Raul Padilla, Reporter

October 29, 2021 • No Comments

BC’s academic senate virtually gathered to discuss the possibility of changing the academic calendar. This would be done with the introduction of a winter intersession that would change the structure of the year. The virtual meeting took place on Wednesday, Oct. 20. The idea was introduced by Dean Bill Mosely, who had been tasked with researching the idea of the winter intersession. Mosely’s job was to find a way to relieve bottlenecks in programs with multi-course prerequisite sequences in STEM fields, most notably the Biology department which was stated to need this aid the most. The plan is to incorporate this new structure to help these fields in the 2022-2033 academic year. Proposed to the academic senate were three drafts:...

Teresa Balmori Perez, Copy Editor

October 11, 2021 • No Comments

Bakersfield College has expanded its four-year Bachelor’s program in Industrial Automation to include high school students.   The program is offered at different locations including McFarland High School, Shafter High School, Wasco High School, Robert F. Kennedy High School, Bakersfield High School, Stockdale High School, and West High School. They will also offer the program at the Regional Occupational Center.  Students who wish to participate in the program could expect to complete their Bachelor’s degree in less than four years if they’re enrolled as a full-time student, according to Carlos Medina, a Program Manager at BC.  “After they graduate high school, they should be able to have their Associate’s degree in Industrial...

Nick Covello, Editor-in-chief

October 6, 2021 • No Comments

 Bakersfield College hosted a grand opening ceremony for its first peace garden, which is in front of the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library, on Oct. 4. In October of 2019, former BC President and current KCCD Chancellor Sonya Christian had a talk with Arun Manilal Gandhi and Dr. Naina Patel after BC’s tribute to Gandhi at the Delano campus, which led to her envisioning peace gardens around the BC campus.  Two years later, the garden was finally opened in the same spot where that meeting took place. BC Anthropology Professor Krista Moreland was the first to speak, where she introduced fellow speakers Lindsay Ono, BC Professor of Agriculture, Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg, KCCD trustee, Edith Mata, BCSGA President, Sudha Bhatt, a representative from...