Announcements

Bronx Community College congratulates four of our students, who have received prestigious Kaplan Education Foundation Leadership Grants. Established in 2006, the Kaplan Leadership Program helps [...]

Anibelky Almanzar, known as Ani, came to the United States from the Dominican Republic in 2008 when she was 17. She spoke no English and wanted to fulfill her aspiration of becoming a doctor. She [...]

Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is an Afro-Latinx, queer, full professor at the City University of New York-Bronx Community College. Her poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere, was a [...]

Dr. Cocco De Filippis returned to Hostos Community College in August 2020 after serving as President of Naugatuck Valley Community College from July 2008 to August 2012. The hallmark of her [...]

In partnership with the MLT program, Career Service Specialist, Mrs. Paula Wickland was able to place 33 students on internship for the last academic year 2021-2022. This is the largest number of [...]

This year marks the first time that Deloitte opened its Discovery Internship Program to community college students. Ariz Carpinteyro, Charles Daniel, Massao Diarrassouba, Yelissa Dominigez and [...]

Three BCC students have been accepted into the Blackstone LaunchPad Fellowship powered by Future Founders! The Fellowship is a 7-week virtual program designed to help entrepreneurs explore ideas [...]

BCC is the recipient of a $11,000 US State Department Public Diplomacy grant through the US Consulate in Hyderabad, India, that will enable it to continue work on climate change in India. [...]

Bronx Community College announced today that four of its students have received a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. Michael Aidoo, Elizabeth Asemota, Gabriel Morillo [...]

Grow with Google/Career Readiness Program offers BCC students an opportunity to earn money while increasing ability to find the tools and training they need to secure jobs and paid internships in [...]

BCC is proud of the outstanding undergraduate research in ‘Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) conducted by our students and faculty mentors. On Friday May 6 from 10:00 a.m. [...]

Dr. Diane Price Banks, Director of the Bronx Community College Medical Lab Technician Program recently co-authored a paper with Sasha Vergez, a student at Lehman College titled: “Online and [...]

Bronxnet host Daren Jaime interviewed Bronx Community College Director of Alumni Relations and Coordinator of Run the Bronx Robert Whelan along with The Honorable Joseph M. Ramos, co-founder of [...]

Lennyn Jacob, an adult learner at BCC, was recognized by Higher Education Power 100 for her work helping students with disabilities. She was the, only student to receive this honor, which [...]

Wanda Santiago, BCC’s Director of Instructional Technology and the IT Service Desk, has spent every year of her college education and the career it made possible on a campus of The City [...]

The Nuclear Medicine AAS degree at BCC prepares students in this branch of medical imaging that uses radioactive isotopes for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The degree leads to [...]

On April 4, 2022, an Indo-CUNY conference organized by Professors Neal Phillip and Paramita Sen of the BCC Department of Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences, brought together a [...]

Faculty Day is an opportunity for members of all departments to come together to share research, creative work and pedagogical ideas to build interdisciplinary cooperation at BCC. The event is [...]

BCC President Dr. Thomas A. Isekenegbe announced that the College has partnered with CUNY and the NYC Mayor’s Office to provide paid summer internships for our students through the 2022 CUNY [...]

The new CUNY Climate Scholars (CSS) Fellowships will provide an opportunity for 10 CUNY undergraduates to participate in interdisciplinary education, research, internships, and teaching [...]

Bronx Community College received a $500,000 grant from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to join its entrepreneurial program Blackstone LaunchPad Network (BLN). Through this innovative program [...]

Abdul Samed Walker’s incredible journey began in Ghana. Part of an extended family of 15 children, Abdul’s father worked for a non-profit that attracted much unwanted attention. Fearing for [...]

After six intensive weeks of attending workshops, brainstorming business problems, identifying and interviewing potential customers, and testing ideas, students from Bronx Community College and [...]

The Disability Services Office is excited for the return of our annual April Disability Awareness Month events. Join us for this year’s dynamic event series to help spread the message: INCLUSION [...]

Entrepreneurship is taking off at Bronx Community College. Through a $500,000 grant from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s LauchPad program, BCC is creating a culture of entrepreneurship in [...]

“A Palace for The Bronx” was a captivating March 15 online presentation about the Gould Memorial Library given by Sam White, the great-grandson of the Library’s architect Stanford White. White [...]

The BCC Faculty and Staff welcome all our students back to the campus. Here is a guide to the facilities: Places to take classes while on campus include the BMI Lounge-Roscoe Brown, #102, empty [...]

A Student Town Hall presented information about commencement, COVID guidelines, class schedules and other information of interest to BCC students. The President announced that this year’s [...]

Bronx Community College President Thomas A. Isekenegbe announced that Dr. Bernard Gantt, who currently serves as Dean of Academic Services, will assume the newly created position of VP of [...]

Omayra Beauchamp, BCC’s Principal Custodial Supervisor, issued this notice to faculty and staff: Your safety is our top priority.  Please know that the campus custodians follow the latest [...]

On March 20 Bronx Community College welcomed backed back one of their own, alumna of the Upward Bound Program, Pierina Sanchez. Ms. Sanchez came back to the College for her swearing in ceremony [...]

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Hall of Fame Art Gallery is particularly excited to mount its first in-person exhibition since February 2020. Ruth Bass: Portraits of Women, 1974–2001, will [...]

Bronx Community College (BCC) received a $10,000 grant from the America Library Association’s American Rescue Plan to assist libraries adversely affected by the pandemic. The grant will fund a [...]

Sergeant Pedro Soto and Peace Officer Paul Soto of the Bronx Community College Department of Public Safety share more than a last name and a job. They share a lifetime. Pedro, 54, is the father [...]

