive) and part of first floor of the adjacent Eaton student residences. The first Dean of the School was John Thomas Regan (1983-1989).

The UM School of Business (now named the School of Business Administration) was founded in 1929 under President Bowman Foster Ashe. Ashe lured national recognized economist John Thom Holdsworth of Pittsburgh to teach economics and to later serve as the School’s dean. In the 1940s the School expanded its undergraduate offerings to include majors in accounting, commerce, finance and political science. The School started its full-time MBA program in 1948.

In 1973, the school established one of the first Executive MBA programs. In 1979, the school added a health care specialization to its Executive MBA offerings with what is now the Executive MBA in Health Sector Management and Policy program. In the late 1970s, the School gained a permanent facility with the completion of the George W. Jenkins Building and the Elsa and William H. Stubblefield Memorial Classroom Building.

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.

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.

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.

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.