Spring 2015 Issue

BC’s IST Degree First of its Kind in the State

Bellevue College currently offers six 4-year degrees, including the Information Systems and Technology (IST) Bachelor of Science degree. The IST degree will have its first graduates this spring. BC’s IST degree, the first of its kind in the state, provides a broad base of theoretical and technical knowledge, and students specialize in one of four ...

Students Take Civil Rights Pilgrimage

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement is an important piece of American history; one that is taught, explored and analyzed from kindergarten through high school. For some Bellevue College students however, the lessons are going beyond the classroom on what is becoming a bi-annual trip to visit the very locations where activists like Dr. Bernard Lafayette ...

Summer Kid’s Camp a Tradition

For more than 15 years, the Bellevue College Summer Kids Camp has served Eastside families with a safe, affordable, educational, and fun experience for their three to six-year-old children. As part of the Parent Education Program, experienced teachers provide fun experiences for young children in BC’s Early Learning Center classrooms on the main campus. “Enrolling children ...

Actress Machiavelli Now Star Teacher

Surely, Bellevue College’s most famous faculty member is Nicoletta Machiavelli, who teaches Italian at BC’s Continuing Education divisions World Language Institute. Machiavelli starred in nearly 40 movies between 1965 and 1983. She is a beautiful woman, and at 17 was so stunning that a talent agent from Rome discovered her. It took little to convince ...

BC’s Weather Station is Something to Talk About

Some people like to talk about the weather and that is certainly true of faculty member Kent Short, but this guy actually knows what he’s talking about. Short, the founding Chair of the Earth and Space Sciences program and Assistant Dean of the Science Division at BC, teaches several Meteorology classes and also manages the ...