In the spring of 2022, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ enrolled 20 Afghan evacuees in a pilot program designed to teach them English and help assimilate them into American life.
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (BCC) has announced that it will host a site visit for initial accreditation of its Practical Nurse (PN) Certificate nursing program by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN).
BCC and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts announce the creation of a joint "Associates to Bachelors" program intended to provide an efficient pathway to teacher licensure.
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (BCC) has received a $735,000 workforce training grant, part of a total of $15 million awarded to the Commonwealth's 15 community colleges. Each college is allocated 75 seats for training courses, and additional funds will be made available from the grant's remaining $3.45 million after a school expends the current allocation.
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (BCC) will hold a traditional pinning ceremony for the Practical Nursing Program on Thursday, June 30 at 7 pm in the Connector, located between Hawthorne and Melville Halls. The event will also be televised live on Pittsfield Community Television (PCTV).
-- The ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (BCC) Foundation announces the creation of the Richard J. Melluzzo Scholarship, made possible by an anonymous donor in honor of the beloved late psychologist and public health administrator. Melluzzo, who died in December 2021, was a resident of Great Barrington for more 45 years and was an active member of the community.
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (BCC) congratulates Professor of Life Sciences Fayette Reynolds for winning second place in the Massachusetts Open Educational Resources (OER) Advisory Council's first annual OER Olympic Awards. Reynolds created BCC's Bioscience Image Library, which offers students and the general public free access to microscopic images of plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and more. The images are particularly useful for students studying biology, botany, zoology, histology and microbiology.
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (BCC) has been awarded a $350,000 grant to acquire new simulation (SIM) equipment for its nursing programs, allowing for the first substantive upgrade of such equipment since 2009. The grant was provided by state Community Project Funding secured by Congressman Richard Neal.
For immigrants, the challenges are many -- and learning the language is often one of most immediate. Afghan evacuees in the Berkshires now have a resource to help them overcome this barrier with ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ (BCC)'s free English classes, held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Pittsfield.
Join Reggie Harris for a Family Reveal where Reggie will discuss his familial connection as the descendant of slavery as a great-great-great-grandson of confederate General Williams Carter Wickham and his slave Bibhanna Hewlett with his White cousins.