Spring 2014 Issue

Veterans Get Help at Bellevue College

Since the Post 9/11– G.I. Bill was passed in the fall of 2008, Bellevue College has responded by adding more services for veterans. Federal education benefits for veterans represent a substantial investment by the government and by veterans in time and effort. But veterans can encounter serious obstacles as they adjust to academic life and ...

Underserved Group Excels In and Out of the Classroom

A program as unique as its students. On the second floor, of an otherwise unassuming office building at Bellevue, Donna Hudson is leading a lecture on environment and community. It’s the type of scene you’d expect to see in a movie depicting college life: the professor asks a question of the class and in short ...

A College is Born

In 1957, when the entire population of the Eastside was only 22,000, a community college planning committee of Eastside citizens and school district officials was formed. That committee made enough progress in five years that voters in 1962 passed a $575,000 levy to establish a junior college. In 2013, the BC gymnasium could no longer ...

Involvement Adds Value to Students’ College Experience

“One of the reasons Bellevue College is such an outstanding place to be a student is that there are so many opportunities for involvement,” said recent BC grad Sophia Trinh, of Bellevue. Besides theatrical groups, musical ensembles, and athletics there are about 90 diverse campus organizations. Students involvement in campus clubs is not just for ...

Project Management Students Help Farmers Market Host Successful Fundraiser

Last Spring, students in BCs Continuing Education Project Management Practicum developed a plan for a Fall fundraising event for the Mercer Island Farmers Market. In the Practicum, CE’s Project Management Certificate capstone course, students form a team and apply skills, techniques, and concepts acquired from the program’s earlier classes to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and ...