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BCC Pinning Ceremony Recognizes Nursing Graduates| 04:38PM / Wednesday, July 01, 2020 | |
BCC, like many other schools, has been forced to be creative in recognizing its graduates during the pandemic. The graduates have often put their own spin on the unusual ceremonies. See more photos here. PITTSFIELD, Mass. —Twenty-seven graduates of the practical nurse certificate program at Berkshire Community College and 57 associate degree in nursing graduates were recognized on Tuesday night for a combination drive-through and remote ceremony in order to observe social distancing protocols because to COVID-19. Ann Tierney, a nursing adviser, retired nurse practitioner and professor of nursing, addressed the practical nursing students while Lynn Geldert, 1 Comment
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North Adams School Committee Votes to Keep Adjustment CounselorBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:10AM / Wednesday, July 01, 2020 | |
The School Committee reviews a level-funded budget to send to City Council on Tuesday. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Committee voted to take an extra $55,000 out of school choice funds to ensure that a school adjustment counselor would be available to the E3 and North Berkshire academies. The additional funds were approved Tuesday evening during which the committee OK'd a level-funded budget of $17,769,075 on a vote of 5-2 with members Tara Jacobs and Ian Bergeron voting against because of concerns that the budget did not address what they felt were deficiencies in the arts and special education. The vote to use more school choice funds was 0 Comments
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BCC Announces Spring Semester Dean’s List| 10:10AM / Tuesday, June 30, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has announced its spring 2020 dean's list. To be eligible for the list, full-time students must have declared a major; completed a minimum of 12 non-repeated, traditionally graded credit hours during the spring semester; and achieved a 3.250 to 3.749 grade point average for honors, or a 3.750 to 4.000 grade point average for high honors. Part-time students are eligible for the list if they meet the same requirements, except that their credit hours may have been completed during the fall and spring semesters of one academic year. Connecticut Kaitlynn Huften, Emily Deming Sylwia Danowski Bailey Derr Olivia 0 Comments
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Berkshire County Arc Announces Scholarship Winners| 10:03AM / Tuesday, June 30, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire County Arc has announced its 2020 scholarship recipients for high school seniors pursuing undergraduate education in the field of human services. Pittsfield High School graduate to attend Roger Williams University with a major in elementary education/special education. Taconic High School graduate to attend MCLA and major in social work. Wahconah Regional High School graduate to attend Fitchburg State College to major in criminal justice. Wahconah Regional High School graduate to attend University of New Hampshire's College of Health & Human Services. Wahconah Regional High School graduate to attend Westfield State University to
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Williams College Announces Plan for Return of ClassesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
10:21AM / Monday, June 29, 2020 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College on Monday morning announced that students will be welcomed back to campus beginning in August for a semester of " 'hybrid' courses that blend in-person and remote instruction." In a 3,400-hundred word letter to the college community, President Maud S. Mandel explained that the college's faculty and administration have designed a return from the spring's campus closure that aligns with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Students will be allowed to choose to take the year off with no penalty, and the college has lowered the number of 0 Comments
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North Adams Moving Forward on Level-Funded BudgetBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
01:26AM / Friday, June 26, 2020 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The School Committee was prepared for a number of bad financial scenarios, with the worst case the closure of an elementary school. This week, the news isn't quite so awful with the state committed to level-funding aid through at least the first two months of fiscal 2021. But the district isn't out of the woods yet, Superintendent Barbara Malkas told the committee on Tuesday. "So, because level fund is not necessarily level service, what we'll be presenting now, just like in the previous budget scenarios, is what does that mean with regards to our budget as we are planning for an operational budget based on level funding 0 Comments
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Doctors Back Up State's Guidance for School ReopeningBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:30PM / Thursday, June 25, 2020 | |
Dr. Lloyd Fisher, a pediatrician, discusses the reasoning behind some of the health measures recommended for reopening schools this fall. BOSTON, Mass. — All over the world, temporal thermometers are part of the strategy for reopening economies from the COVID-19 pandemic. But they will not do much good when it comes to reopening schoolhouse doors, Gov. Charlie Baker said on Thursday. The commonwealth came very close to requiring daily temperature checks for students returning to school in the fall, but ultimately decided against the move because those checks would not yield any useful information, he said. "With kids, there are way too many false 2 Comments
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State Issues Guidance for Return of School in the FallBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:12PM / Thursday, June 25, 2020 | |
 BOSTON — The state is recommending schools maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet and require masks for staff and children in Grade 2 and above. And districts are required to create plans to start the school year in three different scenarios: in-person learning, remote learning and a hybrid model that could see students alternating in-person instruction on a daily or weekly basis. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on Thursday released its first round of reopening guidance for the commonwealth's primary and secondary schools. "Continued isolation poses very real risks to our kids mental and physical health, and to their 2 Comments
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State Guidance on Start of School Year Expected ThursdayBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:38PM / Wednesday, June 24, 2020 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — School officials across the commonwealth are anticipating a Thursday announcement of state directives regarding the 2020-21 school year. But they have been disappointed before. "We were hopeful we would have the [education] commissioner's guidance," Mount Greylock Superintendent Kimberley Grady told the School Committee's Education Subcommittee on Tuesday. "We were supposed to have it the week of the 15th, now we're in the week of the 22nd. We were hoping it would be released this morning. We received notice five minutes before the governor went on [Tuesday morning] that we weren't going to be receiving an update until 0 Comments
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BCC Hires New Staff in Human Resources, Enrollment Services| 09:04AM / Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has brought on a new staff personnel in human resources and in the Enrollment Services department. T.J. Karis has joined the Enrollment Services team as an admissions counselor. Karis recently graduated with honors from MCLA, majoring in philosophy and English literature plus a strong minor in Spanish. He also earned an associate degree in liberal arts and sciences with a concentration in world languages from Middlesex Community College. Most recently, he worked in Access Services at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt. A lover of languages and linguistics, he is fluent in Spanish, proficient in Italian and
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