Miami Ohio University

1. Miami Ohio University State College of Ohio Elite Public University http://www.miami.muohio.edu/

2. Facts about Miami (OH) University • Established: • 1809; named for the Miami Indian Tribe • Tribe settled in the area which is known as The Miami Valley of Ohio • Enrollment: • 14,936 undergraduates • Locations:3 campus of undergraduate population • Main Campus: Oxford of 14,936 • Hamilton 3672 • Middletown 2172 • Diversity: Multicultural students make up • based on Fall 2011 Oxford campus enrollment • 11.8 percent of the first-year class • 11.6 percent of the undergraduate student body • Degree Programs: • Bachelor's degree in over 100 areas of study • New Bachelor of Integrative Studies • Cost for 2011–2012, the cost of tuition, fees, room, and board • Ohio residents is $23,745 • non-Ohio residents is $38,917. I

3. Mission Miami University, a student-centered public university founded in 1809, has built its success through an unwavering commitment to liberal arts undergraduate education and the active engagement of its students in both curricular and co-curricular life. It is deeply committed to student success, builds great student and alumni loyalty, and empowers its students, faculty, and staff to become engaged citizens who use their knowledge and skills with integrity and compassion to improve the future of our global society. Miami provides the opportunities of a major university while offering the personalized attention found in the best small colleges. It values teaching and intense engagement of faculty with students through its teacher-scholar model, by inviting students into the excitement of research and discovery. Miami's faculty are nationally prominent scholars and artistswho contribute to Miami, their own disciplines and to society by the creation of new knowledge and art.The University supports students in a highly involving residential experience on the Oxford campus and provides access to students, including those who are time and place bound, on its regional campuses. Miami provides a strong foundation in the traditional liberal arts for all students, and it offers nationally recognized majors in arts and sciences, business, education, engineering, and fine arts, as well as select graduate programs of excellence. As an inclusive community, Miami strives to cultivate an environment where diversity and difference are appreciated and respected. Miami instills in its students intellectual depth and curiosity, the importance of personal values as a measure of character, and a commitment to life-long learning. Miami emphasizes critical thinking and independent thought, an appreciation of diverse views, and a sense of responsibility to our global future.

4. Admission Requirements • Application • Panel review • Portfolio – School of Fine Arts • Interrelationships between all of the criteria • Holistic Selective Admission • Class rank • Leadership • Employment • Extra curricular activities • 1st generation college status • GPA • Legacy status • Letters of recommendation • Life experiences • Obstacles overcome • Potential contributions to diversity • Quality of High school • Significant extenuating circumstances • Socioeconomic status • Special abilities, talents, achievements • State test scores • Strength of high school curriculum • Commitment to social services, volunteer • Writing ability

5. Leslie Owen Wilson’s Curriculum • Written Curriculum • Societal Curriculum • Hidden Curriculum • Phantom Curriculum • Rhetorical Curriculum • Internal Curriculum

6. Written Curriculum • Is a Practical and engaged liberal education for all students that offers • first year seminars and programs • newly revised general education programs • learning communities • undergraduate research programs • community-based diversity projects • Interdisciplinary programs • Personalized curriculum • Global Miami Plan Core Curriculum (Regardless of Major is Required) • In addition to the specialized courses in their majors, all Miami students complete the Global Miami Plan for Liberal Education with a wide range of subjects • The Global Miami Plan includes: undergraduate studies at Miami • develop mental agility and problem-solving ability and adapt to a changing world • Look at career possibilities • choices about a broad range of courses called the Global Miami Plan for Liberal Education • specialized studies in your major and provides a broadened context for exploring social, academic, political and professional choices. Is the written curriculum that is to be taught Miami University was founded on the belief that a liberal education provides the best possible framework for life in a changing world.

7. Written Curriculum Cont. • First-year students may participate • Summer Reading Program: • First-Year Seminar: • Honors Framework for Liberal Education. • Goal: For students to: • understand and creatively transform human culture and society • Have tools to ask questions, examine assumptions, and exchange views with others, • Become a better global citizen

8. Global Miami Plan Core Curriculum Foundation Courses – 36 hours English Composition Fine Arts, Humanities, Social Science Natural Science Mathematics, Formal reasoning, Technology Global Perspectives Cultural perspective Historical perspective Thematic Sequence – 9 hours 3 related courses outside of major (with approval) Capstone Experience – 3 hours

9. Societal Curriculum • Global Learning: • Global Miami Plan Core Curriculum • Miami focus on students becoming a better global citizen • Global learning based on real-world challenges • Civic Learning: • Social responsibility citizens at home and abroad • Community-based programs: Citizenship, Character, and lifelong friendships • Service learning • Diversity programs that promote learning across difference • Reflective experimental learning What is learned from societal environment: home, various media, community, organizations, Cortes (1981)

10. Hidden Curriculum Positive • Cultural experiences from Study Abroad Program • Feeling of high status being part of an elite university existing for over 100 years • The Arts are as important as other core subjects • Fun, positive hands-on experiences learning without knowing it • Personalized and community based-important part of the whole • Seminars build friendships within a cohort • Global Plan is required for all reduces the personalized experience • Negative • Sports are not important • Seems available only t0 the elite even though it is a public university Unintentional learning derived from the nature or organizational design of the school along with behaviors and attitudes of those within an organization • L

11. Phantom Curriculum • U.S.News & World Report: 2012 edition of America's Best Colleges, • 3rd among the nation's top universities for its commitment to undergraduate teaching. • Pay Scale: 2011 best salary potential after graduation • Fiske Guide to Colleges: 2012 listed among the nation's "best and most interesting institutions” • The Peace Corps' latest Top 25 list: 2012 Peace Corp volunteers, ranks Miami 6th among medium-sized schools • Parade : 2010 one of the nation's 25 best large public universities • Kiplinger's: 2012 annual list of the "100 Best Values in Public Colleges" • Forbes: 2011 ranks 5th in the "Best of the Midwest" list. • Princeton Review's edition of The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 • Washington Monthly's: 2011 13th in the national university college for social mobility • http://www.miami.muohio.edu/about-miami/recognition/index.html Exposure to ideas and opinions received by any type of media

12. Rhetorical Curriculum AAC&U: Valid Assessment of Liberal Undergraduate Education Rubrics http://www.units.muohio.edu/celt/assessment/briefs/Brief_48.pdf Reports: http://www.miami.muohio.edu/academics/provost/reports.html National and state reports, public speeches, publicized updates offered by policy makers, school officials, administrators and politicians

13. Internal Curriculum • Personalized, student-centered curriculum • Abroad studies • Inclusive community • Research & discovery Testimonies • http://www.miami.muohio.edu/miami-experience/index.html The uniqueness of knowledge and ideas of each student as a learner