Bergen Community College: Summering In France: Students To Study Abroad

Press release from Bergen Community College:

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — Bergen students Waad Sidahmed, of Belleville; Matthew Luciani, of Cliffside Park; Angela Mae Villaroman, of Bergenfield; Jordan Rodriguez, of Little Falls; Mujtaba Ali, of Mahwah; and Enrico Crescimbeni, of Ridgefield Park, will each receive a $1,400 scholarship from Villa Albertine, along with financial support from the Bergen Community College Foundation to attend an educational bootcamp abroad.

Students choose from four universities and two areas of study (business and sustainable development and artificial intelligence) to explore during their time abroad.

Amparo Codding, the College’s international student counselor and study abroad coordinator, said the initiative will help students develop a global perspective.

“Any experience that challenges the students’ view of the world helps them learn more about themselves and what they are capable of doing,” she said. “Sometimes the study abroad experience makes the student change academic and career paths based on this one experience.”

Among the attendees, Luciani, a political science student, said he will spend his summer at the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne studying business and sustainability.

Based in Paramus, Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu), a public two-year coeducational college, enrolls more than 13,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields. More students graduate from Bergen than any other community college in the state.

This press release was produced by Bergen Community College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.