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Community

BC3 gathering aims to help those in recovery, treatment during holidays

December 18, 2024

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Academics

65 BC3 R.N. students to showcase research

December 4, 2024

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Community

BC3 distributes record 78 Thanksgiving meal packages

November 22, 2024

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Academics

“There is such an appreciation of art here”

November 11, 2024

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Community

BC3 @ Cranberry art club salutes military veterans

November 8, 2024

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Academics

“You can feel the energy at Shenango Commons”

October 16, 2024

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Leadership

BC3 picks 2 grads for “incredibly special honor”

October 3, 2024

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Community

“It can’t be cancer. I am too young”

September 27, 2024

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Academics

“Once I visited BC3 @ Brockway, I thought, ‘This is my school’”

September 24, 2024

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Community

Community helps BC3 to raise $10K-plus to support BC3 athletics

September 18, 2024

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Community

Descent into addiction, ascent to sobriety

September 17, 2024

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Events

5K race to lead off BC3’s Pioneer Pursuit on Saturday

September 11, 2024

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Community

Draft notice: Ale sales to support BC3 underway

September 6, 2024

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Community

BC3 academy formed to counter shortage nets first 8 EMTs

August 20, 2024

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Community

Bikers roar onto BC3’s main campus to mark scholarship

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Community

Instrumental scholarships

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Community

Notable Army band to perform concert, jazz and rock music at BC3

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Academics

Record 15 Riv-Ell students pitch business plans

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Academics

Riv-Ell ideas: Food trucks, mobile florists, special-service funeral homes

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Community

5 openings remain for first free BC3 EMS Academy

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Academics

Public events showcase BC3 students’ academics, artistry

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Community

Free BC3 events to assist, entertain and advise

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Students

BC3 students to serve community in projects funded by $20K grant

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Community

BC3 open house to showcase on-campus preschool

February 28, 2024

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Academics

Luncheon to support BC3’s free Adult Literacy program

February 1, 2024

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Leadership

BC3 names Center for Economic Education after longtime director

December 11, 2023

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Academics

BC3 R.N. students showcase research

December 4, 2023

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Community

BC3 to provide 57-plus with Thanksgiving meal packages

November 20, 2023

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Academics

Former BC3 ESL student enters 2nd of college’s honor societies

November 15, 2023

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Community

Women receive record 5 scholarships designated for BC3 student-veterans

November 8, 2023

Jozee Weaver, center, a freshman middle hitter on the Butler County Community College volleyball team, reaches for a shot against Greenleigh Gleason, left, and Leah Pimentel, of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, during the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Mid-Atlantic District final Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in BC3’s Field House. Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, Hudson, N.C., defeated the Pioneers in five sets.

Students

BC3 volleyball team falls in 5-set national district final

October 31, 2023

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Community

BC3 selects Ohio novelist for 4th Northern Appalachia Reading Series event

October 24, 2023

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Community

Community enrichment classes debut at BC3 @ Armstrong

October 19, 2023

2023 distinguished alumni awards

Leadership

BC3’s 2023 distinguished alumni dedicated to suicide prevention, marginalized groups

October 12, 2023

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Academics

Guests to be “in awe” of BC3’s newest facility

September 11, 2023

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Community

BC3 outing draws record 128 golfers, raises $108K

August 10, 2023

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Community

$3M gift to BC3 largest in college history

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Academics

“Truly, truly amazing” BC3 @ Brockway turns 10

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Academics

Application deadline nears for record 155 BC3 scholarships

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Community

BC3 @ Armstrong ceremony “A day to remember Jeff”

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Community

Kids can pick from 48 summer enrichment camps at BC3

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Academics

Community grand opening showcases new BC3 @ Armstrong facility in Ford City

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Academics

BC3 @ Armstrong’s move to $6.5M Ford City facility days away

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Community

Symposium at BC3 on March 7 addressed addiction recovery

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Students

BC3’s Pioneer Players return to stage with love-themed monologues

February 8, 2023

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Community

‘Rusty’ musicians can tune up through BC3

January 26, 2023

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Community

Artist seeking Bob Ross certification will teach 5 BC3 noncredit painting courses

