BMCC President Dr. Anthony E. Munroe, left, indicators settlement with Prof. Colin Gyles, CD, UCC president, flanked by officers
Photograph by Michael Sloley
The Jamaican-American President of the Borough of Manhattan Neighborhood School (BMCC) Dr. Anthony E. Munroe says {that a} shared curiosity settlement with the College of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) in Jamaica would create “a platform for information change, cultural enrichment, and tutorial development and growth.”
“Our collaboration is a testomony to our shared sense of function in offering college students, college, and our communities at massive with the instruments wanted to achieve an more and more interconnected world,” Dr. Munroe, who was born and raised within the Bronx to Jamaican parentage, informed Caribbean Life.
“We’re grateful to the Consulate Basic of Jamaica in New York for connecting our establishments and look ahead optimistically to the street forward,” he added.
BMCC stated the signing occurred throughout the 10th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Convention in Montego Bay, Jamaica, amid ongoing talks between the Consulate Basic of Jamaica in New York and BMCC concerning “leveraging their sources to work collectively domestically and overseas for the betterment and within the curiosity of each communities.”
BMCC stated it and UCC “endeavor to ascertain pathways for collaboration in analysis, scholar exchanges, and college growth, finally enhancing the academic expertise for all concerned.
“The partnership supplies a myriad of alternatives for the esteemed establishments of upper training to study from one another, to construct bridges, and to create a extra inclusive and globally minded neighborhood,” it stated.
Prof. Colin Gyles, CD, UCC president, stated his college is “excited to embark on this collaborative journey with the Borough of Manhattan Neighborhood School.
“This partnership marks a major step in fostering tutorial excellence and mutual understanding between our establishments, and we look ahead to exploring and growing applications that may profit our college students and college,” he added.
Jamaica New York Consul Basic Alsion Wilson stated she was “delighted to witness the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding between Borough of Manhattan Neighborhood School and the College of the Commonwealth Caribbean on the tenth Biennial Diaspora Convention.
“This MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) is each well timed and important, marking a brand new chapter in our ongoing dedication to fostering better collaboration,” she stated. “This settlement represents one other constructive end result of the partnership between the Consulate Basic of Jamaica in New York and BMCC, aimed toward reaching mutually useful outcomes for our communities in each areas.”
BMCC, a part of The Metropolis College of New York (CUNY), stated it enrolls 26,000 degree-seeking and 11,000 persevering with training college students a yr, awarding affiliate levels in additional than 50 fields. It’s the largest CUNY neighborhood faculty.
In 2024, BMCC stated it was named essentially the most inexpensive neighborhood faculty in New York by GoBankingRates.
BMCC additionally ranks #5 amongst neighborhood faculties nationwide in granting affiliate levels to minority college students, in response to knowledge from the US Division of Schooling.
UCC, registered as a College School by the College Council of Jamaica, stated it’s Jamaica’s largest, fastest-growing, non-affiliated non-public establishment of upper training, and is now one among six greater training entities with the accolade of institutional accreditation from the College Council of Jamaica.
UCC can be institutionally accredited internationally by the United Kingdom-based Accreditation Service for Worldwide Faculties and Universities, and is registered by the Jamaica Tertiary Schooling Fee, JTEC, the official GOJ regulatory physique, as a Educating College.
Now in its twentieth yr, UCC was fashioned in 2004 on account of a merger in 2002 of the Institute of Administration Sciences (IMS), and the Institute of Administration and Manufacturing (IMP). Headquartered in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, the college faculty has 5 bodily campuses and UCC On-line.
The establishment at present has about 7,000 college students, domestically & through UCC World, and a few 400 college and employees members, together with part-time and full-time tutorial employees.
Since assuming management in September 2020, BMCC stated President Munroe has “galvanized college-wide initiatives to construct fairness and inclusion, improve retention and commencement charges, help college students’ fundamental wants and improve their tutorial and profession alternatives.”
Dr. Munroe, BMCC’s eleventh president, is the president of Essex County School in New Jersey.
BMCC stated he brings to the school three a long time of expertise as each an educator and a nationally acknowledged govt, and chief of city healthcare and well being training establishments. Dr. Munroe succeeds Interim President Karrin E. Wilks.
Earlier this yr, Dr. Munroe acquired Caribbean Life’s Influence Award at a gala ceremony in Queens.
