{"id":37572,"date":"2024-07-23T10:52:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=37572"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:50:18","slug":"meek-center-selects-new-director-of-student-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/meek-center-selects-new-director-of-student-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Meek Center Selects New Director Of Student Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Campus\u2019 <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/meek\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carrie P. Meek Entrepreneurial Education Center<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> appointed Joshua Arjona as director of student services on July 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arjona will oversee advisement, admissions and registration, testing, financial aid and the new student center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI look forward to connecting the community with the Meek Center,\u201d Arjona said. \u201cThat is the vision of our executive director, so I want to take that vision and make it a reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to his new role, Arjona worked as a pre-college advisor at North Campus from May of 2020 to June 2024 and as a student services assistant from October of 2011 to May of 2020. Before that, he served as a testing proctor for three years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside of Miami Dade College, Arjona worked at the <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gmvymca.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great Miami YMCA<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from 2000 through 2006, serving as a camp counselor, lifeguard and director of child care programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 43-year-old, who plays the trumpet, piano and drums, earned an associate\u2019s degree in music from MDC in 2013. Six years later, he attained a bachelor\u2019s degree in office supervision and management with a concentration in human resources, also from MDC.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Campus\u2019 Carrie P. 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