Malou Harrison

Dean of Students, North Campus

Malou C. Harrison serves as Dean of Students at Miami Dade College, North Campus.  In that role, she provides leadership for the comprehensive enrollment management function of a Campus that enrolls 50,000+ students annually.  Prior to that, she served as Chief of Staff to the President of Miami Dade College, during which time she was charged with oversight responsibility for functions such as the College’s Division of Public Affairs and Media Relations as well as the operational and administrative functions of the College President’s Office.

Harrison has a long record of administrative experiences in public education administration as evidenced by her 19 year tenure as an administrator at Miami Dade College as well her seven-year administrative appointment at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY).   Complementing this professional career, Harrison has also served as an adjunct professor of English for Academic Purposes also known as English as a Second Language (ESL) for some five years.

Harrison is currently completing doctoral studies in Community College Leadership.  She has a Master’s Degree in TESOL from Florida International University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Management from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

In addition to serving on the Blue Ribbon Panel of the Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education, Malou also serves on the Learning Outcomes Coordinating Council at Miami Dade College, the Coordinating Council of Miami Dade County Sister Cities International, and the Board of Directors of Miami Book Fair International.   She has written many articles of cultural significance and recently co-authored a piece that has been published in the League for Innovation in the Community College’s Student Services Dialogues:  Community College Case Studies to Consider.