BRCC Faculty Handbook

Preface

This Faculty Handbook has been created to provide all faculty with a ready-reference manual to Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) and its policies and procedures. You are encouraged to use this handbook in conjunction with the current edition of the BRCC College Catalog and Louisiana Community and Technical College System’s (LCTCS) Policies.

This publication should be viewed as dynamic and subject to change without prior notice. The information in this handbook may at any time be superseded by changes in BRCC Policy or other current college-related documents. This handbook and other college documents may be accessed on BRCC’s website (www.mybcc.edu).

Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS)

The LCTCS* Board of Supervisors, created in 1999, serves as the management board of Louisiana’s two-year institutions. The colleges that make up the LCTCS are:

• Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge
• Bossier Parish Community College, Shreveport
• Central Louisiana Technical Community College, Alexandria
• Delgado Community College, New Orleans
• L.E. Fletcher Technical and Community College, Houma
• Louisiana Delta Community College, Monroe
• Northshore Technical Community College, Bogalusa
• Northwest Louisiana Technical College, Minden
• Nunez Community College, Chalmette
• River Parishes Community College, Sorrento
• South Central Louisiana Technical College, Morgan City
• South Louisiana Community College, Lafayette
• Sowela Technical and Community College, Lake Charles

Vision

The vision of LCTCS is to educate and train 220,000 Louisiana citizens by the year 2025 in state-of-the-art facilities and prepare them to enter the workforce or transfer to a four-year college or university. We believe our vision will help solve problems faced by employers, build strong communities, strengthen our state’s economy, and create a growing middle class.

Mission

The mission of the LCTCS is to improve the quality of life of the State’s citizens through educational programs offered through our colleges. We strive to increase the opportunities for Louisiana’s workforce to succeed through skills training programs and we work to provide our citizens the opportunity to learn continuously. We are committed to teaching what is needed, when it is needed, and where it is needed within available resources.

Philosophy

LCTCS is dedicated to providing assistance and leadership to enable our colleges to develop and assist students in achieving personal, professional, and academic success.

• We offer degrees that help people move directly into the world of work.
• We retrain people who are changing jobs or those that have lost their jobs and need new skills.
• We provide learning resources for students that need them.
• We prepare students to transfer to four-year colleges and universities.
• We offer courses focusing on people’s interests whether it is how to use a computer, how to paint or draw, or speak conversational French and Spanish.
• In addition to providing general education and workforce training curriculums, our colleges provide training and/or retraining for Louisiana’s employees through the Incumbent Worker Training Program.
• Our colleges are open admissions institutions, meaning that there are no restrictive requirements that would prohibit student entry.

*Information on LCTCS, the system Vision, Mission, and Philosophy are retrieved from the LCTCS 2020-2025 Strategic Plan, located here.

The College

Mission Statement

The mission of Baton Rouge Community College is to be the preferred provider of talent for a global marketplace.

Vision Statement

To be the leader in providing world-class educational opportunities for our community.

World-class is

• Excellence in teaching
• Access for all
• A sustaining resource for the economic development of the state of Louisiana

Value Proposition

Baton Rouge Community College provides excellent value to our students, business and industry partners, and community. Our graduates’ average starting salary is $46,300, and we provide $297 million annual impact on the Greater Baton Rouge and Sate of Louisiana economies.

Our Values

Trust
Accountability
Collaboration
Innovation
Distinctiveness
Inspiration

BRCC Strategic Initiative, 2023-2028

The full strategic plan document is available here, but the focus of the plan is outlined below.

Student Success

Ensure our students are highly skilled and prepared to gain employment in high-wage and high-demand employment fields.

Employee Success

Recruit, hire, and onboard qualified and mission-committed employees. Develop pathways to advancement that support employees to continuously grow and develop personally and professionally in their field, to live the mission of the institution to connect to their purpose and to believe that the work that they do is meaningful.

Financial and Operational Sustainability

Design a contemporary business model to strategically invest in innovative and creative learning and training opportunities, engaging employee experiences, and equitable systems, policies, and practices.

Quality Communication

Share information so that the right message gets to the right people in a timely way for consensus building, decision making, and/or action.