Bergen Community College

PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College has recognized the work of six faculty with national awards from the League of Innovation in the Community College.

PARAMUS, N.J. – Headlined by speakers Dr. Roger Mitchell Jr., a forensic pathologist and author, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D., director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and an art exhibition curated by the Tenafly-based Society of African Missions, Bergen Community College will recognize a century of black life, history and culture during February’s Black History Month.

PARAMUS, N.J. – With 634 students completing 35,000 hours of community service last year, Bergen Community College has made the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the seventh consecutive time. The list recognizes institutions that have incorporated service learning programs into their curricula and campus environment. Bergen represents one of only three New Jersey community colleges on the 2014 list.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Joining officials from 55 universities such as Cornell, Michigan State and Tufts, Bergen Community College President B. Kaye Walter, Ph.D., has signed the “Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security” pledge initiated by Auburn University – making Bergen the only two-year institution to do so. President Walter signed the agreement alongside her peers at a Dec. 9 event at the United Nations. The pledge creates a blueprint defining higher education’s role in combatting hunger.

PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Sinfonia will return to its home venue – the Bergen Community College Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre – for its annual holiday concert Friday, Dec. 19 at the College’s main campus, 400 Paramus Road.

PARAMUS, N.J. – Taking the oath of office at the Nov. 11 meeting of the Bergen Community College Board of Trustees, Interim Executive County Superintendent of Schools for Bergen County Norah Peck has joined the institution’s governing panel.

PARAMUS, N.J. – Registration for winter and spring classes at Bergen Community College – including for visiting students enrolled full-time at four-year institutions and home for winter break – has opened.

HACKENSACK, N.J. – Bringing with it more than 300 years of documents, publications and artifacts, the Bergen County Historical Society Library and Archives opened at its new home, the Bergen Community College Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center at 355 Main Street, Nov. 6.

PARAMUS, N.J. – In November and December, Bergen Community College will host free open houses for prospective students at two of its locations – Paramus (main campus) and Lyndhurst (Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands) – to explore the College’s offerings. More students graduate with associate degrees from Bergen than any other New Jersey college.

HACKENSACK, N.J. – With an agreement reached by Bergen Community College and the Bergen County Historical Society, the group’s library will reopen in a new home Thursday, Nov. 6 located within the College’s Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center at 355 Main Street.