The Office Procedures and Customer Service spring course would like to thank OLS Bellevue College Board Member John Piazzini and the Seattle Marriott Redmond hotel staff for an educational and inspiring class visit on Exceptional Customer Service. The students learned about the Marriott's core values: putting people first, pursuing excellence, embracing change, acting with integrity, ...more about Customer Service Advice from Seattle Marriott Redmond
This spring our Environment and Our Community course students put what they learned in the previous two quarters into practice by teaming up with Forterra to complete a 6-week service learning project doing environmental stewardship at Idylwood Park. It is an excellent opportunity to use their knowledge of habitats, flora, fauna, and pollution to be ...more about Environmental Stewardship at Idylwood Park
This spring students in the Office Procedures and Customer Service class enjoyed a group activity working in small groups to assemble the phrases in a way that completes the sentence, "Customer service means _____." The objective was to help students understand the meaning of serving customers. A few examples included: Doing ordinary things extraordinarily well ...more about What Customer Service Means
OLS Bellevue College Student and 2018 Special Olympics USA Games athlete Garrett Utz recently got to hang out with Jordan Morris of the Seattle Sounders FC as part of a series of videos put together by Visit Seattle. The videos featured Special Olympians talking with pro athletes from the Seattle area about the power of ...more about Garrett Utz Talks Support With Jordan Morris
A few OLS students attended the annual Bellevue College Student Life Summer Retreat at Camp Casey in June. Camp Casey is an overnight camp where students are encouraged to build relationships and trust within a group environment, all while learning about their own strengths, values, and leadership styles. At the retreat students learn fundamental leadership ...more about Student Stories: Student Life Summer Retreat
In Critical Thinking through Media, students learn how they are being influenced by the media. During the course they learn the different persuasion techniques used by marketers to encourage them to buy their product. For their final project, students create a commercial that advertises the OLS program. The commercial allows them to speak of their ...more about Student Stories: OLS Commericals
The Community Activity in Critical Thinking through Science was the annual visit from Dr. Anthony Tessandori, from the Bellevue College Anthropology Department. As always, Dr. Tessandori brought along an impressive array of model skulls (which he created on a 3-D printer) to show the evolution of homo sapiens from our ancestors. To their stories, he ...more about Student Stories: Visit from Dr. Anthony Tessandori
3rd year students completed mock interviews May 2. In class they reviewed interviewers’ comments and reflected on their mock interview experience. Talk about one thing you learned about yourself after participating in the Mock Interviews: I learned that it is important to be yourself and shorter responses. That I am a warm person …. that ...more about Student Stories: Mock Interview Reflections
Students from Learning Strategies in the College Environment spent time this quarter researching the theory of Multiple Intelligences. After their research they reflected on what they learned about their own strengths and helped others identify theirs. Outcomes of the project were shared with the OLS community. Learning Strategies ...more about Student Stories: Learning Strategies Research Project
Students enrolled in the Personal Finance course participated in their Community Activity at a local Safeway. The activity gave students the experience of working with a grocery list and staying within a budget. Students prioritized their lists by identifying items on list as either wants or needs and making choices of what to buy and what to save ...more about Student Stories: Budgeting Groceries
