{{Short description|American psychologist and college president}} [[File:Gail Mellow on CUNY TV's Education Forum, 2000.jpg|thumb|Mellow on CUNY TV's Education Forum, 2000. ]] '''Gail O'Connor Mellow''' was President from 2000 to 2019 of LaGuardia Community College located in Long Island City, New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/gailmellow/|title=President Dr. Gail O. Mellow|publisher=LaGuardia Community College|date=31 December 2010|accessdate=26 January 2012|archive-date=4 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304214841/http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/gailmellow/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="NYT1">{{cite news|newspaper=New York Times|date=25 April 2000|accessdate=30 January 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/nyregion/cuny-trustees-look-out-of-state-and-find-two-new-college-presidents.html|title=CUNY Trustees Look Out of State and Find Two New College Presidents|first=Karen W.|last=Arenson}}</ref>

== Life and career == Mellow was born in 1952.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n86-833121.html |title=OCLC Online Computer Library Center |publisher=Errol.oclc.org |date=27 November 2007|accessdate=26 January 2012}}</ref> She received an A.A. from Jamestown Community College.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sunyjcc.edu/node/4275 |title=Jamestown Community College |date=May 2009 |accessdate=22 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527150225/http://www.sunyjcc.edu/node/4275 |archivedate=27 May 2010 }}</ref> She received her B.A. from SUNY Albany and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/gailmellow/pdf/president_mellowBio.pdf |title=Gail O. Mellow Biography |accessdate=22 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316154548/http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/gailmellow/pdf/president_mellowBio.pdf |archivedate=16 March 2012 }}</ref>

Mellow has had several leadership positions in different educational institutions. Immediately previous to her presidency of LaGuardia Community College, she was president of Gloucester County College, a position from which she resigned to take the presidency of LaGuardia, succeeding Raymond C. Bowen.<ref name="NYT1" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Gcc Board Selects New College President|url=http://articles.philly.com/1997-08-07/news/25565768_1_new-college-president-administrative-positions-board-members|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921060856/http://articles.philly.com/1997-08-07/news/25565768_1_new-college-president-administrative-positions-board-members|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 21, 2015|date=7 August 1997|first=Scott|last=Fallon|accessdate=30 January 2012}}</ref> Mellow has also served on numerous boards that include the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laguardia.edu/Home/News/President_Gail_O__Mellow_Appointed_to_the_Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council/ |title=HSAAC |publisher=laguardia.edu |date=2 March 2012 |accessdate=22 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307005616/http://www.laguardia.edu/Home/News/President_Gail_O__Mellow_Appointed_to_the_Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council/ |archivedate=7 March 2014 }}</ref> American Association for Higher Education, the National Commission for Cooperative Education, and the Community College Research Center at Columbia University.{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}

She is the co-author of ''Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mellow|first1=Gail O'Connor|first2=Cynthia M.|last2=Heelan|title=Minding the Dream: The Process and Practice of the American Community College|publisher=Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7425-6292-9|oclc=182779260 }}</ref> She is also the author of numerous articles on the subjects of community colleges, economic development, and diverse faculty development.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mellow |first=Gail |last2=VanSlyck |first2=Phyllis |last3=Eynon |first3=Bret |date=2003-03-01 |title=The Face of the Future: Engaging in Diversity at LaGuardia Community College |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/lg_pubs/109 |journal=Publications and Research}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Paris |first=David C. |date=2018-10-16 |title=The Equity Imperative: “Two Nations, Separate and Unequal” (Community Colleges) |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/cookieAbsent |access-date=2026-04-17 |website=www.tandfonline.com |doi=10.1080/00091383.2018.1509631}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mellow |first=Gail O. |date=2015 |title=Cultivating a Community of Excellence |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1081023 |journal=Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council |language=en |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=65–69 |issn=1559-0151}}</ref>

Mellow founded and chaired the (NECEA) Northeast Connecticut Economic Alliance, a nonprofit development agency. She was also a member of the Human Resource Development Board of the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission. She represented the United States in the first US-China Community College collaborative conference meeting, which was held in Beijing in 2004. She was a consulting editor for Change magazine, a national magazine for higher education.{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}Starting in 2020 she served as the Executive Director of the New York Jobs CEO Council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=27 CEOs Launch the New York Jobs CEO Council |url=https://www.cuny.edu/news/27-ceos-launch-the-new-york-jobs-ceo-council/ |access-date=2026-04-17 |website=The City University of New York |language=en}}</ref>

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