Casey Epstein-Gross, a senior at the Solebury School, has been named the 2021 Bucks County High School Poet of the Year, officials at Bucks County Community College announced. Epstein-Gross rose to the top of more than 150 entries in the 34rd annual contest, part of the Bucks County Poet Laureate Program administered by the college. For her first-place...

Bucks is planning to bring more students back to campus for the fall 2021 semester, but things are going to be run differently than they had been before the pandemic. The college’s provost, Lisa Angelo, said “We had to get creative on how to get enough seats without all of our students being face to face.” Angelo said one of the big changes...

BCCC’s Board of Trustees has unanimously picked Dr. Felicia L. Ganther as the next president of the college. Dr. Ganther will become the fifth president of Bucks in its 57-year history, as well as its first African-American president. “We are delighted Dr. Felicia Ganther will be joining Bucks County Community College as our next president....

Construction has begun at Bucks’ Bristol Campus for a new facility to be used by students. The $9.9 million facility is going to be the Center for Workforce Development, which will hold classes to partner students with businesses to gain experience in that field. The new facility plans to train Bucks students in the field of manufacturing, which...

The Centurion, the student newspaper of Bucks County Community College, won a record 17 awards in the statewide Keystone Media contest for 2021, despite the fact that its staffers had to produce the paper from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Centurion, competing in the two-year college division, has won more than 130 awards since 2010 in the...

With the college facing a $5.5 million budget deficit, Bucks President Stephanie Shanblatt on March 5 sent a memo to faculty and staff announcing that while tuition will remain flat for the upcoming year, some employees would be laid off. “This past year has been anything but ordinary,” she said. “While we’ve overcome many obstacles and adjusted...

Mask-up culture will forever change the way our generation views illness, A new fear of the invisible sparked by a year unlike any other in recent memory begs the question… when will we feel safe again? According to the CDC, over the past 6 weeks there has been a 73 percent decline in reported cases. This may have to do with the increasing rapidity...

The Centurion’s Editor-in-Chief, Alyssa Moore, has been almost single handedly putting together the student newspaper since the paper resumed publishing last fall amid the campus shutdown prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. When the school shut down due to COVID-19 in the spring of 2020, the Centurion team briefly stopped production of the paper...

For the past nine years, Dr. Stephanie Shanblatt has served as Bucks’ president. During this time, the college has faced no shortage of challenges, namely reduced enrollment and a decrease in government funding. The pandemic only exacerbated these issues. With Dr. Shanblatt’s retirement in June creeping ever closer, the college continues to face...

One of Bucks' Language and Literature Professors, Dr. Keri D. Barber, recently passed away at age 45. Barber had been battling metastatic colon cancer for about 2.5 years. On Jan. 1, 2021, Dr. Barber’s fight with cancer ended. Her husband, Taliloa “Junior” M. Fuaau, was by her side until the end. Barber was a loving (and loved) professor,...