This Podcast Could’ve Been An Email – Episode #17 – ‘Our Students Are Just That Awesome’

This Podcast Could’ve Been An Email – Episode #22 – ‘Chairing the Future: Julia Bowen on Leadership, Community and What Comes Next’

What does it mean to help guide a community college through a time of change? BCC Board of Trustees Chair Julia Bowen joins Jonah and Adam to discuss her connection to the College, her approach to leadership and the important role trustees play behind the scenes. Along the way, Julia reflects on service, relationships and why Berkshire Community College remains so essential to the community it calls home. It’s an inside look at the people, purpose and shared commitment helping to shape BCC’s next chapter — in a conversation that, thankfully, could not have been an email.

This Podcast Could’ve Been An Email – Episode #21 – ‘Closing chapters with President Ellen Kennedy’

Join Adam Klepetar and Jonah Sykes in a conversation with President Ellen Kennedy who is retiring from Berkshire Community College at the end of his fiscal year. Learn about her background, her history of supporting the Berkshires for more than 40 years, and what’s next for her as she continues to support higher education across the Commonwealth.

This Podcast Could’ve Been An Email – Episode #20 – ‘this podcast could have been an email live’

Join Adam and Jonah at Bristol Community College for a podcast that was recorded in front of a live audience at the Teaching and Learning and Student Development conference with special guest Christina Wynn for her second time on the pod and Shua Visser for in-person mobile technical support.

This Podcast Could’ve Been An Email – Episode #19 – ‘So, let's ask the Dean’

Join co-hosts Adam Klepetar and Jonah Sykes in a conversation with two of the College’s academic deans, Matthew Kenny, Dean of Science and Business and Lori Moon, Dean of Nursing, Health & Wellness. Learn more about retirements, anti-retirements, Commencement addresses, their leaderships styles and what they’ve learned from the faculty they’ve both worked with here at BCC.

This Podcast Could’ve Been An Email – Episode #18 – ‘Why did it have to be snakes?’

Join Adam Klepetar and Jonah Sykes in a conversation with internationally renowned environmental scientist Tom Tyning, professor at BCC, as they talk about the Hoffmann building on campus and all of the creatures inside, traveling snakes, student and staff trips abroad, and how important it is to be an advocate for a planet that could use some TLC right now.