Facilities for learning
BCC offers students access to some of the most modern equipment and resources available to support and enrich their education. The College has campuses in Fall River and New Bedford and learning center in Attleboro. It also uses local facilities as satellite locations.
In addition to the Fall River Campus, BCC also offers services at the following locations:
New Bedford Campus
This campus offers a comprehensive collection of day, evening, and weekend classes and services to support student success. The space in the former Star Store offers six classrooms, a multidisciplinary computer lab, a science lab, a library learning commons and a campus center conveniently located near public transportation and public parking in downtown New Bedford. In addition, the Campus has two nearby sites, the Eddy Building and the Annex, which provide an additional five classrooms and office space. Free tutoring and academic/career/transfer counseling are available to students.BCC at Attleboro
This new BCC site, scheduled to open in Fall 2008, offers day and evening classes. Located in downtown Attleboro, the newly renovated campus is handicap accessible, with ample and convenient parking space. All classrooms are SMART classrooms, including the biology, chemistry, and health labs. Along with a Center for Business and Industry, other campus components include a library, auditorium, cafeteria, bookstore, faculty offices, conference room, and combined tutoring center and writing lab. Students receive full academic support services, including academic, career, and personal counseling with small classes and personal attention.Satellites
Evening classes are held in centers at Taunton High School and Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School.
The Fall River Campus includes these nine buildings:
The Margaret L. Jackson Arts Center
Find a professionally-equipped, 700-seat theater, with dressing rooms, scene shop, and costume and makeup rooms, plus art studios, graphic design computer lab, and exhibit space. The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery has been added to the Jackson Arts Center for community and student use. In the College’s television studio and post-production facility, students in the College’s Communication program use the professional three-camera studio, digital portable cameras, and digital editing workstations. The facility is also headquarters for Fall River Community Television, Fall River’s public access television station, where local residents learn the intricacies of television production. Free wireless internet is available.The Commonwealth College Center
The Lash Enrollment Services is here including Admissions, Advisement, Counseling, Financial Aid, Health Services, Placement Testing, Registration, Records, and Student Life. Student offices, the BCC Bookstore, Fitness Center, cafeteria and lounge and bill payments in the Student Accounts office are also here. Free wireless access is available from your laptop. Get information at the Rogers Welcome Center.The Siegel Health Technologies Building
Health Sciences programs are based here, with the BCC Child Care Center, Nursing lab, Occupational Therapy Assisting lab, Dental Hygiene clinic, and College snack bar.The Robert F. Stoico/FIRSTFED Business Technologies Building
Free wireless access is here for your use. Find a 60-station open computer lab for student use and a computer help desk for any computer-related problem. Six network computer labs for business, office administration, and computer information systems, including a full multimedia learning lab, are here. The BCC Writing Lab, a center staffed by faculty and peer tutors who provide students help with writing assignments in any program of study, is based here.The Eileen T. Farley Learning Resources Center
The library provides access to more than a million print and non-print materials, and access to online databases and electronic resources. The new Rogers Cyber Café, scheduled to open in Fall 2008, is a warm, comfortable lounge with free wireless access and snacks available for purchase.The Engineering Building
Access computer integrated manufacturing, soil, hydraulics, and pneumatics labs, computer-aided design (CAD) stations, a robotics lab, and classrooms, as well as academic support programs in the Center for Developmental Education including the Tutoring and Academic Support Center (TASC) and Disability Services (ODS).The Hudnall Administration Building
Administrative offices, including the BCC Foundation, Campus Security, and classrooms are found here.The Science Building
Physics, chemistry and biology labs, a greenhouse, planetarium, aquaculture lab, and classrooms, as well as a Macintosh computer laboratory, are available to students.The Mathematics and Science Building
This building offers dedicated science labs, a multidisciplinary computer lab, environmental technology learning center, community services, and an interactive lecture hall.