{"id":13775,"date":"2018-04-13T19:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:40:23","slug":"wolfson-campus-couple-hettich-retire-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wolfson-campus-couple-hettich-retire-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfson Campus Couple To Retire Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29087\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29087\" src=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Michael-Hettich-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"Retiring\" width=\"497\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Michael-Hettich-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Michael-Hettich-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Michael-Hettich-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">End Of An Era: Michael Hettich, who has taught English and creative writing at Wolfson Campus for 28 years, is teaching his last class at Miami Dade College this semester. SEBASTI\u00c1N BALLESTAS \/ THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wolfson-campus-professor-publishes-poetry-collection\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Michael Hettich<\/span><\/a> and Colleen Ahern-Hettich have been an educational power couple at Wolfson Campus for two decades. Combined, they have worked at Miami Dade College for 42 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their tenure will soon come to an end. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hettich\u2019s last semester teaching will be this spring. Ahern-Hettich is retiring in July. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t really plan for us to retire together,\u201d Ahern-Hettich said. \u201cI love what I do at the [Earth Ethics] Institute, but I\u2019m tired of sitting in the office. I feel like I have more than ten good years left in me and I want to spend that time being able to do what I\u2019ve learned all these years.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahern-Hettich, 63, has served as the director of the Earth Ethics Institute at Wolfson Campus for the past 14 years. Hettich, 64, has taught English and creative writing for 28 years. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hettich started pondering retirement after a procedure on his right ear last summer left him hard of hearing. He also yearned to structure his life more freely, but he admits he will \u00a0miss his students. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29088\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-29088\" src=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Colleen-Ahern-Hettich-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"Retiring\" width=\"497\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Colleen-Ahern-Hettich-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Colleen-Ahern-Hettich-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Colleen-Ahern-Hettich-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaving A Legacy: Colleen Ahern-Hettich, who has served as the director of the Earth Ethics Institute at Wolfson Campus for the past 14 years, is retiring from Miami Dade College in July. SEBASTI\u00c1N BALLESTAS \/ THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their nurturing qualities and creativity, he says, has kept him at the College. During class, Hettich strives for a \u201crigorous and highly creative community where everyone is free and open to share their ideas.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He focuses on listening to his student\u2019s opinions. It\u2019s common for Hettich to coach them through assignments and their college admissions process during his office hours.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[Hettich is a] wonderful teacher who really cares about his students,\u201d said Kassandra Curiel, an English major in the Honors College at Wolfson Campus. Curiel has taken classes with Hettich for three semesters and is senior editor to the campus\u2019 literary magazine, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Metamorphosis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which he advises. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His colleagues say they will miss Hettich too. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe really helped me through the adjustment period when I became the department chair,\u201d said Joselle LaGuerre, the English department chairperson at Wolfson Campus. \u201cEach day he would stop by, and poke his head through my door, asking if there was any help I needed. He\u2019s really somebody whose personality will be hard to replace.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahern-Hettich, leaves her position as director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthethicsinstitute.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Earth Ethics Institute<\/span><\/a> with a sense of pride and accomplishment. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her tenure, she expanded the program to four campuses and increased the staff from about 30 to more than 100. She was also instrumental in developing sustainability fairs at Wolfson Campus, implementing a carpooling program and starting initiatives to promote earth literacy. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to find someone that can replace what she\u2019s done at that position. It\u2019s not just her work ethic that we\u2019ll miss,\u201d said Heidi Lellelid, an EEI program assistant and Ahern-Hettich\u2019s coworker for the past nine years. \u201cYou can tell that she had such a strong passion for promoting Earth Literacy. She would come in each week with new ideas she learned over the weekend and she would want to do everything she could to get them working.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahern-Hettich and Hettich plan to move to Asheville, North Carolina to spend more time with their daughter Caitlin Hettich and be surrounded by nature, which is a large part of their lives\u2014they spent their first date backpacking in the mountains 38 years ago in Denver, Colorado.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hettich said he will focus on his poetry, for which he has received numerous awards such as the 2013 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and the David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize in 2016. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahern-Hettich said she will take advantage of the \u201cnext ten years, where I still have the energy I do now.\u201d She hopes to work on projects connected to earth literacy and hike through the mountains of North Carolina. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hettich and Colleen Ahern-Hettich have been an educational power couple at Wolfson Campus for two decades. Combined, they have worked at Miami Dade College for 42 years. Their tenure will soon come to an end. Hettich\u2019s last semester teaching will be this spring. Ahern-Hettich is retiring in July. \u201cWe didn\u2019t really plan for us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":29090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2753],"tags":[1040],"class_list":{"0":"post-13775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-wolfson-campus","9":"tag-retirement"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wolfson Campus Couple To Retire Together This Year<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Hettich and Colleen Ahern-Hettich are retiring from Miami Dade College after working there a combined 42 years.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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