January 18, 2023

Leadership

BC3 employees assisted students, organizations in 2022

December 29, 2022

Leadership

BC3 experts engaged audiences in 2022

December 29, 2022

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Students

Riv-Ell Entrepreneurship program returns with most number of students

December 6, 2022

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Community

BC3 helps Butler High senior “chase dream”

November 17, 2022

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Leadership

BC3 honors legacy of late athletics director

November 15, 2022

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Community

$5K raised by BC3, community to provide free holiday meals

November 11, 2022

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Events

BC3 @ Lawrence Crossing’s advantages on display Nov. 15

November 8, 2022

Scott Smith, 53, of Sharpsville, expects to graduate debt-free from BC3 @ LindenPointe in summer 2023 with an associate degree in health care science. Smith, a paramedic for more than 30 years, is shown Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, at BC3 @ LindenPointe, where he also graduated debt-free with an associate degree in general studies in 2018. BC3 @ LindenPointe will hold an open house from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at 3182 Innovation Way, Hermitage.

Academics

BC3 @ LindenPointe showcases advantages at Nov. 9 open house

November 3, 2022

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Academics

BC3 @ Armstrong’s advantages showcased at open house on Nov. 1

October 27, 2022

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Events

Horror-thriller takes BC3 stage

October 24, 2022

Justin Bajema, 19, of Butler, right, expects to graduate debt-free from Butler County Community College in May with an associate degree in business administration. An open house on BC3’s main campus is scheduled 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at 107 College Drive, Butler Township. A nursing information session will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Bajema is shown Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, in a speech class on BC3’s main campus.

Academics

BC3’s advantages on display at open houses

October 20, 2022

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Community

BC3 @ Brockway showcases advantages at open house Oct. 18

October 13, 2022

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Community

BC3 hosts two free lectures by suicide prevention activist

October 12, 2022

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Students

BC3 students sell Project Pink raffle tickets, ribbons

October 7, 2022

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Community

BC3 Pioneer Pursuit raises $16K to benefit scholarships in memory of recent nursing grads

September 30, 2022

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Leadership

Mars mayor, former BC3 administrator honored as BC3 distinguished alumni

September 29, 2022

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Community

BC3 among first in PA to be designated as Hunger-Free Campus

September 27, 2022

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Students

No. 2 BC3 upholds highest ranking in volleyball program history

September 12, 2022

Drive through testing site for Covid-19 patients

Community

Primary Health Network’s free COVID-19 tests resume Sept. 9 on BC3 main campus

September 8, 2022

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Leadership

BC3 president receives inaugural leadership excellence award

September 2, 2022

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Students

BC3’s fall 2022 golf squad “definitely the strongest we have had”

September 1, 2022

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Leadership

Construction of state-of-the-art BC3 @ Armstrong progressing

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Community

Applications now open for record number of BC3 scholarships

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Community

BC3 Hope is Dope participants to help enhance city’s only skate park

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Academics

Free public events showcasing BC3 students’ work begin Monday

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Community

Registration opens for BC3’s selection of Kids on Campus camps

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Community

BC3 alum picked for April 20 Northern Appalachia Reading Series event

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Community

Partnership with ANR helped BC3’s Pioneer Pantry to feed 499 in 2021

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Community

Participants in BC3’s Hope Night on Thursday can get hands dirty

BC3 Lunch & Learn

Community

DEI topic of BC3 Lunch & Learn workshops on Wednesday, in April

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Leadership

BC3 educator selected to lead Growth Collaborative initiative

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Leadership

Construction of BC3 @ Armstrong in Ford City begins

February 21, 2022

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Academics

Enrollment in BC3’s Butler County ESL program at all-time high

February 11, 2022

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Leadership

Congressman views plans for new BC3 @ Armstrong

February 1, 2022

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Academics

On-site therapy could help nurse burnout during pandemic, BC3 registered nursing students say

December 22, 2021

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Leadership

Community helps BC3 to create, distribute 40 meals for Thanksgiving

November 19, 2021

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Community

BC3 plans 2 workshops, reading in free Northern Appalachia Reading Series

November 2, 2021

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Community

BC3 Lunch & Learns to focus on strategies for diversity, equity, inclusion

October 26, 2021

Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building groundbreaking

Leadership

BC3 breaks ground for ‘the Victor K.’

