Steering Committee/Working Group Members

Meet your Self-Study Steering Committee Co-Chairs:

Professor Nelson Nuñez-Rodríguez, Ph.D.
Professor and Unit Coordinator, Physical Sciences Unit, Natural Sciences Department

Nelson Nuñez Rodríguez is Professor of Chemistry, Unit Coordinator at Natural Sciences Department, and former Director of Center for Teaching and Learning at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York. He currently serves as Fulbright Specialist on STEM Education and sub award Principal Investigator for a NIH IRACDA BETTR program. His scholarly interests focus on developing scientific skills in urban college students. He received a Bachelor Degree in Biology from Havana University, Cuba in 1992, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from National University of Cordoba, Argentina in 2001 and developed a four year-postdoctoral training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

Associate Professor Kate Wolfe, Ph.D.
Behavioral Sciences Unit, Behavioral and Social Sciences Department

Dr. Wolfe is a social psychologist with research interests in quantitative reasoning among urban community college students, student perceptions of online learning, and urban college student attitudes toward sexual minorities. She was the Principal Investigator for the Hostos Online Learning Assessment research project. She was a member of PRIME (Project for Relevant and Improved Mathematics Education), a project funded by the Teagle Foundation. She was co-investigator a project that assessed quantitative reasoning among Hostos College students. Dr. Wolfe has been a Visiting Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University as a fellow of the Metropolitan Colleges Institute for Teaching Improvement, a program that focused on the nature of a liberal education at urban colleges. She currently serves as a reviewer for the journal Numeracy.

Hostos Middle States Self-Study Group Composition

Hostos Self-Study Steering Committee Composition

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Nelson Nuñez-Rodríguez	Professor	Natural Sciences	Co-Chair
Kate Wolfe	Professor	Behavioral and Social Sciences	Co-Chair
Niyoka Allen	Student	Student	Member
Babette Audant	Assistant Dean for Institutional Effectiveness	President's Office	Member
Henry Castillo	Mr.	Student	Member
Nathaniel Cruz	VP for Student Development and Enrollment Management	Office of SDEM	Member
Charles Drago	Acting Provost and VP for Academic Affairs	Office of Academic Affairs	Member
Ernest Ialongo	Professor	Behavioral and Social Sciences	Member
Karin Lundberg	Associate Professor & Chairperson	Language and Cognition	Member
Peter Mertens	Assistant Dean of CEWD	Continuting Education & Professional Studies	Member
Daliz Pérez-Cabezas	Ms.	Continuting Education & Professional Studies	Member
Esther Rodríguez-Chardavoyne	Sr. Vice President for Administration & Finance	Office of Administration and Finance	Member
Maria Sime De Burgos	Ms.	Student	Member
Mohammad Sohel	Professor	Natural Sciences	Member

WG #1/Standard 1: Mission and Goals

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Sarah Brennan	Exec Assoc to Provost & VP for Academic Affairs	Academic Affairs	Co-Chair
Francisco Fernández	Professor & Chairperson	Natural Sciences	Co-Chair
Thomas Beachdel	Non-Teaching Adjunct	Humanities Department	Member
Samuel Byrd	Transition and Advising Coordinator	CEWD	Member
María Cano	Director	College Discovery	Member
Diana Kreymer	Assistant to the President & Director of the President's Office	President's Office	Member
Idelsa Mendez	Development Coordinator	Office of Institutional Advancement	Member
Eric Rodríguez	Academic Sudent Support Counselor	College Discovery	Member
Alisa Roost	Professor & Chairperson	Humanities	Member
Pearl Shavzin	Administrative Coordinator	Office of Administration and Finance	Member
Dulce Toppenberg	Student Career Program Specialist	Career Services	Member
Victor Torres-Velez	Assistant Professor and Senator	Humanities	Member
Emmanuel Velayos Larrabure	Assistant Professor and Senator	Humanities	Member

WG #2/Standard 2: Ethics and Integrity

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Jacki DiSanto	Professor & Education Department Chair and Senator	Education Department	Co-Chair
Johanna Gómez	Assistant Dean of Student Life	SDEM	Co-Chair
Rosina Asiamah	Student and Senator	Student	Member
Monsita Colon	13142299	Student	Member
Olen Dias	Acting Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs	Office of Academic Affairs	Member
Christine Dias-Singh	HR Specialist	Human Resources	Member
Allison Franzese	Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences	Member
Melanie García	COA	CEWD	Member
Sean Gerrity	Assistant Professor	English Department	Member
Dana Lennon	Program Director	CEWD	Member
Toya Pigford	Financial Aid Specialist	Financial Aid Office	Member
Hector Soto	Assistant Professor and Senator	Behavioral and Social Sciences	Member