BCC Library co-sponsored an event, along with the Library Association of The City University of New York (LACUNY,” called “A Conversation with Professor William Gibbons: Recipient of the 2022 I [...]

Fall 2022 Fall 1 courses begin 8/25/22 Fall 2 courses being 9/8/22 1. COVID Documentation Upload Deadlines for fall 1 (remember classes being 8/25/22): If you wish to register for in-person [...]

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Hall of Fame Art Gallery at Bronx Community College is pleased to present the exhibition Ruth Bass: Portraits of Women, 1974–2001, ​now on display in [...]

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarships program selected four BCC students from 1,200 applicants at 180 community colleges in 35 states as semi-finalists to receive a [...]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Professor Neal Phillip, Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Earth Science and Environment Science and his colleague Paramita Sen, a lecturer in [...]

The meeting of the Bronx Borough President’s African Advisory Council was held on Thursday, March 3 at BCC. The purpose of the meeting was to encourage continental Africans, including people of [...]

Outrospection an online exhibition of videos and collages by Michael Paul Britto will run through May 10th at the Hall of Fame Gallery. The artist’s focus is the misconceptions and assumptions [...]

Michael Aidoo, who was recently selected as a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship finalist, has added another honor to his resume. He will have a summer Internship in Research Experience for [...]

BCC will be part of a new partnership between The City University of New York and Amazon which allows the company’s current hourly employees to receive an annual benefit covering tuition and [...]

Forbes recently featured BCC Foundation Luz Rosado as one of its Best-In-State List of Top Women’s Wealth Advisors. According to Forbes she manages accounts ranging from $1– 148 million in [...]

Her students know Professor Mara Lazda as a history teacher. Across campus she is known as an organizer of events focusing on issues of social justice. It’s a career that embodies the BCC ideal [...]

BCC students are invited to apply to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a $9,000 internship ($6,000 in Summer 2022 and $1,500 in Fall and Spring 2023.through the NSF Research Experiences [...]

The President’s office announced that mask requirements for students, faculty and staff in indoor settings and other non-enclosed spaces will no longer be in effect. Revised guidelines issued by [...]

The BCC Medical Laboratory Technician Program (MLT) was approved by New York State in 1971, two years before the College moved to its University Heights home. It is now the golden anniversary of [...]

This academic year marks the 50th anniversary of Medical Laboratory Technician program that prepares its students for careers in hospitals and other medical settings. There they run the tests [...]

A Palace for the Bronx Stanford White and the Team that Built Gould Memorial Library A Bronx Community College Historic Preservation Discussion with Samuel White, FAIA; LEED A.P Gould Memorial [...]

Spring 2022 Convocation Agenda Friday, February 18, 2022 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtcOupqDosHNIeyGm0r6oq616V7AnIO2cN [...]

Do you have a card to use the amazing resource of the New York Public Library? If not, you can get one on Thursday, February 10, from noon to 2:00 p.m. on the second floor of North Hall and [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Flores of BCC’s Department of Education and Academic Literacy on the publication of her second book Emotional EduLeader. Like her first, its subject is her [...]

The survivors of the tragic January 9th apartment fire in the Bronx had an immediate need for food and emergency supplies. Bronx Community answered the call with a relief drive organized [...]

After 36 years of service to the people of Bronx Community College, Dr. Nancy Ritze is retiring. Serving as the Dean for Research, Planning, and Assessment since 2009, Dr. Ritze has been the [...]

On January 20 and 21, Bronx Community College hosted and organized the ninth annual Conference on Community College Excellence. The theme of the conclave of educators was “What Makes Community [...]

Dear CUNY Employees: The CUNY Board of Trustees voted on Monday to authorize a vaccine mandate for faculty, non-teaching instructional staff, and employees in the Executive Compensation Plan in [...]

The BCC Office of Communications and Marketing announces with many congratulations and some sadness the retirement of two veteran staffers: Office Manager Debra Isaacs and Senior Editor/Writer [...]

The deadline for submitting the application and supporting documents for Spring 2022 Online SAP (satisfactory academic progress) Appeals has been extended to Friday, March 11, 2022. If you are [...]

Bronx Community College, in partnership with Sarah Lawrence College, has been awarded a three-year $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop creative approaches to [...]

Bronx Community College has announced its participation in the Grow with Google HSI Career Readiness Program. The initiative will help Latino students at over 20 Hispanic Serving Institutions [...]

Yudelka Tapia is the new New York State Assemblymember for the 86th District, the home of Bronx Community College. But she has a long history of activism. “I was born in the Dominican Republic. [...]

Last month Chief Librarian Michael Miller began his tenth year at Bronx Community College. “I’ve been a librarian since forever. In the Boy Scouts, I was the troop librarian. When I was at a [...]

Few members of the BCC community have careers with the College that are older than the campus itself. And with the retirement of Richard Cacciato, Assistant Director of the Office of Public [...]

Four Bronx Community College computer science students are spending this spring semester as paid apprentices with Ernst and Young, the legendary corporate services firm now known as EY. [...]

Bronx Community College has been awarded $250,000 by the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) for IT Work-Ready and Accelerated IT Credentials programs. This project will train unemployed [...]

Morris Heights Health Center will be on campus Wednesday, February 2 to distribute Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccinations (first/second doses and boosters) and flu shots to the campus community [...]

Bronx Community College in Partnership with Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, Congressman Richie Torres, State Senator Gustavo Rivera, NYS Assembly Member Yudelka Tapia, NYC Council [...]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a new “Nurses for Our Future” scholarship. This scholarship will cover tuition for 1,000 new or current health care workers to earn an Associate [...]

CUNY’s Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) has announced a target of 70% in-person learning by the first day of the Spring 2022 semester. This means employees will be expected to spend 70% of their [...]

