Brookdale Community College

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Brookdale Community College
Brookdalelogo.png
Type Public community college
Established1967
Academic affiliations
 Sea-grant, space-grant
President David Stout
Students9,916 (Fall 2023) [1]
Location
Lincroft
,
New Jersey
,
United States

40°19′34″N74°07′55″W / 40.326°N 74.132°W / 40.326; -74.132
Campus Suburban
Colors Navy Blue, Scarlet and White
Nickname Jersey Blues
Website www.brookdalecc.edu

Brookdale Community College is a public community college in the Lincroft section of Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1967, the college also has regional locations in Neptune Township, Freehold Township, Long Branch, and Wall Township.

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Brookdale is an open-admission college that admits anyone 18 years of age or older or anyone who is a high school graduate or holder of an equivalency diploma. The college also offers courses to qualified high school students through its dual enrollment program. [2] It serves the residents of Monmouth County and surrounding communities and has an enrollment of nearly 10,000 students. [1] The college offers associate degrees in more than 75 programs, as well as non-degree/non-credit classes and certificate programs. [3]

History

In 1967, the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders decided to form a community college for the benefit of Monmouth county residents. For this purpose, the 800-acre Brookdale Farm in Lincroft was acquired from Lewis S. Thompson Jr. in 1968. Classes were first offered in 1969. [4] [5]

On July 24, 2012, College President Peter F. Burnham, who had retired from a 20-year tenure after corruption allegations surfaced pleaded guilty to two indictable (felony) counts of official misconduct and one count of theft by deception in a plea agreement that called for a five-year prison term. [6] [7] Five months later, he was sentenced to a 5-year-prison-term and ordered to make financial restitution to the college. [8]

The college announced on October 5, 2022, that its Hazlet campus had been sold and that the college would seek to open a new branch campus in the region. [9]

Lincroft campus

Main entrance to the campus from the Route 520 roundabout Brookdale Community College entrance.jpg
Main entrance to the campus from the Route 520 roundabout
The Donald D. Warner Student Life Center at the Lincroft campus Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ - Student Life Center.jpg
The Donald D. Warner Student Life Center at the Lincroft campus

The Lincroft campus in Middletown consists of 22 buildings, including the Center for the Visual Arts, the Center for World War II Studies, and the Donald D. Warner Student Life Center. The newly renovated Robert J. Collins Arena/Brookdale Recreation and Events Center holds special events, including conventions, concerts, and athletic competitions.

High Technology High School, a magnet school for students from Monmouth County, is located near the eastern edge of the Lincroft Campus. It is operated by the Monmouth County Vocational School District.

The Lincroft campus is home to the Monmouth Museum, [10] the Brookdale Performing Arts Center, and Brookdale Public Radio (WBJB-FM). These institutions offer performances, National Public Radio programming, and music.

Athletics

The Department of Athletics, Recreation, and Intramurals provides a diverse range of programs. Brookdale's intercollegiate program is nationally recognized. The Jersey Blues teams compete in the Garden State Athletic Conference and in Region XIX of the National Junior College Athletic Association. The program has won eight NJCAA Division III National titles: softball (2002, 2005 and 2010), women's soccer (2013, 2014 and 2015) and men's basketball (2013 and 2018). [11]

Sports teams

Student clubs and organizations

There are approximately 50 recognized student organizations at Brookdale Community College. Clubs and organizations are recognized by the Student Life Board, Brookdale's student government, and must re-register every year with the department of Student Life and Activities. [12]

Coastal Communiversity and university partnerships

The NJ Coastal Communiversity, led by Brookdale, was an alliance of New Jersey higher education colleges and universities offering selected associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees, and graduate certificates in Monmouth County.Its members were Brookdale, Georgian Court University, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Classes and services were offered at Brookdale's Wall Higher Education Center (on the grounds of the former US Army installation Camp Evans). Rutgers classes and services were offered at the Western Monmouth Branch Campus in Freehold and Montclair's MBA classes were offered on the Lincroft main campus.

As of 2021, the Communiversity had been replaced by institutional partnerships with Georgian Court University, New Jersey City University, and Rutgers University. [13]

Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution

The Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution is dedicated to fostering the study of the historical, political, social, economic, cultural and military aspects of the World War II era up through the Korean War. The Center examines the key events of the time; the political and military leaders who waged the wars, provided the leadership, made the peace; and those who served on the battlefield and home front.

Notable people

Faculty and staff

Alumni

See also

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  2. ↑ "Dual Enrollment for High School Students". Brookdale Community College. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Brookdale Fast Facts". Brookdale Community College. 5 January 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
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  10. ↑ "Welcome to the Monmouth Museum" . Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  11. ↑ "Brookdale caps perfect season with DIII title", National Junior College Athletic Association. Accessed March 18, 2018. "Brookdale (NY) capped its perfect season with the 2018 NJCAA DIII Men's Basketball National Championship. The Jersey Blues pulled away down the stretch to top second-seeded Nassau 70-57 at the Paul Gerry Fieldhouse.... The Jersey Blues' previous national title came in 2013, a 61-55 victory over Eastfield (TX)"
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  30. ↑ Larsen, Erik. "Alex Skuby: good guys and bad guys", Asbury Park Press , October 17, 1998. Accessed January 19, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Monmouth County native Alex Skuby plays the recurring role of Renato, a Chicago paramedic on NBC-TV's top-rated drama ER, a pushy reporter on last night's CBS-TV episode of Buddy Faro and will portray a crazed wife-beater on the NBC miniseries, A Will of Their Own, starring Lea Thompson, Faye Dunaway and Ellen Burstyn tomorrow at 8 p.m. Skuby, a 1990 graduate of Wall High School and alumni of Brookdale Community College in Middletown, 'never thought about acting in high school.'"
  31. ↑ Dembicki, Matthew. "Governors take the stage for commencements" Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine , Community College Times, June 8, 2007. Accessed June 16, 2008. "Some community colleges tapped alumni to wrap up the academic year. Film director Kevin Smith, who attended Brookdale Community College (New Jersey), reflected on his path to postsecondary success."
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  33. ↑ Denny Walling, Baseball Reference. Accessed August 28, 2019. "Schools: Brookdale Community College (Lincroft, NJ), Clemson University (Clemson, SC)"
  34. ↑ Strauss, Robert. "In Person; The Life Of Brian, Annotated", The New York Times , October 27, 2002. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Early on, Mr. Williams was hardly a striver. After high school he went to Brookdale Community College without much of a plan besides volunteer firefighting."
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