Support For you
Student Information Desk
Do you have a quick question about your Financial Aid or Registration? Need to be pointed in the right direction of what to do? Has your email not been answered yet? The Student Information Desk helps students communicate faster with various BC staff from around the campus.
Technology Help
If you are having difficulty using either Canvas or ConferZoom, contact the Renegade Hub. The hub is open most business hours in many different formats!
Call: (661) 395-4477
You can request a Zoom session if you'd prefer.
DSPS
The Disabled Students Program and Services (DSPS) can assist you in providing equal access to educational opportunities. DSPS provides reasonable accommodations to students with documented physical, mental health, and learning disabilities who are enrolled in classes at Bakersfield College. They provide accommodations and support services which may include, liaison with California State Department of Rehabilitation and other community resources, test-taking assistance, special equipment, mobility assistance, note-taking, assistive computer technology, special classes, sign language interpreters, written materials in an alternate format, and learning disability assessment. These services are intended to prepare and support students to participate on an equal basis with their non-disabled peers.
DSPS Email: dspsdesk@bakersfieldcollege.edu
Tutoring Center
The BC Tutoring Center is a student success service that provides FREE tutoring to all currently enrolled BC Students. Our one-on-one Peer Tutors, who are trained and certified, can assist you with many courses. Check them out!
Student Health Center
On campus, you will find some basic medical health services and assistance are provided to you from the Student Health & Wellness Center, please call (661) 395-4336 or email BCStudentHealth@bakersfieldcollege.edu to set up a private and confidential zoom meeting with one of our clinicians. We provide the following services:
Tele-mental health
COVID-19 Community Forum
Advice Nurse Services
COVID Advice line
Referral to Community Resources
Financial Aid
Have questions about your financial aid? Click Here to get more information and ways to contact your financial aid team.
Renegade Pantry
In addition to sanitation protocols, the Office of Student Life continues to provide food, hygiene products, and clothes items through the “Renegade Pantry.” Students can stop by the Pantry at Student Life in Levinson Hall to receive your non-perishable food items. This includes limited supplies from the Renegade Cabinet (hygiene products) and Renegade Closet items.
Academic Resources
This BC Page had LOADS of resources to help you succeed in your courses this semester! While most are free, some may have additional costs.
Academic Integrity & Plagiarism
Academic integrity includes cheating, fabricating or falsifying information or sources, improper collaboration, submitting the same paper for different classes without permission, and plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when writers deliberately or unintentionally use another person's language, ideas, or materials and present them as their own without properly acknowledging and citing the source. Academic Integrity and Plagiarism in this course results in one or more of the following consequences: failure of the assignment, referral to the Dean of Instruction, and/or disciplinary actions by the Director Student Life. Cite sources carefully, completely, and meticulously; when in doubt, cite. Familiarize yourself with BC’s Student Code of Conduct and KCCD’s definitions of plagiarism and cheating (KCCD Board Policy 4F7D; pg. 115).
Undocumented Student Resources
Bakersfield College is committed to supporting our undocumented students and has implemented Project Conexiones. Project Conexiones aims to build BC student leadership, capacity, and community awareness using funds from The California Catalyst Grant, made possible by Immigrants Rising.
Our goal is to develop student leadership amongst our undocumented student population and provide support to secure academic success. By increasing outreach, digital resources, and expanding support to students and their families, BC hopes to empower and engage students and community members to advance the educational access and attainment for undocumented students throughout Kern County.
Counseling
If you need advising help or need to update an Ed plan, contact the counseling department. See the list of counselors and how to get in touch with any of the counselors by clicking the link below.
Student Government Association
Would you like to be part of the governing body that serves and voices students' opinions!? Do you want to be part of a team that hosts phenomenal activities and events for the students!? Then BCSGA is the place for you to impact our community! Email studentlife@bakersfieldcollege.edu for more information.
Office of Student Life
The Office of Student Life hosts graduate students who are attaining their master’s in social work. They are student interns working for Dr. Nicky Damania in the Office of Student Life. Their main mission is to help students to succeed by providing wrap-around services to college students by connecting them to public benefits, institution and community resources, and addressing non-academic barriers that may hinder a student from achieving academic success. They are part of the college’s response team and are mandatory reporters. They also are standing members of the Students of Concern (SOC) team who meet weekly with other BC Staff members to discuss issues that may affect a student’s well-being and self-efficacy such as fair and equal access to financial aid services, employment, disability, and health services.
Extended Opportunity Program and Services
The Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) Office, located on the east wing of the second floor of the Center for Student Success building (CSS) on BC's main campus, offers several programs that provide additional assistance for Bakersfield College students to succeed in college. It is a state funded program that serves educationally and financially disadvantaged students. Other programs offered by this office are provided for single parents, foster students and more.