College’s first new building in a decade reaches construction milestone

Construction of the new Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) Academic Student Success Center is well underway, with the final beam put in place during last week’s topping off ceremony. The center is BHCC’s first new building in more than a decade and represents the latest of several campus renovation and rejuvenation projects. Once complete, the 53,500 square foot space will house a variety of services including academic advising, counseling, and student affairs.  

 

Joins US Rep. Ayanna Pressley in welcoming neighborhood to annual tradition 

Bunker Hill Community College Pam Eddinger welcomed the college’s Charlestown neighbors to the 37th Annual Monument Square Halloween festivities on Monday evening. From the stairs leading to the base of the Bunker Hill Monument, Eddinger kicked off Halloween celebrations with a crowd of hundreds of Charlestown residents—many of them brilliantly costumed.  

BHCC President Pam Eddinger joins colleges, unions, and businesses at the White House to highlight equitable workforce development 

President Joe Biden praised Bunker Hill Community College in his White House remarks on Wednesday, highlighting the College’s workforce development programs as part of the administration’s Infrastructure Talent Pipeline Challenge.

College’s Chinatown Partnership Hosts BHCC Classes and Serves as Community Arts and Performance Hub 

Congratulations to the Pao Arts Center on celebrating their 5th anniversary on October 19! Braving thunderstorms and traffic, guests gathered at Pao Arts Center for an evening of connection and celebration of the center’s accomplishments in its first five years of operation.

Dr. Bernice A. King, CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and daughter of the Civil Rights Icon, kicked off Bunker Hill Community College’s (BHCC) Compelling Conversations series on Thursday, November 3, offering students, faculty and staff unparalleled insights into her own story and her own unique perspective on the state of Civil Rights today.

PepsiCo Foundation presented Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) with a $400,000 donation to the College’s PepsiCo Foundation Uplift Scholarship Program on Thursday, supporting more than 85 student scholarships at the school.

Annual awards recognize movement makers in Greater Boston 

Bunker Hill Community College President Pam Y. Eddinger was honored as one of the Boston Business Journal’s Power 50, an annual honor given to individuals working not only for change but who are leading change-oriented movements in the Greater Boston area.  

Preparing to take office in January, Governor-elect Maura Healey announced Friday, November 18, that 15 committee co-chairs would join her transition team focusing on equity and affordability and how to ease economic burdens for Massachusetts residents, specifically communities that have been historically marginalized.

Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is pleased to announce an award of $484,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for a Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Program. The grant will provide financial assistance for child care services, to serve the needs of low-income students enrolled at BHCC.

Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is named as one of the four grantees in the Growing the Early Childhood Workforce Fund grant that will fund the education of nearly 800 early childcare educators who work in Boston. The funds will recruit new students to this field and help existing early childhood educators earn additional credentials at no cost. Awarded funds will support educators working in the City of Boston to pursue associate degrees in Early Childhood Development through apprenticeship or regular matriculation at no cost to educators. Wraparound services including childcare, transportation, and career planning, will be provided, along with a guaranteed job upon program completion. Other grantees named are Neighborhood Villages, Urban College, and UMass Boston.

Bunker Hill Community College | Office of the President

Dear BHCC Community:

In the midst of the holiday season, we are grieving. Our peace this past week was shattered by the deadly shooting at Club Q, a gathering place for the LGBTQIA+ community in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The violence claimed the lives of five people and injured 17 others, and to add to the devastation, this happened on the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day named to honor those lost to anti-transgender violence. This latest incident echoes the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, the gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where 49 were killed and as many wounded. The trend of violence against the LGBTQIA+ community has not abated, and the acrimonious divisions in our society have only added fuel to these senseless acts.