On Tuesday, March 3, 2019, MMC’s Student Activities Advisory Board and the Office of Student Development and Activities co-hosted an opening reception in honor of Womxn’s Herstory Month, inviting New York City Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal to speak.

Since 2006, the Crossing Borders Conference has been a key component of the Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP)—MMC’s college-prep and degree program for women incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, NYS’s only maximum-security facility. During the conference, MMC students—from outside the facility and in—join professors and alumni in presenting their creative and scholarly work on a wide variety of subjects. This year’s conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019.

On March 11, MMC’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) presented a powerful panel discussion featuring clients from the College’s on-campus clinic, the Ruth Smadbeck Communication and Learning Center, as a way to give students a glimpse into life as a professional speech-language pathologist serving clients struggling with speech and communication disorders.

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Higher Education Opportunity Program  (HEOP) being part of New York State legislation, with programs now at over 50 private colleges across the state. To kick off a yearlong celebratory campaign at MMC, HEOP Director Harmony Cross and HEOP Counselor and Coordinator Keith Windsor accompanied students from MMC’s HEOP to Temple University in Philadelphia for the annual Inclusive Leadership Conference  on Saturday, February 9.

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MMC is pleased to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith will be awarded an Honorary Degree at the  College’s 70 th  Commencement Exercises on May 17,  2019.  

Kate Cheney ’20 has just received a promotion to Administrator in the Photography Department at Bonhams, where she is working while pursuing her BA in Art History at MMC.

In 2017, MMC proudly celebrated the 20^th Anniversary of the Bedford Hills College Program  (BHCP). As the sole degree-granting institution of the BHCP since 1997, MMC has awarded more than 200 academic degrees to the incarcerated women of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State’s only women’s maximum-security prison.