Robert McCabe

{{Short description|American educator (1928–2014)}}

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Robert H. McCabe (December 23, 1928 – December 23, 2014) was an American educator and the President Emeritus of Miami-Dade Community College.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sacjtc.org/newsletters/nov01.html |title=Southern Association of Community, Junior, and Technical Community Colleges |access-date=2011-11-28 |archive-date=2012-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005858/http://www.sacjtc.org/newsletters/nov01.html |url-status=usurped }}

He won a 1992 MacArthur Fellowship.{{cite web |url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142781/k.9401/Fellows_List__M.htm |title=Fellows List - M - MacArthur Foundation |accessdate=2010-01-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609111408/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142781/k.9401/Fellows_List__M.htm |archivedate=2011-06-09 }} He died on December 23, 2014, of cancer.{{cite web| url = http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article4910535.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141224121253/http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article4910535.html| archive-date = 2014-12-24| title = Robert McCabe, Miami Dade College president and advocate for remedial education, dies at 86 {{!}} The Miami Herald| website = Miami Herald}}

Works

  • No One to Waste: A Report to Public Decision-Makers and Community College Leaders, Community College Press, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-87117-330-0}}
  • General education in a changing society, Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1978, {{ISBN|978-0-8403-7503-2}}

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