As BMCC focuses on student experience to increase achievement and retention, developing a robust First Year Experience embedded within regular, credit-bearing coursework is a priority. Over the past few years, faculty have collaborated to create and share the materials that you will find on this Community Site.

The First-Year Experience is designed to help you transition into a college-level academic learning community. FYE classes build on the mindsets and skills embedded within the BMCC college experience by targeting the learning needs of the whole student (cognitive, motivational, behavioral, and affective domains). FYE classes focus on three critical components that will help you to succeed at BMCC and beyond: 

• Academic Identity: Who are you as a student? 
• Academic Stance: How do you identify and solve problems to be successful?
• Social Responsibility and Citizenship: What is your responsibility to, and in what ways do you contribute to the BMCC community?

It is also important to note that as part of this work, previous iterations of FYE at BMCC were discussed so that the historical perspective and previous work was not lost.

This is a community site for faculty teaching FYE-embedded courses.

We thank BMCC faculty, staff and administration who have already contributed to the site, and we welcome further contributions.