Gail O'Connor Mellow was

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from 2000 to 2019 of

LaGuardia Community College LaGuardia Community College is a public community college in New York City. It is in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in and part of the City University of New York. LaGuardia is named after former congressman and New York City mayor ...

located in

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, New York.

Life and career

Mellow was born in 1952. She received an A.A. from

Jamestown Community College Jamestown Community College is a public community college with campuses in Jamestown and Olean, New York. It is part of the State University of New York system. JCC also has extension centers in Dunkirk, New York and Warren, Pennsylvania. The ...

, the first community college in the

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. She received her B.A. from

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and graduated

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. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in

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from

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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 Rowan College of South Jersey (RCSJ) is a public community college with two campuses in New Jersey, including one in Sewell (Gloucester Main Campus) and one in Vineland and Millville (Cumberland Branch Campus). The college was established in ...

, a position from which she resigned to take the presidency of LaGuardia, succeeding Raymond C. Bowen. Mellow has also served on numerous boards that include the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council, American Association for Higher Education, the National Commission for Cooperative Education, and the

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Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She is the co-author of ''Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College''. She is also the author of numerous articles on the subjects of

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, 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

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in 2004. She is a consulting editor for Change magazine, a national magazine for higher education.

References

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