Bergen Community College is dedicated to civic engagement, part of which is working to improve the quality of life for the entire community by ensuring healthy, happy families. More than 70 percent of our students reported in a recent survey that they had family care responsibilities, while in Bergen County state-funded family planning assisted more than 9,000 families last year.More than 50 percent of Bergen Community College students are women. The college has a large, well-staffed Wellness Center on campus because we believe that the physical and mental health of our students is important if they are to succeed academically.
The issue is state assistance for families and ensuring that all our families have healthy futures. Our state legislators must continue the fight to restore funding for family planning and reproductive medical centers.
Bergen Community College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Bergen County, New Jersey. Its primary campus is in Paramus where it was built on 9 holes of the Orchard Hills Golf Course, cutting Orchard Hills' size down in half. The school was founded in 1965.
As of 2009, more than 17,000 students are enrolled in Associate's degree programs, and another 10,000 students in non-credit, professional development courses through the Division of Continuing Education. The Philip J. Ciarco Learning Center in Hackensack, offers adult basic skills, English as a Second Language, non-credit, and credit courses.
Bergen Community College has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1972, and was most recently reaccredited in 2006. Individual programs are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs; the National League for Nursing; the American Dental Association; the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology; The National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Services; and the American Physical Therapy Association. The Paralegal Studies Program and the Legal Nurse Consultant Program are approved by the American Bar Association.
Dr. G. Jeremiah Ryan is The president of Bergen Community College.
