Tag: Retired Staff

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...
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...

Homestead Campus President To Retire After 15 Years At MDC

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...

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

During her nearly 27 years at Miami Dade College, Lisa Shaw has made her lectures memorable with themed classes that analyze the Civil Rights...

Kendall Campus Music Professor To Retire After 32 Years

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...

Kendall Campus English Professor To Retire After 32 Years

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...

Chair Of The School Of Justice Retires

Kenneth Staab, the academic chairperson for the School of Justice at North Campus, retired on April 1, after almost six years at Miami Dade...

Chair Of Continuing Education And Professional Development To Retire

The “open door policy” of Barbara Alfonso, the chair of the School of Continuing Education and Professional Development at the North and West campuses,...

Montoya Retires After Nearly Three Decades At MDC

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...

Collada Retires After Accusations Of Academic Wrongdoing Surface

A North Campus director who worked at Miami Dade College for more than 30 years retired two weeks after she was threatened with termination...

Retiring Professor Missionary For Miami History

When Wolfson Campus history professor Paul S. George retires this summer, he won’t stop being an evangelist on a mission to teach people Miami...

José Vicente To Retire From MDC After 42 Years

Even as a kid, José A. Vicente learned to make life-changing decisions. His father, a high-ranking communist official in Cuba, bluntly laid the cards...

Josett Peat Retiring After 29 Years At Miami Dade College

The North Campus’ English & Communications Department will soon feel a gargantuan void when its chairperson, Josett Peat, who has been at Miami Dade...

Sloan To Retire After 37 Years At MDC

For many at Miami Dade College, Diane Sloan is a dynamic professor who incorporates creative activities into her curriculum. While teaching  public speaking and...