{"id":25824,"date":"2021-04-07T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=25824"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:31:53","slug":"honors-college-creates-alumni-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/honors-college-creates-alumni-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors College Creates Alumni Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After graduating from the Honors College at Wolfson Campus in 2017, Kiana Vidal transferred to Cornell University to study communications and technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She said her new school was nothing like the close-knit community Vidal had grown accustomed to at Miami Dade College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is a huge culture shock when you transfer,\u201d Vidal said. \u201cI just know if there would\u2019ve been someone to turn to at the time it would\u2019ve made the process a lot smoother.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking to make the transfer process easier for others, she came up with the idea of launching an alumni network that supports Honors College graduates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a year of planning with Honors College Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/honors-college-selects-new-dean\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Eric Hoffman<\/span><\/span><\/a> and Assistant to the Dean Marianne Maduro, the Honors College Alumni Advisory Committee was born. It consists of 15 Honors College alumni and two faculty members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;They will be doing a lot that will not only help alums stay connected but also help students with their future endeavors,&#8221; Hoffman said. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy they are getting together and giving back to the Honors College and Miami Dade College.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/honorscollege\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Honors College<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has hubs at the Wolfson, Kendall, North and Padr\u00f3n Campuses. It serves about 600 freshmen and sophomores through curriculums based on academic excellence, service-learning components and biweekly colloquiums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valentina d\u2019Empaire, who graduated from the Padr\u00f3n Campus Honors College in 2016, is eager to give back to the cohort that helped her transfer to Johns Hopkins University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Honors College changed my life,\u201d said d\u2019Empaire, who serves as the committee\u2019s vice chairperson. \u201cI\u2019m happy to be giving back to a place that gave me so much. That\u2019s what we all want to do, to give back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before creating the advisory committee, Hoffman and Maduro reached out to alumni they thought might be interested in helping. They created a questionnaire about their experience and desire to give back to the Honors College, time availability and areas of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alumni were chosen based on diversity\u2014people from different backgrounds and viewpoints\u2014professional success and availability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two faculty members in the committee are Michael Lenaghan, who teaches political science at North and Padr\u00f3n Campus, and Wolfson Campus humanities professor Robert Henry. Their presence ensures that faculty stay connected with alumni and have a say in decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I hope to tackle opportunities to nurture, enhance, and advance most visionary, empowering and ethical opportunities generated by committee members,&#8221; said Lenaghan, who is the longest-tenured Honors College faculty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee held its first meeting on Jan. 21 via Zoom. They plan to connect Honors College alumni to each other and to students through networking events, resume and transfer application workshops, mentorship programs and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plans to improve the Honors College experience are already being designed. In the past months, they created four subcommittees with 2-7 volunteers each to lead new initiatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>fundraising committee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will find ways to financially support students and fund events, the <\/span><b>communications committee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will design alumni outreach initiatives, the <\/span><b>anniversary celebration committee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will plan the Honors College\u2019s 20th anniversary celebration next January, and the <\/span><b>alumni mentoring network committee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will create a program that matches students and alumni based on professional interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s easy to talk to someone who has been through the same experience,\u201d Vidal said. \u201cThey always are more willing to have that conversation and help in any way possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their second meeting will be held on April 13 to brainstorm more ideas for the subcommittees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the future, the committee hopes to create scholarships for students who are transferring so they can fund their bachelor\u2019s degrees at other institutions. They also hope to create a website\u2014or a subsection on the Honors College\u2019s website\u2014for alumni to get involved with the committee, make donations or stay updated about their plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee expects to meet four to five times a year. Each member will serve for two years and be re-elected for consecutive terms; members with executive leadership positions, like chair and vice chair, will be up for re-election annually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are going to help students through a scary process [and] help them navigate [through it] and feel a little bit more comfortable,\u201d said Vidal, the committee\u2019s chairperson.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After graduating from the Honors College at Wolfson Campus in 2017, Kiana Vidal transferred to Cornell University to study communications and technology.\u00a0 She said her new school was nothing like the close-knit community Vidal had grown accustomed to at Miami Dade College. \u201cIt is a huge culture shock when you transfer,\u201d Vidal said. \u201cI just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":25764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2748,2749,2750,2753],"tags":[63,73,1189],"class_list":{"0":"post-25824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-north-campus","9":"category-kendall-campus","10":"category-padron-campus","11":"category-wolfson-campus","12":"tag-alumni","13":"tag-honors-college","14":"tag-networking"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Honors College Creates Alumni Advisory Committee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Honors College at MDC created an Alumni Advisory Committee in January. 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