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BC3 experts engaged audiences in 2022
(Butler, PA) “It’s not necessarily the impact you have in your state capitol,” a futurist who predicts the decentralization of higher education said in 2017 to an audience that included Dr. Nick Neupauer, president of Butler County Community...
BC3 employees assisted students, organizations in 2022
(Butler, PA) Butler County Community College employees in 2022 served students on BC3’s main campus and at its additional locations, and as leaders with professional and community organizations.
Australians seek BC3 prof’s expertise amid historic flooding
(Butler, PA) Recent headlines: “Hundreds rescued by helicopters and boats after heavy rainfall sparks floods in Australia”
BC3 graduates six in practical nursing
(Butler, PA) Butler County Community College on Dec. 13 graduated six students who earned a practical nursing certificate through a selective-admissions program that addresses a regional shortage of employees in the high-priority occupation.
Riv-Ell Entrepreneurship program returns with most number of students
(Ellwood City, PA) Reflected points of light slide across white hard hats as heads turn left and right.
BC3 helps Butler High senior “chase dream”
(Butler, PA) He arrives alone, 45 minutes before the volleyball game begins, seeks his script, rehearses pronunciations of visiting players, and takes his place at a scorer’s table whose black skirt facing the crowd reads, in white and blue letters,...
$5K raised by BC3, community to provide free holiday meals
(Butler, PA) A Butler County Community College campaign to which employees, students and community members contributed $5,145 in September will provide free holiday meals to BC3 Pioneer Pantry patrons and in boxes decorated with paper hearts painted...
BC3 men’s basketball squad tallest in 10 years, seeks 7th WPCC crown
(Butler, PA) With players averaging nearly 6 feet 4, the 2022-2023 Butler County Community College men’s basketball team is the program’s tallest in at least 10 years, and will look up to a BC3 All-American with three gold medals who is entering...
BC3 women’s basketball squad returns All-American for first time
(Butler, PA) The Butler County Community College women’s basketball team returns an All-American for the first time in program history and who last season was a national leader in rebounding and in scoring.
BC3 volleyball squad’s season ends with two titles, 19-4 record
(Butler, PA) The Butler County Community College volleyball team ended its 2022 season at 19-4 after setbacks Saturday that included a loss to the three-time-defending national champion in a district tournament in North Carolina.
Horror-thriller takes BC3 stage
(Butler, PA) A Butler County Community College English professor inspired to write his first horror-thriller novel by watching a neighbor’s oak tree being felled near Halloween will read from “Who Holds the Devil” during a Northern Appalachia...
BC3 volleyball squad wins Region 20 crown, earns berth to North Carolina
(Butler, PA) On her final pass in her last home game, All-American Morgan Jack set up the kill Saturday that sent the No. 1-ranked Butler County Community College volleyball team to a district championship tournament in North Carolina and the setter...
Pioneers’ All-American sets assist record on tourney-clinching play
The No. 1-ranked Butler County Community College volleyball team celebrates after it swept Howard Community College, Columbia, Md., in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Region 20 championship tournament Saturday, Oct....
BC3 volleyball setter nears program record
(Butler, PA) The Butler County Community College volleyball team, ranked No. 1 this season for the first time in program history, chases a fourth consecutive region title Saturday behind an All-American setter who is chasing a nearly two-decades-old...
Top-ranked BC3 wins unprecedented 7th WPCC volleyball crown in row
(Butler, PA) All-American Morgan Jack had 28 assists and Madison Raypush 23 digs as the No. 1-ranked Butler County Community College volleyball team won an unprecedented seventh consecutive Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference championship...
BC3 hosts two free lectures by suicide prevention activist
(Butler, PA) He was 19. He got on the bus. He had bipolar disorder. He hadn’t been taking his prescribed medications. He was experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations. He was convinced no one cared, no one loved him. He got off the...
BC3’s Loughry wins 2nd WPCC crown; Pioneers claim 8th title since 2013
(Apollo, PA) Butler County Community College All-American golfer Troy Loughry won his second consecutive Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference individual men’s title Saturday and the unbeaten Pioneers captured their eighth crown since 2013...
BC3 Pioneer Pursuit raises $16K to benefit scholarships in memory of recent nursing grads
(Butler, PA) More than 200 runners, walkers and other community members from at least nine western Pennsylvania counties Sept. 24 helped Butler County Community College in an inaugural event to raise more than $16,000 for scholarships that include...
Mars mayor, former BC3 administrator honored as BC3 distinguished alumni
(Butler, PA) A former Butler County Community College student elected three times as mayor of Mars and another who as a BC3 administrator increased the number of named scholarships at the college by 165 percent will become BC3 distinguished alumni...
