UM President Donna E. Shalala (left) with Susan Miller just after the announcement of the $100 million gift and the renaming of the School of Medicine.
Posted on 12/15/2004 7:18:21 AM PST by Polybius
The University of Miami School of Medicine launched a bold new era today with the announcement of a historic $100 million gift from the family of the late Leonard Miller, a longtime South Florida businessman and philanthropist. In recognition of the biggest gift ever to the University of Miami, the School of Medicine will be renamed the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.
UM President Donna E. Shalala (left) with Susan Miller just after the announcement of the $100 million gift and the renaming of the School of Medicine.
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Noone's reputation is going to be harmed, and people will understand where the degree came from...the alums are still the same, the school's quality is still the same, just a different name.
And all you alums can be p.o.'d all you want...I'm pretty sure that the school is not going to return this check.
I just wish we'd STOP naming anything for a politician and instead only do it privately.
And it not UM a private university anyway? They can do what they want, then.
We won't probably live to see it, but I'd bet you a box of Osage oranges, it will happen.
FWIW-
Just be glad Dr. Kervorkian didn't donate millions. It could have been named the Kervorkian School of Medicine....
eartotheground graduated from what used to be Rutgers Medical School.
That used to mean something.
That has now changed to "University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine".
As he said, "That was lots of fun to explain to several dozen different agencies."
Anything that, at the margin, crowds the govt out of education, is "a good thing".
Yes, but Cornell did not dump "Cornell" out of the Medical School's name.
It is still "Cornell Medical College" with Weill tacked on.
Their url is still:
http://www.med.cornell.edu/
It is the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
If you want publicity in return for "generosity," people like me will suspect that your charitable impulse might have an ulterior motive.
So your school is an academic whore. Nice to know. Where do you attend, so I might steer my nieces clear of it?
Miller wasn't a politician. He was a crooked homebuilder who was notorious for shoddy work.
Count your blessings.
UCLA is stuck with:
"The Geffen School of Medicine"
(yep, the light-in-the-loafers movie/music mogul)
I don't mean this as an insult, but do you realize how much you sound like a liberal? Your nieces deserve to go to a well-funded medical school, right? If the money comes from an endowment instead of from taxpayers' pockets, so much the better. All the big medical schools depend on private endowments to attract the best faculty. This is capitalism at work!
"If you want publicity in return for "generosity," people like me will suspect that your charitable impulse might have an ulterior motive."
Giving someone publicity is a small price to pay when you get $100M in return. It is smart business to find someone to support your medical school in return for their name on a letterhead or a building. Frankly, I think you have the ulterior motive here, because you seem to have an axe to grind.
Do a Google Search on "Miller School of Medicine" and you will see what the official name will be according to the University's own web page:
"Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami"
"Miller" will get very prominent billing on both the name and the logo. "University of Miami" will get second billing in small print in the footnotes.
"I've got an extra $1,000 to donate this year, any schools out there that will change their name to my name? Hmmm?
My name in lights! I like that thought!"
If you are serious, I can maybe get you a plaque on a medical research lab for your donation. Let me know.
Take heart: maybe the Millers will sell the naming rights eventually. "The Google.com School of Medicine" sounds like a great name...
"When you say "University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine", you have Credentials Committee secretaries making phone calls to find out if that is a real medical school or a Kinko's shop printing out fancy fake diplomas suitable for framing."
What you just wrote is very bizarre because everyone in medicine recognizes the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine just as well as they recognize Johns Hopkins.
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