168:(1997) • Chair’s Award for Contributions to Global Education, City College Birmingham, England (2003) • Annual Latino Heritage and Culture Award Winner (2008) • Top 100 Minority Business Leader, Crain’s New York Business (2003) • Golden Age Honoree in Community Leadership, Latino Center on Aging, 22nd Golden Age Awards Annual Banquet (2014) • Pacesetter of the Year, National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (2001) • Public Service Award, Salvador Center (2014) • Lifetime Achievement Award, New York League of Puerto Rican Women, Inc. (2012) • Member CEO, RC-2020, Inc., Enhancing Leadership and Expanding Visions for Urban Community Colleges
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Pérez founded the BMCC Out in Two program, which provides scholarships and academic support enabling students to graduate in two years. Pérez led the creation of a partnership between BMCC and SUNY Empire State
College, so that BMCC graduates have a pathway to earn a bachelor's degree in an accredited distance-learning program, and he facilitated BMCC's role in the creation of the NYSIM (CUNY/NYU Langone Medical Center), which serves as a training site for BMCC allied health students, as well as for college students across New York City.
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when World Trade 7, across the street, collapsed and fell against it, causing irreparable damage. Fiterman Hall was closed and BMCC’s main campus building became a command center and staging area for about 2,000 rescue workers. Pérez, broadcasting live with CBS 2 reporter Lou Young on the roof of the BMCC main campus building, got the word out to the college’s then 16,000 students that BMCC would reopen on
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Antonio Pérez was born on
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He is also widely known for having shepherded the college community through the aftermath of the events of
September 11, 2001. BMCC is the only college in United States history to have lost a campus building to a terrorist attack. Fiterman Hall, a few blocks from BMCC's main campus, was destroyed
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The BMCC student body grew from over 16,300 in 1995, when Pérez came on board, to over 25,000 in Spring 2015, and the number of degree programs the college offers grew from 20 to 33 in that time. In Spring 2018, he retired from being president.
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