MIddle states meeting February 11, 2016 On February 5, 2016, BMCC launched its Middle States decennial self-study process, part of the college’s ongoing cycle of accreditation through the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), a unit of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. “As we implement our college-wide strategic plan, which...
May 12, 2015 Twelve Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) students spent Spring Break 2015 working with the organization Habitat for Humanity to build two new homes in the Gentilly section of New Orleans, a neighborhood badly damaged by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina. The BMCC Office of Student Affairs provided funds for the students...
July 5, 2016 The Graduation Success Initiative (GSI) within the College of Opportunity to Prepare for Employment Department (COPE) at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) held its 2016 graduation on June 28 in Richard Harris Terrace. Forty-eight students, representing 84 percent of the GSI program’s current cohort, completed the program with an associate...
The Public Safety Department will be offering a series of a one-day training courses for BMCC students, faculty and staff only on Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation/ Automated External Defibrillation and First Aid on the following dates in June, July & August. All classes will take place in room F-1010, 245 Greenwich St, Fiterman Hall.Please email publicsafetytraining@bmcc.cuny.edu...
November 29, 2016 November 29 is CUNY Tuesday! Join the members of the CUNY community for an extraordinary day of giving back. #CUNYTUESDAY, a 24-hour giving campaign, is a chance for the CUNY Community everywhere to come together to show Panther Pride in BMCC, and provide essential funding to support student scholarships. Community members...
March 19, 2014 Doing paperwork may be no one's idea of a good time. But students who thronged to this year's Financial Aid Awareness day genuinely appeared to be having fun completing and filing financial assistance application forms. Turnout at the annual event was at record levels.“Of the 24,000 students enrolled at BMCC each semester,...
February 1, 2017 Nationwide, the number of children who attain a higher standard of living than their parents has fallen from 90 to 50 percent in the last half century — but Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) appears to be countering that trend. A new study sponsored by The Equality of Opportunity Project...
(L-R): Christopher Stein, Erwin Wong, Mete Kok October 5, 2016 Latinos account for more than half of total U.S. population growth — yet make up less than 10 percent of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) workforce, according to a 2016 report by the Pew Research Foundation. This gap is being closed at...
July 11, 2016 Rosemarie Reed is an adjunct professor at BMCC and filmmaker whose biographical documentaries focus on individuals “who have made great contributions but aren’t household names,” she says. “One friend told me, ‘you make films about the most famous people that no one ever heard of’.” These lesser-known individuals include scientists such...
May 5, 2017 The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) community celebrated winners of the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award at a reception in the Shirley Fiterman Art Center on May 4. The winners, selected by the BMCC Academic Senate and Office of Academic Affairs, are Rosalie Gleicher, Adjunct Professor of Human Services in the...
