The next regular meeting of the Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) Board of Trustees will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 5:00pm at Quinsigamond Community College, Administration Building - Room 107A - 670 West Boylston Street, Worcester, MA 01606.
Committees of the Board will meet on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - SPESS @ 4:00pm and A&O @ 5:00pm via Zoom.
For remote access to these meetings, please contact the President's Office in advance of the meeting - lcosta@qcc.mass.edu or 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.
- Summary from the February 11, 2025 Regular Board Meeting (approve)
- Trustee Budget Reports – FY25 through Current Period (accept)
- Informational Personnel Items (accept)
- President’s Out-of-State Travel (accept)
- 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 Report
4. Standing Committee Reports:
A. Strategic Planning, Education, and Student Success (SPESS) (4/9/25) - Trustees Rajeshkumar, Bhatti, Keeley, Maykel, Bowlin
1. SPESS Chair Report
B. Audit & Oversight (A&O) (4/9/25) - Trustees Mitra, Goodwine, Jones, Pape, Gushi
2. A&O Chair Report
C. Executive (3/26/25) - Trustees Maykel, Goodwine, Mitra, and Rajeshkumar
5. Student Trustee Report
6. President’s Report
- Ongoing Initiatives/Campus Updates
7. 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.
8. 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 2024
- October 2024
- December 2024
- February 2025
- April 2025
- June 2025
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
Christian Bowlin
Student Trustee
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2024
Jorgo Gushi
Technical Account Manager - The MathWorks Inc., Natick, MA
Member - TBD Committee
Board Member since 2025
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
Lorraine Tice Jones
Emergency Shelter Coordinator - Office of Emergency Management, Shrewsbury, MA
Member - Audit and Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2023<
Lynn M. Keeley
Director of Performance Improvement - Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital, Westborough, MA
Member - Strategic Planning, Education, & Student Success Committee
Board Member since 2023
Satya Mitra, Ph.D.
President & CEO - The Guru Tax & Financial Services
Member - Audit and Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2022
Elizabeth Pape
Consultant, One Worcester
Member - Audit & Oversight Committee
Board Member since 2024
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