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Miami Dade College Board Chair Expects 'Civility' As Presidential Search Moves Forward

Pedro Portal
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Miami Herald
Miami Dade College provost Lenore Rodicio and president Eduardo Padrón. Rodicio is a candidate to replace Padrón, who retires later this week. But the board of trustees hasn't revealed how they plan to move forward with the stalled search.";

The chair of Miami Dade College's board of trustees has a message for people who attend the next meeting: Behave.

Bernie Navarro released a statement ahead of Thursday morning's meeting at the college's Wolfson campus in downtown Miami asking community members to "maintain professionalism, decorum and protocol."

"Civility is paramount to making progress on the issues facing Miami Dade College, an institution we all cherish and highly respect," Navarro said.

The board, which includes a majority of members newly appointed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, plans to outline next steps for the institution's stalled presidential search. The meeting comes just days before current President Eduardo Padrón is set to retire.

Navarro's warning about "civility" likely refers to a late-May meeting when a rowdy crowd of faculty members booed during trustees' discussion about whether to change the requirements for the job and cheered when their union's attorney urged the board to leave politics out of the search process.

The faculty union sued in July after the board voted to scrap the search process altogether.

Read more: Miami Dade College Presidential Search Drama Continues: Faculty Members Sue Board

Jessica Bakeman is Director of Enterprise Journalism at WLRN News, and she is the former senior news editor and education reporter. Her 2021 project "Class of COVID-19" won a national Edward R. Murrow Award.
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