Bergen Community College

Healthcare represents the No. 1 employment sector in Bergen County. PARAMUS, N.J. – As the region’s economy begins to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, Bergen Community College’s Division of Continuing Education and Workforce Development offers jobseekers new apprenticeship opportunities in healthcare and…

PARAMUS, N.J. – Last year, the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University “#RealCollege” survey revealed that 37 percent of the 1,177 Bergen Community College students who responded to the study faced food insecurity at some point during a…

PARAMUS, N.J. – Enjoy a main course featuring a live, interactive cooking show with a side of comedy from the comfort of your home with “Dinner’s Ready Live: Cooking & Comedy for the Isabella Altano Scholarship” Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 7…

PARAMUS, N.J. – Unrelenting winter weather complicated Bergen Community College operations during late 2020 and early 2021 with snow and ice seemingly piling up every few days. But thanks to the efforts of the College’s dedicated facilities, buildings and grounds and public…

Bergen’s main campus safeguarding during the COVID-19 pandemic. PARAMUS, N.J. – As Bergen Community College continues to offer the majority of its spring 2021 classes remotely, an expanded slate of courses will begin Feb. 9, giving students a flexible, “late-start” option for…

PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College will continue its “Cinema Ciccone” silent film program virtually with a complimentary “Gangster Classics of the Silver Screen” series hosted by film, stage and television star Tony Darrow, of Goodfellas and The Sopranos, in February. Darrow…

PARAMUS, N.J. – The closure of Bergen Community College’s STEM Student Research Center during the COVID-19 pandemic did not stop a group of biology students from conducting research on the very topic that prevented their on-campus work: COVID-19. The scientific community took…

PARAMUS, N.J. – Eleven metropolitan area theatres, including the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre at Bergen Community College, have come together to perform on the “Investors Bank Virtual Stage” with the “Theatres Together: Performing for a Purpose” benefit concert Friday, December 18 at…

PARAMUS, N.J. – The Bergen Community College Board of Trustees has named Eric M.  Friedman, Ph.D., the eighth president of New Jersey’s largest community college. The board announced his hiring to a three-year contract at the Dec. 1. meeting of the College’s…