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Sept. 18 , 2007
Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu
BCC names Star Rush to direct
Center for Liberal Arts
BELLEVUE, WASH.– Star Hang Nga Rush, of the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, has been named director of the Center for Liberal Arts at Bellevue Community College (BCC).
Established in 2002, the Center for Liberal arts enriches the BCC educational experience through programs that expand civic engagement and multicultural and interdisciplinary learning. Among other programs, the Center hosts an International Scholar-in-Residence on campus each year, involves community civic scholars in campus life through its Fellows program and presents civic speakers and events through its Hands-On Democracy series.
Prior to joining BCC, Rush was an associate professor of English composition
and director of the writing center at Cornish College of the Arts.
Earlier in her career she served as assistant director of composition and
an English instructor at Western Washington University.
Rush has earned several awards for teaching and mentoring, including the Women of Color Empowerment Award and the Post-M.A. Award in Composition Studies and Teaching from Western Washington University.
Rush is a poet and an author of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her writing has been published in the Hawaii
Review and the feminist quarterly, Fireweed, among other publications.
Her multimedia, cross-genre collaboration with Spanish dancer and choreographer
Pilar Villeneuva, “Attention (@10she1!),” premiered last spring at Seattle’s
On The Boards contemporary performance center.
Rush earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Western Washington
University.
Information on the Center for Liberal Arts’s activities is available on-line at www.bellevuecollege.edu\liberalarts.
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