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...
Former Tuskegee Airman visits BMCC to talk about being one of the first Black combat pilots in World War II.
Honored by The Moriah Institute for her social and community work, LaVerne Parker teaches her students the importance of helping, and inspiring, families in need.
BMCC communication studies professors Lee Ritchey and Hollis Glaser February 4, 2014 Thanks to the vision and generosity of The Derfner Foundation and of its trustee, Jay Lieberman, BMCC will soon house a state-of-the-art Communication Center where students from every department can refine their basic speaking skills. The Center’s development will be spearheaded by...
September 7, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) student Luis Guerra Bernal was playing soccer with friends in Bogotá, Colombia on the early morning of September 11, 2001. Later, he and his friends went into a coffee shop to get something to drink. Inside, television news was being broadcast about planes crashing into...
March 3, 2015 The 2015 Borough of Manhattan Community College Leadership Fellows cohort took on its second problem statement this past January. The group was asked to come up with solutions on campus that might foster stronger engagement among the BMCC student population. Students who are more engaged in campus activities have been shown...
Columnist Randy Cohen talked education and his career at The BMCC Foundation's fourth annual Donors & Friends Reception.
December 8, 2016 BMCC student Jacqueline Aguilar, who now has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, spent 14 years “in the shadows,” she says, as an undocumented immigrant. “It’s a place so lonely, it literally feels like you are the only one,” she said, and refers to the former U.S. military policy regarding...
The Show Must Go On Originally scheduled to open in spring 2020 on stage in Tribeca Performing Arts Center Theater II, the production was temporarily halted due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Now, the production has taken on a new life in the form of a four part audio musical. Students and faculty rehearsed and...
Frequently Asked Questions Tuition and fees make up the largest part of your school costs, but these are not the only expenses you will have while going to school. You will have to pay for books and supplies for your classes and transportation to and from school. Don’t forget that your housing, food, and...