Gail O'Connor Mellow was President from 2000 to 2019 of LaGuardia Community College located in Long Island City, New York.[1][2]

Life and career

Mellow was born in 1952.[3] She received an A.A. from Jamestown Community College, the first community college in the State University of New York.[4] She received her B.A. from SUNY Albany and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.[5]

Mellow has had several leadership positions in different educational institutions. Immediately previous to her presidency of LaGuardia Community College, she was president of Gloucester County College, a position from which she resigned to take the presidency of LaGuardia, succeeding Raymond C. Bowen.[2][6] Mellow has also served on numerous boards that include the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council,[7] American Association for Higher Education, the National Commission for Cooperative Education, and the Community College Research Center at Columbia University.

She is the co-author of Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College.[8] She is also the author of numerous articles on the subjects of community colleges, economic development, and diverse faculty development.

Mellow founded and chaired the (NECEA) Northeast Connecticut Economic Alliance, a nonprofit development agency. She was also a member of the Human Resource Development Board of the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission. She represented the United States in the first US-China Community College collaborative conference meeting, which was held in Beijing in 2004. She is a consulting editor for Change magazine, a national magazine for higher education.

References

  1. ↑ "President Dr. Gail O. Mellow". LaGuardia Community College. 31 December 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  2. 1 2 Arenson, Karen W. (25 April 2000). "CUNY Trustees Look Out of State and Find Two New College Presidents". New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  3. ↑ "OCLC Online Computer Library Center". Errol.oclc.org. 27 November 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  4. ↑ "Jamestown Community College". May 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "Gail O. Mellow Biography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  6. ↑ Fallon, Scott (7 August 1997). "Gcc Board Selects New College President". Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  7. ↑ "HSAAC". laguardia.edu. 2 March 2012. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  8. ↑ Mellow, Gail O'Connor; Heelan, Cynthia M. (2008). Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7425-6292-9. OCLC 182779260.
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