“I was always a theater person,” says the BCC Department of Communications Arts and Sciences (CAS) Chair Sara Brady. Now at Bronx Community College, her passion has its greatest stage yet. [...]

The Bronx Community College library combines architectural beauty with the latest in information technology. In this episode of the View from University Heights, Chief Librarian Michael Miller [...]

Bronx Community College and New York City Council Member-elect Pierina Sanchez have much in common: they both serve the people of District #14, where Sanchez was born and raised. “We were a very [...]

The BCC ARC staff, in collaboration with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, will host a three-hour interactive training addressing mental health, equity, and resilience. [...]

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Wechsler (Adjunct Assistant Professor, History) who has been awarded The New York Labor History Association’s John Commerford Labor Education Award for his [...]

Having difficulty uploading your documents? We can help. View our In-person & Zoom Support Schedule 1.Upload your COVID -19 documents if you have not already done so. (Deadline to submit is [...]

Join the campus community as we celebrate the 5th Birthday of the BCC Food Pantry on Tuesday, November 16. As part of the event, the pantry will be officially renamed the “Bronco Food [...]

Dr. Neal Phillip, Chairperson of the Bronx Community College Department of Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded $35,000 by the Con Edison Social and Behavioral [...]

As an academic, Dr. Luis Montenegro studied the stability of spiral galaxies. As the Dean of Academic Affairs at Bronx Community College, his concerns are more down to earth. “We want to be [...]

On Saturday, May 7, 2022, Bronx Community College will host the 44th Annual Roscoe C. Brown Jr. Hall of Fame 10K • 5K Runs and 2-Mile Walk, otherwise known as “Run the Bronx.” And for the first [...]

“I love Bronx Community College. I see it as a center of opportunity for people who live in the borough,” says BCC alum and New York City Council Member Oswald Feliz. “A lot of students are [...]

Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online/on-campus program rankings and higher education planning, has included Bronx Community College to its list of top community colleges in New York in [...]

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer (JKCF) 2022 Scholarship application opened on October 1, 2021! The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship makes it [...]

Don’t miss out on the chance to pitch in and help clean up our beautiful Bronx Community campus on Friday, October 22, from 8:30 a.m. to noon. All volunteers must be in compliance with the [...]

Bronx Community College has been named the community college partner in STRIVE New York’s initiative to provide education and training services to young adults impacted by the criminal justice [...]

An articulation agreement between Bronx Community College and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in Manhattan will soon be sending BCC graduates to the one of the leading design schools in [...]

A film festival featuring 17 documentaries from around the world will be held from October 22 through October 25. The Bronx Social Justice Matters Film Festival is a virtual event organized by [...]

Dr. Eugene Mananga of BCC’s Department of Engineering, Physics, and Technology was a panelist in a roundtable discussion hosted by the Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists [...]

College Now is a free program for qualified NYC public high school students that introduces them to college life. Students experience the richness of the BCC campus by taking college-level class [...]

Artists create portraits in paint or charcoal. Chris Efthimiou, Director of Institutional Research at Bronx Community College, creates portraits in numbers. His subject is the always changing and [...]

“Every single committee hearing I do, every time I talk about legislation, the question is how will the people of the Bronx be affected,” says Eric Dinowitz, one of the newest members of the New [...]

Bronx Community College’s celebrated Hall of Fame for Great Americans, the 125-year-old outdoor colonnade that features busts of a hundred accomplished historical figures, has gone digital. The [...]

All applicants to the RN and LPN Program must be current Bronx Community College students. As part of the admission requirement, each candidate must take the Test of Essential Academic Skills [...]

We will host a pop-up vaccination site on campus this Thursday, September 30, in the Roscoe Brown Student Center cafeteria from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.  The Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine [...]

CUNY is in the process of transitioning away from the Everbridge/VaxPass application and implementing a new platform.  The Cleared4 system will now provide an “Access Pass” by which all [...]

The day after Hurricane Ida swept through New York City, Dr. Neal Phillip, Chairperson of BCC’s Department of Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences, was taking his usual spin [...]

As part of BCC’s observance of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, members of the College community were invited to submit their video recorded reflections on our city’s greatest tragedy. The results [...]

Her decades of experience in the public and private sectors make Bronx Community College Foundation Board member Doris González a natural fit for her position. So does a personal background [...]

9/24/21  12:30 – 2:30pm Let Dreamers Dream (Link to follow) 9/24/21 3:00 – 6:00pm  The Racism Exhibition Register Here 9/28/21 12:00pm – 2:00pm National Voter Registration Day (Link to follow) [...]

The FDA fully approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on August 23, 2021, triggering a 45-day deadline for students to be fully vaccinated. Students now have until September 27, 2021 to upload proof [...]

  The paralegal Program of Bronx Community College has just been reapproved by the American Bar Association (ABA). “This re-approval allows our program to stand out because very few programs [...]

This episode takes a look at the Peer Educator and Career Development program (Get PSyCh’D) for BCC students with a passion for psychology, social work and other mental health professions. [...]

A BCC student in the Medical Laboratory Technician program has received a laboratory student scholarship for $ 1,000 from the American Society for Clinical Pathology. “I will use it for tuition,” [...]

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has awarded Bronx Community College a Collegiate Science Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) grant. Over four years, BCC will receive $400,000 to [...]

Welcome New & Returning Broncos to Fall 2021 at BCC! The Office of Student Life invites you to Week of Welcome (WoW) where BCC staff will be available to support you in real-time via [...]

The Office of Student Life in conjunction with the BCC Student Government Association, will host BCC Reflections of 9/11. This program is comprised of four activities in recognition of the 20th [...]

Have you ever wondered how research is done? Are you interested in learning laboratory skills? Have you missed out on meaningful activities last year? Is this year also looking short on [...]

