SUNY Broome Community College

SUNY Broome

Former names	New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences at Binghamton Broome County Technical Institute Broome Technical Community College
Type	Public community college
Established	1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Parent institution	State University of New York
Endowment	$35.9 million (2020)[1]
President	Tony Hawkins
Academic staff	153 Full-Time and 181 Part-Time[2]
Undergraduates	5,386 (all undergraduate) Spring 2022[3]
Location	Dickinson, Waverly, and Owego , New York , United States 42°08′06″N 75°54′36″W / 42.134999°N 75.91012°W / 42.134999; -75.91012
Campus	Suburban 200 acres (0.81 km2)
Colors	Yellow and black
Nickname	Hornets
Sporting affiliations	National Junior College Athletic Association, Region III
Mascot	Stinger
Website	www.sunybroome.edu

SUNY Broome Community College (BCC or SUNY Broome) is a public community college in Broome County, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY). The college was founded in 1946 and has gone through several name changes. The school is located in the Town of Dickinson, just north of the City of Binghamton, New York. The college had a 2010 enrollment of over 6,000 students and has alumni of over 41,000.

SUNY Broome serves students from a single campus on Upper Front Street in Dickinson, New York, though some classes are taught in Waverly, Owego, and within the City of Binghamton at smaller classroom centers. The campus' fifteen buildings comprise 610,000 square feet (57,000 m²) of space and feature athletic facilities such as baseball fields, soccer field, publicly accessible tennis courts, the Dick Baldwin Gym, named after the third winningest college basketball coach across both two- and four-year colleges, and the SUNY Broome Ice Center - a 758 seat hockey arena that is used by a variety of different local ice hockey & figure skating organizations throughout the community.

There is also a theater which hosts campus performances of plays and other theatrical work, titled The Little Theater.

Timeline

• 1946. Established as New York State Institute of Applied Arts & Sciences at Binghamton (with "New York State" sometimes abbreviated "NYS")
• 1953. Became Broome County Technical Institute
• 1956. Became Broome Technical Community College
• 1957. Moved to new campus on Upper Front Street (NY Route 11)
• 1971. Name changed to Broome Community College
• 2013. Name changed to SUNY Broome^[4]

Athletics

The SUNY Broome Hornets participate in the NJCAA as a member of Region III. ^[5]

Men's Sports:

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Soccer
• Track & Field

Women's Sports:

• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Soccer
• Softball
• Volleyball
• Track & Field

The women's soccer team won the national championship in 2007, 2008, and 2016.

References

External links

• Official website

This page was last edited on 6 April 2024, at 21:17