A regular meeting of the QCC Board of Trustees will be held on Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM. The full board meeting will take place at the Worcester Senior Center, located at 128 Providence St, Worcester, MA 01604.
For questions, please contact Jess Ahrens Montecalvo, Executive Assistant to the President & Secretary to the Board, at at jahrens@qcc.mass.edu.
1. Call to Order and Roll Call
2. Consent Agenda
The purpose of the Consent Agenda is to expedite business by grouping routine agenda items together to be dealt with by one Board motion without discussion. Any member of the Board or staff may ask that any item on the Consent Agenda be removed and placed later on the agenda for full discussion. Such requests will be automatically respected.
If any item is not removed from the Consent Agenda, the action on the agenda is approved/accepted by single Board action adopting the Consent Agenda.
A. Minutes from the June 11, 2025 Regular Board Meeting (approve)
B. Trustee Budget Reports – FY25 through Current Period (accept)
C. Informational Personnel Items (accept)
D. President’s Out-of-State Travel (accept)
E. President’s Leave Time (accept)
Suggested Motion: That the Board of Trustees of Quinsigamond Community College approves the consent agenda (A-E) as presented.
3. Chair Updates
4. Standing Committee Reports
B. Audit & Oversight (A&O) Committee (no meeting)
Trustees: Mitra (Chair), Goodwine, and Gushi
1. A&O Chair Report
A. Strategic Planning, Education, and Student Success (SPESS) Committee (no meeting)
Trustees: Rajeshkumar (Chair), Bhatti, MacDonald, Maykel, and Keeley
2. SPESS Chair Report
C. Executive Committee (August 20, 2025)
Trustees: Maykel, Goodwine, Mitra, and Rajeshkumar
5. Other Business
A. 2024-2025 Presidential Evaluation
6. QCC Foundation Report
7. Student Trustee Report
8. President’s Report
A. Ongoing Initiatives/Campus Updates
9. Public Participation
The Board may reserve one-half hour at the end of the agenda of its regular meetings for public participation. Individuals seeking to speak to the Board should so inform the President’s Office in writing, setting forth the purpose for which they seek to speak, at least 24 hours before the relevant meeting. The Chairperson shall determine whether said individuals shall be permitted to speak and, if so, for how long they may speak on the designated topic. The Chairperson may exercise discretion to waive the notice requirement set forth above and invite an individual(s) present at the meeting to address the Board.
10. Adjournment
The listings of matters before the Board of Trustees are those reasonably anticipated by the Chair of the Board to be discussed at the meeting. Not all items listed may in fact be discussed and other items, not listed, may also be brought up for discussion, to the extent such is permitted by law.
The Board of Trustees
Linda Maykel, DDS
General Dentistry - Retired
Chair - Executive Committee
Board Member since 2022
Eric Goodwine
Vice President - Rockland Trust, Worcester, MA
Member - Audit and Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2022
Mariyam Basim Bhatti, Esq.
Staff Attorney - Doherty, Dugan, Cannon, Raymond & Weil, PC, Franklin, MA
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2022
Jorgo Gushi
Technical Account Manager - The MathWorks Inc., Natick, MA
Member - Audit & Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2025
Lynn M. Keeley
Director of Performance Improvement - Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital, Westborough, MA
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2023
Noah MacDonald
Business Administration Student, New Student Orientation Leader, & Founder of Coalition of Rising Entrepreneurs (CORE) - Quinsigamond Community College, Worcester, MA
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2025
Satya Mitra, Ph.D.
President & CEO - The Guru Tax & Financial Services
Member - Audit and Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2022
Barur R. Rajeshkumar, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist - University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2022