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Four Years After Construction Was Started, New School Of Justice Building Nears Completion

A multimillion dollar project that will provide the School of Justice a state-of-the-art facility and has taken more than four years to build is...

William Soto’s Journey From Student To Dean Of Students At Wolfson Campus

When William Soto was fifteen years old, he didn’t believe a college education was in his future.  But that changed the summer before his senior...

Chef Finn’s Opens At Homestead Campus

With the unveiling of its new Student Success building and an Idea Center hub, the Homestead Campus has made some major upgrades this fall. Now...

Miami Film Festival Appoints New Executive Director

For James Woolley, attending film festivals has always been a family tradition. When he was six, he went to the Sydney Film Festival in Australia...

Film Fanatics—There’s A Club For You Now At Kendall Campus

By Nikole Valiente and Olivia Valkenburg Keelan Machado has always displayed a flair for the arts.  His passion for theater was sparked at Wesley Matthews Elementary,...

This Teenager Wants To Build A Roller Coaster At North Campus

When Sean Matias was a kid, the idea of roller coasters frightened him.  Their depths. Their monstrous heights. Their stomach-churning velocity. Those details were nerve-racking for...
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Miami Dade College’s Idea Center Expands To Homestead Campus

When Alejandro D. González and Sissi Rodriguez began working at the Idea Center—Miami Dade College’s hub for entrepreneurship and innovation—in February of 2022, they...

North Campus Slated To Open Third Career Closet At MDC Later This Fall

By Nidley Charles and Nikole Valiente North Campus is adding a Career Closet hub, making it the third Miami Dade College campus to offer the...

MDC To Host College-Wide Changemaker Week, Sept. 18-24

Miami Dade College is hosting its first-ever Changemaker Week, a college-wide initiative to equip and inspire students and faculty to take action in their...

Miami Culinary Institute Student Aims To Be The DJ Khaled Of Latin Cuisine

As his mom battled thyroid and breast cancer in 2018, Christian Barruos-Brens—then a 16-year-old high school student at Miami Lakes Educational Center—searched for a...

New North Campus Public Safety Chief Brings Decades Of Policing Experience

Makiem Miller rose up the police ranks in Connecticut during the rise of community-oriented policing, a method geared toward strengthening relationships with residents to...

Peer-To-Peer Program Aims To Engage First-Year Students At Hialeah Campus

As a high school student at Mater Academy Charter, Jessica Perez never saw herself as a leader let alone a mentor.  Shy and introverted, the...
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