2016 Out In Two Award Ceremony Click here for more photos October 19, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) welcomed 35 students to the Out in Two scholarship program during the Fall 2016 induction ceremony and luncheon October 18 in Theater II at 199 Chambers Street. The scholarship, founded by BMCC President Antonio...
Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development, Adult Continuing Education (ACE) and partners are pipeline to degree programs and jobs.
2016 Out in Two cohort June 28, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) recently announced that BNY Mellon has provided $50,000 in grant funding for the BMCC Out in Two Program scholarships. Founded in 1999 by BMCC President Antonio Pérez, the Out in Two scholarship program is designed to help more students graduate...
October 19, 2015 Ten Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) students were admitted in October 2015 to the POISE (Pipeline Opportunities for Inter-College STEM Education) program at BMCC. POISE is a collaborative effort between BMCC and the Academic Achievement Program (AAP) within NYU’s College of Arts and Science (CAS). It creates a pipeline linking...
The BMCC Office of Public Affairs increases awareness, understanding and support of BMCC’s mission and promotes the accomplishments of its constituencies. The Office of Public Affairs also focuses on the creation and implementation of strategic communications initiatives, plans and events that support the College’s academic programs, faculty research, student achievement and community engagement. The...
December 12, 2014 A recent highly interactive forum at Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Hudson Room highlighted an ongoing campus-wide conversation about the impact high-priced textbooks have on student learning. It also helped participants understand more affordable alternatives such as Open Educational Resources, or OER. OER are learning materials that are available at no...
January 27, 2014 On his video segment “It’s a G Thing,” WPIX channel 11’s chief meteorologist Irv Gikofsky — or as he is popularly known, “Mr. G” — interviews BMCC President Antonio Pérez. Their conversation takes place in President Pérez’s office on the college’s main campus, and moves from the levity of admiring his collection...
Dr. Ellie Fogarty speaks to BMCC community April 20, 2016 Dr. Ellie Fogarty, Vice President of Institutional Field Relations, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)— and BMCC’s Middle States Liaison — visited the college on April 18 and delivered a presentation, followed by a Q & A session, to shed light on...
October 5, 2017 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) celebrates Italian Heritage Month with two days of special events. These include a Faculty Book Club Discussion on Tuesday, October 17 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship (CETLS), Room S-510D at 199 Chambers Street, and a full day...
July 7, 2015 Community colleges are often linked with workforce development, and while it’s true that the 30-plus associate degree programs at BMCC reflect growth industries such as computer information systems, allied health and the sciences, they also reflect the arts and humanities. “Community college students deserve the full array of options that private...