Volume 2, Number 16 - June 13, 2012

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Access Services Director Retires After Twenty-Six Years

Paul Edwards, North Campus’ Access Services Director retired APril 30 from Miami Dade College.


Four Students Surprised at Commencement With Prestigious Transfer Scholarship

Four Miami Dade College Students were awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship—$60,000 in funds toward their next two years of education.


Jessica Alvarez at graduation

MDC Graduates Turn To New Chapters

More than 13,000 students graduated from Miami Dade College on April 28 at the James L. Knight Center and the Kendall Campus Gymnasium.


An MDC medical student being interviewed

Medical Campus Opens Wellness Clinic Run By Aspiring Doctors

Miami Dade College’s Medical Campus will be offer low-cost health services to those without health insurance starting in mid-June.


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Obama Stops Deportation of Young and Undocumented Immigrants

On June 15, President Barack Obama unveiled major news on national television—young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children will be able to legally remain and work in the United States.


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Professor Adds McArthur Causeway Attack To Tour For History of South Florida Class

Miami Dade College history professor Paul George will take his history students on a tour of the McArthur Causeway after a man was gunned down for chewing on the face of homeless man.


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Sisters From Beginning To End

Kareen and Marie Seignon graduated The Honors College at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus on April 28 and will attend Smith College in the fall.


Joaquinn Serrapio

Student Changes Plea To ‘Guilty’ For Threatening Obama

Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr., 20,changed his plea from not-guilty to guilty in federal court on May 23 for threatening to kill President Barack Obama via Facebook and Twitter in February. Serrapio is a Kendall Campus student.


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Two MDC Students Found Dead In Desolate Field

Two Miami Dade College students, Hector Miranda and Marcos Pomares, were found dead in a West Miami-Dade swampy marsh on June 11.




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