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Bossier Parish Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Bossier Parish Community College is a two-year, coeducational public institution located in Bossier City, Louisiana. Created by the Louisiana legislature in 1966, the College serves both traditional and non-traditional students from Northwest Louisiana and the surrounding area. Bossier Parish Community College offers programs leading to academic certificates and associate degrees, in addition to courses for transfer and non-credit. The College has an open-admissions policy and offers to individuals, without discrimination, the opportunity to pursue a variety of educational goals at a reasonable cost.
• A joint resolution of the Louisiana legislature created Bossier Parish Community College as a pilot program. The purpose of the program was to determine a need for, and feasibility of, establishing two-year commuter colleges throughout the state. The College held classes for the first time during the fall of 1967 with 101 students and a faculty of five full-time and three part-time instructors.
• Bossier Parish Community College has a long tradition of innovation, flexibility, and sensitivity to student needs. The College maintains an educational environment which promotes integrity and inquiry in students, without emphasis on past academic performance; encourages the achievement of full potential and the pursuit of lifelong learning; and promotes continuous improvement and accountability with an effective program for planning, managing, and assessing services and programs of the College.
• Bossier Parish Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate degree and certificate.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Haynesville Shale activity creates options (The Shreveport Times)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 10:31:48 am
  While the economic downturn has slowed oil and natural gas activity throughout most of the country, the Haynesville Shale has kept companies in northwest Louisiana. And they all need qualified workers.
• Holiday Food Drive Underway (KTAL Shreveport)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 01:11:22 am
  The Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana is asking for donations.
• Bossier residents give input on proposed layoffs (KTBS Shreveport)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 02:58:44 pm
   Citizens unhappy about dozens of proposed layoffs in city government addressed the Bossier City Council about their concerns during an agenda meeting on Tuesday.   Mayor Lo Walker has proposed laying off up to 88 city employees in order to deal with a projected $6.5 million deficit in the city budget. The majority of those layoffs would come from the police and fire departments, the city's ...
• Bossier council hears from citizens about layoffs (KTBS Shreveport)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 11:28:42 pm
    Citizens unhappy about dozens of proposed layoffs in city government addressed the Bossier City Council about their concerns during an agenda meeting today.   Mayor Lo Walker has proposed laying off up to 88 city employees in order to deal with a projected $6.5 million deficit in the city budget. The majority of those layoffs would come from the police and fire departments, the city's largest ...
• Veterans Day parade held at BPCC (Bossier Press-Tribune)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 09:29:09 pm
  Shreveport and Bossier City celebrated Vetera’s Day early Saturday by holding the area’s first Veterans Day Parade and Massig of Colors. Hundreds of soldiers past, present, and future marched around the Bossier Parish Community College campus.

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