BCC To Offer New Entrepreneurship, Studio Art Certificates

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College (BCC) is adding two new certificate programs to its list of available programs for students to enter into beginning in fall, 2021. 
 
The new one-year certificates are Entrepreneurship and Studio Art.
 
The BCC Entrepreneurship certificate program intends to provide students with a core basis of Business courses that offer the skills needed to start a business or launch a new concept.  Courses will focus on Management, Marketing, Accounting, Business Law, Communications and Economics.
 
 The goal of this program is to support the development of businesses and business ideas within the community.  An entrepreneur usually works as the small business owner, manager, or top executive of their company. As a general manager of the company, an entrepreneur has to consider the capital and human resources available when making business decisions.
 
The new Entrepreneurship certificate at BCC fills a  gap for the Berkshire community and its economic development; augments the BCC curriculum; leverages existing BCC courses; and enhances BCC's stature, community involvement, and regional connectivity for students to stay and build a business. When students receive a certificate from BCC's program, the College will encourage them to build on their skills by seeking other entrepreneur programs offered in the Berkshire community.
 
The new Studio Art certificate is a set of foundation courses designed to be the first step in a visual arts student's education. The program introduces students to the studio art experience and immerses them into issues of art and design. Through the foundation courses, students build knowledge of drawing and two & three dimensional design, as the basic vocabulary for all visual arts expression.
 
The certificate prepares students with a foundation in the visual arts, art history and writing skills so that they may specialize in any area of fine arts or visual communication at the baccalaureate level. The new Studio Art Certificate does not require any new courses and is stackable so that any student who wants to remain for their Associate degree at BCC can do so – after which they can transfer those credits to dozens of art schools across the Commonwealth and beyond.
 
Students looking to apply into either certificate program may do so by going to https://apply.berkshirecc.edu and applying for the fall 2021 term. More information will be available in the College Catalog in July, 2021. 

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North Adams Regional Reopens With Ribbon-Cutting Celebration

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

BHS President and CEO Darlene Rodowicz welcomes the gathering to the celebration of the hospital's reopening 10 years to the day it closed. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The joyful celebration on Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital was a far cry from the scene 10 years ago when protests and tears marked the facility's closing
 
Hospital officials, local leaders, medical staff, residents and elected officials gathered under a tent on the campus to mark the efforts over the past decade to restore NARH and cut the ribbon officially reopening the 136-year-old medical center. 
 
"This hospital under previous ownership closed its doors. It was a day that was full of tears, anger and fear in the Northern Berkshire community about where and how residents would be able to receive what should be a fundamental right for everyone — access to health care," said Darlene Rodowicz, president and CEO of Berkshire Health Systems. 
 
"Today the historic opportunity to enhance the health and wellness of Northern Berkshire community is here. And we've been waiting for this moment for 10 years. It is the key to keeping in line with our strategic plan which is to increase access and support coordinated county wide system of care." 
 
Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, under the BHS umbrella, purchased the campus and affiliated systems when Northern Berkshire Healthcare declared bankruptcy and closed on March 28, 2014. NBH had been beset by falling admissions, reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments, and investments that had gone sour leaving it more than $30 million in debt. 
 
BMC was able to reopen the ER as an emergency satellite facility and slowly restored and enhanced medical services including outpatient surgery, imaging, dialysis, pharmacy and physician services. 
 
But it would take a slight tweak in the U.S. Health and Human Services' regulations — thank to U.S. Rep. Richie Neal — to bring back inpatient beds and resurrect North Adams Regional Hospital 
 
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