Barry University alumna Isabel Rodriguez-Dehmer, PhD, was recently awarded Miami Dade College’s 2014 Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation Endowed Teaching chair award at a ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at the Wolfson Campus’ Chapman Conference Center. Rodriguez-Dehmer was joined by ten other MDC faculty members at the annual program which recognizes outstanding faculty who continuously strive to accomplish MDC’s mission.
Rodriguez-Dehmer is part of the developmental education discipline based at MDC’s North Campus and teaches writing and reading for the English Academic program and student life skills at the Carrie P. Meek Entrepreneurial Center and MDC-West. She has been a part of the MDC Learning Outcomes Initiative since 2007, has chaired the Learning Outcomes Coordinating Council, and served on the Steering Committee for The Center for Literature and Theater. She is a member of the International, Florida and Dade Reading Associations, as well as the Florida Developmental Education Association.
This is the second time Rodriguez-Dehmer has earned an MDC Endowed Teaching Chair award. In 2007, she was honored with the Peter Masiko, Jr., Endowed Teaching Chair at MDC’s North Campus.
Rodriguez-Dehmer is a 2013 graduate of ADSOE’s curriculum and instruction doctoral program.
The honorees of MDC’s Endowed Teaching Chairs are selected by a committee of their peers who reviewed evidence of student retention and success, effective teaching strategies, professional growth, and making student learning a top priority. To date, more than 310 recipients have been inducted into the program since its inception in 1992. Each will receive an annual stipend of $7,500 for three years.