President Mark B. Rosenberg wrote the following op-ed in the Miami Herald on April 17. Rosenberg reflects on Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s visit to FIU earlier this month.
Florida International University had the rare opportunity this month to inform, and possibly influence, education policy and funding at the national level when U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited FIU and other educational institutions in South Florida.
DeVos chose to visit FIU because she’s aware of the positive things that we are accomplishing through collaboration, innovation and a wide range of educational options.
[…] ‘We showed DeVos the accomplishments of public academic institutions’ […]
President Rosenberg, thank you for speaking up for public education. Also for demonstrating to the Educational Secretary how these services need to remain accessible to anyone in our nation, emigrant or not, who has the strength and determination needed to build a better world.
One can only hope that she saw value in the stories she was told and what she experienced. If she can be swayed from her elitist mentality, that would be a beautiful thing.
President Rosenberg is an FIU and South Florida treasure.