Author: Alexandra de Armas

Three weeks after Miami Dade College announced that President Barack Obama would be the guest speaker at North and West Campus’ commencement ceremony, graduates were informed that they will receive two less tickets than planned. “More than double the number of graduates that normally attend expressed wanting to participate… Read the rest at our website.

President Barack Obama will be the guest speaker at the North and West Campus graduation ceremony. The event will take place on April 29 at 5 p.m. at the James L. Knight International Center. Obama will address nearly 4,000 students. “[It] is a true honor for our institution, and… Read the rest at our website.

Living a nomadic and fear-filled life for 10 years led Chenjerai Hove to Miami: a City of Refuge. “To be able to sit alone in a café in France without thinking the guy next to me is spying on me with a tape recorder in [his] pocket is frightening,”… Read the rest at our website.

Vanessa Bird-Arizmendi has been tabbed as the new dean of students at Wolfson Campus. Bird-Arizmendi, who has served as the chairperson of the teacher education program at InterAmerican Campus for the past four years, will assume her new role on Feb. 1. “I am thrilled that the college has… Read the rest at our website.

It was not the usual setting for former President George W. Bush—sitting back, legs crossed and cracking jokes. “John Newcombe and I went to a bar and he taught me how to drink beer out of a mug without hands,” Bush said. “Which means you bite the edge of… Read the rest at our website.