Campus Life Spotlights

Pamela Farron
  • Read About Breaking Barriers

  • Breaking Barriers
  • Read how Pam Farron, BCC's Coordinator of Disability Services, developed the video series Breaking Barriers: Faculty, Staff and Alumni with Disabilities Share the Strategies They Use to Navigate Their Workplace. "My idea was to have them make videos, which I would help them with, and then share the videos with the entire campus ..."
Library
  • Read About Open Educational Resources

  • Library
  • It's no secret that community colleges offer a quality education at a fraction of the price of traditional four-year schools. But for some, the cost of textbooks can be prohibitive. Open educational resources (OER) are free resources available to anyone and an alternative to high-cost textbooks, which are a barrier for many students.
Transforming BCC's Campus
  • Read About Transforming BCC's Campus

  • Changes at BCC
  • As Berkshire Community College carefully emerges from the pandemic, campus projects continue to improve the efficiency, aesthetics and safety of the College. Such projects include critical infrastructure upgrades, architectural improvements and replacement of windows, roofs, carpeting and more.
Zoom Burke
  • Read About Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation

  • At Berkshire Community College, faculty, staff and students had to reimagine the ways they taught, or learned, or delivered incredible support services - remotely. Fortunately, the College had recently developed a division called Teaching and Learning Innovation, which was perfectly positioned to help its faculty, staff and students quickly adapt, not only to remote work and learning, but also to thrive long-term in a virtual and online environment.
Faye's Bioscience Image Library
  • Read About Faye Reynolds Bioscience Image Library

  • Bioscience Image Library Project
  • Professor Faye Reynolds has created BCC's Bioscience Image Library - which offers the general public free access to microscopic images of plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and more. Free access to the image library can support student learning in the fields of Biology, Botany, Zoology, Histology and Microbiology.
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