Bunker Hill Community College
{{Short description|Community college in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.}}
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| type = Public community college
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| students = 8,439{{cite web | title = College Navigator - Bunker Hill Community College | language = en | access-date = 2024-07-21 | publisher = National Center for Education Statistics | url = https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=MA&id=165112}} (fall 2022)
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| footnotes = Bunker Hill Community College Magazine, Summer 2013[http://alum.barnard.edu/s/1133/index2.aspx?sid=1133&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=4423&ecid=4423&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=753 "Pam Y. Eddinger '82 named president of Bunker Hill Community College"], Barnard Alumnae, Barnard College, New York City{{cite web |url=http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/about/institutionaleffectiveness/fastfacts/ |title=Fast Facts - Fall 2016 |publisher=Bunker Hill Community College |access-date=2017-02-24 }}
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Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is a public community college with multiple campuses in the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1973 in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, BHCC provides higher education and job training services at two campuses and three satellite locations.
BHCC is the state's largest community college, enrolling more than 13,000 students in day, afternoon, evening, late-evening, weekend, and web-based distance-learning courses. It is also one of the state's most diverse institutions of higher education: 24% of the students are African-American, 24% are white or caucasian, and 24% Latino.{{cite news |last=Wickersham |first=Joan |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/02/24/cooking-better-future/ji8tPNgntU4TFud1yYZH6M/story.html |title=Cooking up a better future |work=The Boston Globe |date=2017-02-24 |access-date=2017-02-24 }} More than half are women. Students' average age is 27. The college enrolls more than 800 international students who come from about 100 countries and speak more than 75 languages.[http://bhcc.mass.edu/about/ About Bunker Hill Community College] - BHCC website
History
File:Platforms at Community College station with countdown sign, January 2013.jpg
Bunker Hill Community College's {{convert|42|acre|ha sqmi|lk=on|abbr=|adj=on}} main campus is in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood, on the site of the former Charlestown State Prison that closed in 1955.Barbo, Theresa Mitchell. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T7pnkj8LXx8C The Cape Cod Murder of 1899: Edwin Ray Snow's Punishment and Redemption]. The History Press, 2007. {{ISBN|1-59629-227-X}}, 9781596292277. Cf. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T7pnkj8LXx8C Chapter 4, p.29]. It is served by the MBTA Orange Line rapid transit station called Community College, and sits near the site of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War. Bunker Hill Community College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.{{Citation|title=Massachusetts Institutions – NECHE|publisher=New England Commission of Higher Education|url=https://www.neche.org/institutions/ma/|access-date=May 26, 2021}}
Since 1987, a second campus has provided higher education and job training to residents of Chelsea, Revere, Everett, East Boston, Winthrop and other surrounding communities.{{cite web |url= http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/chelsea/ |title= Chelsea Campus |website= bhcc.edu |publisher= Bunker Hill Community College |access-date=13 December 2013}} This campus moved several times until settling in 1998 into a former post office in Bellingham Square. The two-story 1910 brick structure had been vacant for a decade before being donated to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.{{cite web |url= http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/training/awards/national-preservation-awards/the-chelsea-post-office-1997.html |title= Rehabilitation of the Chelsea Post Office. 1997 |date= 10 June 1998 |website= preservationnation.org |publisher= National Trust for Historic Preservation |access-date=13 December 2013}}
In Boston's South End, BHCC worked with Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), a community-based organization, to establish the Pathway Technology Campus (PTC) in Villa Victoria, a predominantly-Latino affordable-housing community. PTC helps residents of the South End and Lower Roxbury earn a GED certificate, take adult education (ESL, Basic English and Math) classes, and to enroll in community college-level classes.{{cite web |url= http://baystatebanner.com/news/2013/oct/25/iba-celebrates-45-years-building-community/?page=2 |title= IBA celebrates 45 years of building community |last1= Desmarais |first1= Nartin |date= 25 October 2013 |website= baystatebanner.com |publisher= Bay State Banner |access-date=13 December 2013}}
Since 2007, BHCC has operated an East Boston Satellite campus at the Education and Training Institute of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center. It offers introductory and allied health courses in the evening during the fall, spring and summer terms.{{cite web |url= http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/satellites/eastbostonsatellite/ |title= East Boston Satellite |website= bhcc.edu |publisher= Bunker Hill Community College |access-date= 13 December 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131214073411/http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/satellites/eastbostonsatellite/ |archive-date= 14 December 2013 |url-status= dead }}
Established in fall 2009, the Malden Satellite is based at Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, and offers introductory and college-level courses in the evening during the fall and spring semesters.{{cite web |url= http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/satellites/maldensatellite/ |title= Malden Satellite |website= bhcc.edu |publisher= Bunker Hill Community College |access-date= 13 December 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131214075215/http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/satellites/maldensatellite/ |archive-date= 14 December 2013 |url-status= dead }}
The college was featured in the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, as the location where Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) teaches.
On July 1, 2013, Pam Y. Eddinger became BHCC's seventh president, replacing Mary L. Fifield, who retired after 16 years.{{cite web |url= http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2013/04/30/bunker-hill-cc-names-new-president.html |title= Bunker Hill Community College names new president |last1= Moore |first1= Mary |date= 30 April 2013 |website= bizjournals.com/boston |publisher= Boston Business Journal |access-date=13 December 2013}}
Notable alumni
- Dana Rosenblatt, boxer
- Stephen Stat Smith, state representative
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing - did not graduate{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jahars-world-83856/|title=Jahar's World|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=2013-07-17|access-date=2018-09-23|quote=After graduating in 2006, [Tamerlan] enrolled at Bunker Hill Community College to study accounting, but attended for just three semesters before dropping out.}}
- Betsy Warrior, feminist and author
- BB02, Nigerian singer and record label boss
- Bobby Kelly, comedian
- Walter Varela, professional soccer player
- Christopher Worrell, politician
References
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External links
- [http://www.bhcc.edu Official website]
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