Ten Miami news highlights for 2020
As the Miami University community prepares for winter break and the new year, here’s a look back at 10 headlines that captured collaborations and recognition in 2020.
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As the Miami University community prepares for winter break and the new year, here’s a look back at 10 headlines that captured collaborations and recognition in 2020.
- Miami receives Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine
- Miami was awarded a 2020 HEED Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
- Altman Institute named 2020 NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence
- Miami's John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship in the Farmer School of Business was named a winner of the 2020 NASDAQ Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence Award.
- Miami Regionals ranked in top 20 Best Online Colleges for ROI: Bachelor’s Degrees
- The Regionals’ online bachelor’s degree program placed 17th in the 2021 Best Online Bachelor’s Degrees: Colleges with the Highest Return on Investment ranking.
- Miami names building after first Black graduate
- The board of trustees approved renaming the Campus Avenue Building as Nellie Craig Walker Hall.
- Work + Program inspires new state legislation, becomes a model for Ohio
- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed HB614 requiring the Chancellor of Higher Education Randy Gardner to create a template for the Work + Program.
- Miami donates protective health gear to area health facilities
- Area health care workers benefitted from donations of personal protective equipment (PPE) collected across Miami University’s Oxford and Regionals campuses.
- Miami is a Top 100 Sierra Club Cool School and a Princeton Review Green College
- Miami ranked 71st among the Sierra Club’s “Coolest Schools” 2020 for the greenest colleges. Miami is also again listed in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2021 Edition.
- New Miami MiniMBA: Beyond Ready For the Future offers business credential program at no cost to alumni
- As the coronavirus pandemic battered the job market, Miami launched Miami MiniMBA: Beyond Ready For the Future, a series of free, online business modules that culminate in a professional certificate of completion.
- Miami alumnus Rick McVey ‘81 ensures expansion of Miami's transdisciplinary data science program with a $20 million gift to fund visionary new building
- Miami President Greg Crawford underscored that the gift is central to making Miami’s vision of creating an academic epicenter for data science a reality.
- Mid-American Conference creates stand-alone esports conference
- Aiming to recruit and engage more competitive video gamers, a dozen schools in the Mid-American Conference, including Miami, created a stand-alone esports conference to offer structured competition without the extensive rules that govern intercollegiate athletics.
