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Oxford City Council discusses new business Uptown, dissolving student commission
By Kiernan Pfennig and Kylie Bunn | September 4, 2025
22 members of Miami’s Teaching, Clinical Professors and Lecturers (TCPL) faculty were promoted to higher positions within their tracks. This series of promotions comes after the University Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Faculty Alliance of Miami’s contract.
Back-to-school season is one of the most fun times of the year. From the fresh faces on campus to the leaves changing, there is no better time to explore Miami University and the surrounding Oxford community.
Miami University’s new Center for Civics, Culture and Society will be established this fall – two years after the initial passage of Senate Bill 117 that legally required certain public Ohio universities to establish these types of centers.
Each year, Miami’s Campus Services goes through the process of placing all rising first-year and sophomore students into university housing. However, this does not always go as planned, leaving some students without housing assignments until mid-summer.
Miami University’s new budget model – RCM 4.0 – is a continued push by the administration to focus on higher-enrolled majors, while also identifying low-enrolled majors to the deans of their respective colleges for consolidation or elimination. The Responsibility Center Management (RCM) budgeting will draw institutional revenue from a student’s “primary” major.
In fall 2023, Miami University launched MiamiTHRIVE, a three-phase strategic planning initiative focused on what Miami said would be “student-centered transformative ideas, unwavering commitment to excellence and mission-focused operational efficiency.”
The Farmer School of Business was named the best business school in Ohio and ranks within the top 20 in the nation, according to college review site Poet & Quants.
At a University Senate meeting on April 28, Senate passed a proposal for World Languages and Cultures to replace all undergraduate majors across Miami’s Department of French, Italian and Classics as well as the Department of German, Russian, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.
University Senate convened at their last meeting of the academic year to hear proposals about sunsetting the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (CODI).
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion hosted its “Through the Years” celebration to celebrate all their centers in staff ahead of their closing in the middle of June.
Making the most of time at Miami University is not a task for the faint of heart. Since his first year, Aiden Schmeling, a senior biology and sustainability major, has been involved in hands-on Miami initiatives in Ohio’s wilderness.
One thousand seven hundred and thirteen days passed between Paula Peña Martinez’s first and last field hockey games in Oxford.
On April 25, the agency announced that it was terminating nearly $400 million in grant funding for Miami's Service+ program, effective immediately. That decision instantly shuttered more than 1,000 programs involving more than 32,000 corps members, according to America's Service Commissions. This includes Miami’s program, which was on track to have 85 members this year.
For Caitlin Zook’s final performance, even traipsing around stage dressed as an ailing Russian duchess can not hide their genuine love for their craft. From the moment the act opens to the very last bow, Zook’s joy is nothing short of radiant. They might not be the princess, but they sparkle all the same.
After 24 years teaching at Miami University, computer science professor Eric Bachmann is soon to retire.
Since the beginning of her academic career, Deborah Lyons has been fascinated by the classic languages, like Latin and Greek. Now, Lyons looks around at her once-flourishing department and wonders how it could have diminished so drastically.
For Chris Wolfe, coming back to Ohio after leaving his hometown of Cleveland Heights to attend Denison University was not the plan. But the opportunity to work at Miami University after receiving his doctorate of philosophy (Ph.D.) in cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh turned into a 36-year-long career in academia.
Terri Barr, a professor of marketing, started the healthcare sales certification program three years ago; the program now boasts roughly 200 students interested in taking on roles in healthcare.
Leah Wasburn-Moses, a tenured professor at Miami University, requested a leave of absence last fall to visit her daughter who was abroad. But when the university denied her personal leave request, she was left with an unplanned semester off — and a lot of time on her hands.