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. 

Student Information Desk - Talk to an Expert Now (Zoom)

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 Page

DSPS Email: dspsdesk@bakersfieldcollege.edu

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

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 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).

Academic Integrity Page

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.

Counseling & Advising Page

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.