Three years of BHCC Achievements 1999 Æ 2001
Transforming BHCC
1999 - 2001 Summary
Planning Process
BHCC Goals
Learner Success
Workforce Education
Recognition
Curricula
Customer Service
Funding
Customer Service
- New conveniently located satellites offering college courses were opened in Chinatown, Revere, Somerville and South Boston.
- An interactive college website was launched and five online kiosks with information about academic programs and services in English, Spanish and Vietnamese were installed at the Charlestown and Chelsea Campuses.
- A distraction-free assistive technology lab was added to Disability Support Services.
- Fifty professional staff and faculty now assist and direct thousands of incoming students at the Meet & Greet desk on the Charlestown Campus during late registration and the first week of each semester.
Diversity
- An Office of Diversity & Inclusion was established reporting directly to the President which sponsored educational workshops, seminars, cultural events and diversity programs for faculty, students, staff and community members including six Days of Dialogue and a ñLatinos in Higher Educationî conference series.
- An Urban Teachers Program was designed with UMass-Boston to provide joint admissions and joint scholarships to Bunker Hill Community College teacher education students planning to continue theireducation at UMass-Boston and become teachers in Boston schools.
- The College became a charter member of the National Articulation and Transfer Network, a web-based technology effort to assist at-risk students pursue career pathways to post secondary institutions especially Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
- BHCC actively recruited diverse students, faculty and applicants for employment, with successful results in recruitment, admission and retention of targeted groups. People of color and women comprise 59 percent of the student population. Since 1999, international student enrollment has increased by 85.5 percent. Women make up 56 percent and people of color make up 20 percent of the faculty. People of color comprise 30 percent and women make up 63 percent of the college staff.
Facility
- To ensure safety on campus, meet new environmental regulations and protect investment in the physical plant, the college developed a Comprehensive Environmental Management Plan, improved its emergency procedure guidelines and upgraded operational systems.
- Limited access to the Library and need for faculty office space was addressed by redesigning the physical layout of the Library to accommodate 21 new private faculty offices, a 15 percent increase in visitor traffic and dedicated space for the BHCC archive collection.
- Improvements and upgrades to both the interior and exterior of the Charlestown Campus were made, including renovation of the auditorium, construction of 135 private faculty offices, establishment of a full service Adjunct Faculty Center, creation of 45 new parking spaces and comprehensive landscaping and installation of exterior signage. As these improvements were made, ADA compliance was strengthened.
Flexibility
- A comprehensive orientation program for new immigrant students was put in place to introduce them to the American educational system and familiarize them with BHCC support services.
- A Weekend College was inaugurated enabling students to earn an associate degree in Business, Computer Information Systems or General Concentration with expanded classroom, online and mini semester options.
- The CollegeÍs Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program provided free state and federal income tax return completion service to 5,000 local residents. A new Office of Service Learning expanded community volunteer opportunities for students.
Funding
- More than 90 federal, state, local and private/foundation grants were awarded to the college valued at $9,851,546.
- The College Foundation and Student Government Association contributed $60,000 to endow the Textbook Assistance Program enabling nearly 3,500 students to borrow thousands of books.
- A comprehensive scholarship brochure was published and 40 privately endowed scholarships were awarded to BHCC students each year, with an additional 12 scholarships awarded annually to high achieving Boston high school students.
Global Learning
- The College received the Year 2000 International Intercultural Achievement Award for English as a Second Language and Cultural Programs by the American Council for International Intercultural Education.
- Study abroad programs were expanded to include opportunities for students and faculty in France, Morocco, China, Costa Rica, Portugal, Spain, England, Mexico, Italy, Ghana, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Russia and Ecuador. Sixteen scholarships for study abroad were provided to faculty and 59 scholarships were awarded to students.
- The College sponsored a major conference on the Middle East that attracted 140 educators from seven New England states.
- The Middle Eastern Studies Association named Bunker Hill Community College as its first community college member.
Lifelong Learning
- The Workforce Development Center provided skills training to 5,601 employees in 63 Greater Boston businesses and added a computer-based training center for community use.
- The CollegeÍs Career and Placement Center assisted 10,200 students and alumni with resume writing, interviewing and job placement assistance; the Admissions, Transfer and Counseling Office participated in 322 outreach and recruitment programs with middle and high school students and adult learners.
