Dr. Timothy G. Lynch has been named interim president of Queensborough Community College, effective September 1, 2018.
He will succeed Dr. Diane B. Call, who will retire as president in August, capping a 47-year career at Queensborough Community College. She was the school’s first woman president.
Dr. Lynch joined Queensborough Community College in 2017. As provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, he worked with faculty from seventeen academic departments and oversaw campus efforts related to University initiatives.
Before joining Queensborough, he served as provost and vice president of academic affairs at SUNY Maritime College, with prior teaching and administrative experience at the California Maritime Academy, a specialized campus of the California State University system.
A native New Yorker and first-generation college student, Dr. Lynch earned degrees from Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate School and University Center, all in History. His professional associations include American Irish Historical Society, National Maritime Historical Society and North American Society for Oceanic History. His research interests focus on immigration and ethnicity, and on America’s relationship with the sea.
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