{"id":37320,"date":"2024-06-10T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=37320"},"modified":"2024-06-10T10:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:17:39","slug":"homestead-campus-selects-new-honors-college-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/homestead-campus-selects-new-honors-college-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Homestead Campus Selects New Honors College Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Takevess C. Hatcher was appointed director of the Honors College at Homestead Campus on May 20.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hatcher will guide Honors College students throughout their academic endeavors and the transfer process. He aims to expand internship and volunteer opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI really want students [in] the Honors College to be engaged within the community of Homestead,\u201d Hatcher said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hatcher\u2019s history at Miami Dade College dates back to 1999. He worked as a student assistant and part-time clerk in the admissions and registration department for five years. In 2019, he returned to MDC as an academic advisor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to his current role, Hatcher served as the enrollment specialist for the campus\u2019 <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/homestead\/stem-wave\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Title V STEM Wave Program<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for nearly three years. He coordinated initiatives such as boot camps and workshops to encourage high school students throughout low-income communities to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 43-year-old has also served as an adjunct professor in the social sciences department since 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside of MDC, Hatcher has worked as a mental health specialist at Community Health of South Florida, a non-profit health care organization, and as an elementary school teacher for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, he serves as a minister at Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Perrine,\u00a0 is president of the Iota Pi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha\u2014the oldest intercollegiate fraternity for Black men in the United States\u2014and owns <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/htctax\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTC Tax Services<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a tax preparation company in Florida City.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hatcher earned an associate\u2019s degree in general studies from MDC in 2001 and a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Nova Southeastern University in 2005. 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