Bunker Hill Community College Profile

Background

Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) is an open-access, multi-campus, urban institution located in the Boston metropolitan area. BHCC serves more than 8,800 students representing a diversity of racial and ethnic backgrounds. More than 60 percent are students of color, and international students hail from more than 90 countries. Additionally, 45 percent of students are the first in their family to attend college.

BHCC is committed to providing opportunities for students to achieve their professional and personal goals. The College offers associate degrees and certificates in a broad array of programs, including arts and sciences, health professions, and career and technical fields. The College offers developmental studies, ESL instruction, distance learning, self-directed learning, an honors program and learning communities. The courses and programs are designed to prepare students for the workforce or to transfer to baccalaureate institutions.

Achieving the Dream Goals

BHCC’s goal is to effectively use data to create institutional change that will close achievement gaps and enhance student success rates. BHCC aims to use data to implement strategies that will help students persist, succeed, and graduate. During the first year of the initiative, the college intends to:

• Review institutional data to identify achievement gaps
• Initiate a college-wide review and discussion of student achievement data
• Identify strategies for closing achievement gaps
• Prepare a 4-year plan for implementation of those strategies.
• Join with other community colleges in Massachusetts to impact state-level policies and practices related to community colleges

The implementation of new strategies would help promote institutional change necessary to enhance student learning and success. BHCC is well positioned for this challenge to create systematic institutional transformation in an effort to help all students reach their goals.