Five fiberglass cows decorated by local artists and designers will be grazing on the Quad from August 19 to September 30. Installation of the cows begins on Thursday August 19. BCC will be just [...]

Three Bronx Community College Students were winners at the 2021 summer symposium of the CUNY Research Scholars Program (CRSP).  Bismark Yirenkyi, Miranda Marte and Olivia Williams were recognized [...]

Bronx Community College student Aissata Diop is spending her summer saving the world. The engineering science major is working remotely with the 10-week Engineering Undergraduate Internship [...]

Zouberou Sayibou is the paradigm of what can be achieved with an education at Bronx Community College. Arriving in the Bronx from the West African nation of Togo in 2018, he was soon working on [...]

June 15 was Family Day at Bronx Community College. Thirty-five student-parents and their children drove through the campus and stopped at five stations, where they picked up a cornucopia of [...]

The graduation rate at Bronx Community College and the City University of New York has experienced a dramatic increase thanks to CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP), an [...]

The Early Childhood Center (ECC) of Bronx Community College has been awarded a five-year grant of $4,720,655 by the New York City Department of Education. A substantial portion of the funding [...]

Who: Council member Fernando Cabrera combats food insecurity at Bronx Community College What: NYC Council member Fernando Cabrera will continue to make a difference in the lives of those [...]

Dr. Prithi Kanakamedala has been awarded a Mellon/ ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship. Her project includes a book manuscript, revision of HIS 37 African American History (a course that [...]

BCC’s IT department asks everyone to be aware that there are fraudulent emails being sent to students about taxes. The emails use subject lines such as “Tax Refund Payment” or [...]

The application to the STEM Scholarship programs in BCC: NSF STEM Scholarship Program (NSF S-STEM), Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation Program (LSAMP) and CUNY Research Scholarship [...]

Carlos Perez-Valle, a recent Bronx Community College graduate in Liberal Arts Speech Pathology option, has accepted an offer to attend the Ph.D. program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at [...]

Earth Day in April was a natural fit for science of Geological Agriculture, a new STEM field at BCC. Better known as “GeoAg,” it focuses on growing plants for food in inner-city environments [...]

The 2021 Bronx Edtech showcase was fittingly held online on Friday, May 7. Innovators from the three Bronx CUNY colleges considered the challenges and rewards of integrating technology into [...]

Mahin Ashik is the Valedictorian of the Bronx Community College Class of 2021. Born in Bangladesh, she began her BCC journey in January 2019 and will graduate next month with an associate degree [...]

On April 29, under the guidance of Dr. Cheyenne Seymour, the faculty advisor of the Speech, Drama, and Debate team, BCC student Katherine Linares-Sanchez won first place in a CUNY-wide virtual [...]

Associate Professor Prithi Kanakamedala of BCC’s Department of History has become the College’s first faculty member to be awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned [...]

  “Politics did not appeal to me at the beginning,” admits Kevin Riley, who represents District 12 in the Northeast Bronx on the New York City Council. “My interest was actually law.” That [...]

A dozen BCC Digital Design and Marketing students have just completed a unique six-week “Incubator Program” that introduced them to the practical side of the world of advertising and marketing, [...]

BCC Psychology major Abubakary Drammeh will be virtually attending The Johns Hopkins University Humanities Collaboratory this summer. The program provides an $8,500 stipend and a rare opportunity [...]

Since arriving in the Bronx from Jamaica in 1994, Athletic Coordinator Faith Thompson’s career has been rooted in Bronx Community College, where she graduated as a Liberal Arts, Education option [...]

When Bitcoin reached a high of $63,000 last month, Bronx Community College was already teaching the basics of cryptocurrency. For two hours every Saturday beginning on March 27, “Crypto in [...]

BCC students who need day care for their three-year-olds need look no further than the Early Childhood Center (ECC) of Bronx Community College. Under “3-K for All,” children born in 2018 can [...]

On April 17, for the seventh time in its 40-year history at Bronx Community College, the popular Nuclear Medicine Technology (NMT) program was accredited by the national Joint Review Committee on [...]

Bronx Community College’s Social Justice Network organizes events and programs devoted to a broad range of contemporary issues, from the Black Lives Matter movement to voter registration to [...]

BCC Mathematics Professor Rony Gouraige is a man of numbers — 3.9, for instance. That’s the score he got in every category of the most recent BCC Student Evaluation Report (the top score is 4.0). [...]

$650 PER ELIGIBLE STUDENT ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS The Robin Hood Foundation has awarded the Bronx Community College Foundation $150,000 to meet the emergency financial needs of BCC [...]

Dr. Carolyn Williams will always be special to me and the families of the Children’s Center for her love, support and passion in the happening of this amazing building that we are so proud of. [...]

In the Book of the Proverbs, Chapter 31, a wise king recounts the counsel of his mother. This chapter of the Bible goes on to describe what is known as “The Proverbs 31 Woman,” one whose “price [...]

As I reflect on Dr. Williams’ life, it is difficult not to initially feel sad that her indomitable spirit is silenced. But then I quickly remember the impact she had on the many people she [...]

Dr. Carolyn Williams was a member of the advisory council that created the first faculty/administrator Salzburg Global Seminar program. When I was asked to join her and two other colleagues in [...]

When I think of Carolyn Williams, three words come to mind: commitment, caring, and grace. Her commitment was ever evident — to her family, to her wide community and to Bronx Community College. [...]

When Carolyn Williams became President of BCC in 1996, the College was struggling with many challenges (declining enrollment, limited fiscal resources, poor student outcomes and low morale among [...]

I wish to express my deepest condolences to the family and friends of the late BCC President, Dr. Carolyn Williams. Dr. Williams was an excellent President and more important a very warm and [...]

