News and Events

Through the Margaret Swann Access and Empowerment Scholarship for Immigrant Students, BCC is seeking to continue her goal of equipping immigrants with the knowledge, skills, and hope needed to achieve their goals. Donate today!

Brush up on BCC history! Read about Jimmy Carter's acknowledgement of BCC Environmental students and the presidential Award of Excellence.

BCC has announced that it will host a site visit for continuing accreditation of its Associates Degree Nursing program by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN).

BCC, in partnership with MCLA, has been awarded a multi-year Community College Campus Hunger Program Grant in the amount of $180,000. Read more.

BCC has signed an articulation agreement with Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC), located in Hudson, New York, for cooperation in BCC's Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) program.

Four new members have been elected to the BCC Board of Trustees. The board is composed of area residents appointed by the governor of Massachusetts.  

BCC has been approved by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education and the New England Commission of Higher Education to offer an associate of science degree in mechatronics, a field that combines industrial machinery operation and maintenance skills with 21st-century automation electronics and robotics. The new degree will be available in fall 2023.

BCC has been awarded a $1,080,231 grant from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program called Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training.

Student success means more than retention rates at BCC. It's about making effective connections that last beyond the classroom and into the working world. Those connections are at the core of "learning communities," now part of the curriculum.

Congressman Richard E. Neal, Chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means, visited BCC to announce a $350,000 earmark for upgrades to the nursing program's simulation equipment.