Talent Dividend - Miami-Dade

If Miami-Dade increased its college attainment rate from 28.1 to 29.1 percent, the region would capture a $4.1 billion Talent Dividend. 

Hosts: Manny Diaz, Mayor, City of Miami; Mark Rosenberg, President, Florida International University; Eduardo Padron, Miami-Dade College
Date: Sept. 22, 2009

Talent Dividend Action Plan: Click here to download.

Media: While this Editorial in the Miami Herald by Eduardo Padron notes that "while no silver bullet exists, there is an irrefutable connection between educational achievement and economic prosperity."  He goes on to highlight the need for cross-sector collaboration in order to achieve the one percentage point goal.

Padron also writes in this piece for Hispanic Magazine, "Far too many low-income and minority students arrive underprepared for college-level work and weighted by financial and family responsibilities. They need a community that refuses to let them fall away... A lot is at stake. As a noted urban expert recently said, 'If your city’s economic plan doesn’t include an educational component, you don’t have an economic plan.' And that implies the vital surrounding communities cannot stop at the campus boundary. It takes a village, as the saying goes."

In this Miami Herald op-ed, Eduardo Padron notes that his goal for 2010 is to "to build a community of understanding that is passionate and unified on the subject of education."  He goes on to ask "Is there any reason why Miami cannot be the education community, the one that truly gets it, that realizes that educating its members is central to the entire community's success?"

A photo from the event: Mark Rosenberg, President, Florida International University, Carol Coletta, President and CEO, CEOs for Cities, Eduardo Padron, President, Miami Dade College, Manny Diaz, Former Mayor, City of Miami, Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools