Editing Bronx Community College

{{Short description|Public college in the Bronx, New York City, US}}
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The '''Bronx Community College of the City University of New York''' ('''BCC''') is a [[Public college|public]] [[community college]] in [[the Bronx]], New York City. It is part of the [[City University of New York]] system.

== History ==
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 [[New York University-University Heights|University Heights campus]] from [[New York University]] (NYU), which had sold the campus under threat of imminent bankruptcy. Beginning that fall, the BCC moved its operations to the {{convert|55|acre|ha}} site overlooking the [[Harlem River]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Peterson |first=Iver |date=September 19, 1973 |title=N.Y.U. Says It Has Recovered From Brink of Bankruptcy |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/19/archives/n-y-u-says-it-has-recoveredfrom-brink-of-bankruptcy-helpful-trends.html |access-date=June 6, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606191757/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/19/archives/n-y-u-says-it-has-recoveredfrom-brink-of-bankruptcy-helpful-trends.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2012, the [[Bronx Community College Library|North Hall and Library]] opened.  The building is designed to resemble many of the historic buildings on campus, and on one end is located next to an entrance of the [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Dunlap|first=David|title=City Room Blogging From Five Boroughs: 'Bronx Community College Gets a Library, and Building, Truly Its Own'|accessdate=August 27, 2014|newspaper=New York Times| url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/bronx-community-college-gets-a-proper-college-library/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0|date=September 2, 2012}}</ref>

==Academics==
The college is home to the Center for Sustainable Energy, which was founded in 2003 as an educational resource for students pursuing careers in [[alternative energy]].<ref>{{cite news|author =Wolfer, Sondra|title = Federal DOE grant fuels Bronx, N.Y., community college's energy center|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|date = November 3, 2004|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200411/ai_n22265200|access-date=January 23, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

Bronx Community College offers a wide array of workforce community development and personal enrichment courses and programs through Continuing & Professional Studies.<ref>[http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/cps "Continuing & Professional Studies"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627000407/http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/CPS |date=June 27, 2014 }} on the BCC website</ref>  CPS also delivers customized training for local employers.  CPS works closely with unions, city, state and federal agencies and accepts vouchers and other forms of financial aid for individual students.

Since 1987, the college is also the local administrator of the SUNY Bronx Educational Opportunity Center.<ref>{{Cite web|title = About {{!}} SUNY Bronx Educational Opportunity Center|url = http://www.bronxeoc.org/about.html|website = www.bronxeoc.org|access-date = February 2, 2016}}</ref> The SUNY Bronx EOC provides tuition free academic and vocational programs to New Yorkers who qualify<ref>{{Cite web|title = Tuition Free Academic & Vocational Training {{!}} SUNY Educational Opportunity Center|url = http://www.bronxeoc.org/index.html|website = www.bronxeoc.org|access-date = February 2, 2016}}</ref> and it is funded by the University Center for Academic and Workforce Development  (UCAWD) part of the [[State University of New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ten Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) are a part of the University Center for Academic and Workforce Development (UCAWD) educational and workforce training programs in New York State |url=http://www.ucawd.suny.edu/programs_eoc.php |website=www.ucawd.suny.edu |access-date=February 2, 2016 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

== Campus ==
[[File:NYU library2 crop.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gould Memorial Library]] of Bronx Community College, designed by architect [[Stanford White]], shown in 1904 when the campus was part of [[New York University]]; the [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]] arcade is visible to the left and right of the library]]

The BCC campus originally housed New York University's undergraduate college and engineering school &ndash; which was absorbed by [[Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn]] in 1973 but is once again part of NYU &ndash; and was created at a time when 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]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite news | author =Sheraton, Mimi | title =My Bronx: Yesterday's Heroes, Up on Pedestals | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date = December 15, 2000 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/arts/my-bronx-yesterday-s-heroes-up-on-pedestals.html | access-date=January 23, 2009}}</ref>

The campus consists of a mix of [[Classical Revival architecture|Classical revival]] buildings designed by architect [[Stanford White]] in 1892–1901 &ndash; including the Hall of Languages, the Cornelius Baker Hall of Philosophy and the [[Gould Memorial Library]]<ref name=nycland>{{cite nycland|pages=331-333}}</ref> &ndash; and [[Brutalist architecture|Brutalist]] concrete buildings by [[Marcel Breuer]], including [[Begrisch Hall]] (1956–61)<ref name=nycland /> and the Colston Residence Hall and Cafeteria (1964).<ref name=aia>{{cite aia5|pages=860-61}}</ref> Other buildings &ndash; such as South Hall, formerly the Gustav H. Schwab House (1857); Butler Hall, formerly William Henry W. T. Mall House ({{circa|1859}}); and MacCracken Hall, originally the Loring Andrews House ({{circa|1880}}) &ndash; are repurposed mansions which predate the campus.<ref name=aia /> The original landscaping for the campus was by [[Calvert Vaux|Vaux & Co.]]<ref name=aia />  The complex of Stanford White buildings, judged one of the finest concentrations of Beaux Arts architecture in the US, was designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 2012.<ref name=nhlnom>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/ny/UniversityHeightsCampus.pdf|title=NHL nomination for University Heights Campus (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York)|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=May 21, 2017}}</ref>

