Tri-C Humanities Dean Voted Into Regional Leadership Role

Matthew Jordan is president-elect of Mid-East Honors Association; two others from Tri-C join him on executive committee

Matthew Jordan of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C^®) has been voted president-elect of the Mid-East Honors Association (MEHA), which represents honors programs at college and universities in a six-state region. 

MEHA works to create an intellectual, programmatic and administrative network of resources aimed at helping the region’s honors programs grow and thrive. It is a subgroup of the National Collegiate Honors Council. 

Jordan serves as dean and chair for humanities at Tri-C’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center. Since opening in 2015, the center has grown into a model for student engagement in the humanities. 

Tri-C has two other representatives on the 2020-2021 MEHA executive committee. Rebecca Carte, an assistant professor of Spanish, will serve as the committee’s faculty representative. Sebastian Canales, a Mandel Scholar, is one of four student representatives.

July 14, 2020

John Horton, 216-987-4281 john.horton@tri-c.edu