Annual Report for 2021-2022
Previous year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends
Dr. Leslie Francis – Business
Dr. Katwicia Desruisseaux – College Discovery
Dr. Aliza Atik – English
Dr. Jason Demas – Health, Physical Education and Dance
Dr. Sarbani Ghoshal – Biology Science and Geology
Carmen Reid – Department of Nursing
Previous year liaisons, designees
Jankee Guzman – Office of Admissions
Upcoming year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends
Dr. MD Shahadat Hossain – Engineering Department
Katwicia Desruisseaux - College Discovery
Dr. Jason Demas - Health, Physical Education & Dance
Dr. Sarbani Ghoshal - Biology Sciences & Geology
Dr. Che Charissa, English Department
Carmen Reid – Nursing
Previous year committee officers
Jason Demas - Chair
Carmen Reid- Secretary
Upcoming year committee officers
Jason Demas - Chair
Charissa Che - Secretary
Committee Meeting Dates and times
The committee met on the following dates:
September 17, 2021 Virtually
December 28, 2021 - Virtually
January 13, 2022- Virtually
January 19, 2022 Virtually
February 25, 2022 Virtually
April 8, 2022 - Virtually
May 27, 2022 - Virtually
July 30, 2022 - Virtually
List of Bylaws charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items. Include statistics: number of appeals, acceptances, denials. Compare statistics to year previous
The Committee on Admissions shall consist of six (6) members of the instructional staff and three (3) student members who shall participate and vote only on matters of policy.
The Committee on Admissions shall:
- Formulate and recommend to the Academic Senate matriculation standards governing entrance of students to the various curricula and programs at Queensborough Community College.
- Formulate and recommend to the Academic Senate matriculation standards governing re-entrance of students to the various curricula and programs at Queensborough Community College.
- Consider appeals for matriculation and make decisions in accordance with Board of Trustees policies.
According to the Committee Minutes posted on this website, the following issues were discussed:
- The committee considered changing the committee name but after discussing it with the Bylaws Committee, the Admissions Committee members decided to keep the name.
- Applications have still not reached pre-pandemic numbers
- Refer to minutes from 2/25 for other topics the committee reviewed.
- In May of20 22, committee members began to review applications asynchronously and used a spreadsheet to provide feedback.
Regarding appeals, the committee reviewed 130 applications for readmissions:
59 were reviewed (47 approved and 12 denied) for the Spring 2022 semester.
71 were reviewed (58 approved for 13 denied) for the Fall 2022 semester.
List of Steering Committee charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items
Summary of actions not covered by above
Committee recommendations for upcoming year
Respectfully Submitted,
Jannette Alejandra Urciuoli, Ph.D., LCSW
Associate Professor, Chair of the Admissions Committee for academic year 2024-25
This Annual Report was completed by gathering information reported from the Minutes of this committee posted on their website. Undersign was not a member of the Admissions Committee during the 2021-22 academic year.
