Every community college president enjoys earning bragging rights when his or her faculty or staff are rewarded with accolades for their good work in classrooms and service areas across the college. So . . . today is my turn to brag! The Community College of Baltimore County received the 2022 Bellwether Award in Instructional Programs and Services at the 28th…
Continue readingOnce again, CCBC was in the national spotlight as Nora O’Donnell of CBS Evening News was filmed learning how to double clutch a 16-wheeler commercial truck at CCBC’s TradePoint Atlantic Transportation Center. There is a national shortage of truck drivers and a limited number of places where individuals can be trained. CCBC is one of 140 publicly funded schools nationwide…
Continue readingI recently had the privilege of being David Pluviose’s guest on Diverse magazine’s “In the Margins” podcast titled “The risk that paid off.” Through a series of thoughtful questions, David gave me an opportunity to talk about the Community College of Baltimore County’s unique approach to operating and succeeding in spite of COVID-19. In our conversation, David and I ran…
Continue readingCCBC is a college that strives to live its commitment to diversity by counting inclusion among its core institutional values. Over the past two years, ravaged by two distinctly different pandemics – one, a virus and the other, an awakening to social justice, it is more important than ever for us to sustain our commitment to celebrating our broad definition…
Continue readingJust when we began to think that we might finally be able to focus on the everyday cares of the college, the Omicron spike came crashing through the holiday, reminding us of how important it is to manage and control the impact of this demonic bug. A recent headline for a Baltimore Sun article shared an appropriate bit of conventional…
Continue readingAs another challenging year draws to a close, I invite you to join me in looking back with pride at all that we achieved this year in spite of still laboring under the darkness of the pandemic. Because of the strength of our collective community spirit, we can look forward with hope and confidence to a new round of successes…
Continue readingI write to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving. The pandemic remains a factor in our lives, but far less than last year when many of our Thanksgiving dinners were enjoyed with family members via zoom, rather than in person. Now that we are more in hybrid mode and slowly feeling our way back into sociability, I encourage each of…
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