Major News (Click on headline for full story) Sciences get new $34 million facility
March 13, 2009, Bellevue Reporter    Sparks were flying and beakers bubbling as Bellevue Community College opened its new $34 million science building with tours and lab demonstrations on Mar. 11.    BCC now has 11 instructional buildings on its 96-acre campus in southeast Bellevue.    The newest facility, a three-story, 64,000-square foot complex dubbed the “S Building,” is home to life sciences and chemistry programs. Full story....		BCC's new "S Building," housing life sciences and chemistry programs, is the college's eleventh instructional facility.    The building's exterior design minimizes the “heat island effect,” in which a building reflects heat from the sun back into the atmosphere, affecting local climates.
BCC wants more 4-year degrees
Feb. 5, 2009, Seattle Times     (AP)The president of Bellevue Community College says she doesn't have any plans to transform the large commuter school into a four-year university across Lake Washington from the University of Washington, but she is asking lawmakers to allow her school to offer more advanced degrees.    Full story…    Related stories:   Higher Education Fight in Olympia    Feb. 6, 2009, KUOW 94.9 FM    Editorial: BCC's makeover could end up a beauty    Feb. 5, 2009, Seattle Times Update: 2009 legislation to provide BCC authority to offer more four-year degrees died in legislative committee.
Akrem Rebhi	Fulbright program brings Tunisian scholar-in-residence to BCC Oct. 3, 2008     For the sixth consecutive year Bellevue Community College (BCC) is welcoming an International Scholar in Residence under the auspices of the prestigious Fulbright academic exchange programs of the U.S. State Department.     This year’s Fulbright award has brought Akrem Rebhi, of the North African country of Tunisia, to BCC for the 2008-09 school year. Full story...
Student Success News Drama students, play honored by Kennedy Center Feb. 5, 2009     The Washington, D.C.-based John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has awarded Certificates of Merit to four Bellevue Community College drama students.     The Center also selected BCC’s production of the play, “7 Minutes to Midnight,” by BCC instructor and professional playwright/director Dennis Schebetta, to be performed at the Center’s American College Theatre Region VII Festival Feb. 16-20.     Full story...

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The Eastside Moving Company
(dance) 8 p.m. 

May 6
BCC Foundation Annual Luncheon
11:30 a.m.

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