- Faculty and staff published three editions of Teaching for Our Times, a journal comprised of articles about teaching and learning by faculty, staff and students, for national distribution.
Partnerships
- The Nurse Education, Allied Health, Medical Imaging, Surgical Technology and the Sterilization and Central Processing programs established clinical placement sites with renowned teaching hospitals such as Massachusetts General Hospital, New England Medical Center and Brigham & WomenÍs Hospital. The college also partnered with the Cambridge Housing Authority to provide Emergency Medical Technician training.
- The College collaborated with 34 local middle schools, high schools and community based organizations to provide more than 700 at-risk public school students with literacy development, MCAS preparation, mentoring and college awareness.
- An Offender Re-Entry Program was developed with the Suffolk County House of Correction serving 280 clients, and a new Learning Resource Center was established at the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans providing educational resources for disenfranchised adults.
- The College hosted the annual international conference of the League for Innovation in the Community College, a consortium of community college leaders, with an attendance of 1,800 educators worldwide.
Student Success
- The total number of individual and group tutoring sessions in the Multi Assistance Center increased by 27 percent.
- The College received the 2001 Learning Assistance Association of New England (LAANE) Award for its Outstanding Developmental Education Program.
- The CollegeÍs honor society, Alpha Kappa Mu, received the highest rating of five stars from Phi Theta Kappa, the National Honor Society for Two-year Colleges.
- General education requirements were completely revised for all academic programs.
Technology
- Faculty, staff, students and alumni participated in a College-sponsored Technology Summit with Greater Boston civic, business and technology leaders resulting in six guiding technology principles for the College.
- Fourteen classrooms were equipped with state-of-the-art, interactive technology and a virtual library has been established at the Chelsea Campus.
- An eCollege was established with online courses and enrollments showing a growth of 510 percent from the first offerings in Fall 1999 to Fall 2002.
Kalimah A. Nur, Professor and Chair, BHCC Business Administration Department; Toni F. Borge, Special Programs Coordinator, BHCC Adult Basic Education Program; Jonathan Raymond, President, Commonwealth Corporation.
Irene Cornish, Superintendent, Chelsea Public Schools.
Bak Fun Wong, Principal, Josiah Quincy Upper School; Secretary, BHCC Board of Trustees.
Michael Hunt, Co-president, BHCC Upsidedown Club; Antoine J. Melay, Vice President of Administration, BHCC Student Government Association; Anderson Beaubrun, Senator, BHCC Student Government Association.
Gerardo Villacres, Executive Director, Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce; Member, BHCC Board of Trustees; Mary L. Fifield, BHCC President.
Oscar Escobar, Co-president, BHCC Upsidedown Club.
Matt Mele, President, BHCC Drama Club; Laura Oskowitz, Entrepreneur; Member, BHCC Foundation, Inc.
William Spring, Vice President of Community Affairs, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Robert T. Carlson, Professor, BHCC Mathematics/Physics Department.
Bruce Mauch, President, Production Division, Chelsea Clock Company, Inc.
Carole Copeland Thomas, President, C. Thomas & Associates
Anne Hyde, President, BHCC Foundation, Inc.; Tripp Jones, Executive Director, MassINC; Robert Fraser, Counsel, Goodwin Procter LLP.
Richard J. Rouse, Sheriff, Suffolk County SheriffÍs Department. 
Mary P. Riordan, Professor, BHCC Nurse Education Department; Michele Courton Brown, President, FleetBoston Financial Foundation.
Nancy Myers, Coordinator, BHCC Instructional Design and Technology Department; Barbara G. Taylor, Professor, BHCC Science Department
Evelyn Goldfine, Founder and Chief Administrative Officer, Omni Point, Inc.; Claudia Smith Reed, Community Outreach Manager, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
Jesse M. Thompson, BHCC Vice President of Administration;Judith I. Gill, Chancellor, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
Richard W. Boulware, Professor, BHCC Criminal Justice Department; Diane M. Smith, Acting Director, BHCC Library and Information Center; Michael R. D'Entremont, Assistant Professor, English as a Second Language Department.
Lori E. Pennel, Coordinator, BHCC Multi-Assistance Center; James Hunt, President and CEO, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers; Mossik Hacobian, Executive Director, Urban Edge.