I especially appreciated Carolyn Williams because she promoted creativity and innovation on the part of the faculty. Dr. Williams encouraged faculty to initiate original projects for Faculty [...]

I shall never forget President Emeritus Carolyn Grubbs Williams. A diminutive person with outsized stature and the spirit of a tiger, her eyes were clear and expressive, her smile genuine and [...]

During Dr. Williams’ 15-year tenure as President of Bronx Community College, I was a student, a faculty member and part of the staff. From my lens, Dr. Williams will be remembered for her [...]

A life well-lived is a precious gift, of hope and strength and grace, from someone who has made our world a brighter, better place. It’s filled with moments, sweet and sad with smiles and [...]

I cannot think back on my 11 years at Bronx Community College without considering the impact Dr. Williams had on me personally and on my career. She was a trailblazer in so many ways, but I [...]

Among the many memories of Dr. Williams and all she exemplified in her leadership, a special program comes to mind. In Fall 2005, during International Education Week, the Center for Tolerance and [...]

Near the end of spring term of 1998, President Carolyn Williams sent for me to come to her office. When I arrived, she gave me a hug and told me she needed my help. It seems that she would be [...]

It gives me great pleasure to pay tribute to President Carolyn Williams, who was solely responsible for my career at Bronx Community College. She was more than just a president, mentor and leader [...]

From the time I began my position, Dr. Williams was always supportive. Shortly after I started at BCC, an opportunity arose to attend the first Freshman Year Experience Conference at the [...]

I didn’t know when I met President Carolyn Williams over 15 years ago that it would turn into a lifelong friendship. She was my confidant like no other. I remember when I drove her to Albany in a [...]

In 1995, after Nelson Mandela’s election as President of South Africa, Bronx Community College became involved with post-apartheid higher education reform in that country. My colleague [...]

In 2009, 12 years after my forced retirement, I missed working. Luckily for me, there was a position for a designer in the Communications Department of Bronx Community College. I went to the [...]

It was easy for some to underestimate Dr. Carolyn Grubbs Williams. She was small in stature, small of ego, small of verbosity. She was however, a giant of spirit. She was large of heart. She was [...]

The Bronx Community College community was deeply saddened to learn of former BCC President Emeritus, Carolyn G. Williams passing in her home city of Detroit, Michigan at the age of 81. Dr. [...]

I became first a colleague, then a friend of Carolyn G. Williams in the mid-1990s when she hired me as Vice President for Academic Affairs at Bronx Community College/CUNY. I soon discovered that [...]

Some 120 Bronx Community College students, faculty and staff gathered in cyberspace on Thursday, March 25 to hear author and scientist Dr. Mahzarin Banaji give a presentation on the focus of her [...]

The TRIO Pre-collegiate Programs of Bronx Community College prepare middle and high school students for futures in higher education. The following members of TRIOs 2021 graduating class have been [...]

“You should be a teacher!” a Brooklyn College classmate said to graduate student Howard Clampman many years ago. Today, Professor Howard Clampman, Chair of BCC’s Department of Business and [...]

You can preserve the history of our borough and get paid to do it. Bronx Community College Archives and Mutual Aid NYC will hire students to conduct oral history interviews of community [...]

Three graduating Bronx Community College students have been named 2021 Kaplan Leadership Scholars. Established in 2006, the Kaplan Leadership Program helps high-potential, low-income and [...]

Bronx Community College will host an all-day online Growth Mindset Showcase. The “growth mindset” is rooted in the idea that intelligence is not fixed at birth but instead grows with practice, [...]

Bronx Community College played a major role in an online Indo – US Sustainability Summit on March 22, which was World Water Day. The sustainability summit was jointly organized by the Govardhan [...]

Last summer, Google approached Bronx Community College about piloting a six-month Mentorship and Development Program (MDP), Google’s first community college-focused effort. It was intended for [...]

  Bronx Community College, along with Lehman College and Hostos Community College, is sponsoring a CUNY Bronx Colleges Borough President Forum that will take place on Zoom on April 19 from [...]

Bronx Community College has been awarded $452,262 over two years from New York State for The Early Childhood Associate Apprenticeship Program. BCC and the Day Care Council of New York will design [...]

Even as most BCC classes are conducted remotely, the campus itself remains alive and growing. The major repair and restoration of our iconic Gould Memorial Library is well underway. Here are some [...]

The New York State Department of Education (NYSED) has approved Bronx Community College’s first degree to be taught completely online. The Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences [...]

Bronx Community College student Ama Afful has been named a 2021 Coca-Cola Academic Team Gold Scholar and will receive a $1,500 scholarship. Selection as a Coca-Cola Gold Scholar was based on [...]

The Fall ’21 semester at Bronx Community College will mark the return of many students and faculty to our physical campus as the pandemic comes under control. But for some classes distance [...]

  “This is not a career that I can say I dreamed of as a young kid in high school,” says Assemblymember Kenny Burgos, who has just begun representing the 85th district in southeast Bronx. “I [...]

“I feel the arts and scholarship are one and the same,” says Associate Professor Grisel Y. Acosta of the Bronx Community College Department of English Language and Literature. And there’s no [...]

As part of the RN program admissions requirement, each candidate must take the Test of Essential Academic Skills Exam (TEAS). The exam will take place April 1 – 8, 2021 from 9:30 a.m. – 2 [...]

BCC has an active Student Veterans Club and some remarkably active student veterans. One such high achiever is Stance Mason. Mr. Mason served with the U.S. Air Force as a mechanic for B-52s for [...]

Dr. Jordi Getman-Eraso recalls the first time he came to Bronx Community College in 2003. “The moment I got to the campus and saw the neighborhood, I just knew BCC was the place for me.” He had [...]

