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Softball player Leila Mathis pushes two kids on the swings at the Miami Child Development Center on Western campus.

Miami celebrates annual National Campus Children's Center week

Throughout the week, the Miami Child Development Center chalked the campus sidewalk on Monday, hosted Renate Crawford for a reading time on Friday, brought the Miami softball team to play with the kids outside Thursday morning and later that day held a “read across Western campus" for the National Campus Children's Center week.






Oxtoberfest in 2022 brought music by the klaberheads featured above, beer and fun activities to Oxford.

How to kickstart the 2025-2026 school year

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.



 Kylie Gunning leads line dancing lessons during Wednesday’s session at Oxford Seniors. She was employed through Miami University’s Service+ program, which was abruptly discontinued in late April due to federal funding cuts to the AmeriCorps program.

Federal funding cuts to Americorps leaves Miami and surrounding Oxford without Service+ students

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.