Guide to Online Resources

Welcome

This guide is to help you find the information, resources, and services that you may need to feel part of this diverse community, to learn the basics more quickly, and to become more productive sooner. Your supervisor and colleagues are also sources of information—be sure to ask them when you have questions.

We encourage you to bookmark Agora Portal, which combines the features of Agora services and the Boston College Info resources. BCInfo not only keeps you up-to-day on what's happening on campus, it is the gateway to information and resources. You may want to try Learn Our Web to get an overview. Here is a selection of essential, necessary, and useful information and resources.

Getting Started
Expand Your Campus Horizons
Campus Affinity Groups
Things To Do
Featured Policies and Procedures
About Boston College

   Getting Started

• How do I get my BC ID?
• How do I get my user name and password?
• How do I get my campus parking permit?
• What Agora services are available to me? 
• Who is my Technology Local Consultant?
• New Employee Technology Essentials
• Telephone and Voice Mail Services
• Information Technology Resources
• E-mail
• Software supported at BC
• Procurement Services for Purchasing Card, or American Express Card and travel information
• PeopleSoft Financials
• Environmental Health & Safety Office for health and safety training, information, or compliance assistance.
• Student Services Office for University academic policies, registration and course descriptions
• Online services for BC community
• Emergency Closings
• Emergency Preparedness for information about existing campus safety procedures, guidelines for responding to and staying informed in the event of an emergency, links to on and off-campus resources and general tips for making safe choices every day.
• Boston College Police Department
• Human Resources Web site
• Employee Development Programs for professional development workshops and programs

   Expand Your Campus Horizons

• Schedule a tour through the Undergraduate Admission Office or take a pictorial campus tour.
• Check out Dining Service for dining hall menus, hours, and locations 
• Visit the libraries.
• Join the Flynn Recreation Complex for a variety of programs, classes, and services for every fitness level.
• Recite the A-B-Cs of BC: A University Lexicon
• Learn about volunteer/service activities on campus--great way to involved and meet new people.
• Keep current with University news and view issues of the Chronicle, Boston College's newspaper for faculty and staff, on the Office of Public Affairs Web page.
• View Front Row for streaming media to tapes of University cultural and scholarly events.

   Campus Affinity Groups

• Black Faculty, Staff, Administrators Association
• Staff Advisory Senate
• Lesbian and Gay Faculty, Staff, Administrators Association
• Latino/as at Boston College
• Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Employees

   Things To Do

• Calendars for information on lectures, concerts, literary and musical events, among the many
• Robsham Theater Arts Center
• McMullen Museum of Art
• Boston College Athletics for sporting events schedules and tickets, and related events and activities
• Links to BC Arts Programs for information on music, theater, fine arts, concerts, and special events

   Featured Policies and Procedures

• Employee Handbook
• Information Security and Internal Control Awareness
• Boston College Policies and Procedures Manual
• Policy Against Discriminatory Harassment

   About Boston College

• About Boston College
• Strategic Plan
• Factbook
• Boston College Campus Maps
• Jesuit Community
• Center for Ignatian Spirituality
• Student Clubs and Organizations
• Offices, Services, and Resources
• Woods College of Advancing Studies
• Academic Departments and Programs
• Faculty Handbook
• Faculty Services and Resources