October 19, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) has received a $2,625,000 Title V grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand the BMCC Learning Academy, which will serve at least 2,800 students over the next five years. This small-cohort program — which began in 2012 and served only freshmen — was...
February 23, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) will present Women’s Herstory Month, March 1 through April 12. On the schedule are panels, films, live performance, workshops and many other events. The month will kick off with a day-long conference on March 2: Women and Power 2016. The conference will open with welcoming...
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...
May 14, 2015 In Fall 2015, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY/BMCC) will launch a new program, Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World, that will enhance BMCC Humanities courses by incorporating global competencies. The program is supported through a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The program, carried out in...
November 8, 2013 With a warm and resonant “Buon Giorno!” Professor Tom Means of the Modern Languages Department welcomed attendees to BMCC’s Italian-American Heritage Month festivities on October 17. The annual celebration of all things Italian featured a dramatic reading of Dante’s Inferno, the 13th-century epic poem, by New York City actor Alessio Bordoni;...
photo by Denis Gostev November 6, 2015 BMCC Liberal Arts major Serigne Kasse was named Player of the Year in the 2015 Community College Men's Soccer All-Stars presented by CUNYAC and sponsored by Metropolitan Credit Union. Also, Acounting major Christian Pacode received the Sportsmanship award and BMCC Men's Soccer Coach Modou Seck was named...
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...
December 8, 2016 BMCC hosted the CUNY-wide Arts and Humanities Grants Philanthropy Forum on December 8 at 199 Chambers Street with a networking breakfast in Richard Harris Terrace and presentations in Theatre II. The event was sponsored by the Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY). BMCC President Antonio Pérez welcomed...
May 12, 2016 College spring break signals time for relaxing and going to the beach. At Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY), spring break signals something else: building community and giving back. This past spring break, April 22 to April 30, over 70 BMCC students traveled to one of four locations: Durham, North Carolina;...
July 14, 2015 BMCC President Antonio Pérez posted a July 14 blog entry, "Inner Fabric of Leadership," in The Huffington Post. "Some goals are easier to attain than other," he writes. "But when our inner voice — our inner light — calls us off the beaten path, we must summon up the courage to forge...