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1960
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College begins operations; first day of
classes with over 1,400 students
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1962-1980
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Dr.
Peter Masiko, second president of Dade County Junior College
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1963
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Scott Hall, the first
purpose-built building at North Campus, is completed
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1964
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South
Campus (later renamed "Kendall") begins operations at Palmetto High
School
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1967
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The permanent
site of MDC's Kendall Campus opened and began operation
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1968
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Florida legislature
separates community colleges from public school system. Miami-Dade now
governed by its own District Board of Trustees
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1969
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College
enrolls its 100,000th student, Kathy Burket
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1971
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Allied
Health Center opens at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach
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1971
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Groundbreaking
ceremony for Wolfson Campus, Building 1
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1972
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InterAmerican Center
opens in Little Havana
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1973
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College
renamed "Miami-Dade Community College"
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1976
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Medical
Center Campus dedicated
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1980
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Dr. Robert
H. McCabe named third president of Miami-Dade Community College
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1981
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Hialeah
Center Opens
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1984
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Inaugural Miami Book
Fair International, originally called "Books by the Bay"
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1984
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Downtown Campus
renamed Mitchell Wolfson New World Center Campus
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1985
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College celebrates
25th anniversary
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1985
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MDCC becomes
the first community college in the country to have graduated 100,000
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1988
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New World
School of the Arts created
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1989
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Liberty
City Entrepreneurial Education Center opens
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1990
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Homestead
Campus opens
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1992
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Referendum
passes; Community Endowment established
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1993
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College receives
first Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for excellence in teaching and learning
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1995
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Dr.
Eduardo J. Padrón fourth president of Miami-Dade
Community College
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1998
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InterAmerican
Center becomes InterAmerican Campus
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1998
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Tamiami
Aviation Center established at Tamiami Airport
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2001
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State approves
first in a series of Baccalaureate degrees
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2003
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Florida
Legislature authorizes name change to Miami Dade College (MDC)
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2003
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Honors College
begins
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2005
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Former Miami
News building and Cuban refugee center, Freedom Tower, donated to MDC
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2005
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First
MDC students graduate with Bachelor of Science degree
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2010
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Confucius
Institute opened
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2010
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New
state of the art Science Complex opened at North Campus
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2010
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Celebrated MDC's
50th anniversary
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2011
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Inauguration
of the Miami Culinary Institute
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2013
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MDC
admits its 2 millionth student, Kendall Campus freshman Tatyana Rivera
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2014
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MDC launches Idea
Center, an entrepreneurship and innovation hub
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2015
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MDC opens state of the
art Miami Animation and Gaming International Complex
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