September 22, 2015 Almost 500 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) students donned professional attire and made their way to the BMCC gym for the Fall 2015 Center for Career Development Career Fair on Tuesday, September 22. More than ninety employers attended the event looking to hire students for companies and organizations ranging from...
January 31, 2017 The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Office of Academic Affairs hosted the College’s first annual Faculty Convocation on January 27 in Theatre I at 199 Chambers Street. BMCC President Antonio Pérez opened the event attended by hundreds of full-time and adjunct faculty. “As we assess and measure student success, we...
November 10, 2014 For as long as she can remember, music has always been a central part of Doris Holz’s life. “I started taking piano lessons when I was a little girl, and when I wasn’t playing the piano, I was always singing,” says Holz, who is Vice President-Development at BMCC and Chief Operating...
November 2, 2016 BMCC donors were treated to live entertainment, a world-class art exhibit and warm welcome on November 1 at the 2016 Donor Appreciation Cocktail Reception held in the Shirley Fiterman Art Center. As the evening got underway, donors to the college, including BMCC Foundation Board Members and their guests, special friends, faculty...
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,”...
September 5, 2017 The current threat surrounding the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has created uncertainty for DREAMers at BMCC and colleges across the United States. We stand firmly in support of all students and reinforce our commitment to provide the opportunity for all our students to pursue their...
February 4, 2014 On February 24, Ethnic Studies Professor Zetta Elliott will present a talk in the Canada Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Studies at Harvard University. “I left Canada 20 years ago in part because I wasn't able to get published and didn't have the option of studying with Black scholars...
July 2, 2014 “When I was at CUNY Start, I did a research project about becoming a teacher,” says Daniel Quiroz. “I told the other students, we’re not going to get rich overnight, but we will have a life that will be satisfying to us.” The long road to the life Quiroz envisioned started...
August 29, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) has received a $770,000 grant from the Advanced Technical Education (ATE) Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a three-year project, "Fostering Student Success in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance." BMCC is one of approximately 80 recipients nationwide — and one of four community...
December 22, 2015 On December 22, a dozen teams of ninth graders at the Manhattan Early College School for Advertising (MECA) presented their end-of-semester product launch campaigns. These included a logo, tagline, media plan and original ads. Using PowerPoint and animated graphics, the students introduced their inventions, such as a product that transforms a...
