OPINION: Mayors Gimenez, Gelber and Valdes-Fauli Call for the Quick Selection of a Miami Dade College President
"Our constituents are outraged and skeptical about the latest turn of events. Moreover, the unnecessary delay in this process is affecting the college deeply at a critical time — the exciting start of the new academic year, when enrollment, fundraising and morale typically are at their peak. We implore the members of the Board of Trustees to do the right thing and without further delay select a new president for Miami Dade College when they reconvene Aug. 29."
OPINION: ONE-SIDED OPINIONS
"Miami Dade College Trustee Marcell Felipe has repeatedly called for the expulsion of the Confucius Institute from the campus and insinuated that its presence implies some sort of sympathy with communism. At the same time, he admonishes professors for silencing the voices of those with whom it disagrees and calls for “greater diversity of opinions.” Hypocrisy much?
It’s clear the only opinions he wants to protect are his own, and his the concerns he pretends to have about Confucius Institute amount to old-fashioned “red-baiting.”
Felipe’s attempts to silence and discredit stakeholders at MDC won’t work. He’s only creating greater unity among those who oppose his political hijacking of the presidential search at the college.
– Elizabeth Ramsay
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