What is Miami trying to do having area studies centers and majors? I'm all for a strong commitment to the basic liberal arts departments at all levels of higher education, but when you're talking about things like Russian & East European Studies, you only really have a chance to be successful and attract corporate and government recruiters if you have AAU type resources to put behind them. Here's a list of the designated "National Resource Centers" and there aren't a lot of schools like Miami on it. Did Miami just think putting them out there and saying "public ivy" a thousand times would bring the World Bank or CIA to campus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resource_Center