October 22, 2021

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Leadership

BC3 breaks ground for relocated BC3 @ Armstrong facility

September 27, 2021

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Community

Ascent of NFL focus of BC3 @ Lawrence Crossing noncredit course

September 23, 2021

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Community

BC3 Education Foundation golf outing raises record $115K

August 16, 2021

Drive through testing site for Covid-19 patients

Community

BC3 to serve as Butler County COVID-19 testing location for Primary Health Network

Butler County Community College student-veterans and the president of Butler American Legion Riders Post 117.

Community

Motorcyclists donate another $10K for BC3 student-veterans

Community

BC3 sets dates for free adult literacy classes

Butler County Community College employees hold a $20,000 check from NexTier Bank and are shown with winners of the college’s 2020-2021 Stock Market Games on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. NexTier Bank’s gift to the BC3 Education Foundation will benefit the college’s Stock Market Games and BC3’s College Within the High School and College Now programs. Shown holding the check are, from left, Erin Cioffi, assistant director of BC3’s high school programming; Lynn Ismail, interim assistant director of the BC3 Education Foundation and its financial manager; and David Huseman, director of BC3’s Center for Economic Education and a professor of humanities and social science. At far right is Cindy Morgan, Stock Market Game project coordinator for BC3’s Center for Economic Education.

Community

NexTier Bank’s gift to BC3 to aid programs for fourth-graders through seniors

Butler County Community College on July 7 will host a celebration of life event for Robert R. Heaton, a friend of the college and real estate developer who passed away in January at age 91.

Community

BC3 plans event celebrating life of Robert R. Heaton

First-, second- and third-place winners in Butler County Community College’s Stock Market Game in 2020-2021 are shown at the Western Region 2021 Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, on BC3’s main campus. Front row, far right, Cindy Morgan, Stock Market Game project coordinator for BC3’s Center for Economic Education; and David Huseman, director of BC3’s Center for Economic Education and a BC3 professor of humanities and social science.

Academics

BC3 lauds top youngsters in college’s Stock Market Game

Preschoolers are shown during the opening day of the Amy Wise Children’s Creative Learning Center on Butler County Community College’s main campus in Butler Township in this Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, file photo. Tours of the Amy Wise Children’s Creative Learning Center begin May 10 by appointment for fall registration.

Community

Tours of BC3 children’s center begin May 10 for fall registration

Ken Clowes, Community Initiatives Center assistant at Butler County Community College, is shown Monday, April 26, 2021, in BC3’s office in downtown Butler with a Hope is Dope painting created by participants who attended a college Hope Night in May 2019. BC3 has announced five upcoming Hope Nights through September in downtown Butler.

Community

BC3 announces five upcoming Hope Nights

Olivia Brown, 30, a Greenville resident and graduate of BC3 @ LindenPointe, has become the youngest executive
director of the Shenango Valley Chamber of Commerce in at least 30 years. She is shown Friday, April 23, 2021, at
BC3 @ LindenPointe, Butler County Community College’s additional location in Hermitage.

Students

BC3 @ LindenPointe grad youngest to lead chamber in three decades

Robert Olszewski, 47, a student technical specialist at Butler County Community College, is shown Friday, March 19, 2021, with a portion of the 82 canes, crutches, walkers and wheelchairs he collected over the course of a year and stored in his storage facility in Butler. The mobility aids will be refurbished by inmates in Washington state and ultimately benefit Third World residents longing for personal mobility. Olszewski is also a 1996 BC3 graduate

Leadership

Disabled BC3 grad, employee collects 82 mobility aids for impoverished abroad

Tricia Pritchard, left, and Ivory Dunlap, faculty members at Butler County Community College, will discuss diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace during Lunch & Learn Series presentations in May and June in downtown Butler. The Lunch & Learns are held through BC3’sWorkforce Development division and in partnership with the Butler County Chamber of Commerce.

Community

BC3’s upcoming Lunch & Learns to focus on diversity, equity, inclusion

Children watch pennies float atop a Lego boat in this July 2019 file photo of a Kids on Campus Lego Science camp as part of Butler County Community College’s summer enrichment program.

