Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) has been awarded a five-year, $975,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The award will help fund Upward Bound, a program that assists high school students in preparing for and graduating from college.
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) and Cisco Systems, Inc., the world leader in networking for the Internet, are partnering in a program to bring more residents of upper Manhattan into the information economy.
Eighty-seven colleges and universities providing child care services to low income students will now receive a $4.9-million helping hand from the federal government, thanks to the director of Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Early Childhood Center.
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) has awarded scholarships of $2,500 each per year to seven Chinese American students. The New York City Hall Lions Club Chinese American Scholarship is funded by money raised from that organization’s annual gala dinner and fashion show.
In response to the growing multimedia/new media industry in New York City’s "Silicon Alley" and other locations, Borough of Manhattan Community College is launching an innovative, new curriculum that joins the technical discipline of computer programming with the aesthetics of graphic design and video production.
The connection between carnival barkers and Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales may seem tenuous to most people. But Joe Ugoretz sees a multitude of similarities between the two, and his research has earned him a $30,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, one of only five given for faculty study at traditionally black colleges and universities this year.
A college laboratory might be the last place where you would expect to find a high school student on a Friday after school. But if you dropped by a lab at Borough of Manhattan Community College from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the end of the school week, you’d find plenty of them.
BMCC is holding open houses at the Adam Clayton Powell Office Building on October 22, November 5 and 19, to introduce the Harlem community to its spring semester education programs at Theresa Towers.
BMCCªs Department of Mathematics has been awarded a $280,000 grant from the Department of Education for an innovative program that uses state-of-the-art technology to teach a higher level of analytic skills. A second grant of $470,000 was awarded for a collaborative program aimed at increasing the number of minority students in mathematics.
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