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After nearly 30 years, Carol Ann Steele is ready to sing her last note at Miami Dade College. The music aficionado, who has served as a music professor teaching vocal, ear training and sight-singing courses at North Campus, is scheduled to retire on June 30 due to family reasons.… Read the rest at our website.

Kendall Campus Women's Basketball Sports

Retirement Hasn’t Slowed Her Down—After 35 Years At MDC, Summons Still Dedicated To Creating Champions

July 15, 2021 Adriana Dos Santos Summons, Retired Staff, retirement

Susan Summons has dedicated her life to creating champions. For the past 35 years—whether it was on the basketball court at the Gibson Center or inside her classroom at Kendall Campus—she has been preparing students to make an impact in the world. The people she inspired have become professional… Read the rest at our website.

News Homestead Campus

Homestead Campus President To Retire After 15 Years At MDC

November 29, 2020 Adriana Dos Santos Retired Staff, Homestead Campus, Jeanne Jacobs

Jeanne Jacobs left her mark on South Dade. As Homestead Campus president, she ushered in a new state-of-the-art nursing simulation lab, launched a program—MDC Builds—that prepares students for entry-level construction jobs, and opened Miami Dade College’s fourth School for Advanced Studies site. Jacobs, who is the longest-tenured campus president… Read the rest at our website.

West Campus North Campus News

‘This Was Her Life’: English Professor To Retire After Almost 27 Years At Miami Dade College

June 18, 2020 Adriana Dos Santos Retiring Professor, West Campus, North Campus, Retired Staff

During her nearly 27 years at Miami Dade College, Lisa Shaw has made her lectures memorable with themed classes that analyze the Civil Rights Movement, or compare Shakespeare to the CBS reality show, Survivor. “She always innovates in the classroom to keep herself and her students engaged, infusing her… Read the rest at our website.

News Kendall Campus

Kendall Campus Music Professor To Retire After 32 Years

November 16, 2018 Teresa Schuster Kendall Campus, Music, Retired Staff, retirement

When he started college, Kenneth Boos didn’t plan on a career in academia. He said no to teaching and even wrote an essay to show how adamant he was about not being a college administrator. After 32 years at Miami Dade College, he’s done both. Boos, 67, will officially… Read the rest at our website.

Kendall Campus News

Kendall Campus English Professor To Retire After 32 Years

March 30, 2018 Christian Ortega Kendall Campus, Retired Staff, retirement

A 1968 article in the Los Angeles Times reads “Michel de Benedictis is a 16-year-old junior at Beverly Hills High School who dabbles in poetry, wants to be a doctor—but admits he might end up teaching literature.” Fifty years later, de Benedictis is set to retire from Miami Dade… Read the rest at our website.

News North Campus

Chair Of The School Of Justice Retires

March 31, 2017 Alessandra Pacheco Retired Staff, School of Justice

Kenneth Staab, the academic chairperson for the School of Justice at North Campus, retired on April 1, after almost six years at Miami Dade College. “I’m quite proud of the School of Justice, and the contributions we’ve made for the students that attend Miami Dade College,” Staab said. In… Read the rest at our website.

West Campus North Campus News

Chair Of Continuing Education And Professional Development To Retire

February 24, 2017 Alessandra Pacheco Retired Staff, Continuing Education And Professional Development

The “open door policy” of Barbara Alfonso, the chair of the School of Continuing Education and Professional Development at the North and West campuses, will finally close as she retires from Miami Dade College on March 17. For Alfonso, running her department meant giving people who need enrichment and… Read the rest at our website.

News

Montoya Retires After Nearly Three Decades At MDC

August 17, 2016 Daniela Molina 0 Comments MDC, Retired Staff

Rolando Montoya’s educational odyssey spanned 29 years at Miami Dade College. It included stints as a professor, a chairperson, an academic dean, campus president at Wolfson Campus and his most recent assignment as College Provost. He had educational pit stops at Hialeah, InterAmerican, Kendall, North, and Wolfson campuses, but… Read the rest at our website.

News North Campus

Collada Retires After Accusations Of Academic Wrongdoing Surface

April 18, 2016 Daniela Molina MDC, Retired Staff

A North Campus director who worked at Miami Dade College for more than 30 years retired two weeks after she was threatened with termination of employment, according to a memorandum in her personnel file. Maria Tere Collada, whose last position at the College was as director of the New… Read the rest at our website.

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