Monthly Report of the Committee on Committees for May 2025

QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE – THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Monthly Report of the Committee on Committees for May 2025

May 15, 2025
From: Ben Murolo, Chairperson of the Committee on Committees
To: Dr. Scott Litroff, Chairperson of the Academic Senate Steering Committee

II. Faculty Members-at-large of the Academic Senate
The table below provides the results of the Faculty Member-At-Large election for 2025-2028. The 14 people receiving the most votes, with terms ending in 2028, were approved by the Academic Senate at its April 8^th meeting. The final 2 candidates were added to the alternates list maintained by the CoC and will, in fact, be serving in the Senate in the Fall, filling vacancies due to faculty leaves.

Candidate Dept. Votes %

Emily Tai History 177 67.30

Danny Sexton English 144 54.75

Scott Litroff Music 137 52.09

Barbara Rome Nursing 134 50.95

Alisa Cercone English 133 50.57

David Pham Math 128 48.67

Tirandai Hemraj-Benny Chemistry 126 47.91

Christina Saindon Commun. 125 47.53

Lakersha Smith Social Sci. 124 47.15

Craig Weber Eng. Tech 117 44.49

Carolina Chaves Modern Lang. 116 44.11

Rezan Akpinar HPED 114 43.35

Vazgen Shekoyan Physics 114 43.35

Kathleen Pecinka Nursing 107 40.68

Kahlil Garner Commun. 101 38.40

Kristen Hoffman English 95 36.12

II. Actions taken at the May meeting of the CoC held May 15, 2025

The college calendar meeting hours proposal (below) will be presented to the Steering Committee for presentation to the Administration at the agenda meeting for the first Fall Senate meeting.
Thank you for their service to outgoing CoC members: Shannon Kincaid, Associate Professor, Social Sciences; Jong Gu Moon, Lecturer, HPED; and Jasper Lin, Assistant Professor, Art & Design.
Welcome to the new CoC members: Rezan Akpinar, Associate Professor, HPED; Rommel Robertson, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences; and Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson, Associate Professor, Communication Theatre and Media Arts Production.
Absent any other candidates, Sebastian (Ben) Murolo was re-elected Chairperson and Kevin Kolack was re-elected Secretary of the CoC by unanimous consent.
Ingrid Jaramillo Estrella will serve a full term (2025-2028) on the Curriculum Committee instead of Lisa Halstead who removed her name from consideration after the ballot was presented to and approved by the Senate.
Carolyn King, not Shannon Kincaid, is serving on the Bylaws Committee. (Corrects an error on the ballot supplied to the Senate in April.)
Adair/Talbird FMAL and Committee replacements due to Fall 2025 leaves:
Kahlil Garner (CTMP) will replace Arthur Adair in the Senate for Fall 2025.
Kristen Hoffman (English) will replace John Talbird in the Senate for Fall 2025.
Rezan Akpinar (HPED) will replace Arthur on the Library Committee for Fall 2025.
Urszula Golebiewska (Biology) will replace John on the Committee on Cultural & Archival Resources for Fall 2025.
Arthur Abramov will serve a full term (2025-2028) on the Pre-College Committee instead of Punita Bhansali who removed her name from consideration after the ballot was presented to and approved by the Senate.
Vazgen Shekoyen will replace George Fragopoulos on the Curriculum Committee for Fall 2025 while George is on leave.
Jed Shahar will serve a full term on the Committee on Archival Resources. (There was an error on the ballot supplied to the Senate in April.)
Julia Rothenberg will serve a full term on the Committee on Archival Resources. (Denera Ragoonanan left QCC after being appointed to the Committee.)
The Senate and Committee rosters have been updated to reflect all of these changes.
These changes and the FMAL results will be posted as a Committee Monthly Report
CoC members should contact the committees to which they have been assigned as liaisons to ensure the committee websites have been updated with new members and officers.
The Steering Committee will be asked to update the Senate distribution list.
Barbara Rome was asked to serve as Secretary of the Senate.
The Senate website needs to have the "Start Date" of many documents updated so that indexes of pages (e.g., minutes) are in chronological order.

MEMORANDUM

TO: Academic Senate Steering Committee

FROM: Committee on Committees, Sebastian Murolo, Chairperson

SUBJECT: Proposal regarding establishing Meeting Hours on the Weekly Academic Calendar

DATE: Thursday, May 15th, 2025

Whereas, the Academic Senate meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 3PM, and

Whereas, the academic department Chairpersons meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 2PM, and

Whereas, the ability to attain a quorum at Academic Senate Standing Committee meetings often limits the ability of these committees to conduct their business, and

Whereas, the establishment of a posted Standing Committee meeting time has proven difficult for many Committees due to the unpredictability of instructional staff teaching and work commitments,

Be it resolved that: weekly “Committee Meeting Hours” be added to the Queensborough Community College weekly academic calendar on Tuesdays between the hours of 2PM and 5PM.

Be it further resolved that department Chairpersons be discouraged from assigning classroom or other activities to instructional staff during those hours.

Respectfully submitted,

S Benjamin Murolo

Chairperson, Committee on Committees

Membership/officers

Rezan Akpinar, Associate Professor, HPED, 2028

Rommel Robertson, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, 2028

Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson, Associate Professor, Comm. Theatre Arts, 2028

Aliza Atik, Associate Professor, English, 2026

Lixu Li, Lecturer, Math and Computer Science, 2026

S Ben Murolo, Chair, Professor, Business, 2026

Steven Dahlke, Professor, Music, 2027

Kevin Kolack, Secretary, Lecturer, Chemistry, 2027

Barbara Rome, Associate Professor, HPED, 2027

Membership/officers

Shannon Kincaid, Associate Professor, Social Sciences, 2025

Jasper Lin, Assistant Professor, Art & Design, 2025

Jong Gu Moon, Lecturer, HPED, 2025