Bronx Community College and Sarah Lawrence College have formed a partnership that will result in the transfer of BCC associate degree graduates to Sarah Lawrence in Fall ‘21 and Fall ‘22. [...]

Bronx Community College is among the top five colleges across the state for enrolling and awarding associate degrees to Latino students, according to a new report issued by Excelencia in [...]

The Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society of Bronx Community College of has been named a “2021 REACH Chapter” by the national Phi ThetaKappa organization. The “Recognizing Excellence in Acceptance [...]

As part of its commitment to environmental sustainability, Bronx Community College has restarted the monitoring of the greenhouse gases responsible for global climate change with an instrument [...]

The BTAG Transfer Summit on the role of transfer students in CUNY and the Bronx will convene online on March 19 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Lehman College and BCC, Hostos and Guttman Community [...]

The Bronx Community College Sustainability Study Abroad Program has been nominated for Excelencia in Education’s 2021 “Examples of Excelencia!” Established in 2005. Examples of Excelencia is a [...]

Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, associate professor of BCC’s Department of English Language and Literature, has been named one of 16 members of a CUNY-wide planning commission that will assess the current [...]

Some 70 new and returning Broncos logged on to the latest Student Town Hall on Thursday, February 18. There they heard greetings and updates from BCC President Thomas A. Isekenegbe, Provost [...]

“I grew up in Harlem, one of six kids,” says Chantel Jackson, now at the beginning of her first term as the New York State Assemblymember from the 79th district in the Bronx. “We grew up on [...]

Before he came to Bronx Community College, Assistant Professor Neil Hwang had a successful career in the business world. “I worked in corporate finance for ten years. I was Chief Financial [...]

Dr. Ulana Lysniak, Associate Professor of BCC’s Department of Health, Physical Education & Recreation had no less than four papers to her credit in 2020. They are: “Skill identity: Creating [...]

The scientific and cultural partnership between the students and faculty of Bronx Community College, The City University of New York and their counterparts in India is taking another step forward [...]

Bronx Community College has been awarded a $699,972 “Strengthening Community College Training Grant” from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).  With this four-year grant, BCC’s Division of [...]

“We are the hub of the campus community,” says Karen Thomas, the Registrar of Bronx Community College. She oversees all aspects of the Registrar’s Office, including transfer credit evaluation, [...]

Because of terms limits, New York City Council Member Fernando Cabrera is in the last year of his decade of service to the 14th District. Bronx Community College lies within its borders and [...]

Since the winter of 2018, Dr. Stephen Powers has been the ombudsperson of Bronx Community College, the go-to professor students go to with any problem that threatens their ability to stay at BCC. [...]

For 21 years, Father James Sheehan has been BCC’s chaplain. But he also has been cultivating a second career as a writer. Now, thanks to a scholarship from the Encore Transitional Program at [...]

On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Bronx Community College lost a pillar of our institution with the passing of Dr. Ruth Bass. For 55 years, Dr. Bass taught thousands of students in the Department [...]

Like shows on Broadway, live performances by BCC’s Theatre Workshop have been shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic. But its students found another outlet for their talents — on video. “The students [...]

Members of the Bronx Community College community — students, faculty, staff, and alumni, as well as citizens of the borough and city — are invited by the BCC Archives to share their stories and [...]

Hello Broncos! If you have questions, we have answers! During the first week of classes, feel free to pop into staffed Zoom spaces for assistance with navigating the spring 2021 semester. See the [...]

Dear Students: Welcome to the Spring 2021 semester at Bronx Community College. This is the fifth semester when our classes, meetings, conferences and community events are taking place almost [...]

Congratulations to History faculty member Dr. Jordi Getman-Eraso who’s been named the inaugural Director of Online Learning at Bronx Community College. Dr. Getman-Eraso has long taught online [...]

Bronx Community College has honored a heroic student with the presentation of a diploma he did not live to see. Lucas Silverio was only 19 when, two years ago, he raced into a burning building in [...]

The Spring 2021 Freshman Convocation will be observed on Thursday, February 11. Like last fall’s virtual gathering of new Bronx Community College students, this official launch of the semester [...]

Help for Getting Your Semester Started The virtual New Student Orientation (NSO) and Welcome Week that were introduced at the start of the fall semester are returning for the spring. As new [...]

Professor Andrew Rowan, a major figure in BCC’s study abroad programs for many years, has now been recognized by the U.S. Department of State for his work with the Benjamin A. Gilman [...]

“I believe wholeheartedly that if you create the right environment and provide the tools, anybody can learn and anybody can be successful,” says Nadine Browne, the Director of Accelerated Study [...]

Maria Pantoja, director of the Bronx Community College Office of Disability Services, is joined by the president and vice president of BCC’s Coalition for Students with Disabilities in an episode [...]

After 46 years of serving the people of the Bronx, Congressman José E. Serrano stepped down when his last term in office came to an end in 2020. “Bronx Community College and I were on the same [...]

“I’m the associate director of the First Year Program,” says Tica Frazer who has been at BCC since 2015. “I support the onboarding of students at BCC during their first year. The program oversees [...]

Bronx Community College is currently leading all CUNY community colleges in #GivingTuesday charitable contributions. You can keep us number one by going to https://bronx.cunytuesday.org/ and [...]

Every BCC student has a different life story that brought them to our campus. Here is an especially memorable one from Carmelo Quinones Jr. Why I Attend One of my favorite quotes that I live [...]

Kadiatou Diallo helped Bronx Community College observe Giving Tuesday on December 1st with a live-on-Zoom discussion of her perspectives on today’s social justice movement, 20 years after [...]

The BCC Male Empowerment Network and In A Woman Productions are presenting a “Pre-Kwanzaa Film Festival Virtual Youth Symposium” on Friday, December 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. This free day [...]

