Modesto Maidique

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Modesto A. Maidique
Modesto Maidique in the mid 1990s
4th President of Florida International University
In office 1986–2009
Preceded by	Gregory Baker Wolfe
Succeeded by	Mark B. Rosenberg
Personal details
Born	(1940-03-20) March 20, 1940 (age 84) Havana, Cuba
Political party	Republican[1]
Residence(s)	Coral Gables, Florida[2]
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
Occupation	Administrator Engineer

Modesto Alex "Mitch" Maidique (pronounced /maɪdiːkɛ/; born March 20, 1940) is a Cuban-American electrical engineer, businessman, and educator. He was the fourth president of Florida International University (FIU), a public university in the United States, whose main campus is named after him. Appointed in 1986, Maidique was the longest-serving university president in Florida and the second longest-serving research university president in the United States .^{[citation needed]} On November 14, 2008, Maidique presented his resignation to the FIU Board of trustees.^[3] On April 25, 2009, Mark B. Rosenberg was chosen to succeed Maidique and assumed office on August 3, 2009.

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Modesto Maidique was president of FIU for 23 years. During his tenure, the Colleges of Law and Engineering and a School of Architecture were established. The FIU College of Medicine was also founded in 2006. The first class of medical students began their studies in August 2009.

In 2006, Maidique had a dispute with long-time University supporter Herbert Wertheim over the naming of the medical school building, which resulted in the revocation of a $20 million donation. Wertheim had initially offered to donate the funds to have the medical facility named in his honor. However, Wertheim wanted to pay the donation over a period of months, and Maidique insisted that it would have to be paid in a lump sum in order for the school to get crucial matching funds from the state. During discussions of the matter, Maidique told Wertheim that he was getting the naming rights "on the cheap", and that they were really worth $100 million, prompting Wertheim to withdraw his offer.^[4]

On November 14, 2008, Maidique announced his resignation from his post as President of FIU. On June 12, 2009, FIU's board of trustees voted to rename the University Park campus to the Modesto A. Maidique Campus.^[5]

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Maidique was born in Havana, Cuba on March 20, 1940.^{[dubious – discuss]} Both of his parents were educators and his father served as a Congressman and Senator in Cuba.^{[citation needed]} As a supporter of Fulgencio Batista, Maidique chose to leave Cuba after Fidel Castro overthrew the regime. From 1976 to 1986, he held academic appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Stanford University.^{[citation needed][dubious – discuss]}

Maidique co-founded the Analog Devices, Inc., Semiconductor Division, in 1969. He served as CEO of Collaborative Research, a genetic engineering company that is now Genome Therapeutics, from 1981 to 1983, and as senior partner in Harbrecht & Quist Venture Partners from 1984 to 1986. He holds three US patents for semiconductor devices.^{[citation needed]}

From 1984 to 1986, Maidique was a professor of business management at the University of Miami.^{[citation needed]}

In 1989, US President George H. W. Bush appointed him to the President’s Educational Policy Advisory Committee, and served in a similar capacity for President George W. Bush. Maidique later served on the United States Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and is a member of the Presidential Scholars Commission.^{[citation needed]}

Maidique serves on the boards of National Semiconductor and the Carnival Corporation. He is past chairman of the Beacon Council, Miami’s economic development authority.^{[citation needed]}

Maidique has published in academic journals.^{[dubious – discuss]} He is a contributing author to ten books,^{[citation needed]} and a co-author of Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation.^{[dubious – discuss]} An article he co-authored, "The Art of High Technology Management" published in the Sloan Management Review.^{[dubious – discuss][citation needed]} He is also a co-author of Energy Future, a New York Times Best Seller on energy policy.^{[dubious – discuss][citation needed]}

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Maidique earned a Bachelor of Science (1962), Master of Science (1964), and Doctor of Philosophy (1970) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^{[citation needed]} He also completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School in 1975.^{[citation needed]} Maidique is a Phi Beta Kappa FIU alumni,^{[dubious – discuss]} and has two children, Ana Teresa and Mark Alex.