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Bergen Community College is a
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in
Bergen County, New Jersey Bergen County is the List of counties in New Jersey, most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Paramus Paramus ( Waggoner, Walter H, ''The New York Times'', February 16, 1966. Accessed October 16, 2018. "Paramus – pronounced puh-RAHM-us, with the accent on the second syllable – may have taken its name from 'perremus' or 'perymus,' Indian for ...
, Hackensack, and Lyndhurst and 13,352 students enrolled in degree programs, as well as approximately 5,800 in continuing and adult education programs. Federal data rank Bergen graduates first in earning the highest salaries among their peers from the state's 19 two-year institutions, and even out-earning peers from some four-year colleges. Bergen has graduated more than half a million students with associate degrees and certificates since its founding in 1968. Bergen Community College is accredited by the
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. Individual programs are accredited by the
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, the
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, the
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, the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, The National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Services, and the
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. The Paralegal Studies program and the Legal Nurse Consultant program are approved by the
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Paramus campus

The college's Paramus main campus includes the Technology Education Center (opened 2003), the Health Professions Integrated Teaching Center (opened 2016) and the STEM Student Research Center (opened 2019).


Athletics

BCC is a member of the
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in Region XIX (New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania) and of the
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. The college participates in the following intercollegiate sports: *Fall: men's cross country; women's cross country; men's soccer; women's soccer; volleyball *Winter: men's basketball; women's basketball; wrestling *Spring: baseball; softball; men's track and field; women's track and field


Free speech controversy

In 2014, after Francis Schmidt, a tenured professor, filed a grievance over denial of sabbatical leave, the college suspended him for eight days and required him to consult a psychiatrist before returning to campus, claiming that a photo he posted to social media of his seven-year-old-daughter wearing a
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could be construed as a threat of violence against college officials. The college faculty cited the incident as a factor in a vote of "no confidence" in college president Kaye Walter. The suspension was rescinded, with Schmidt receiving back pay for the suspension period, and a college spokesman acknowledged to Schmidt that "By sanctioning you as it did, BCC may have unintentionally erred and potentially violated your constitutional rights, including under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution". The Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression conferred one of its annual
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for "the past year's most outrageous and ridiculous affronts to free speech and press" on the college administration, declaring that it had "demonstrat dits collective cluelessness on two distinct levels".


Notable alumni

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since December 2004, where he represents the 32nd Legislative District and served as the 170th Speaker of the Assembly from 2014 to 2018. * Kyle Scatliffe (born 1986), stage actor best known for playing
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'', March 9, 2014, backed up by the
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as of September 18, 2016. "After high school, he attended Bergen Community College in Paramus, and then spent two years at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, studying acting and refining his vocal gift, including receiving training in opera."


References


External links


Official website
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