On the BCC campus is the [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]], founded in 1900 by [[Henry Mitchell MacCracken]], Chancellor of NYU from 1891 to 1910. It was the first such [[hall of fame]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ackman |first=Dan |date=October 12, 2007 |title=Fame's Fortune |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119214788902156734 |access-date=June 7, 2022 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=June 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607162044/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119214788902156734 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Hall, which is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Bronx County, New York|National Register of Historic Places]], was also designed by Stanford White, and was established to honor prominent Americans who have had a significant impact on the country's history.  It includes bronze busts of [[Alexander Graham Bell]], [[Eli Whitney]], and [[George Westinghouse]]<ref name=NYT /> along with many others. The Hall has not had any new inductees since 1976.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 15, 1976 |title=Three Are Elected To the Hall of Fame |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/15/archives/three-are-elected-to-the-hall-of-fame.html |access-date=June 6, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908163308/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/15/archives/three-are-elected-to-the-hall-of-fame.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Athletics==

Bronx Community College teams participate as a member of the [[National Junior College Athletic Association]] (NJCAA). The Broncos are a member of the [[community college]] section of the [[City University of New York Athletic Conference]] (CUNYAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, track & field and volleyball.

==In popular culture==
The college has been used as the set for scenes in many movies:
*In 2001, parts of the film [[A Beautiful Mind (film)|''A Beautiful Mind'']] that depicted [[MIT]] were instead filmed in the BCC, due to the film's low budget.<ref>{{cite news | author = Halber, Deborah | title = MIT facts meet fiction in ‘A Beautiful Mind’ | publisher = MIT News Office | date = February 13, 2002 | url =http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/nash-0213.html | access-date=October 4, 2005}}</ref> The dome at BCC was also used in the filming of ''[[The Good Shepherd (film)|The Good Shepherd]]''.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}
*The interior of the Gould Memorial Library was featured as a public library in the 1969 film ''[[Goodbye, Columbus (film)|Goodbye, Columbus]]''.
*The Meister Hall building at BCC by architect [[Marcel Breuer]] was featured as a Russian Embassy in the 2008 film ''[[Burn After Reading]]'' by the [[Coen brothers]].
*Other films that used the campus for filming have included [[The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)|''The Thomas Crown Affair'']], [[The Siege (1998 film)|''The Siege'']], ''[[Mona Lisa Smile]]'', [[Kinsey (film)|''Kinsey'']], and [[Riding in Cars with Boys|''Riding in Cars With Boys'']].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2006/01/26/working-with-hollywood-filmmakers-at-bcc/|title=Working with Hollywood Filmmakers at BCC  –  CUNY Newswire|website=www1.cuny.edu|language=en|access-date=September 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925025754/http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2006/01/26/working-with-hollywood-filmmakers-at-bcc/|archive-date=September 25, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
* [[David Berkowitz]] (b 1953), also known as the Son of Sam and .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer
* [[Richard Carmona]] (b 1949), is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. 
* Joel Martinez (b 1983), professionally known as [[The Kid Mero]], is a Dominican-American writer, comedian, TV personality, voice actor, YouTube personality, music blogger and Twitter personality.
* [[Annabel Palma]], is an American politician who served in the New York City Council from the 18th district from 2004 to 2017.
* [[Big Bank Hank]], (1956–2014), is an American rapper a member of [[The Sugarhill Gang]].

==Gallery==
<gallery mode=packed heights=90>
File:BxCC Hall of Languages jeh.jpg|The Stanford White-designed Hall of Languages
File:BxCC Hall of Philosophy jeh.jpg|The Hall of Philosophy, also designed by Stanford White
File:Hall of Fame for Great Americans.jpg|The [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]] is located on the BCC campus
File:Gould Memorial Library dome from West 204th Street in Manhattan.jpg|The dome of the [[Gould Memorial Library]] can be seen above the trees from many locations in [[Upper Manhattan]]
File:Begrisch Hall, Western Elevation crop.jpg|The western elevation of [[Marcel Breuer]]'s [[Begrisch Hall]]
File:Interior of Gould Memorial Library (Rotunda and Columns).jpg|Inside the Gould Memorial Library
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[List of New York City Designated Landmarks in the Bronx]]
*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in the Bronx]]
*[[Bronx Community College Library]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [https://bronxbroncos.com/ Athletics website]
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