Vanessa L. Gibson is beginning her last year as the New York City Council Member from the 16th district in the West Bronx, which borders the grounds of Bronx Community College. “When I look back [...]

Bronx Community College is one of 25 community colleges across the country to receive a $20,000 award from the PATH Scholarship program. PATH (Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving and Hope) gives [...]

The Office of Research of The City University of New York is inviting proposals for projects that will “deliver COVID-19 or climate change solutions that help pave the road to recovery for our [...]

In the wake of devastating hurricanes and earthquakes in Honduras, New York City Council Member Fernando Cabrera and Bronx Community College launched a second joint drive to provide relief to the [...]

The City University of New York has launched two online courses for faculty and staff to support mental health and wellness. These self-paced lessons are available in Blackboard under My [...]

The last Student Town Hall of the semester convened online on Wednesday, November 18. Over 70 participants logged in to a conversation that focused on the practical aspects of getting an [...]

The Student Government Association (SGA) of Bronx Community College organized a virtual symposium on the timely topic “Black Lives Matter: Do They Matter to You?” The impassioned panelists who [...]

BCC students come to the College with a broad range of life experiences. That includes some who have been incarcerated. They were the focus of a Tuesday, November 17 online panel discussion [...]

The USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded a $40,000 grant to Bronx Community College to host a conference to share and advance innovative research that has the [...]

In the first days of November, Hurricane Eta roared through the Central American nation of Honduras, washing away whole communities already devastated by earthquakes. In response to this tragedy, [...]

In the first days of November, Hurricane Eta roared through Honduras, washing away whole communities already devastated by earthquakes. In response to this tragedy, New York City Council Member [...]

“I was born and raised in the Bronx,” says Luis Alvarez, president of the BCC chapter of the CUNY Coalition for Students with Disabilities (CCSD). “My big sisters took high school classes on the [...]

We are very excited to announce that the New York State Deferred Compensation Plan (457b) will be hosting two educational webinars on Thursday, November 19th for all employees who wish to attend [...]

The Financial Aid Virtual Counter will be available to students, faculty and staff and will provide financial aid assistance with general questions, verification status, FAFSA and TAP [...]

Our minds, like our bodies, are capable of growth, strengthen and improvement. That was the premise behind the October 20th “Mindset Reset Workshop: Unlocking Your Superpower with Intelligent [...]

Inspirational videos by members of the BCC community have practically become a genre in this time of COVID and conflict. A particularly stellar example is “The American Story: “Build It [...]

BCC’s Social Justice Action Committee (SJAC) and the Social Justice Network (SJN) invite the campus community to a virtual panel discussion of Re-entry: Removing the Stigma of Incarceration. [...]

The second online Student Town Hall of the semester will convene on Wednesday, November 18 at 1:00 p.m. Appearing at the virtual podium will be BCC President Thomas A. Isekenegbe, Provost and [...]

In the latest episode of The View From University Heights, Clifford L. Marshall II, program manager of BCC’s Male Empowerment Network, describes the M.E.N. mission of outreach, advisement and [...]

  As part of our BCC’s Latinx History Month celebrations, the History department is proud to present “Seven Demands: A History of Public Health Justice in the Bronx,” an on-line [...]

An exciting new partnership between Bronx Community College and Universidad de Iberoamérica (UNIBE) in Costa Rica was formally signed online on Friday, October 16, by the two presidents of the [...]

The closing of the Bronx Community College campus meant the canceling of Commencement — but nothing can stop the diplomas earned by our students. On Thursday, October 15, a dozen volunteers from [...]

“We are the hub of the campus community,” says Karen Thomas, the Registrar of Bronx Community College. “Think of BCC as a tree with many branches — the Registrar’s Office is the trunk of the tree [...]

Priscilla Tokor, the President of BCC’s Student Government Association (SGA), recalls a particular moment from her very first day on campus. “I could not find my class and someone looked at me [...]

Bronx Community College’s Associate in Applied Sciences degree in the Nursing program has been granted continuing accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). [...]

Bronx Community College and  Universidad de Iberoamerica Begin Collaboration with Online Signing of Statement of Shared Interest October 15 — The global coronavirus pandemic has drastically [...]

A BCC Faculty/Staff Town Hall will be held remotely on Zoom, Wednesday, October 14, from 12:30 to 2:00 pm. Like the previous Town Hall formats, questions may be posed in the “Chat” feature and [...]

The Hispanic Outlook on Education magazine is publishing its annual “Top 100 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics” issue this month — and Bronx Community College has been cited in two [...]

#Smallchange, a community group that serves people in need, has made a huge donation to the Bronx Community College Food Pantry. Working with Interim Dean for Workforce Development & [...]

Dr. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Chancellor of The City University of New York, visited the campus of Bronx Community College on the morning of Thursday, October 8. The Chancellor was met at the [...]

“Distance learning” truly went the distance in two recent webinars organized by Dr. Neal Phillip, Chairperson of the BCC Department of Chemistry, Earth Sciences and Environmental Sciences, and [...]

Bronx Community College once again was featured on BronxNet, the cable TV network located on the grounds of Lehman College. OPEN Host Daren Jaime sat down with Clement E. Drummond, Director of [...]

“I grew up in the Bronx,” observes Alfredo M. Anguiera, lawyer, businessman and Board member of the Bronx Community College Foundation. “My mom was heavily involved in the community and public [...]

“I sat in a classroom just like OUR students.” “I am responsible for an office of 19 people who help students secure financial aid in order to attend Bronx Community College,” says BCC’s Director [...]

This year marks not only the 75th observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), but also the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Both milestones are [...]