BC3 among first in PA to be designated as Hunger-Free Campus
(Butler, PA) The frozen chicken wings, fresh sweet potato, boxed pasta and bottled juice Kelly Heckert wheels with other foods in a red wagon from Butler County Community College’s Pioneer Pantry will provide supplemental nutrition for the adult...
BC3 selects Mack as dean of business division
(Butler, PA) A Butler County Community College graduate instrumental in the creation of summer enrichment camps for children at BC3 who later earned master’s degrees in fields that include business administration has been named dean of the college’s...
BC3 students laud college’s 8th No. 1 ranking since 2015
(Butler, PA) Butler County Community College’s eighth ranking since 2015 as the No. 1 community college in Pennsylvania affirms its commitment to students, said those studying to become social workers, high school teachers and registered nurses...
Father of 4-year-old earns diploma, pursues associate degree at BC3
(Butler, PA) Roger Walker Jr. sat inside the red sedan he drives to his job at a fast-food restaurant after realizing he had achieved a commonwealth secondary school diploma through Butler County Community College’s free adult literacy program,...
BC3 president receives inaugural leadership excellence award
(Butler, PA) Dr. Nick Neupauer, an Ellwood City native and the longest-serving chief executive officer in the 57-year history of Butler County Community College, will receive an inaugural leadership award named after a longtime Lawrence County reside...
BC3 business student, grads earn scholarships totaling $6K
(Butler, PA) A current student in and recent graduates of the most popular program in Butler County Community College’s largest academic division have received scholarships totaling $6,000 from the foundation of a professional organization.
Butler Eagle squad wins Cup 3rd time in BC3 Education Foundation golf outing
(Ellwood City, PA) A team representing the Butler Eagle won a third Champions Cup on Aug. 5 in a Butler County Community College Education Foundation golf outing that raises unrestricted funds to support student scholarships, adult literacy, first...
BC3 introduces 3 STEM programs this fall
(Butler, PA) Butler County Community College’s three new programs this fall are within its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics division and include two intended to lead to a doctor of pharmacy degree from Duquesne University.
Construction of state-of-the-art BC3 @ Armstrong progressing
(Ford City, PA) It’s 81 degrees Fahrenheit, the humidity oppressive at 69 percent, as an electrician and an electrician apprentice find refuge in the abundant shade under a maple tree during their 15-minute break.
Nursing and allied health building rising above BC3’s main campus
(Butler, PA) Dylan Stitt places one sized-10 work boot directly in front of the other as he steps along a 4-inch-wide steel girder toward its edge atop the Victor K. Phillips Nursing and Allied Health Building under construction at Butler County...
Penn Highlands Healthcare, BC3 @ Brockway forge partnership
(DuBois, PA) Penn Highlands Healthcare on July 28 announced it will help to expand BC3 @ Brockway’s registered nursing program by sponsoring tuition for select students who sign an employment agreement, and by providing annual operating funds and...
Financial adviser, 23, youngest director in BC3 foundation board history
(Butler, PA) A 23-year-old recognized in 2022 for having the fastest-growing practice of all first-year Northwestern Mutual financial advisers nationwide has become the youngest director with the Butler County Community College Education Foundation...
BC3 student 1 of 11 in U.S. picked for “fantastic opportunity”
(Butler, PA) Educators at James Madison University have selected for the second time in two years a Butler County Community College student from applicants nationwide to attend a residential National Science Foundation-funded research program in...
Loughry becomes BC3’s first first-team All-American in golf
(Chautauqua, N.Y.) Freshman Troy Loughry yanked blades of grass from the tee box of his 18th hole and, protecting the two-stroke lead between finishing a national championship tournament as a first-team All-American or a second-teamer, watched the...
BC3 golfer Loughry on cusp of first-team All-American
(Chautauqua, N.Y.) Troy Loughry met with Butler County Community College golf coach Bill Miller on Wednesday night to discuss Loughry’s highest-scoring round at BC3, one that earlier in the day cost the freshman five places in the standings of...
Loughry first BC3 golfer to be in top 10 midway through national tournament
(Chautauqua, N.Y.) Butler County Community College freshman Troy Loughry on Wednesday became the college’s first golfer to be in the top 10 halfway through the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III national championship tournament,...
BC3 @ Brockway honors largest class in Nursing, R.N.
(Brockway, PA) A crowd of approximately 90 guests watched May 9 as BC3 @ Brockway recognized its largest class of graduates in a Nursing, R.N., career program that debuted in 2018 to address a high-priority occupation in the six-county North Central...
