Spotlights

"BCC really helped me to develop good habits for practicing and learning and growing," says Logan Osorio, BCC's Class of 2024 Salutatorian and music major. "Whether I'm at a different school or when I'm practicing piano when I'm 35, BCC has prepared me to learn more, and more efficiently, in the future."

"BCC helped immensely in staying productive and relevant while I worked for the government at General Dynamics in Pittsfield," says Steve Sweeney '02. "The valuable degree in computer science also helped me secure a promotion within the government at Lockheed Martin and work on programs of national strategic importance."

"Ever since I was very young, I had this intuition and strong passion to be a nurse. I was drawn to it. My grandfather was a medic in the Korean War, and I really looked up to that. I thought to myself, 'Even though I'm just one person, if I can be a nurse, I can make a difference,'" says Associate Professor of Nursing Kelley Alibozek.

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 ..."

Sometimes it takes being in the right place at the right time. When Geoffrey Tabor, Coordinator of Transfer Affairs/Articulation, first visited BCC in 1995, it wasn't by invitation.