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BC3 @ Lawrence Crossing to Showcase Advantages On Wednesday

New Castle, PA – The most-recent survey conducted by an Iowa company with Butler County Community College students shows the college receiving increasingly higher marks in all 12 areas examined, “areas which are keys to students, not only to satisfaction, but to enjoyment and success,” a BC3 administrator said. The Ruffalo Noel Levitz student satisfaction inventory “covers students’ experience in the classroom. The quality of teaching and instruction. It covers the quality of advising. The quality of services and financial aid. It even covers things like the quality of the buildings and grounds,” said Dr. Case Willoughby, BC3’s vice president…


Portersville Mother Selected To Speak at “HER-story” Woman’s Conference

New Castle, PA – A Portersville mother who raised three children and calls her enrollment at 44 in Butler County Community College’s new practical nursing program “my time” has been selected to speak Saturday at a conference whose goal, the event organizer says, “is to empower women in our community.” Yeng Carle is believed to be the first BC3 student chosen to speak at the Women’s Conference of Lawrence County in its 15 years, added Gayle Young, executive director of the United Way of Lawrence County, which organizes the event. The theme of the 2022 Women’s Conference of Lawrence County…


Local BC3 Student Could Have Close-Up in Netflix Movie

That’s definitely Christian Bale there, the English actor and Oscar winner, but that guy next to him in the shot a second before, wasn’t that a guy in a BC3 @ Cranberry financial accounting class? Research writing? Spanish I? Calculus and analytical geometry? Hair’s a bit longer. Has those bushy sideburns. But isn’t that Tyler Beegle? “That’s me,” said Beegle, a Butler County Community College student who may have a close-up shot as a paid extra in “The Pale Blue Eye” following editing of the Netflix movie expected to be broadcast later in 2022. Filming in western Pennsylvania ends this…


BC3 Announces President’s List, Dean’s List and Graduates for Fall 2021

Butler County Community College is proud to announce the names of students who have made the President’s List and Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 semester, as well as the names of those who have graduated recently. Students who have achieved a cumulative GPA (grade-point average) of 3.75 or higher are named to the President’s List following completion of at least 12 semester hours or upon completion of degree requirements. Students who have achieved a cumulative GPA (grade-point average) of 3.5 to 3.74 are named to the Dean’s List following completion of at least 12 semester hours or upon completion…


Portersville Mother Among First Students Accepted In A New BC3 Program

A 44-year-old native of the Philippines who in 2007 suspended her pursuit of higher education in health care at Butler County Community College following the birth of her special-needs daughter is among the first students accepted in a BC3 practical nursing program that debuted Tuesday. Yeng Carle, of Portersville, is the most senior of 10 students in BC3’s latest selective-admissions health care program. The practical nursing program at BC3 is the only one in Butler County and is a result of a partnership forged in June 2020 with Concordia Lutheran Ministries, a Cabot health care provider. The 12-month program is…


“Unprecedented”: Two BC3 Volleyball Players Earn All-American Status

Breanna Reisinger and Morgan Jack, players who helped to lead the Butler County Community College volleyball squad to conference, regional and district titles and to a national championships appearance in Minnesota, are the first teammates in program history to be named All-Americans following the same season. “This,” BC3 coach Rob Snyder said, “is unprecedented for the program.” The National Junior College Athletic Association has selected the outsider hitter and the setter to receive the prestigious postseason award following a season in which BC3 placed sixth in the Division III national championships in Rochester, Minn., on Nov. 13. Reisinger is graduate…


Community Helps BC3 Create, Distribute 45 Meals for Thanksgiving

(Butler, PA) “We were helping out a young person last week,” Jennifer Taylor begins, “and she didn’t know anything about the turkey dinners.” The student at Butler County Community College, a 22-year-old separated mother of boys ages 3 and 1, was gathering cereal, apple juice, and canned vegetables and beans from BC3’s Pioneer Pantry. “I told her, ‘I am going to send you an email,’” Taylor said. ‘“I want you to sign up to get a free turkey dinner.’ “And it was like we had given her gold.” This November is the third in which BC3’s Pioneer Pantry has distributed…


BC3 Volleyball Team Finishes 6th Overall In National Championships

The Butler County Community College volleyball team finished the 2021 season with the program’s 12th consecutive winning record and first national ranking since 2016, titles in its conference, region and district, and a sixth-place finish in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III championships in Rochester, Minn., on Saturday. The Pioneers entered the NJCAA Division III championships at 16-1. They finished 2-2 in the 12-team tournament after a loss Saturday afternoon to Central Lakes College, Brainerd, Minn., at the Rochester Regional Sports Center. BC3 on Thursday swept Rockland Community College, Suffern, N.Y., and was swept by Minnesota State Community…


BC3 Volleyball Team Wins Opener In National Championships

(Rochester, Minn.) Lincoln High School graduate Breanna Reisinger had 10 kills, including six in the third set, and Morgan Jack had 29 assists as the Butler County Community College volleyball team swept Rockland Community College on Thursday afternoon in the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III championships at the Rochester Regional Sports Center. Aslyn Pry added seven kills, Abby Granato six and Morgan Frishkorn five for BC3 in the program’s first national championship tournament appearance since 2009. The Pioneers moved to 17-1 with the 25-17, 25-22 and 25-16 victory and advanced to the championship quarterfinals….


Ellwood City Native Neupauer To Become BC3’s Longest-Serving President On November 15

(Butler, PA) Dr. Nick Neupauer next week will become the longest-serving president in the history of western Pennsylvania’s first community college. Neupauer, Butler County Community College’s eighth president, on Nov. 15 will pass the tenure of Dr. Thomas Ten Hoeve, the college’s second president. Ten Hoeve was named BC3’s president in May 1970, five years after the institution of higher education was founded, and served 5,219 days to September 1984. Neupauer began Aug. 1, 2007. Neupauer’s current 14-year-plus tenure as president at the same institution is more than double the recent national average of 6.5 years. It is also longer…