April 4, 2016 BMCC Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs Karrin Wilks was recently selected by The Aspen Institute for its inaugural class of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship. Wilks is one of 40 extraordinary leaders who are being recognized for having the drive and capacity to transform community colleges to achieve higher levels...
December 9, 2003 BMCC STUDENT RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP FROM TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ALLIANCEDecember 9, 2003Derwin Valle, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, has received a scholarship from the Trinidad and Tobago Alliance of North America. Valle, who was born in San Fernando, Trinidad, is currently studying multimedia programming and design at Borough of...
Juan Batista, Office of Academic Affairs July 8, 2014 If you don’t know what a hashtag is, don’t feel bad—the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary only just this year. Hashtags, unspaced phrases prefixed with a number sign (#), are added to messages and widely used on social networking services such as...
June 13, 2016 BMCC faculty bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise from a variety of fields into the classroom.In the English Department, Professor Jason Schneiderman engages his students in the study of language and literature. News Homepage » STORY HIGHLIGHTS Office of Public Affairs | Office Directory
December 29, 2015 The BMCC Veterans Resource Center led a donation drive from October 26 through December 4. The drive collected more than 350 articles of winter clothing valued at about $8,000, and more than 600 children’s toys valued at about $12,000, for families in need. Volunteers and staff collected items on the second...
Hida Viloria, author of "Born Both: An Intersex Life" and guest speaker at Pride Month luncheon. October 10, 2017 A month of workshops, film, panels and more are being offered in celebration of Pride Month at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY). The month’s events opened on October 4 with a workshop presenting scholarship opportunities of...
December 14, 2016 The BMCC Teaching Academy, a professional development program, creates small learning communities of new faculty, or Teaching Fellows, who focus on pedagogy under the guidance of a Master Teacher. The Teaching Academy communities meet regularly, observe each other teaching, videotape their own teaching and attend workshops together. On December 13, they...
BMCC Professor Saavik Ford and student Arial Diaz April 18, 2014 When Arial Diaz was stationed in North Carolina with the Marines a few years ago, he’d sometimes spend his free time lying on the beach at night, gazing up at the stars.“I really missed my family and friends back in New York,” he...
Summer 2015 graduates of BMCC Continuing Ed / CDI Medical Assistant Specialist training program. September 29, 2015 Thanks to funding through NYC Small Business Services (SBS), and the NYC Mayor's Office, a new partnership has been formed between BMCC’s Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development and the non-profit career-readiness organization, Comprehensive Development, Inc....
May 31, 2017 Jensenia Diaz spent much of her childhood in and out of the hospital. “Each time I would go in, the one person I remembered when I went back home, was the nurse. They were often like the second parent for me during a scary time. Since then, I’ve always wanted to...
