Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) is a community college in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was founded in 1947 and has about 5,000 students enrolled in one of its three campuses. While BCCC primarily serves the residents and business community of Baltimore, it also offers educational opportunities on all levels to the citizens of Baltimore and the State of Maryland that enables students to obtain good jobs, transfer to four-year colleges, or take short-term training to upgrade their skills or acquire new ones.
History
Baltimore City Community College dates its origins to the Baltimore Junior College, founded as part of the Baltimore City Public School System in 1947 to provide post-high school education for returning World War II veterans and was the inspiration of Dr. Harry Bard. It was one of the earliest examples of the growing "junior college" movement which began at the beginning of the century and has resulted in the growth of present-day "community colleges" all across America, serving the intermediate needs between high schools and large colleges and universities. It was located on the third floor of the Baltimore City College, third oldest public high school in America located at 33rd Street and The Alameda in the northeast city which was a specialized academic magnet school for the arts, humanities and social sciences.
By 1959 it had relocated to a park-like campus in the northwest city along Liberty Heights Avenue. In 1967, the College was renamed the Community College of Baltimore and restructured as an independent institution of the City of Baltimore government. By the middle of the 1970s, Dr. Bard's ideal of an additional campus in the revitalized downtown Inner Harbor was realized with the construction of two buildings along East Lombard Street named the Bard and Lockwood Buildings.
In the 1980s City and State leaders recognized that shrinking City resources made it difficult for the City to operate a quality institution of higher education. On July 1, 1990, the Maryland General Assembly created a new institution, New Community College of Baltimore, funded by the State of Maryland. The College was granted permanent status in 1992 and renamed Baltimore City Community College. In 1997, BCCC celebrated its 50th anniversary.
In the 2000s, BCCC began to experience significant difficulties. Problems began to surface in 2004 when faculty held a public protest over issues related to remedial courses and governance. In 2010, faculty gave BCCC president Williams a vote of no-confidence and the state legislature held back funding. These troubles worsened in 2011. BCCC's regional accreditor, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, placed BCCC on probation because of "concerns about the school's ability to evaluate student learning." To address these problems, Maryland governor Martin O'Malley replaced the majority of BCCC's board of trustees with new members. In 2012, two years after the faculty's initial vote of no confidence, the board of trustees removed Carolane Williams as president of the college. The interim president was Dr Carolyn Hull Anderson, followed by the current president and CEO, Gordon F. May, PhD.
In the summer of 2014 BCCC was warned by the Middle States Commission that the college's accreditation was in jeopardy. MSCHE removed the college's warning and reaffirmed its accreditation on June 25, 2015.
In 2015 NASA selected BCCC and four other higher education institutions to share in $6 million as part of its Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP), an initiative that aims to provide educator training and expand science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course offerings.
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Campuses
BCCC has six major locations. The main one is the Liberty campus, located in the Mondawmin section of the city. The Harbor campus holds the Business and Continuing Education division, while additional classes are held at the third location, the Reisterstown Road Plaza. There is also a National Weatherization Training Center, the Maryland Center for Construction Technologies, and the Life Sciences Institute at University of Maryland's BioPark.
Radio station
The college has operated a radio station since 1951. WBJC is a FM, non-commercial, station at 91.5 MHz. It broadcasts classical music nearly 24 hours daily all week. It is one of only two stations in the Baltimore-Washington, DC area that plays such music.
Notable alumni
- Leroy Loggins - Professional Basketball Player, Olympian
- Dave Johnson - Former Pitcher, Baltimore Orioles
- Barry Levinson - screenwriter, Academy Award-winning film director, actor and producer of film and television
- Joan Carter Conway - politician who represents district 43 in the Maryland State Senate
- Robert W. Curran - member of the Baltimore City Council representing the Third Council District
- Carolyn J. Krysiak - politician who represented the 46th legislative districe in the Maryland House of Delegates
- Elizabeth Habte Wold - an Ethiopian artist known for her mixed-media work.
- Johan Hegg - singer of the Swedish Melodic-Death metal band, Amon Amarth
- Stringer Bell - fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by English actor Idris Elba.
- Devin Allen - photographer
- Bernard C. Young - Baltimore City Council President
- Shirley Nathan Pulliam - Member, Maryland House of Delegates; Registered Nurse; member, BCCC Nursing Program Advisory Board
- Stuart Steiner, PhD - President, Genesee Community College, Genesee, New York; 1997 AACC CEO of the Year
- Edward Tilgham - Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner
- Edward Woods - Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner
- George Bunting - Former President of the Baltimore Chapter NAACP
- Peter Mackowiak - Vice President, Whiting Turner Contracting Company
- Gino Gemignani - Senior Vice President, Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
- DeWayne Wickham - National Journalist, Columnist, USA Today; author, TV host
- E. Thomas Lattanzi - Former Baltimore News Media Personality
- John Anderson - Baltimore City Sheriff
- Lee Michaels - Gospel Radio Host, Heaven 600
- Linda Flood - Former Baltimore City Police Captain/District Commander
- Chima Ugah - Computer Information Systems Program Coordinator/Director
- Dr. Michelle Bondima - Former BCCC Dean of Business, Health, Sciences and Mathematics
- James D. Tschechtelin EdD - Former BCCC President
- Janice Y. Jackson - Executive Director WEAN (Women Embracing Abilities Now) and 2012 Recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal of Honor
- John Carroll Weiss - President/CEO, Chesapeake Biological Laboratories, Inc.
- Marshall Goodwin - Former Member of General Assembly and Deputy Director of Public Safety in BCCC. Current Chief of Police in BCPSS
- Eddie Applefield - Local Radio Personality
- Ernie Boston - Former TV Personality
- Mary Clayburn - Radio Personality
- Randy Dennis - Radio Personality, 95.9 FM
- Robert Turk - Weatherman, WJZ-TV-13
- Carlton Leverette - Current Art Professor
- Harriet Bias-Branch - BCCC Nursing Graduate, Registered Nurse
- Antonia Klima Keane - Professor of Sociology at Loyola College
- James Doyle, Jr. - Attorney at Law
- Otis Warren - Baltimore Real Estate Developer
- Arnold Williams CPA - Founding Partner of Accounting Firm
- Phyllis Brottman - Owner of Marketing and Public Relations Firm
- Christine Renee Lincoln - Notable Author
- Donna Lynn - International Fitness Expert; Founder of Donacize Aerobics Inc.
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