Gail Mellow
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
[edit]Mellow was born in 1952.[3] She received an A.A. from Jamestown Community College.[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.[citation needed]
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.[9][10][11]
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 was a consulting editor for Change magazine, a national magazine for higher education.[citation needed]Starting in 2020 she served as the Executive Director of the New York Jobs CEO Council.[12]
References
[edit]- ↑ "President Dr. Gail O. Mellow". LaGuardia Community College. 31 December 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- 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.
- ↑ "OCLC Online Computer Library Center". Errol.oclc.org. 27 November 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ↑ "Jamestown Community College". May 2009. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ↑ "Gail O. Mellow Biography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ↑ Fallon, Scott (7 August 1997). "Gcc Board Selects New College President". Archived from the original on September 21, 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
- ↑ "HSAAC". laguardia.edu. 2 March 2012. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Mellow, Gail; VanSlyck, Phyllis; Eynon, Bret (2003-03-01). "The Face of the Future: Engaging in Diversity at LaGuardia Community College". Publications and Research.
- ↑ Paris, David C. (2018-10-16). "The Equity Imperative: "Two Nations, Separate and Unequal" (Community Colleges)". www.tandfonline.com. doi:10.1080/00091383.2018.1509631. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
- ↑ Mellow, Gail O. (2015). "Cultivating a Community of Excellence". Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council. 16 (2): 65–69. ISSN 1559-0151.
- ↑ "27 CEOs Launch the New York Jobs CEO Council". The City University of New York. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
