Division of Business

Office Location: Building G, Room 142

Phone: 318-678-6011

Email: business@bpcc.edu

Mission of the Division of Business

The mission of the Division of Business at Bossier Parish Community College is to provide an outstanding faculty and educational facility to foster a creative environment for collaborative learning and innovative thinking for the citizens of Northwest Louisiana. We will impart excellent instruction in the areas of accounting, business administration, culinary arts, economics, health care management, legal assistant, management, and marketing. Our division will be at the forefront of technology, business, culinary arts, and Healthcare Management to prepare our students to succeed in a dynamic world, and we will serve our community through cooperative partnerships with local businesses and organizations.

The Division of Business offers the Associate of Applied Science in Business Administration and the Associate of Science in Health Care Management. The Division offers Certificates of Technical Studies in Accounting Technology: Account Clerk, Business Entrepreneurship, Culinary Arts, Legal Assistant and Retail Management. Career and Technical Certificates include Basic Management and Bookkeeping.

Certificate of Technical Studies

The Division offers five Certificates of Technical Studies that enable students to develop their academic and vocational skills to compete in a technological society. Certificates of Technical Studies are one-year programs that prepare students for job-specific skills. The Certificates of Technical Studies offered through the Division of Business are Accounting Technology: Account Clerk, Business Entrepreneurship, Culinary Arts and Legal Assistant and Retail Management.

Students entering any of the certificate programs will need:

• High school diploma or a Louisiana High School Equivalency.
• College transcripts (if applicable).
• Placement of participants in various levels of the program will be determined by ACT scores or by placement exams.
• Students must meet prerequisites before enrolling in any given course.

Information on Certified Professional Secretary Credit Examination

Up to 18 hours may be awarded to a student who successfully passes the Certified Professional Secretary examination and certified Administrative Professional examinations, which are administered by the International Association of Administrative Professionals. For more information on this policy, students may contact the Division Office (318-678-6011).

Dean

Peggy Fuller, Assistant Professor

Staff

Lisa Fincher, Administrative Assistant III

Faculty

Professors

Raymond Gaines, Assistant Dean/Health Care Management Program Director
Michelle Grant, Business Program Director

Associate Professor

Leonard Osborne

Assistant Professors

Elisabeth Cason
Stacey Crawford
Becky Turberville
George Valcho

Instructors

Julie Dupont, Culinary Arts Program Director
Joseph Halliday
Nathanial Manning
Delbert Shorb
Mark Starrett

Programs

• Business Administration, AAS

• Louisiana Transfer - Business Concentration, AALT

• Health Care Management, Health Studies Concentration, AS
• Health Care Management, Professional Practice Concentration, AS

• Accounting Technology: Account Clerk, CTS
• Business Entrepreneurship, CTS
• Culinary Arts, CTS
• Legal Assistant, CTS
• Retail Management, CTS

• Basic Management, CTC
• Bookkeeping,CTC