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Eduardo J. Padrón

Former President, Miami Dade College

Eduardo J. Padrón is the former president of Miami Dade College, a 2015 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a signatory of PEN America’s Champions of Higher Education Statement of Purpose.

Articles by Eduardo J. Padrón

A collage features students protesting censorship in classrooms: one holds a sign reading Silence = Death to Higher Ed with tape over his mouth, another holds a Say Gay sign. The text reads America’s Censored Classrooms 2023.
Educational Censorship
Thursday November 9

America’s Censored Classrooms 2023, an introduction by Eduardo Padrón

It has now been three years since a wave of legislative attacks began to sweep American state legislatures – a wave that has never let up. These legislative proposals censor the teaching of race and slavery in American schools, classroom acknowledgement of LGBTQ+ identity, and the very foundations of academic independence in higher education. This

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