BC3 pins 55 nursing grads from 6 counties
(Butler, PA) One by one each crossed the stage of Butler County Community College’s Succop Theater, 55 graduates in the college’s main campus Class of 2022 in Nursing, R.N., and residents of six counties who can enter the high-priority occupation...
BC3 Hope is Dope participants to help enhance city’s only skate park
(Butler, PA) Individuals helped by a Butler County Community College initiative will in turn help the community May 28 by enhancing the city’s only skate park, one that drew at least 50 visitors on a recent afternoon, the president of a nonprofit...
BC3 softball squad, Bronx team to battle for berth in national tourney
(Butler, PA) The Butler County Community College softball team will host a squad from the Bronx in a best-of-3 series whose winner will earn a berth in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III national championship in Syracuse,...
3-sport star, All-American 2022 inductees into BC3 sports hall
(Butler, PA) A three-sport star who helped Butler County Community College’s volleyball program to win its first two state championships and who has won consecutive governmental elections since, and an out-of-state transfer who helped BC3’s men’s...
Free public events showcasing BC3 students’ work begin Monday
(Butler, PA) Visitors to Butler County Community College’s free public events next week can discuss topical research exhibits with presidential scholars, hear student authors read from their recently published works on a stage decorated in a coffeehouse...
BC3 named Military Friendly School for 7th time since 2013
(Butler, PA) Student-veterans at Butler County Community College “are given a certain level of respect immediately from all the faculty and staff,” said a former gunner on Army vehicles who transported fuel, water and other supplies from a base...
BC3 alum picked for April 20 Northern Appalachia Reading Series event
(Butler, PA) Her great-aunt Martha had given Angel Rosen a journal containing dotted-lined pages, a gift the autistic child assumed was intended for drawings.
BC3 teaches dual-enrollment students importance of financial literacy
(Butler, PA) The average debt for Generation Z in the United States – those ages 18 to 23, according to a cnbc.com report in October – is just over $16,000, and for their immediate elders, the millennials, almost $87,500.
Pry selected as BC3’s third All-American since December
(Butler, PA) Aslyn Pry, a freshman on the Butler County Community College women’s basketball team and the leading rebounder in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division III in the 2021-2022 season, has become the college’s...
Excitement building for BC3 health care building
(Butler, PA) Site preparation is under way for what the general contractor calls the “eye-popping” centerpiece of the largest construction project in Butler County Community College history – a state-of-the-art, hospital-like facility that...
DEI topic of BC3 Lunch & Learn workshops on Wednesday, in April
(Butler, PA) Butler County Community College opens its 2022 series of catered Lunch & Learn professional skills workshops in downtown Butler on Wednesday by assisting business representatives seeking diversity, equity and inclusion strategies for...
BC3 softball team seeks 6th WPCC crown
(Butler, PA) While his Butler County Community College softball program has not played since a rain-shortened 2019 season, coach Dan Beebe is encouraged by the experience on the Pioneers’ 2022 roster.
BC3 educator selected to lead Growth Collaborative initiative
(Butler, PA) A Butler County Community College faculty member has been hired to lead a Butler County Growth Collaborative initiative intended to address a workforce shortage by providing training to residents who face barriers to employment and by...
BC3 student selected to speak in “HER-story” women’s conference
(New Castle, PA) A Portersville mother who raised three children and calls her enrollment at 44 in Butler County Community College’s new practical nursing program “my time” has been selected to speak Saturday at a conference whose goal, the...
BC3 student, grad to receive full-tuition scholarship toward bachelor’s degree
(Butler, PA) A Butler County Community College student who while living in Nicaragua helped to create an association that assists the deaf and their families, and a recent graduate who overcame communication difficulties to teach university hockey...
Construction of BC3 @ Armstrong in Ford City begins
(Ford City, PA) State Sen. Joe Pittman drove to the site this month, as did Butler County Community College President Dr. Nick Neupauer.
BC3 women’s basketball team wins 5th WPCC championship
(Butler, PA) Aslyn Pry scored 29 points in the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference championship Saturday night to lead the Butler County Community College women’s basketball team to a 60-42 victory against Westmoreland County Community College...
Enrollment in BC3’s Butler County ESL program at all-time high
(Butler, PA) A free Butler County Community College adult literacy program in English as a second language helps students to achieve independence, serves as a social outlet for those who may feel lonely in their new culture and, Khadija Akhouad said...
Congressman views plans for new BC3 @ Armstrong
(Ford City, PA) U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson puts on eyeglasses before examining a floor plan whose edges nearly hang over the dark conference table upon which it’s spread.
BC3 leaders shared insights, learned from other experts
(Butler, PA) They learned. They helped others to learn. They were recognized, they advanced, they inspired and they led.