BHCC Magazine - Spring-Summer 2019

Features

8 The Interview: President Eddinger Interviews Karen A. Stout, Ed.D.,of Achieving the Dream
President Eddinger and Achieving the Dream President and CEO Karen A. Stout explore the challenges before us in community college education. 
14 Celebrating the Class of 2019
MA Commissioner of Higher Education addresses 2019 graduates at 45th Commencement exercises.
16 Wick Sloane’s Legacy
More than just peanut butter sandwiches, Sloane fought for food insecurity and homelessness for BHCC students and beyond.
18 Valuing our Cultural Wealth
BHCC engages College community in equity work.

Featured Stories

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The Interview: President Eddinger Interviews Karen A. Stout, Ed.D., of Achieving the Dream

President Eddinger and Achieving the Dream President and CEO Karen A. Stout explore the challenges before us in community college education.
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Celebrating the Class of 2019

MA Commissioner of Higher Education addresses 2019 graduates at 45th Commencement exercises.
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Wick Sloane’s Legacy

More than just peanut butter sandwiches, Sloane fought for food insecurity and homelessness for BHCC students and beyond.
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Valuing our Cultural Wealth

BHCC engages College community in equity work.

Web Extras

Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth 2019 Institute

Rhina Espailla, Poet and BHCC 2019-2020 Artist in Residence, opens with a poetry reading. Shaun Harper, Ph.D., nationally recognized scholar on race and equity and founder and executive director of the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center, delivers keynote address at BHCC’s 2nd Annual CECW Institute.

In Conversation with Seng Ty

Author and Educator Seng Ty on coming of age under the Khmer Rouge regime.

The Cost of Non-Completion: Improving Student Outcomes in Higher Education

President Eddinger testifies on degree completion at the House Committee on Education and Labor’s subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development.

How Middle Class Families are Faring in Today’s Economy

President Eddinger testifies at the House Committee on Education and Labor’s subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures hearing on how middle class families are faring in today’s economy.

BHCC Celebrates Mass STEM Week

Workshops and events highlight new Engineering and Innovation Labs on campus, introduce students to 3-D printing and scientific literature and more.

Program Spotlight: Electric Power Utility Technology (EPUT)

Partnership program with Eversource Energy combines real-world job experience with traditional classroom work to launch your career gas and electric industry.

2019 Ceremony Highlights

View photos, videos, programs, news and more from 2019 graduation ceremonies.

Arts & Culture

Wade Davis

Tackling Equality with Former NFL Player Wade Davis

A thought leader and public speaker on gender, race and orientation equality, Davis is the NFL’s first LGBT inclusion consultant.
Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay reads from her book “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body”

Named “America’s brightest new essayist” by The Guardian, Gay is the author of New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist and Difficult Women. She recently became the first black woman to write for Marvel, penning a comic series in the Black Panther universe called World of Wakanda.
Black History Month

Honoring Our Shared History: Black History Month

BHCC celebrated Black History Month with a series of events centered around the theme, “Honoring our Shared History.”
Susan Thompson

Susan Thompson: Call of the Ancestors

An exhibit of richly textured fiber art quilts by local artist and educator Susan Thompson, and a performance by Core Ensemble of Of Ebony Embers: Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance, celebrating the lives of great African American writers, painters and poets.
Women History Month

Our Story is Our Strength: Women’s History Month

BHCC Celebrates Women’s History Month with a series of events
Yary Livan

Yary Livan: Reclaiming the Lost Tradition of Cambodian Ceramics

These richly ornamented and masterful works are by one of only a few traditional ceramicists to survive the Khmer Rouge. His personal story is one of overcoming hardship and keeping art, community and culture alive.

Robin Chandler

Distinguished Artist Scholar in Residence Program: Robin Chandler

As a social scientist and artist who works primarily in collage and multimedia, Chandler uses art to inspire, stimulate and promote thinking concerning unity and peace-building from the local to the global.
Poetry’s Diverse Voices

Poetry’s Diverse Voices

Bunker Hill Community College Celebrates “National Poetry Month”

Seng Ty

Seng Ty on “The Years of Zero”

Author and educator at Lowell Public Schools Seng Ty visited the Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) campus on Thursday, April 25, 2019, to share with the College community The Years of Zero, his personal account of the Cambodian genocide and the cruelty he endured under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s.

Upcoming Speakers

Upcoming 2019-2020 Speakers

As a means of ensuring that diverse perspectives are heard and affirmed on campus, Bunker Hill Community College hosts nationally recognized thought leaders to engage and inspire students, faculty, staff and the community.

Past Issues

Spring 2015

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

BHCC Magazine Fall 2014 cover

Fall 2014

By BHCC Magazine

Fall 2015 Magazine Cover

Fall 2015

By BHCC Magazine