Eduardo Padron

Eduardo Padrón, PhD, is President of Miami Dade College (MDC), the country’s largest institution of higher education. MDC makes high quality teaching and learning accessible to a diverse student body, and serves as an economic, cultural, and civic beacon in the community. He is credited with elevating MDC into a position of national prominence among the best and most recognized U.S. colleges and universities. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S., for being a prominent national voice for access and inclusion in higher education.