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GenEd Membership

General Education Membership List 2025-26

Voting Members (18/21 members)
Quorum currently = 10

1 FT Faculty or Staff Rep per Campus with General Education Assessment Expertise (x12)

  • Asnuntuck: Heidi Fitzgerald
  • Capital: Becky DeVito
  • Gateway: TBD (2024-2025 was Anne Williams)
  • Housatonic: Matt Dunne
  • Manchester: James Gentile
  • Middlesex: Lin Lin is on sabbatical Spring 2026--Mx is looking for a replacement
  • Naugatuck Valley: Heather Barrett
  • Northwestern: Nicole Cesarek
  • Norwalk: Heather DeDominicis
  • Quinebaug Valley: Brian Donohue-Lynch
  • Three Rivers: Terry Delaney
  • Tunxis: Alicia Hall

1 Rep from Each of the Following Gen Ed Core Areas (x9)

  • Written Communication: Rebecca Busch Adams, Professor of English (Housatonic)
  • Quantitative Reasoning: Michael La Barbera, Professor of Mathematics (Housatonic)
  • Arts & Humanities: Jamilet Ortiz, Professor of Spanish (Housatonic)
  • Oral Communication: Stephania Davis, Professor of Communication (Manchester)
  • Scientific Knowledge & Understanding / Scientific Reasoning: Michael Pence, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Manchester)
  • Social & Behavioral Science: Lorraine Li, Professor of Economics (Gateway)
  • Historical Knowledge & Understanding: Christopher M. Paulin, Professor of History (Manchester)
  • Continued Learning and Information Literacy: Jenna Stebbins, Librarian, Learning Resource Center (Naugatuck Valley)
  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee: TBD

Contingent on DEI being a course requirement in the Common Core.

Non-voting Members (8/10 members)

  • Director of Program Review and Assessment: Joseph Cullen, Director, Academic Program Review & Assessment (CT State-New Britain)
  • Enrollment Management / Registrar Staff: Joanne Faust, Degree Audit Technology Specialist (Middlesex)
  • Guided Pathways / Advising Director Staff: Elizabeth Slupski, Campus Advising Lead (Middlesex)
  • Institutional Research & Effectiveness Staff: Vacant; needs to be filled
  • CSCU Director of the Office of Transfer: Stephen Marcelynas
  • 2-year faculty lead of the CSCU Gen Ed Alignment Committee: Matt Dunne and Jamilet Ortiz are both liasons to the CSCU committee
  • Chair of the CT State Curriculum Congress: Jason Seabury, Professor of Mathematics, Naugatuck Valley
  • FT faculty member who teaches a course vetted for Creativity: Deborah Kline, Lecturer in Art & Design (Northwestern)
  • FT faculty member who teaches a course vetted for Global Knowledge: Latisha Nielsen, Associate Professor of Sociology (Naugatuck Valley)
  • FT Faculty who teaches or has taught a course vetted for Continued Learning, Information Literacy: TBD; no candidate in 2025 Spring Election