Come participate in student-based learning for all MLT courses, with online tutoring sessions for BIO 28, all MLT courses and the ASCP exam. In-person lab tutoring sessions for all MLT courses [...]

BCC’s Head of Archives Cynthia Tobar is the organizer of “Women Manifesting Systems of Care,” an online event that will “reflect on the centennial of Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. and create [...]

Bronx Community College has won a $30,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman’s Grant to digitize historical photographs and documents from the Hall of Fame for Great [...]

Like all Bronx Community College classrooms, the Early Childhood Center went totally virtual virtually overnight in mid-March, teaching the College’s littlest scholars via distance learning on [...]

Five hundred dollars in emergency financial aid grants is now available to BCC students whose lives have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The assistance comes from the CARES Act Higher [...]

Recorded on the campus of Bronx Community College before it was closed by the pandemic and heard here for the first time, this episode takes a look at BCC’s stunningly successful “Future Now” [...]

Newly-minted BCC graduate Kayesha Hancel has been accepted by The University of Michigan. Also, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. And Cornell University, Emory University, Clark [...]

For over four years, Bronx Community College has enjoyed a collaboration with the African Renaissance Diaspora Network (ARDN). Through the partnership with ARDN, BCC students and faculty have [...]

Just two months ago, Justin Sanchez became the Director of External Affairs for the Office of the Bronx Borough President. “Yes, it was a mid-pandemic promotion. The person I replaced went on to [...]

The first Bronx Community College Student Town Hall Meeting of Fall 2020 convened online on Thursday, September 10, at 1:00 p.m. Joining over 100 students were some 20 BCC faculty administrators [...]

A three-million-dollar grant has been awarded to Bronx Community College by the U.S. Department of Education to improve graduation outcomes for Hispanic students and ultimately all BCC students, [...]

“I am one of three mail messengers on campus,” says Andre Scott, who has provided that service to Bronx Community College for the last 14 years. “I deliver to South Hall, Gould residence, Gould [...]

Thursday, September 17, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. BCC’s annual Constitution and Citizenship Day. This is the signature event of a week devoted to YOUR constitutional and citizenship rights. The Student [...]

Bronx Community College has a long-standing commitment to the great educational experience of studying abroad. But the global coronavirus pandemic has curtailed opportunities for students to [...]

The 16th annual CUNY Women’s Leadership Conference will be held virtually via Zoom on Friday, October 30, 2020. Once again, it will be sponsored by the Council of Presidents’ Women’s [...]

The Fall 2020 Food Pantry Distribution will take place on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 and Thursday, September 10, 2020, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. There are special procedures in place to keep [...]

We are at the start of new and unique academic year, and we welcome all of our new and returning Broncos.    The bulk of you are taking your courses remotely and some of you have courses on [...]

Some 160 new Bronx Community College students gathered online for two “Blackboard Open Sessions for Students: Ask the Experts” on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, hosted by Albert [...]

Eugene Adams, BCC’s Director of Collaborative Program, comes The View From University Height to discuss his many projects that reach out to communities beyond BCC’s gates. That includes Africa, [...]

Four years ago, Justin Cortes worked as a community liaison in the Office of New York City Council Member Vanessa Gibson. Today, he is Chief of Staff, making things happen in the 16th Council [...]

“I assist in the day-to-day operation of the facilities on campus,” says Anthony Colon, Administrative Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds at Bronx Community College, who has over 30 years of [...]

The TD Charitable Foundation of TD Bank has approved a $29,958 contribution to the Bronx Community College Department of Workforce Development and Continuing Education and its new Online Tutoring [...]

Watching A Video and Downloading an App will Keep Your Campus Safe COVID-19 remains a threat to the people of the Bronx. So the small number of students, faculty and staff who need access to BCC [...]

Welcome Back!  As we kick off the 2020-21 academic year, I would like for you to join me for our Fall 2020 Faculty & Staff Convocation, which will be held remotely on Zoom, Friday September [...]

Bronx Community College’s Operation Device Drop went into action at 10:00 a.m. Monday, August 24. By 1:30 p.m. all objectives had been achieved. A team of half a dozen Broncos, including [...]

ZOOM, the popular web conferencing and distance learning software platform, is live at BCC.  At this time, it is available to faculty and staff. Simply go to https://cuny.zoom.us and choose Sign [...]

As BCC’s Principal Custodial Supervisor, Omayra Beauchamp supervises a team of more than 40 employees. “I have been working at Bronx Community College since 1989. I was first a custodial [...]

The Robin Hood Foundation has awarded Bronx Community College a $100,000 grant to provide emergency assistance to BCC students who were not covered by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief & [...]

FISA-OPA, CUNY Community College’s HR and Payroll processing, will now provide access to NYCAPS Employee Self-Service (ESS) for all employees on the New York City payroll.  The NYCAPS ESS will [...]

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote in the United States.* In honor of the suffrage centennial, Dr. Kate Culkin writes [...]

The pandemic has brought most of the Bronx Community College campus to a standstill. But for Interim Chief Information Officer Luisa Martich and BCC’s entire Information Technology staff, life [...]

This week North West University in South Africa appointed Associate Professor Andrea Parmegiani of BCC’s Department of English Language and Literature as an “Extraordinary Professor in the [...]

On June 29, 2020, Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez announced Bronx Community College’s own Kenneth Adams as the new President of LaGuardia Community College.  President Adams, BCC’s former [...]

Right now, Bronx Community College students can’t come to BCC. So BCC is coming to them. The latest example is “Operation Device Drop” on August 24. BCC President Thomas A. Isekenegbe, Provost [...]

From Wednesday, August 26 to Wednesday, September 2, incoming Broncos will enjoy the same “Week of Welcome” experienced by previous freshman and transfer students. But in keeping with these [...]