The 8.9 percent national unemployment rate may be causing recent college graduates to enter public and nonprofit service in higher numbers. The sector, promising job security and greater stability, seems a brighter hope for students who would otherwise be unemployed.
In early February, the university was ranked number 21 among the Peace Corps’s “Top Peace Corps Volunteer Producing Colleges and Universities.” The rankings represent the university’s strong incline towards volunteerism and interest in public service over traditional post graduation options like graduate school or the work force.
The Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) announced that the organization has run out of funds for the rest of the academic year, and can no longer supply or supplement the budgets of over 240 registered student organizations, a move that has worried student leaders unaware of the details of upcoming measures.
Many children are quickly forging companionships with volunteer members of Project Sunshine, a campus organization that strives to brighten the days of children with both short and long term illnesses.
Now enclosed by green wired fences, six buildings located in the apartment area of campus have been inundated with bulldozers and construction workers for the past month. The site is home to UM’s latest construction project, the demolition and restoration of the historic Foster, Allen, Smith, Railey, Brunstetter and Grosvenor apartments.
U.S. World Memory Champion Nelson Dellis, a University of Miami alumnus, used witty tools to share memorization tactics to a full audience on Monday night at the Whitten Learning Center.
To Michael Geller, a fifth-year architecture student, physical barriers were not enough to stop him from spending three days with an Amish family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last summer.