President Clinton, U.S. Senator Lemieux and Honduras President to Address Graduates at MDC
Indianapolis—Jamie Merisotis, President/CEO of Lumina Foundation for Education, will deliver the Commencement Address tomorrow at Miami Dade College, celebrating its 50th year of serving the South Florida community.
Merisotis, who previously served as the founding president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy and executive director of a bipartisan national commission on higher education, will address the InterAmerican Campus of MDC on the changing face of college graduates.
“When we define the 21st century student, it can’t just be a semantic exercise. We must see you for who you are: our future,” Merisotis said. “There are still far too many people who don’t go to college or who leave too early—people whose potential we need develop, people whose talents we desperately need as a nation.”
The speech will be posted on the Lumina website at www.luminafoundation.org Saturday morning. Merisotis will also receive the College’s Honoris Causa Degree during the ceremony.
Other speakers tomorrow include U.S. Senator George Lemieux of Florida, former President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton, James A. Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and President Porfirio Lobo of Honduras.
The nation’s largest institution of higher education, Miami Dade enrolls 170,000 students across 8 campuses. MDC will award more than 11,000 degrees Saturday.
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