Veritas, Vol. 25, No. 03, November 1984

              Voi. 24 No. 3
DECll 1S84
US&ARY
For the Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
November 1984
Trustees, approval expected
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Senate votes to create School of Communication
A proposal for a new School of Communication for the University, already approved by the Faculty Senate, is scheduled for final approval Nov. 20 by an executive committee appointed by the UM Board of Trustees.
The new school would go into operation in June 1985. Created from the Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Sciences, the new school will be one of the first in the nation to require a dual major.
Students entering the new school in September, 1985, will be required to take a major within the College of Arts and Sciences, in addition to a major in one of the ten areas offered in the School of Communication: journalism, broadcast journalism, telecommunication, photocommunication, speech, film, public relations, advertising, video/film, and organizational communication.
A group of Miami’s leading media professionals has recommended that two majors be required to give students a broad education as well as the professional credentials for a career. The group includes David Kras low, publisher of the Miami Neivs, Hank Meyer of Hank Meyer Associates, Public Relations, Horacio Aguirre from Diario las Americas, Peter Storer of Storer Communications, and Ralph Renick from WTVJ-Channel 4.
“This new' School, the third formed at the University in recent years, promises to be an exciting new member of the region’s intellectual and professional community. Like our new School of Architecture, the School of Communication will build on years of quality teaching and research as a department within the College of Arts and Sciences. The need is great for broadly and well educated professionals in the expanding fields of communication. The need is particularly great in Miami, itself an international center of communications,’’ said UM President Edward T. Foote II.
The school will, if approved, offer the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Communication, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication, and Master of Arts.
“The improv ements across the board in our communication programs in the past six or seven years, together with the continuing growth of South Florida as a major media market, make this the right time and the right place to develop an outstanding school of communication,” said David Gordon, current chairman of the Department of Communication. “We have begun to develop international and inter-cultural emphases in all of our programs. We will continue this as one major focus of our teaching, our research, and our efforts to serve our various constituencies.”
Dr. Gordon’s sentiments are shared by Arthur W. Brown, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who is a staunch advocate of independence for the programs in communication.
“Our school of communication will be one of the most comprehensive in the country, in that it embraces so many different areas of the communication discipline,” said Steven Beebe, associate chairman.
“Students will select a second ma-
jor in the College of Arts and Sciences as part of their study This will provide depth in the liberal arts, in an area of the student’s choice, in addition to the pre-professional courses students select as their major,” he said.
The University’s new School of Communication began in 1937 as the Department of Journalism. By 1939, The Hurricane and Ibis were already winning top awards in national competitions. The first student majoring Continued on page 2
Architect’s rendering of the athletic facility to be built on the Coral Gables campus.
Knight Trust gifts university with basketball building
The UM has recently received a million dollar gift from the James L.
Knight Charitable Trust for the construction of an athletic building which will provide basketball practice courts and other athletic facilities.
“We are deeply grateful for James L. Knight’s continuing support of the University. Mr. Knight has been a champion of a variety of University projects, including continuing education and the center which bears his name in downtown Miami,” said President Edward T. Foote II.
Calling the gift one “of leadership nature,” James W. McLamore, chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees said, “Over the past few years, we have made an important commitment to excellence in many fields, among them athletics. The return of intercollegiate basketball to the University is a step in that direction. With Mr. Knight’s help we are able to give impetus to the program.”
Reiterating McLamore’s comments, UM Athletic Director Sam Jan-kovich said, “The new facility will have a tremendous impact on our programs overall.
“It shows a true commitment to the reinstitution of intercollegiate basketball at UM and will provide very7 important facilities for all student athletes,” he said.
The 28,000$square foot facility will be an addition to the Hecht Athletic Center and will be located next to the Greentree Practice Field and Track.
The new facility' will contain a hardwood-floored basketball practice court, men’s and women’s locker rooms, and a strength room on the
first floor. On a second floor, over locker and strength rooms, will be coaches’ offices and a meeting room for basketball personnel.
A special feature of the facility’s
second floor is a combination meeting room and study hall for football players. The room will be used for team meetings and also for tutorial and other academic activities for athletes.
New director, focus for Judaic Studies
by Victoria Stuart
He has studied gnosticism at St. Andrews University in Scotland, examined facsimiles of the Nag Hammadi documents at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and pursued scholarly interests in sociology7 and religion at the Sorbonne.
Henry Green, the University’s new Director of Judaic Studies, believes that “by applying social sciences to the study7 of the ancient world, we can discover certain universal patterns that will enable us to better understand our own times.”
His approach to academics is interdisciplinary; and he brings to the UM an equally expansive expertise that bridges several areas and periods of time: Hellenism and Judaism, social scientific study7 of religion, modern Israel, sociology7 of Judaism, and Jews and Judaism in North America.
“My7 goal is to build a bridge of understanding, beyrond ethnicity, between the University; the Jewish community7 in Miami, and other cities across the nation,” Green said.
Henry Green
A Canadian by birth, Green was formerly the director of Judaic Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. He has been a visiting professor at several Canadian colleges, including the University7 of Alberta in Edmonton and Carleton University in Ottawa, where Continued on page 2