WG #3/Standard 3: Design and Delivery of the Student Learning Experience

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Silvia Reyes	Title V Director	Office of Academic Affairs	Co-Chair
Humberto Ballesteros	Assistant Professor	Humanities	Co-Chair (Temp)
Catherine Lewis	Associate Professor	Humanities	Co-Chair (Leave)
Amnie Asrat	Assistant Professor	Education Department	Member
Carlos Guevara	Director	Educational Technology	Member
Diandra Jugmohan	Co-Director	Proyecto Access	Member
Inmaculada Lara Bonilla	Assistant Professor	Humanities	Member
Soldanela Rivera López	Acting Director of Presidential Initiatives	President's Office	Member
Javier Saldana	Workforce Development Manager	CEWD	Member
Erik Smiles	Student Athletics Manager	Athletics	Member
Maria Subert	Assistant Professor	Humanities Department	Member
Malik Sullivan	Assistant to HEO	Registrar	Member
Elizabeth Wilson	Director	Office of School-College Partnerships	Member

WG #4/Standard 4: Support of the Student Experience

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Carlos Rivera	Director of Admissions and Recruitment	Admissions	Co-Chair
Christine Hutchins	Assistant Professor	English Department	Co-Chair
Wishart Alleyne	Enrollment Bursar Manager	Bursar	Member
Arnaldo Bernabe	Director	Public Safety	Member
Maria Camilo	23880044	Student	Member
Evelyn Fernandez-Ketcham	Community Outreach Program Director	CEWD	Member
Lizmary Figueroa	23794990	Student	Member
Ana García Reyes	Associate Dean for Community Relations	Office of Institutional Advancement	Member
Leslie King	Director	Financial Aid Office	Member
Jason Libfeld	Student Leadership Coordinator	Student Life	Member
Eileeen Newman	Program Director	CEWD	Member
Raymond Pérez	Student with Disability Services Director	Accessibility Resource Center	Member
Chanh Phan	Associate Professor	Natural Sciences Department	Member
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WG #5/Standard 5: Educational Effectiveness Assessment

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Anders Stachelek	Director of Assessment and Associate Professor	Mathematics	Chair
Elbagina Bonilla	Administrative Specialist	SDEM	Member
Soheli Chowdhury	Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences Department	Member
Andrea Gabbidon-Levene	CUNY Start Director	CUNY Start	Member
Carl Grindley	Professor	English Department	Member
Amanda Howard	Associate Director	Grants and Research	Member
Anna Ivanova	Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences Department	Member
Linda Miles	Assistant Professor	Library	Member
Mathew Moses	Director of Writing Center	English Department	Member
Jason Pelosi	Director	SSCU	Member

WG #6/Standard 6: Planning, Resources and Institutional Improvement

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Varun Sehgal	Assistant VP of Information Technology	Information Technology	Co-Chair
Vyacheslav Dushenkov	Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences	Co-Chair
Louis Bury	Assistant Professor	English Department	Member
Karina Castro	HE Assistant	Office of Academic Affairs	Member
Fanny Dumancela	Finance Budget Director	Budget and Planning Operations	Member
Safiya Faustin	Academic Resources CTR Spec	SSCU	Member
Albert Lai	Financial Manager	Business Office	Member
Marsha Milan Bethel	Admission Advisor and Senator	SDEM	Member
Lillian Morales	Executive Assistant to the VP of Student Development	SDEM	Member
Susan Pinamonti	Development Corportate and foundation relations manager	Office of Institutional Advancement	Member
Fabian Wander	Director	Health & Wellness	Member

WG #7/Standard 7: Governance, Leadership and Administration

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Jefferson Barnes	Deputy CIO	Information Technology	Co-Chair
Tony Varelas	Professor	Behavioral and Social Sciences	Co-Chair
Ken Acquah	Executive Director	Business Office	Member
William Baker	Professor	Mathematics	Member
Jason Buchanan	Assistant Professor	English Department	Member
Siddique Mohamed	Academic Resource Center Manager	SSCU	Member
Tina Quiñones-Cabrera	Continuing Education Manager	CEWD	Member
Linda Ridley	Lecturer	Business Academic Department	Member
Sara Rodberg	Acad ASAP Student ADV-HEOA	ASAP	Member
Gloria Rodríguez	Financial Aid Advisor	Financial Aid Office	Member
Jerry Rosa	Director of Student Activities	Student Activities	Member
Eugene Sohn	Executive Counsel	President's Office	Member
Julie Trachman	Associate Professor and Biology Coordinator	Natural Sciences Department	Member

WG #8: Working Group Support

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Babette Audant	Assistant Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, Strategic Planning and Assessment	President’s Office	Chair
Madeline Ford	Chief Librarian	Library	Member
Rhonda Johnson	Assistant Professor	Library	Member
Piotr Kocik	Director of Institutional Research and Assessment	Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, and Assessment (OIERA)	Member
Dereck Norville-Bowie	Associate Director of Institutional Research and Assessment	Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, and Assessment (OIERA)	Member

Compliance and Verification Affiliation

Name	Title	Department/Office	Role
Wendy Small-Taylor	Director, Academic Advisement	Academic Advisement, Office of Academic Affair	Chair
Johanna Arroyo Peralta	Academic Advisor	Academic Advisement, Office of Academic Affair	Member