BHCC Magazine - Summer 2022

In This Issue

Features

11 Celebrating the Class of 2022
BHCC brings Commencement back to campus for this year’s graduating class.
14 The Interview
President Eddinger sits down with Mayor Michelle Wu to discuss her vision for strengthening education.
17 Breaking Ground in Charlestown
New Student Success Center expands student services and learning commons.
18 BHCC Launches Enterprise Center for Entrepreneurship and Training in Chelsea
New center will help connect small businesses communities with training, expertise and resources.
20 Breaking Barriers
HOPE Initiative empowers Black males and Latinos at BHCC
25 Deepening Engagement
Learning Communities outcomes bring renewed focus on asset-based and culturally relevant practices.

Campus News

President Eddinger Appointed Chairperson to Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship

BBJ 2021 Power 50 “Movement Makers”

Women & Power – Top Women-Led Businesses

Celebrating Two Years of the DISH Food Pantry

DISH Food Pantry Debuts DISH & Dash Lockers

Boosting Career Pathways and Opportunities for Community College Students

Congresswoman Pressley Delivers $1M in Federal Funding for Boston’s Tuition-Free Community College Program

BHCC Awarded $100K Cummings Grant

Featured Stories

Graduates Celebrating the class of 2022

Celebrating the Class of 2022

BHCC brings Commencement back to campus for this year’s graduating class.
President and Mayor Wu posing

The Interview with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu

President Eddinger sits down with Mayor Michelle Wu to discuss her vision for strengthening education.

President Eddinger Posing with others

Breaking Ground in Charlestown

New Student Success Center expands student services and learning commons.
ABIERTO

BHCC Launches Enterprise Center for Entrepreneurship and Training in Chelsea

New center will help connect small businesses communities with training, expertise and resources.
HOPE

Breaking Barriers

HOPE Initiative empowers Black males and Latinos at BHCC.
DeepeningEngagement

Deepening Engagement

Learning Communities outcomes bring renewed focus on asset-based and culturally relevant practices.

Web Extras

Pao Arts Center 5th Anniversary Celebration

View photos from the launch of the VISIONS/VOICES: YEAR OF THE TIGER performance series. A program collaboration between Pao Arts Center & Bunker Hill Community College.

Video: Ethnographies of Work

New video shows how Ethnographies of Work (EoW) empowers students to reflect on and research career pathways from a variety of disciplinary standpoints. Originating at Guttman Community College in New York, BHCC completes its third year of implementation broadening the scope of EoW integrating courses.

Celebrating the Class of 2022

Congratulations to all our graduates! Enjoy a few ceremony highlights including the recording of the 2022 Commencement Ceremony, photos, a press release, and more!

“Be Mass Competitive” Program

Specialized training and career placement at employers such as Bank of America, Wayfair, Suffolk, Mass General Brigham, and more. Paid on-the-job training in customer service and general professional administrative at no cost, made possible by the Massachusetts Council of Community Colleges and the Mass Competitive Partnership.

Boston Welcome Back Center

Were you a nurse in your homeland? Do you want to be a nurse in Massachusetts? Are you having trouble getting licensed here? The Welcome Back Center assists nurses trained in other countries gain licensure in Massachusetts.

DISH Food Pantry

The DISH Food Pantry delivers on food access. Learn more and donate at bhcc.edu/dishfoodpantry

Arts & Culture

Olivarez

Jose Olivarez

One Book author reads excerpts from his book Citizen Illegal.
Floyd

Philonise Floyd

Brother of the late George Floyd focused on the importance of advocacy and using your own voice to effect change.
Ellis

Sean K. Ellis

Criminal justice activist whose case of wrongful incarceration was released in the Netflix documentary “Title 4” spoke about resilience, community, criminal justice reform.
Yoshino

Kenji Yoshino

Award-winning author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights presents at BHCC.
Gallery

Engaged! Resilient! Global!

Selections from BHCC’s Teaching and Learning Collection, Faculty, Resident, and Visiting Artists were presented at the Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery.

Past Issues

BHCC Magazine cover Spring 2021

Spring/Summer 2021

By BHCC Magazine

BHCC Magazine cover Spring 2020

Spring 2020

By BHCC Magazine

Magazine Cover

Spring-Summer 2019

By BHCC Magazine

BHCC Magazine Winter 2019 Cover

Fall/Winter 2019

By BHCC Magazine

Spring 2018

By BHCC Magazine

Bunker Hill Community College Magazine Spring 2017 Cover. Cover Story: Food for Thought. Building a hunger team on campus. Also in this Issue: President Eddinger interviews President and CEO of the Boston Foundation Paul Grogan.

Spring 2017

By BHCC Magazine

Fall 2015 Magazine Cover

Fall 2015

By BHCC Magazine