Bossier Parish Community College is in compliance with this comprehensive standard because the College's continuing education, outreach, and service programs are consistent with its mission. As part of its mission, BPCC provides "instruction and service to its community" through the following programs: Community Education, Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Workplace Literacy (WPL), Project Mothers on the Move (MOMS), and Project Reading Enhances Adult Development (READ) General Catalog 88,90.

Community Education offers a wide variety of affordable non-credit programs, as evidenced in the Non-Credit Schedule, to meet the diverse needs of the community. Community Education provides leisure learning opportunities in arts and crafts, music and dance, special interest, health and fitness, financial planning, sports and recreation. Community Education provides professional development opportunities through skills training, certification and license prep courses, computer courses, and continuing education. Community Education also provides a wide variety of online training courses for personal and professional development. The non-credit schedule is published each semester and distributed to selected zip codes. Annual Report 89.

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) 94 promotes educational opportunities and customized training for at-risk youth in Bossier and Caddo parishes to help them transition into the workforce. The program provides the underserved population with the tools needed to continue their education through short-term workforce training for long-term employment. Training includes GED preparation, job readiness training, approved short-term training through Community Education non-credit courses, as well as academic certificates and degrees in high-demand occupations, and as evidenced in WIA Monitoring Reports.

Workplace Literacy (WPL) 113-114 has an open admissions policy and offers, without discrimination, the opportunity for individuals to obtain assessments of current skill levels, work skill upgrades, and adult remediation in preparation for the GED. The program offers employers useful tools to identify qualified job applicants. In addition, it ascertains the skills one needs to be successful on the job and determines where additional training is needed to develop a higher caliber workforce.

Project MOMS' (Mothers on the Move) primary goal is to assist welfare mothers and other females living in subsidized housing by giving them the opportunity to further their education and secure a better future for themselves and their children. Its intent is to break the cycle of dependence on public assistance. Project MOMS provides career counseling, pre-GED classes, remedial writing, reading and math skills, and English as a Second Language. Supportive services, such as child-care and transportation assistance, are also provided for qualifying individuals. Services are reported in the College Annual Report 95-98.

Project READ 88 (Reading Enhances Adult Development) is a literacy program designed to train tutors to teach adult non-readers basic reading skills. Through its training workshops, it teaches individuals to become literacy tutors using the Laubach Way to Read methods. Project READ tutors help adult non-readers in the community to reach at least the fifth-grade level in reading, they prepare them to enter the GED program, and they tutor adult dyslexics using the "A Different Way to Learn" method.

Bossier Parish Community College's mission is, in part, to provide "instruction and service to its community." Continuing education, outreach, and service programs are essential to this institution's mission to meet the needs of the community. Through the Workforce Investment Act, Workplace Literacy, Project MOMs, and Project READ, the College endeavors to create an environment that encourages personal development, not only in an academic venue, but, also, within those communities that often remain underserved by higher education.