Bunker Hill Community College's 42-acre (17 ha; 0.

066 sq mi) main campus is in

Boston's Charlestown neighborhood, on the site of the former Charlestown State Prison that
closed in 1955.[6] It is served by the MBTA Orange Line rapid transit station called Community
College, and sits near the site of the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary
War.
Since 1987, a second campus has provided higher education and job training to residents
of Chelsea, Revere, Everett, East Boston, Winthrop and other surrounding communities.[7] This
campus moved several time until settling in 1998 into a former post office in Bellingham Square.
The two-story 1910 brick structure had been vacant for a decade before being donated to the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[8]
In Boston's South End, BHCC worked with Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), a community-
based organization, to establish the Pathway Technology Campus (PTC) in Villa Victoria, a
predominantly-Latino affordable-housing community. PTC helps residents of the South End
and Lower Roxbury earn a GED certificate, take adult education (ESL, Basic English and Math)
classes, and to enroll in community college-level classes.[9]
Since 2007, BHCC has operated an East Boston Satellite campus at the Education and Training
Institute of the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center. It offers introductory and allied health
courses in the evening during the fall, spring and summer terms. [10]
Established in fall 2009, the Malden Satellite is based at Malden High School in Malden,
Massachusetts, and offers introductory and college-level courses in the evening during the fall
and spring semesters.[11]
In recent years, the institution has rapidly gained recognition in the city, the state, and beyond as
its graduates transferred into more prestigious programs elsewhere. [citation needed] It has been hailed
for its innovative distance learning methods and workforce education. [citation needed] The college was
awarded nearly $2 million in federal funds from the United States Department of Education to
boost graduation rates among first-time, full-time students. BHCC was recently awarded
an Achieving the Dream grant from the Lumina Foundation which will dedicate up to $450,000
toward supporting student success at the college.
The college was featured in the movie Good Will Hunting, as the location where Dr. Sean
Maguire (Robin Williams) teaches. BHCC behavioral science chairperson, John P. Reeves,
served as a model for Williams’ Maguire.[12]
On July 1, 2013, Dr. Pam Y. Eddinger became BHCC's seventh president, replacing Dr. Mary L.
Fifield, who retired after 16 years.[13]

Notable alumni