December 12, 2017 Nationwide, two thirds of incoming college freshmen are not reading proficient, according to data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. At Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY), many of those students—a significant portion whose first language is not English—find themselves in non-credit bearing developmental reading courses. Introductory Academic and Critical...
July 21, 2014 Liberal Arts major Sarah Tiapula Stein grew up in Singapore and is fluent in Mandarin, French and ASL—American Sign Language. She’s an Out-in-Two scholar, a member of Phi Theta Kappa and on the Dean’s List. “I’m also participating in a research fellowship at Teachers College, at Columbia University; a Saturday enrichment...
November 2, 2016 The BMCC community took advantage of the first day of operation of the college’s IDNYC pop-up enrollment center in Room S642 at 199 Chambers Street on November 2. The center will be open on various dates through Friday, December 2. IDNYC is an official government-issued identification card available to all city...
December 10, 2015 Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York (BMCC/CUNY) Assistant Professor of Art Charles McGill has been awarded a $25,000 Painters & Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. McGill, who teaches in BMCC’s new associate degree program in Art Foundations/Studio Art, is also soon to open his first...
March 18, 2015 A nationally ranked basketball team may not be the first thing that comes to mind when discussing a big city community college. But this year, the BMCC men’s basketball team not only won the 2015 CUNY championship, the team also produced the CUNY player of the year, Freshmen Kenneth Coar. Coach...
January 17, 2017 Several Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) faculty and students traveled to Atlanta on January 7-8 for the 2017 MAA-AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting, the largest math gathering in the world according to conference organizers. This was the first time BMCC students attended the conference. Math majors Karen Medlin, Papa Sylla, Jie...
June 7, 2016 The Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC) held its 49th commencement ceremony on Wednesday, June 1 in Theatre One on BMCC’s main campus. More than 600 graduates were honored for completing MEOC programs including English for Speakers of Other Languages, High School Equivalency, College Prep, Certified Nursing Assistant, Certified Microsoft® Office, Electronic Health...
December 19, 2017 Negativity is frowned upon in college—but negative space has a valued role in the toolkits of advanced painting students at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY). Liberal Arts major and aspiring painter Herron Hutchins puts it like this: “We learned that the background is just as important as the foreground." She’s standing...
September 23, 2015 Summer 2015 marked the start of an innovative Summer Tuition Waiver Program at BMCC that offers six types of vouchers and is specific to the needs of BMCC students as they strive to complete their degrees.Over 8,300 students attended BMCC in Summer 2015 and almost a third of those participated in...
August 22, 2017 “Time management is a state of mind. Our relationship to time can make or break our academic, professional and personal commitments,” says Nicole O’Donnell, a student in the Bilingual Childhood Education major at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) and a student in the CUNY Baccalaureate School for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies....