Bergen Community College

The Bergen PRIDE team. PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College students raised more than $1,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – North Jersey chapter’s “Out of the Darkness” virtual annual walk this month. The College’s “Bergen PRIDE” team consisted of…

Dorothy Leung Blakeslee, Adam Silverstein, Joseph Barreto and Gerard L. Carroll. PARAMUS, N.J. – During its annual reorganization meeting Nov. 4, the Bergen Community College board of trustees unanimously approved its officers for this year. The board selected longtime member Dorothy Leung…

Jorge Hernandez. PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College Managing Director of Athletics Jorge Hernandez recently earned an appointment to the National Junior College Athletic Association’s equity, diversity and inclusion council – racial equality subcommittee. “The College is extremely proud to have Jorge…

PARAMUS, N.J. – The eighth president of Bergen Community College will emerge from a field of four finalists recommended to the institution’s board of trustees by a search committee of College officials, faculty, staff, students and community members. Selected through a nationwide…

PARAMUS, N.J. – Who doesn’t need a good laugh – especially one from the comfort of home? The Bergen Community College Foundation will present “Laugh from Home,” an online evening of comedy for the communities of Bergen County, and anyone else who…

Sheetal Ranjan, Ph.D. PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College board of trustees member Sheetal Ranjan, Ph.D., will serve as the northeast regional director on the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) board of directors this year. Ranjan not only represents the first…

Robert Krasowski. PARAMUS, N.J. – The Bergen Community College board of trustees recently welcomed class of 2020 graduate Robert Krasowski as the student-elected alumni representative for the 2020-21 academic year. Krasowski will have full-voting rights during his one-year term. “As the alumni…

PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College students, faculty and staff masked up on the morning of Sept. 21 for the institution’s limited resumption of in-person instruction, including Dean of Health Professions Susan Barnard, D.H.S. (pictured). At each facility entrance – including the…

Most of Bergen Community College’s fall classes will take place remotely, though some practice-based classes will take place in person at the Paramus main campus. PARAMUS, N.J. – In advance of the resumption of in-person instruction for selected classes Monday, Sept. 21,…

Grace Romano. PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College honors student Grace Romano, of Garfield, has earned $5,000 as a 2020 U.S. Department of State Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad in Salzburg, Austria in spring 2021. “I am very grateful…