Otero came to MCC in 1982. During his 21-year tenure, he has served as assistant director of admissions and assistant dean of admissions. At the Damon City Campus, Otero is currently the Executive Dean. Otero served as dean of students providing leadership and overseeing student development programs in advisement, registration and orientation, student life counseling, transfer and placement, pre-admission and financial aid services.
Otero possesses a Ph.D. in Higher Education from SUNY Buffalo. He also earned a master's degree in counselor education from the SUNY College at Brockport and a bachelor's degree in psychology and Spanish from St. John Fisher College.
His extensive community work includes:
Otero has also served as chairperson of the Rochester City School District's Hispanic Studies Steering Committee; chairperson of the United Way's Hispanic Leadership Development Program and as a scout master for a Latino Boy Scout troop. He has hosted and produced the former WROC-TV 8 public affairs program, Revista, which addressed Latino affairs in Rochester.
In the higher education arena, Otero is actively involved nationally with a number of organizations including the American College Personnel Association and the National Council on Student Development. He also helped organize the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, a Northeastern United States symposium focusing on the college recruitment and retention of Latinos and other students from the Caribbean.
Born in Cataņo, Puerto Rico, Otero immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was three years old. He was raised along with his four brothers and two sisters on Buffalo's West Side. His commitment to volunteerism developed during his childhood as he watched his father help other Puerto Ricans relocate to Buffalo when the Puerto Rican community there consisted of just a few dozen families.
At 17, Otero dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U. S. Army. During his three years of military service he completed a tour in the Panama Canal zone and earned a GED.
After the Army, Otero returned to Buffalo where he worked in the mills at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. In 1968, he moved to Rochester, and worked on the production line at Bausch & Lomb. Otero became involved with community affairs. He became a community representative on the Model Cities Program. He worked as a volunteer at the Lewis Street Center and at Mt. Carmel Church. In 1970 he became a counselor/recruiter for the Cooperative College Center, the Educational Opportunity Center's predecessor. Phone: 585-262-1612 Email: eotero@monroecc.edu
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