1950 to "Florida Normal and Industrial Memorial College". In 1963, the charter was amended to change the name to "Florida Memorial College". Concerned by race-related violence in the city in relation to the civil rights movement (see St. Augustine movement), in 1965 the college bought a tract of land in what was then rural Dade County and developed the campus there.
In 1968, the college relocated to its present site (now "northwest Miami"). By 1972, it graduated its first class at the Miami site. Florida Memorial College celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1979 and began a series of expansion projects on the 44-acre (180,000 m2) campus.
In 1993, Albert E. Smith was appointed as the college's tenth president. He also directed a period of growth. On July 3, 2006, Karl S. Wright became the eleventh president.
Roslyn Clark Artis was appointed interim president in 2013 and became the 13th president in 2014; she was the first female President in the institution's 138-year history. In 2017 she left to become the first …
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