Dr. Berotte Joseph became the fourth President of MassBay Community College on March 1, 2005. Prior to joining MassBay, she served as Chief Academic Officer and Dean of Academic Affairs at Dutchess Community College/SUNY. Before joining the State University of New York system, she served as Vice President of Academic Affairs, at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College/CUNY. Her career in higher education spans over 35 years and began at the City College of New York, City University of New York system, where she served for over twenty years in several leadership positions. As a full professor with tenure, she was the recipient of several major grants and served as the Principal Investigator and first Director of the statewide HABETAC, the Haitian Bilingual/ESL Technical Assistance Center in New York. She has taught at the Bank Street College, Graduate School of Education; New York University’s SEHNAP and Indiana University’s Creole Institute at Bloomington and Haiti, as a Visiting Professor. In 1997, she was selected as a Kellogg Fellow for the prestigious program, “Expanding Leadership Diversity in Community Colleges.”

An expert in the field of linguistics, she was a guest editor for the Special Issue on Haiti of the Wadabagei Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora. She is the author of “Haitian Creole in New York” in Fishman & Garcia (Eds.), The Multilingual Apple: Ethnolinguistic Diversity in New York City, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1997. Dr. Berotte Joseph has lectured extensively and has authored, translated and edited numerous articles on educational policy issues facing Haitian communities in the United States as well as in Haiti. She has served on the Editorial Boards of several scholarly journals including the Journal of the International Reading Association, Journal of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education, and the Wadabagei Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora. She is a past president of the Haitian Studies Association, an international, scholarly and professional organization that promotes research and scholarship on Haiti and Haitians. She is fluent in four languages: Haitian Creole; French; Spanish and English. Dr. Berotte Joseph was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and grew up in New York. Her service to the community includes several appointments on local and national boards.

President Berotte Joseph serves on the boards of several organizations including: Technical Education Research Center (TERC) in Cambridge,MA; the Executive Committee of the Boston Higher Education Partnership; Honorary Chair of the World of Wellesley Inc.; the Wellesley Chamber of Commerce; the Metrowest Chamber of Commerce; and the Massachusetts Automobile Dealers Association Charitable Foundation. She is also an overseer for Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Dr. Berotte Joseph lives in Ashland, Massachusetts with her husband Andre Stines. She and her two daughters, Marjorie and Claudine, were featured in a book entitled Nurturing Success (Lee, 2000). She also has appeared on several Radio and Television programs and has been featured in several Who’s Who publications. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish with minors in French and education from York College, CUNY; a master’s in education, with specializations in curriculum and teaching from Fordham University; an advanced certificate in administration and supervision from New York University and a doctorate in sociolinguistics and bilingual education from the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University.

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