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Math Tutors Are Now Located in the Center for Tutoring and Academic Support (CTAS)!

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Queensborough Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

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Put Your Future in Motion

Interested in helping others improve their health and quality of life through physical activity?

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Congratulations!

The summer winners of the Queensborough Community CARES Award are Michelle Gluck and Emiko Sanchez

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Join the President’s Book Club and Be Inspired!

The President’s Book Club provides a wonderful opportunity for students, faculty and staff to engage in a shared reading experience.

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Applying to QCC is easy!

The Office of Admissions is now offering On-the-Spot Admissions for the Spring 2024 semester!

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News

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ALUMNI

Queensborough Graduate wins 2023 Belle Zeller Scholarship “I don’t think I will ever have the same experience again that I had at QCC,” said Queens resident Kabir, who expressed surprise and delight to be named a 2023 Belle Zeller Scholar, named after Belle Zeller, Professor Emerita of political science and a scholar of the legislative process; she was a leader of organizations representing City University of New York faculty and staff for more than thirty years.

NEWS

Queensborough Community College’s (QCC) Fund Board Appoints Two Alumni as New Chair and Vice-Chair

New Executive Committee Plans to Focus on the Student Experience, With Emphasis on Unique Programs to Support Retention and Graduation.

FACULTY

Queensborough Author David Rothman’s New Novel Tempers Real-Life Horrors with a Dose of Imagination and a Teaspoon of Magic A legendary witch doctor, a journey to the Balkans and a search for a magic Covid cure are at the center of a new novel, Leyla Dorche and the Coney Island Cure.

NEWS

National Science Foundation – Hispanic Serving Institution (NSF-HSI) Awards a Million Dollar Collaborative Grant to Develop a Wastewater Based Epidemiology Student Training and Education Program At CUNY This major grant will create inroads to a more equitable playing field for students who want to pursue research in emerging technology that can warn of future pandemics.

Queensborough graduate Charles Hedlund,’23

STUDENT

A 360 Degree Turn Around for This Queensborough Alum

Queensborough graduate Charles Hedlund,’23, is about to start the fall semester at Columbia University’s School of General Studies where he will major in Film and Media Studies. “Three years ago, I would never have believed this was possible,” said Hedlund, now 24.

NEWS

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony At Queensborough’s Male Resource Center Launched Initiative To Bridge Equity Gaps For Self-Identified Black And Latino Male Students

The QMRC, made possible by a $450,000 grant from Robin Hood, is a landmark achievement for Queensborough, geared toward creating positive, lifechanging differences for male students, with a particular focus on self-identified Black and Latino males who experience lower retention and graduation rates at colleges and universities across the country.

NEWS

Grammar And Middle School Students Enrolled in The QCC Kids and Teens Summer Academy at a Special Q&A with President Christine Mangino, President of Queensborough Community College

The QCC Kids and Teens Summer Academy is a newly designed program being offered through the College’s Continuing Education Office.

STUDENT

Newly Elected President of Student Government Association Has Her Finger on the Pulse

Davia Willis knows how it is. The long commute, emigrating from another country, navigating the college admissions process, applying for financial aid and feeling alone in a new place with no friends. And what she doesn’t have firsthand experience with, she empathizes with, such as students who must juggle their studies while working long hours and caring for their family. Also, Willis, like many of her fellow classmates, is the first in her family to attend college.

$7,500 donation to the food pantry from Stop and Shop

NEWS

Stop & Shop Funds Queensborough Community College In-School Food Pantry to Meet Needs of Food Insecure Queensborough Students, Families

Queensborough Community College and Stop & Shop held a check donation ceremony that will fund the school’s ‘Lucille A. Bova Food Pantry’ for the upcoming school year. The pantry, which will serve over 2,200 Queensborough Community College students and their families, is being supported by a $7,500 donation from Stop & Shop that will enable the College to purchase the specific food items and other essential products that the students and their families need.

NEWS

Queensborough Selected For Heckscher Foundation Workforce Development Grant Queensborough Community College is among 20 organizations in New York State and one of two City University of New York (CUNY) colleges to receive a part of a $7.6 Million grant from the Heckscher Foundation for Children to support workforce development.

STUDENT

Blackstone Is Launchpad For Queensborough Student To Take Her Business Idea And Run With It

Nineteen-year-old Sharon Whinston, a Digital Art & Design student at Queensborough Community College will transfer to the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) on a $20,000 Gund Family Scholarship in recognition of her outstanding art portfolio and superlative academic performance.

STUDENT

A Busy May for Queensborough Students and Graduates Who Presented Their Research at the NY URS and Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the ACS

Seven Students represented Queensborough at the NY American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Undergraduate Research Symposium on May 6^th at La Guardia Community College and recently seven others represented Queensborough at the CUNY-Wide Undergraduate Research celebration at BMCC.

STUDENT

Bevilacqua Scholarship Award

“Through his legacy, I recognize the best in me.” Peter Hoffmann, recipient of The John P. Bevilacqua Athletic Scholarship Award - presented to an outstanding Queensborough student-athlete who is a candidate for graduation.

NEWS

Queensborough's First Sankofa Celebration

Sankofa is an African word from the Akan tribe in Ghana, which honors the cultural tradition of never forgetting what is behind you as you move forward. Dr. Kerri-Ann Smith, Faculty Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity and representative on the QCC Incubator, said the ceremony's goal was to honor that tradition, which is a part of the Black experience.