• New technology deployment in every classroom: – Installation of 70-inch flat-screen monitors/TVs in each and every classroom
– Ceiling projectors and pull-down screens with all wires eliminated
– Faculty and students can now display their com- puter desktops on the new monitors via “Apple TV” technology, wirelessly
• New technology for incoming freshmen: – Apple laptops and iPads for each freshman stu- dent. Upper classmen continue to use their Lenovo laptops through graduation. Prospec- tively, we are and will become an “Apple” school with each new arriving freshman class.
– Deployment of e-textbooks for many freshman courses. The textbooks are on iPads, thereby reducing the size and/or weight of freshman backpacks!
• New, state-of-the-art BCTV broadcast studio, lo- cated in a new, dedicated room within the BC li- brary. This new facility brings us into the 21st century for television production initiatives within the BC community and beyond.
• New generator deployments that now protect both the school’s main facilities and the offices and Brothers’ residences in Monastery Hall in the case of power outages. No more 100-year events that place the school out of business for electrical rea- sons for days on end!
• Finally, the invisible, but important area of financial aid resources, especially as tuition rates continue their inevitable growth each year. In 2013–2014, the school made available the following financial aid to families with demonstrated need:
–More than $900,000 in financial aid awards to nearly 20 percent of our students
– Average award totaled $6,169 (up from $5,310 in 2012–2013)
– Sources of financial aid include budgeted finan- cial aid, expendable financial aid from donor in- vestments, and financial aid generated from the school’s growing endowment fund.
Look for our 2013–2014 Annual Stewardship Report
later this year for further updates and, of course, further recognition of and thanks to our growing donor base of alumni, current and past parents, and friends of Bergen Catholic High School. Without you, little of what we have summarized above would have been possible. It re- mains a fact that tuition rates simply pay the bills to bal- ance the books, and tuition dollars still come up short each year. That cost is carried primarily by our current parents, some of whom make extraordinary sacrifices for their son’s BC education. It is the generous support of our donors, year after year, that makes all the “extras” (some described above) happen in ways that enrich stu- dent life and learning opportunities—academics, spiri- tual growth, athletic competition, social consciousness, internationality, and leadership skills—continue to ex- pand and flourish. For that, again, we say: “Thank you, thank you,
thank you!”
Joseph L. Branciforte ’64, P ’03 Vice President for Advancement
Zeke Rodgers ’92 Associate Director of Advancement
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