Carole Berotte Joseph

Dr. Carole Berotte Joseph is a former educator and administrator who served as the first Haitian-born United States college president and the first woman president of Massachusetts Bay Community College. She was born in Port-au-Prince and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She migrated to the U.S. at the age of 8 in 1957 and is fluent in four languages – English, Haitian Creole, Spanish and French. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and education from the York College, City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her Master's degree in curriculum, teaching and bilingual education at Fordham University and her Doctor of Philosophy in bilingual education and sociolinguistics at New York University in 1992. She was the President of Bronx Community College in New York from 2011 to 2014.

At least one critic called Joseph's time at Massachusetts Bay Community College the “reign of terror," according to the professional journal Inside Higher Ed.