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Baltimore City Community College reports enrollment gains, facilities damage and staffing gaps amid budget review
Summary
BCCC officials told the subcommittee enrollment has increased year over year and the college secured accreditation reaffirmation, but a boiler‑room fire took a main building offline and the school continues to operate with a high vacancy rate; analysts and witnesses discussed the Mayor Scholars program and decentralization of Promise funds.
Baltimore City Community College President Deborah McCurdy told the Education and Economic Development Subcommittee that the college’s enrollment has risen across multiple terms but that a recent boiler‑room fire in the Life Sciences Building has taken roughly 80,000 square feet offline and disrupted labs and clinical programs.
The DLS budget analysis presented to the panel recorded enrollment trends at BCCC: after pandemic declines, the college’s total enrollment increased in fall 2023 and again in fall 2024 (DLS reported an 11.1% increase in fall 2024). DLS also highlighted the college’s successful persistence metrics, an upward trend in first‑time student numbers, and sizable year‑to‑year growth in dual‑enrollment students.
McCurdy said the campus received reaffirmation of…
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