Professor Ilir Disha is from Albania. He arrived to the United States via the Diversity Visa Lottery program in 1997. Professor Disha completed most of his education in Tampa, Florida. He started at Hillsborough County Community College (HCC), from where he earned an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Studies. Afterwards, he transferred to a liberal arts...
Professor Ilir Disha is from Albania. He arrived to the United States via the Diversity Visa Lottery program in 1997. Professor Disha completed most of his education in Tampa, Florida. He started at Hillsborough County Community College (HCC), from where he earned an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Studies. Afterwards, he transferred to a liberal arts...
Professor Varderi was born in Venezuela and came to the United States in 1985 to pursue an M.A. in Latin American literature at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In 1995 he received a Ph.D. in Spanish at New York University. Professor Varderi has been teaching Spanish language, culture, literature and film full-time at BMCC...
I received my Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. My book, “Negotiating Tradition, Becoming American: Family, Gender and Autonomy for Second Generation South Asians” describes the experiences of South Asian Americans whose families came to the United States in the post-1965 period following changes to immigration. My research interests focus broadly on the experiences...
I received my BBA in Marketing, MS in Accounting, and EdD in Organizational Leadership. After seven years of experience in financial and operational audits and two years in business consulting in both the United States and Taiwan, I followed my passion for college teaching in the areas of management, leadership, and career planning. Prior to...
Associate Professor, English Co-Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum
Professor Varderi was born in Venezuela and came to the United States in 1985 to pursue an M.A. in Latin American literature at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In 1995 he received a Ph.D. in Spanish at New York University. Professor Varderi has been teaching Spanish language, culture, literature and film full-time at BMCC...
April 6, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY Computer Science major Hector Liang fell in love with New York City the first time he visited the city in 2012. Raised in Venezuela by Chinese parents, Liang moved to New York to study at BMCC in 2015. “BMCC attracted me with its Start Here, Go Anywhere motto,”...
October 17, 2017 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) had the third highest mobility rate among two-year colleges in the United States according to data from “Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility,” a report analyzed by The Chronicle of Higher Education this month. The report, released by the Equality of Opportunity...
