Edward Thaddeus "Tad" Foote II was an American academic administrator, attorney, and journalist who served as the fourth president of the University of Miami from 1981 through 2001.
During Foote's tenure as University of Miami president, the University of Miami football team won two national championships. Following the second national championship, on January 29, 1988, then University of Miami football coach Jimmy Johnson and the 1987 Miami Hurricanes team presented President Ronald Reagan with a University of Miami jersey at The White House after winning 1987 national championship.
The University of Miami is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. As of 2023, the university enrolled 19,593 students in two colleges and eight schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, including the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami's Health District, the law school on the main campus, the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science on Virginia Key, and additional research facilities in southern Miami-Dade County.
Lake Osceola on the University of Miami campus with the Downtown Miami skyline in the background in May 2022
The iconic U statue, which stands nearly seven feet high and weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, on the University of Miami campus in March 2020
Miami Herbert Business School, one of the world's top-ranked business schools, on the University of Miami campus in September 2020
Lowe Art Museum, the University of Miami's art museum, houses over 19,000 art objects spanning over 5,000 years.
