Bronx Community College serves students of diverse backgrounds, preparations, and aspirations
by providing them with an education that is both broad in scope and rigorous in standards. Our
mission is to give our students the foundation and tools for success, whether they choose to
continue their education and/or enter a profession immediately upon graduation and to instill in
them the value of informed and engaged citizenship and service to their communities.
Vision Statement
Bronx Community College will lead the way in providing students with an education that enables
them to move with equal facility into productive and rewarding careers or increasingly advanced
higher education programs. BCC will graduate students who are prepared to live within, profit
from, and contribute to a 21
stcentury global environment marked by diversity, change and
expanded opportunities for learning and growth.
Ongoing Goals
1. Ensure Academic Excellence
Ensure that graduates will be well-informed, globally aware, engaged world citizens who
make a meaningful contribution to society. They will be self directed, committed to their
physical and mental well-being and to life-long learning.
Promote and support teaching excellence and faculty scholarship with recruitment,
development, opportunities and incentives for faculty.
Provide quality associate degree programs in Arts, Sciences and Applied Science to prepare
students for successful transfer to a four-year college, entrance to the workplace and/or
career advancement.
Advance currency of curriculum, knowledge, practice, technology, facilities and pedagogy.
Provide opportunities for all students to master twenty-first century technology proficiencies.
2. Enrich the Academic Experience and Promote Student Success
Complement classroom instruction with quality support services for all students (including
counseling, tutoring, library, child care, athletic programs, extracurricular activities and
cultural programs).
Supplement the educational process with learning opportunities through internships,
cooperative education, and international study.
Support and integrate basic skills acquisition and development for all students.
Use technology to enhance communication with students and improve delivery of academic
and support services.
Employ assessment to determine needs, measure progress and advance measurable
academic success for all students at all levels.
3. Sustain Fiscal Stability and Enhance Management Effectiveness
Maintain enrollment (through admission/retention) to secure adequate tax levy funding.
Develop and maintain infrastructure to systematically raise funds and increase earnings.
Encourage productivity and cost effectiveness.
Provide ongoing training and skills development for all staff and faculty.
Facilitate knowledge-based decision making.
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4. Provide leadership (and engage in partnerships) on local, national and global
issues
Engage with local and other communities in mutually beneficial partnerships
Advance the role of community colleges in promoting knowledge and understanding of
access, diversity, liberal learning and global responsibility.
Promote local and national policies that support community colleges and their students.
Provide opportunities and support for faculty, students and staff to participate in national and
international conferences, forums and exchanges on a range of topics (including diversity,
peace, sustainable energy, and economic development)
Strategic Directions 2010
1. Advance Liberal Learning
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The college culture and climate will support liberal learning for all students.
Liberal learning will be embedded in all courses and disciplines (including remedial, core and
upper division courses and student activities).
Clear evidence of liberal learning activities and outcomes will be documented.
Students will demonstrate general education (including technology) proficiencies
2. Coordinate and Focus Student/Academic Support Services
Student needs will be assessed early and regularly to address academic and personal issues
as they arise.
Administrative systems will be in place to identify student needs, communicate requirements
and opportunities to students and measuring utilization and effectiveness.
Implement a new model of counseling and advisement to coordinate and focus delivery of
student services and to maximize use of personnel.
3. Enhance the Academic Environment and Oversee Progress for New Instructional
Building
A state-of-the-art, energy-efficient library and classroom building will be completed (or near
completion).
The new building design and existing renovated spaces will be designed to accommodate
changing and flexible learning and research environments.
Vacated campus space will be utilized for additional classrooms, faculty offices and for one-
stop centers for enrollment services and academic advising.
Maximize use of Gould Memorial Library and Hall of Fame as part of educational program
4. Create and Build Fundraising Infrastructure and Comprehensive Campaign
Build a well-functioning infrastructure to support development and alumni programs.
Form a team that can support development effort.
Seek an endowment of significant size.
Take a leading role in advancing philanthropy for community colleges and in creating a
“culture of cultivation”.
5. Promote Best Business Practices (including business intelligence, integrity and
innovation)
Modernize major administrative systems.
Install business intelligence systems in all administrative and academic offices.
Create a systematic program employing evidence-based decision-making.
Identify and address administrative and staff development needs.
Develop and implement a plan to address Sarbannes-Oxley guidelines
The Bronx Community College of The City University of New York is a community college in the City University of New York system located in the University Heights neighborhood of The Bronx.
The college was established in 1957 through the efforts of civic-minded groups who felt that there was a growing need for more higher education facilities in the Bronx. Classes began at Hunter College, and later at the former site of the Bronx High School of Science.
In 1973, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York acquired the University Heights campus from New York University, who had sold the campus under threat of imminent bankruptcy. Beginning in the fall of that year, the BCC moved its operations to the spacious and modern 55 acre (223,000 m²) site overlooking the Harlem River. Among the distinguished early alumni of BCC is Richard Carmona, who served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 2002 to 2006.
In 2001, parts of the motion picture A Beautiful Mind that depicted MIT were instead filmed in the BCC, due to the film's low budget . The dome at BCC was also used in the filming of The Good Shepherd.
The BCC campus originally housed NYU's undergraduate college and now-defunct engineering school, and consists of a mix of neo-Renaissance buildings designed by architect Stanford White and brutalist concrete buildings by Marcel Breuer. Most notably, the BCC campus is home to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, the first such hall of fame in the United States. This landmark, which was founded in 1900 by Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor of NYU from 1891 to 1910, was designed as part of the undergraduate college of that university. At the time, a number of prominent local universities had made the move to upper Manhattan and the Bronx in order to build bigger campuses, including Columbia University, and the City College of New York.
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Full-Time vs. Part-Time
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Race/Ethnicity
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In State vs. Out-of-State
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Top States for Incoming Freshman
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| Percent of Students International: | 5% |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | In-State | Out-of-State | |
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 3,104 | $ 4,864 | |
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 2,800 | $ 4,560 | |
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 304 | $ 304 | |
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 3,752 | 80% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 2,081 | 70% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 500 | 2% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 2,808 | 2% | |
Any Aid: |
84% |
