Juan L. Maldonado
| Juan Leandro Maldonado | |
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Maldonado at the Veterans Day celebration at Laredo Community College in 2008
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| President of Laredo Community College | |
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In office September 1, 2007 – August 1, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Ramón H. Dovalina |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo Solis |
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November 28, 1948 Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, Mexico |
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| Children | 1 (3 stepchildren) |
| Residence | Laredo, Texas, US |
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Juan Leandro Maldonado (born November 28, 1948) is a higher education administrator who is the sixth and current president of Laredo Community College in Laredo in Webb County in South Texas, USA. In August 2007, upon the sudden retirement of Ramón H. Dovalina, Maldonado assumed the LCC presidency. Maldonado retired from LCC effective August 1, 2016.
Maldonado was born in Nueva Ciudad Guerrero in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, a small city opposite the Rio Grande from Falcon Heights, Texas. He moved to Laredo on January 3, 1950, at the age of thirteen months.
Maldonado is considered a native of Laredo because he was reared there in the historic Barrio Azteca. In 2009, Maldonado in an interview described how Laredo in its pioneer days developed out of necessity an independent spirit because of its remote location. Though the community was compelled to become self-sufficient, he noted how people from the early years of settlement became dependent on one another. This situation, he added, fostered an impressive community spirit.
Maldonado attended the former Central Elementary School and in 1967 graduated from Martin High School, at which he was the co-captain of the "Tigers" football team, the senior class president, a member of the National Honor Society, and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed". In 2008, he was named a "Tiger Legend", along with several other alumni, including Andres Ramos, Jr., a former county judge for Webb County. As a Tiger Legend, Maldonado urged graduates to be "committed to what you want to achieve in life and help others. In helping others, you help your community [to] be a better place [in which] to live."
After completing high school, Maldonado attended Texas A&M University in College Station, at which he majored in Engineering and Business Administration. In 1970, he transferred from Texas A&M to the University of North Texas in Denton, from which in 1972 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology with a minor in Psychology. In 1975, he received a Master of Education degree in student services from the University of North Texas. In 1986, he was awarded a Ph.D. in child development (elementary education) from Texas Woman's University, also in Denton. In both of his graduate degrees, he carried minor studies in sociology. For his doctorate, he wrote the 276-page The Relationship of English Oral Language Proficiency, Cognitive Tempo, Locus of Control, and Specific Language Acquisition Factors of Mexican American Preschool Children.
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