Oct 16, 2024  
2024-2025 General Catalog 
    
2024-2025 General Catalog

Adult Education and College Transition Programs


Program for Successful Employment

Location     D-134

STAFF

Bobbie Brown, Transition Specialist
Wardena Jenkins, Transition Coordinator
 

Through the Program for Successful Employment (PSE), Bossier Parish Community College offers vocational training for people with Significant Disabilities. While targeting student strengths and interests, PSE provides flexible and innovative instruction in the essential and technical skills needed to obtain and maintain employment. Our students are willing to learn and able to work!

Find out more information by visiting the PSE website https://www.bpcc.edu/pse.

College Transition Programs

Location: D-145

Phone: 318-678-6326

STAFF

Justin Tison, Director
Stephen Chisley, Assistant Director
Amanda Reese, Program Assistant
Hayley Clark, Adult Education Enrollment Coordinator
Mark Hux, English Language Services (ELS) Coordinator/English as a Second Language (ESL) Instructor
Yolanda Rivera, Spanish Program Coordinator/Instructor
Daniel Atkinson, Instructor
Kip Lyles, Instructor
Jacqueline McMichael, Instructor
Jennifer Amatya, Instructor
Melissa Noguez-Barrera, Program Assistant
Abby Rubel, Instructor 
Abigail Jackson, Instructor
Gwendolyn Vaughn, Instructor

The College Transition Programs department provides instruction, college and career readiness training, and support to local residents seeking skills and credentials for a better quality of life. The knowledge and professional skills gained within our programs enable participants to succeed in post-secondary education and in the global job market.

Find more information go to https://www.bpcc.edu/college-transition-programs.

High School Equivalency

College and Career Readiness

College Transition Programs provides instructional services assisting students in increasing reading, writing and math skills from basic literacy to college ready. 

High School Equivalency courses are available in English, Spanish, and online. For your convenience, classes are offered morning and evening at multiple locations, including:

      Bossier Parish Community College, 6220 E. Texas St., D-145, Bossier City, LA 71111

      Goodwill Industries, 800 West 70th St., Shreveport, LA 71108

English Language Services

This program provides instruction toward becoming more proficient in the English language so that students may be successful in the classroom, the workplace, and other social surroundings where English is used.

The ELS program at BPCC offers English classes for beginning, intermediate and advanced level students. The classes emphasize the language, culture, and study skills needed to be successful in the American college classroom and beyond.

Enrollment is each Friday, with the exception of holidays, at 8:30am.

Sessions run every eight weeks, according to the following schedule: 
                     August-October                      January- March
                    October-December                     March-May

Find more information call 318-678-6326.