Contact: Bob Adams (425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu
Eastern Washington University bachelor’s degree in technology offered on BCC campus
BELLEVUE, WASH. – Eastern Washington University (EWU) and Bellevue Community
College (BCC) are teaming up to offer a four-year, EWU bachelor’s degree
in technology on the BCC campus.
The bachelor’s in technology is intended to prepare students to participate
in the workforce at the middle-management level in network service, maintenance
and support.
Opening Sept. 22 for Fall Quarter 2003, the degree program provides the final
two years of a bachelors degree following completion a BCC two-year associate
degree in network support. An additional 95 to 100 credits, taken entirely on
the Bellevue Community College campus, completes the bachelor’s degree,
which is then granted by Eastern Washington University.
Most courses for the program will be taught in the evening at Bellevue Community
College’s North Campus, 10700 Northup Way, in Bellevue. Some of the courses
will be taught via two-way, interactive video by instructors on the EWU campus,
while others will be taught in-person by EWU adjunct faculty or BCC instructors.
“Having EWU’s bachelor’s in technology program on our campus
is an exciting development, because the Bellevue and Seattle area has a high
demand for employees with post-secondary education in technology fields,”
said Dr. Jim Bennett, BCC’s dean of instruction. “This is an excellent
option for students who are not able to move to attend a four-year school out
of town. It’s also an opportunity for students who are already working,
and need a bachelor's degree to move up into middle management.”
The degree is known as an ‘upside-down’ program, Bennett said, with
the primary technical emphasis provided in the first two years through BCC’s
associate degree program. After that, students study broader technology courses
and additional general education coursework to complete the requirements for
the EWU bachelors.
Students who already have earned BCC’s two-year computer networking degree
can complete the program in two years if they take some summer classes.
“An important part of our mission is to address niche areas where we have
expertise, to partner with community colleges across the state to bring the
kind of real-time education that’s valuable for students as they prepare
for today’s and tomorrow’s marketplace,” said Dr. Ray Soltero,
dean of the EWU College of Science, Mathematics & Technology. “We’re
really pleased to work with Bellevue Community College so that together we can
provide better educational service for students in the Bellevue area.”
For further information, contact the BCC program coordinator,
Michael Littlefield, via email at mlittlef@bcc.ctc.edu.