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LaGuardia Community College Provost named interim president
BY BILL PARRY
bparry@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
LaGuardia Community College Provost
Paul Arcacio has been appointed interim
president aft er serving the Long Island
City campus for more than 30 years.
Known as a dedicated and creative leaders,
Dr. Gail O. Mellow gave Arcario a
robust endorsement as her replacement
when she announced in February that she
was stepping down aft er 19 years as the
school’s president.
“Th e CUNY board of trustees will ultimately
decide, but I could give no stronger
endorsement to Paul Arcario,” Mellow
said at the time. “He was raised here in
Queens, speaks several languages including
Mandarin and he’s a world traveler.”
CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos
Rodríguez did just that appointing
Arcario who joined LaGuardia in 1988 as
an ESL faculty member rising to his role
as provost and senior vice president of
the school in 2012. Arcario was responsible
for managing the Academic Division’s
$40 million annual budget, leading faculty
recruitment and development, overseeing
day-to-day management of key academic
initiatives as well as supervising the
Student Aff airs Division.
“LaGuardia Community College has
an incredibly welcoming, inclusive atmosphere,
with faculty and staff who are
dedicated to creating opportunities for
our mostly low-income students,” Arcario
said. “I’m honored to serve as interim
president.”
Arcario is known for his own style of
on-the-ground research such as enrolling
in elementary algebra for students
needing developmental mathematics
before moving on to college-level classes
at LaGuardia. He wanted fi rst-hand data
on why some LaGuardia students were
struggling to pass developmental math —
which 70 percent of LaGuardia students
are placed into, with some needing to take
the course several times before passing —
making their route to graduation longer,
more expensive and frustrating.
At the time, Arcario was LaGuardia’s
dean of Academic Aff airs.
“I wanted to support our math faculty,
but I didn’t have a deep familiarity with
our math curricula,” he said. “Just sitting
in one or two classes would’ve given me a
snapshot, not the full picture.”
CUNY Chancellor Matos Rodríguez
also announced that Berenecea Johnson
Eanes was appointed interim president
of York College in Jamaica eff ective Sept.
1. She will replace Marcia V. Keizs, who
stepped down as president in July aft er
14 years so she could return to the classroom
as a professor at Bronx Community
College.
Of his new appointees, Matos Rodríguez
said, “Th ese individuals have already distinguished
themselves for outstanding
service, to say nothing of their versatility,
ingenuity and longevity.”
Matos Rodríguez had been president at
Queens College since 2014 before he was
named CUNY Chancellor in February.
Photo courtesy of CUNY
LaGuardia Community College Provost Paul Arcario is appointed as the school’s new interim president
replacing Dr. Gail O. Mellow.
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