Date posted: October 26, 2018
Students enrolled in Cultural Awareness recently each crafted a poem about what makes them who they are. They shared their poems with each other in class to get feedback and created a final draft ready to display at this fall quarter's upcoming Share Night. Students begin their work in Cultural Awareness by looking inward at ...more about Where I Am From Poems
Date posted: October 24, 2018
The 2018 Special Olympics USA Games were held in Seattle, WA in July. Over 4,000 athletes and coaches gathered for the event, and among them were three OLS Bellevue College students: Miguel McCoy, William Miller, and Garrett Utz. All three of them earned medals, McCoy taking home gold in Golf and Miller and Utz earning ...more about OLS Students Compete at the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games
Date posted: October 23, 2018
OLS Students enrolled in Personal Finance recently participated in a "Virtual Shopping Spree" at the Crossroads Mall. For this activity students pretended it was the end of the summer, and they were going to do some back-to-school shopping. They were given a list of items to "buy" and a budget of $150. To successfully complete ...more about Virtual Shopping Spree
Date posted: October 17, 2018
Oct 8-12 marked the annual Homecoming celebration for Bellevue College, and OLS students and the North Campus came together to participate in Brutus' Food Drive Challenge. OLS Student Council rallied their fellow students, instructors, staff, and other North Campus members and collected 128 items this year. Although it wasn't enough to earn the traveling trophy ...more about OLS Students Collect Items for Food Drive
Date posted: October 15, 2018
First year students enrolled in Intro to Communications recently participated in a group activity to identify and explore communication styles in various contexts and environments. Knowing how to communicate with people in the right context for a given situation is an important skill, as there are often unspoken rules and standards that are just expected. ...more about Flipping the Switch
Date posted: October 10, 2018
Fourth year students enrolled in the Workplace Readiness course recently participated in an engaging group activity that asked them to compare personal values with the values of a corporation or business. They began by listing three of their personal values and meeting with a small group to discuss them. After the discussion the students were ...more about Work Values Group Activity
Date posted: October 8, 2018
Greetings OLS Community, My name is Pilar Lopez, and I am excited to announce that starting October 8, 2018, I will step into the role as Associate Dean of OLS Bellevue College. I have served the Occupational and Life Skills program as the Internship Coordinator since February 2014 and look forward to this new chapter. ...more about Meet Our New Associate Dean
Date posted: October 3, 2018
OLS students enrolled in our Environment & Our Community course are currently studying different types of environments. Last week they were excited to get out of the classroom for an activity that required them to utilize their critical thinking skills and apply what they've been learning in the classroom in the real world. The students ...more about Observing Environments
Date posted: October 1, 2018
If you've ever met second year student Alan, you know he has a passion for movies. What you may not know, though, is Alan runs a movie review Facebook page through his alias Tex Wilcox, The Movie Monitor. The Movie Monitor started in the winter of 2016 after Alan's uncle encouraged him to start it. ...more about Tex Wilcox: The Movie Monitor
Date posted: September 13, 2018
This week was our annual Orientation for OLS Bellevue College students. Incoming first year students spent two days on campus getting to know their fellow classmates, meeting OLS faculty and staff members, and checking out our campus. They also got to meet their student mentors who will be helping them navigate their first year in ...more about 2018 OLS Orientation
