The College President

Christine Mangino, Ed.D., President,

Queensborough Community College

Dr. Christine Mangino serves as the sixth president for Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. Coming up through the ranks of faculty, she served as department chair, Dean for Faculty and Curriculum, and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Hostos Community College. Earlier in her career, President Mangino was a pre-school and elementary school teacher. As the first person in her family to attend college, Dr. Mangino earned an Associates of Applied Arts at Nassau Community College, a bachelor’s and master’s degree in elementary education at Hofstra University, and a doctoral degree in Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University.

Since starting her tenure at Queensborough Community College, she has led the college in creating its first five-year strategic plan, established a Truth, Transformation, and Racial Healing Center, a Men’s Resource Center, and created an equity dashboard for the campus to track its progress in eliminating equity gaps for faculty, staff, and students.

Dr. Mangino serves as a Middle States Commission on Higher Education peer evaluator, on the Commission on Research and Community College Trends and Issues for the American Association for Community Colleges, as a board member for the Higher Education Research and Development Institute, on the Steering Committee for the Research Alliance for NYC Schools, and as an alum of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence, a leadership program that prepares community college presidents to transform institutions to achieve high and equitable levels of student success.