.jpg) The main entrance to Bunker Hill Community College (The "B" building) | |
| Type | Publiccommunity college |
|---|---|
| Established | 1973 (1973) |
| Accreditation | NECHE |
| President | Pam Eddinger |
| Students | 8,439[1] (fall 2022) |
| Location | ,, United States 42°22′32″N71°04′11″W / 42.375566°N 71.069816°W /42.375566; -71.069816 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Mascot | Bulldog |
| Website | www |
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Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is apubliccommunity college with multiple campuses in theGreater Boston area. Founded in 1973 in theCharlestown neighborhood ofBoston,Massachusetts, United States, BHCC provides higher education and job training services at two campuses and three satellite locations.
BHCC is the state's largest community college, enrolling more than 13,000 students[5] in day, afternoon, evening, late-evening, weekend, and web-baseddistance-learning courses. It is also one of the state's most diverse institutions of higher education: 24% of the students are African-American, 24% are white or caucasian, and 24% Latino.[5] More than half are women. Students' average age is 27.[5] The college enrolls more than 800 international students who come from about 100 countries and speak more than 75 languages.[6]
Bunker Hill Community College's 42-acre (17 ha; 0.066 sq mi) main campus is in Boston'sCharlestown neighborhood, on the site of the formerCharlestown State Prison that closed in 1955.[7] It is served by the MBTAOrange Line rapid transit station calledCommunity College, and sits near the site of the 1775Battle of Bunker Hill in theAmerican Revolutionary War. Bunker Hill Community College isaccredited by theNew England Commission of Higher Education.[8]
Since 1987, a second campus has provided higher education and job training to residents ofChelsea,Revere,Everett,East Boston,Winthrop and other surrounding communities.[9] This campus moved several times until settling in 1998 into a formerpost office inBellingham Square. The two-story 1910 brick structure had been vacant for a decade before being donated to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[10]
In Boston'sSouth End, BHCC worked withInquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), a community-based organization, to establish the Pathway Technology Campus (PTC) in Villa Victoria, a predominantly-Latino affordable-housing community. PTC helps residents of the South End andLower Roxbury earn aGED certificate, takeadult education (ESL, Basic English and Math) classes, and to enroll in community college-level classes.[11]
Since 2007, BHCC has operated an East Boston Satellite campus at the Education and Training Institute of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center. It offers introductory and allied health courses in the evening during the fall, spring and summer terms.[12]
Established in fall 2009, the Malden Satellite is based atMalden High School inMalden, Massachusetts, and offers introductory and college-level courses in the evening during the fall and spring semesters.[13]
The college was featured in the 1997 movieGood Will Hunting, as the location where Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) teaches.
On July 1, 2013, Pam Y. Eddinger became BHCC's seventh president, replacing Mary L. Fifield, who retired after 16 years.[14]
After graduating in 2006, [Tamerlan] enrolled at Bunker Hill Community College to study accounting, but attended for just three semesters before dropping out.
