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Men's baseball team posing for a group picture.

Sharks Aim To Repeat As Southern Conference Champions

January 24, 2020 Jose Tovar Baseball, championship, Kendall Campus

The Miami Dade College baseball team is aiming to repeat as Southern Conference champions. Despite the conference title, the Sharks finished 31-20 last year and had a season full of ups and downs. They suffered a spate of injuries in mid-March, leading to offensive struggles, but eventually made a… Read the rest at our website.

The Lady Sharks softball team at practice.

News Sports Kendall Campus Softball

Lady Sharks Optimistic, Coming Off First Winning Season In Four Years

January 24, 2020 Daniel Tamariz Kendall Campus, Softball, Lady Sharks

If there is a way to describe how the Lady Sharks softball team feels about their upcoming season, it’s optimistic. The team wants to build off last year’s 25-23 mark, its first winning record since 2015 when they won 31 games. Coach Gina De Agüero believes the Lady Sharks… Read the rest at our website.

Women's Basketball News Sports Kendall Campus

Freshman Forward Making An Impact For Lady Sharks

January 24, 2020 Alina Halley Basketball, Women's Basketball, Lady Sharks, Student Profile

Basketball runs through Nazlah Morrow’s blood. Her mom, Nafeesah (Brown) Morrow, was a star at the University of Nebraska where the forward averaged 20.2 points and 10.1 rebounds per game as a senior during the 1993-94 season. Her brother, Ed Morrow, was a six-foot-seven-inch senior forward at Marquette University… Read the rest at our website.

News Kendall Campus

Kendall Campus Alumna Fights Cancer With Care Packages

January 10, 2020 Heidi Perez Kendall Campus, Alumni Spotlight, Cancer, Alumna, non-profit

Bianca Maderal’s life changed three years ago when a nurse gave her a purple care package while she was a cancer patient at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The gift—which included a hat, deck of cards, word puzzle and water bottle—helped the 22-year-old former Kendall Campus student stay… Read the rest at our website.

The MDC-TV team posing with their awards.

North Campus Wolfson Campus News

MDC-TV Wins Fourth-Straight Emmy

January 10, 2020 Adriana Dos Santos mdc-tv, emmy, Wolfson Archives

It began when music professor Alberto Bade found sheet music from American conductor Jackie Gleason in an old, dirty cabinet at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives three years ago. The find translated into an episode entitled the Jackie Gleason Musical Revival by MDC-TV, the College’s TV station based at… Read the rest at our website.

News Padrón Campus

Urbana Launches First-Ever Podcast Series

January 10, 2020 Roxy Garcia EJP Campus, Urbana, podcast

Members of Urbana, the literary arts magazine at Eduardo J. Padrón Campus, sit around an audio recorder in a green classroom to discuss their recent video parody of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in Fighting Communism with Humor. To breakdown the video, the magazine’s co-editor-in-chief Giselle Valdes brought in Juan… Read the rest at our website.

News

Former Student Pleads Guilty To Accusations Of Stealing More Than $1.3 Million

January 10, 2020 Heidi Perez Crime, theft, court

A former computer science student at Miami Dade College pled guilty in federal court on Dec. 10 to leading a fraud ring accused of stealing more than $1.3 million in counterfeit checks. Carlos Miguel Rodriguez, 24, is awaiting sentencing on one count of conspiracy to commit bank and wire… Read the rest at our website.

Board of Trustees meeting for presidential search.

News Presidential Search Wolfson Campus

Questions Of Transparency Arise In Miami Dade College’s Presidential Search

January 10, 2020 The Reporter Staff Board of Trustees, BOT, Presidential Search

By Heidi Perez-Moreno and Corbin Bolies Nearly a year after the Board of Trustees started looking for Miami Dade College’s next president, questions about the search’s transparency continue to bubble up. Today’s meeting agenda vaguely listed the discussion of the presidential search as a “Board Member Discussion Item.” In… Read the rest at our website.

Senator Lamar Alexander and MDC vice president and provost Lenore Rodicio chatting.

News North Campus

FUTURE Act Restores Nearly $255 Million In Funding To Minority-Serving Institutions

January 10, 2020 Alexa Hernández congress, North Campus, STEM, funding, bill, future act

President Donald Trump approved legislation on Dec. 19 to restore nearly $255 million in permanent funding to minority-serving institutions and simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid application process for students. Congress and the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the Future Act the week prior, after the funding… Read the rest at our website.

North Campus News

Once A Basketball Gym, New Tactical Training Center Will House The School Of Justice

January 10, 2020 Roxy Garcia soj, School of Justice, training, renovations

The old basketball gym at North Campus, which has been dormant for more than 20 years, is getting a makeover. It once hosted basketball games, gymnastics events and judo matches, but is now being transformed into a Tactical Training Center. Once construction is completed in 2022, it will house… Read the rest at our website.

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