Organization

Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) is a comprehensive community college offering associate’s degrees and certificate programs in the arts, sciences, and a variety of areas in workforce and technical education. Programs are offered across five divisions.

Divisions

Business and Law

Division Coordinator
nicholasa@mybrcc.edu
Mid City Campus, Louisiana 300
225-216-8154

Liberal Arts

Division Coordinator
liberalarts@mybrcc.edu
Mid City Campus, 3^rd Floor, Louisiana Building
225-216-8165

Nursing and Allied Health

Division Coordinator
hamptonc@mybrcc.edu
Mid City Campus
225-216-8044

S.T.E.M.

Division Coordinator
hickmans@mybrcc.edu
Mid City Campus, 2^nd Floor, Cypress Building
225-216-8226

Technical Education

Division Contact
jacksonn@mybrcc.edu
225-216-8659

Academic Programs

The college’s academic programs provide an education that enables students to succeed personally and professionally in a changing and complex global society. The academic programs are designed to prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions and/or entry into satisfying and rewarding careers. The college academic experience is designed to encourage truthfulness and expressions of ideas and opinions without constraints from political considerations, religious doctrine, economic pressure, or personal bias.

Academic Program Assessment

Each approved academic program at BRCC is involved in a thorough assessment regarding its content, outcomes, and demographic enrollment. The intent of the assessment is to maintain quality and make improvements as necessary. Academic program assessments are conducted each year and final reports are maintained according to policy.

Academic Program Development

Development of new academic programs is based upon long-range strategic planning and/or emerging community needs. Requests for new programs are directed to the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Workforce and Student Development for further consideration. Academic programs will be developed, added, expanded, or deleted in response to business and workforce needs.

For each proposed academic program, an initial assessment will be conducted. Assessment of the need for new programs will include projection of available and required resources, workforce and industry needs, identification of partners if appropriate, and collection of information required for feasibility of the suggested program(s).

Parts-of-Term

BRCC has several different parts-of-term within the same semester as follows:

Parts of Term Fall/Spring  

Parts of Tern Summer  

Committees

BRCC values the views, thoughts, and suggestions of the faculty, staff, and community members. A number of methods have been established to gather information from the college community. Committees may be college-wide, Faculty Senate committees, advisory to designated programs, and may be standing or task force groups. Adjunct and full-time faculty may request to be considered for assignment to a specific committee through the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Workforce and Student Development.

Faculty Senate

The Faculty Senate is an established mechanism for faculty members to address a variety of issues, including standards of instruction and general educational policy. The Faculty Senate serves as a liaison with other entities of the college.

The Faculty Senate is composed of members elected by their respective divisions. The election of members to the Senate is conducted each April. It is the Senate’s responsibility to determine and publish the method of nomination and election of its members.

Faculty Senate Committees

Standing Faculty Senate committees include:

• Assessment Committee
• Committee on Committees
• Curriculum Committee
• Elections Committee
• Faculty Grievance Committee
• General Education Committee
• Instructional Excellence Committee
• Library Committee
• Personnel Policies Committee

Advisory Committees

Community participation through Program Advisory Committees is an essential component to the continued success of the college’s educational programs. Seeking the advice and cooperation of the community in working toward common goals provides the best results in meeting the educational needs of the community. Program Advisory Committees are made up of program administrators, faculty, and individual members of the community who assist in researching, planning, and promoting effective programs designed to serve community economic development. Each academic program should have a Program Advisory Committee.

Task Forces

Task forces may be established for short-term projects or policy development. These groups are designed to facilitate the accomplishment of a specific charge and deactivated when the charge has been accomplished.

Academic Freedom and Responsibility

The Louisiana Community and Technical College System is committed to the principle of academic freedom. The principle acknowledges the right of a teacher to explore fully within the field of his/her subject as he/she believes to represent the truth. The principle also includes the right of a member of the academic staff of the System to exercise in speaking, writing, and action outside the System the ordinary rights of the American citizen, but it does not decrease the responsibility and accountability which the member of the academic staff bears to the system, the state, and the nation.

The academic freedom of faculty members is accompanied by equally compelling obligations and responsibilities to the profession, students, college, and community. Faculty members are afforded the rights of academic freedom while willingly accepting the responsibilities that follow.

Faculty members:

• should be judicious in the introduction of material in the classroom without forfeiting the instructional benefits of controversy;
• should not attempt to force a personal viewpoint on students;
• should recognize their responsibility to maintain competence in their disciplines; and
• should always make clear that the views they express are their own, and avoid creating the impression that they speak or act on behalf of the college.

Archiving of Records

Archiving provides orderly retention of division records, and serves as a means to collect, preserve, and make documentation readily available for approved personnel. Archived items include documents that reflect division activities, personnel documents, confidential faculty and student information, reports and data, course records, and other materials for the systematic administration of the division.

Each Academic Dean will assume responsibility for archiving important faculty, student and administrative information according to LCTCS Policy 4.010.