The Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) Board of Trustees is scheduled to hold an Executive Committee Meeting on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 4:00 PM via Zoom.
Regular meetings of the QCC Board of Trustees Strategic Planning, Education & Student Success (SPESS) Committee and the Audit & Oversight (A&O) Committee are scheduled to take place via Zoom on Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM & 5:00 PM respectively.
A regular meeting of the QCC Board of Trustees will be held on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM. The full board meeting will take place at Quinsigamond Community College in the Board of Trustees Conference Room, Room 107A in the Administration Building, located at 670 West Boylston Street, Worcester, MA 01606.
For questions or the Zoom link, please contact Jess Ahrens Montecalvo, Executive Assistant to the President & Secretary to the Board, at jahrens@qcc.mass.edu.
I. Call to Order and Roll Call
II. 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 October 15, 2025 Regular Board Meeting (approve)
B. Trustee Budget Report – FY26 (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.
III. Chair Updates
IV. Standing Committee Reports
A. Audit & Oversight (A&O) Committee (November 12, 2025)
Trustees: Mitra (Chair), Goodwine, and Gushi
1. FY26 Budget Update
2. OSA Audit Report Update
B. Strategic Planning, Education, and Student Success (SPESS) Committee (November 12, 2025)
Trustees: Rajeshkumar (Chair), MacDonald, Mandes, Maykel, and Keeley
1. Fall 2026 Sabbatical Application
2. 2026-2027 College Calendar
3. Enrollment Update
C. Executive Committee (October 29, 2025)
Trustees: Maykel, Goodwine, Mitra, and Rajeshkumar
V. Other Business
VI. QCC Foundation Report
A. QCC Foundation YTD Fundraising Report
VII. Student Trustee Report
VII. President’s Report
A. Ongoing Initiatives/Campus Updates
IX. 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.
X. 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.
- September 2025
- October 2025
- December 2025
- March 2026
- April 2026
- June 2026
The Board of Trustees
Linda Maykel, DDS
General Dentistry - Retired
Chair - Executive Committee
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2022
Eric Goodwine
Vice President, North Easton Savings Bank
Member - Executive Committee
Member - Audit & Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2022
Max German
Student, Boston College Law School
Board Member since 2025
Maricelis Gonzalez
Executive Director, El Buen Samaritano Food Program Inc.
Board Member since 2025
Jorgo Gushi
Technical Account Manager, The MathWorks Inc.
Member - Audit & Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2025
Lynn Keeley
Director of Performance Improvement, Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital
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
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2025
Jessica Mandes
Director of Multilingual Education, Worcester Public Schools
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2025
Satya Mitra, Ph.D.
President & CEO, The Guru Tax & Financial Services
Member - Executive Committee
Chair - Audit & Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2022
Barur R. Rajeshkumar, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Member - Executive Committee
Chair- Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2022