Haley Duval, Editor-in-Chief

May 20, 2020 • No Comments

The Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (The RP Group) held a panel via Zoom, "The Truth about Transfer: What Students Say They Need to Get Through the Gate," on May 19, to discuss its study on students' transfer capacity, and students transfer experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The RP Group is a non-profit, non-partisan team of the board of directors and staff to increase success for California Community College students.  From the RP Group website, "The study focuses on the Central Valley and Inland Empire as students in these regions have lower college completion and transfer rates, which suggests that they may face unique challenges along their transfer journey." The panel included RP Groups' Alyssa...

Mariah Arviso, Reporter

May 12, 2020 • No Comments

The Chancellor of California Community Colleges, Eloy Oakley, held a student media teleconference, on May 12, to provide an update on the future for community colleges during the COVID-19 pandemic.   The majority of colleges moved to online distant learning as the pandemic progressed. Chancellor Oakley wanted to explain to all faculty and students that his offices will continue to provide the support needed to continue online classes during this time.  “We are telling our colleges to prepare to continue to expand their online instruction through the fall semester. While things are improving..., we expect there will be physical distancing protocols for the foreseeable future,” Oakley said.   There was no permanent solution found for...

Angel Magdaleno

May 6, 2020 • No Comments

More than 360 participants joined in via Zoom for the all campus forum. The forum took place on May 6, with a group of panel speakers to talk about the protocols that Bakersfield College will implement for the summer and fall sessions.  The panel speakers included BC President Sonya Christian, Executive Director of Facilities Bill Potter, Interim Director of the Health Center Cindy Collier, Faculty Chair of Physical Science Kenward Vaughn, and Faculty of Kinesiology Zach Peters.  Christian started off the forum with an update on COVID-19 cases with statistics from John Hopkins University. She then went on to say that BC will continue monitoring the status of COVID-19 cases in order to further protect BC students and faculty.  “Students,...