Community

17 camps new in BC3’s 2021 Kids on Campus

Academics

BC3 to award 11 new scholarships

Alyssa Mainhart, 31, of Butler, is shown Monday, March 15, 2021, on Butler County Community College’s main
campus in Butler Township. Mainhart is pursuing an associate degree in social work and a 33-credit addiction
recovery certificate at BC3, and has received $7,500 in scholarships for an essay she wrote through the Soroptimist
International of the Americas’ “Live Your Dream” program.

Students

BC3 single mom could receive $17K in Soroptimist scholarships

Mackenzie Dean, of Dayton, a student in Butler County Community College’s Nursing, R.N., program, administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Patricia Nunamaker, 89, of Cabot, at Butler Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 clinic Feb. 23. More than 80 BC3 registered nursing students from four counties are gaining once-in-a-lifetime experience by serving the community as volunteers at the clinic that inoculates up to 1,200 visitors a day.

Community

BC3 nursing students gain “once-in-a-lifetime” experience serving community during pandemic

Dale Perelman is shown Feb. 6, 2021, at his home in New Castle. Perelman is the author of nine books, including “Road to Rust: The Disintegration of the Steel Industry in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio” and “Steel: The Story of Pittsburgh’s Iron & Steel Industry: 1852-1902.” He will instruct The Birth and Death of Steel in Western Pennsylvania, one of 47 noncredit courses this spring on Butler County Community College’s menu of Lifelong Learning classes in Lawrence and Mercer counties.

Community

BC3 course examines rise, fall of steel industry

February 11, 2021

Butler County Community College student Maissa Ishler, 19, of Butler, prepares donated food for distribution at the BC3 Pioneer Pantry on Feb. 4, 2021. Ishler, a BC3 business administration student, manages semimonthly distributions as a BC3 work-study student. BC3’s initiative to confront food insecurity marks its second anniversary this month.

Leadership

BC3 effort to assist food-insecure students turns 2

February 10, 2021

David DeMarco is shown Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, near his home in New Brighton, Beaver County. DeMarco, a former
consultant to six-time Grammy Award winner Israel Houghton, will instruct The Creative Incubator, one of 47 new
courses this spring on Butler County Community College’s menu of Lifelong Learning opportunities in Butler County.

Community

Imagination education: Creative Incubator all-new in BC3’s Lifelong Learning lineup

February 2, 2021

Kyle Hilfiger, center, branch manager of Farmers National Bank of Emlenton’s Bon Aire office, presents a $17,000 check to Butler County Community College’s Ruth Purcell and Dr. Nick Neupauer in December. Purcell retired Dec. 31 as executive director of the BC3 Education Foundation, and Neupauer is BC3’s president. Farmers National Bank of Emlenton’s gift to the BC3 Education Foundation through Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit program will support BC3 programs that educate fourth-graders through seniors in western Pennsylvania schools.

Community

Farmers National Bank gives $17K to BC3 programs

January 29, 2021

Butler County Community College Nursing, R.N., students Olivia Girdwood, of Portersville, left, and Marcie
Delaney, of Zelienople, have been selected as 2021 Health Care Students of the Year by the Butler County Health
Care Consortium. They are shown Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Butler.

Students

Health care consortium picks 2 BC3 nursing students for 2021 honor

January 28, 2021

Millie Pinkerton, of Butler, is shown Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, on Butler County Community College’s main campus in Butler Township. Contributions to the Dale Pinkerton Leadership Scholarship, established with the BC3 Education Foundation in honor of her late husband, a former BC3 trustee, reached more than $60,000 in the year since his passing.

Community

Gifts to BC3’s Pinkerton scholarship hit $60K

January 19, 2021

An automobile passes by 1100 Fourth Ave. in Ford City in this Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, file photo. The site is the
former home of Ford City Junior-Senior High School and future home of BC3 @ Armstrong.

Leadership

BC3 receives $2.22M in public-private support for Ford City site

January 7, 2021

Caitlyn Kaufman is shown prior to Butler County Community College’s commencement in this Wednesday, May 16, 2018, file photo. Kaufman, a graduate of BC3’s Nursing, R.N., program, was shot and killed Dec. 3 in Nashville, Tenn. A legacy scholarship established Dec. 17 to honor her memory has exceeded $13,000.

Community

Scholarship in honor of slain BC3 grad tops $13K

January 7, 2021

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