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26th Annual Earth Month Events ‘Make Waves’
Commemorate Earth Day all month long with Bellevue College’s Earth Month event series happening now through April 30.
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Bellevue College Foundation Announces 2019 Faculty & Staff Excellence Award Recipients
The Bellevue College Foundation honored four outstanding faculty and staff on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 during a campus ceremony in recognition of their ongoing contributions to the campus and to the community. Awards of $2,500 each go to recipients in the following categories: full-time faculty, part-time faculty, classified staff, and administrative exempt. Nominations are submitted…
Symetra CEO Margaret Meister to Speak at Bellevue College Commencement
Margaret Meister, president and chief executive officer of Symetra Financial Corporation, will address graduates as the keynote speaker for Bellevue College’s annual commencement ceremony Friday, June 21, at the Courter Family Athletic Pavilion on campus. Meister leads a growing national life insurer with roots in the Pacific Northwest, $49 billion in assets, over 2 million…
BC’s RISE Learning Institute cited in high-impact practices study
Bellevue College in Washington has brought multiple high-impact practices together in its RISE Learning Institute in an effort to spread these practices across its campus.
Media Statement
Effective immediately, Bellevue College was closed for the remainder of the day and evening. The College received a threat, and was closed out of an abundance of caution. This was done because the police have not been able to locate the person who made the threat. This is an ongoing police investigation by the Bellevue…
BC Earth Week Inspired by United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Last March the sixth United Nations Global Environment Outlook was released, painting a dire picture of a planet in peril and concluding that “unsustainable human activities globally have degraded the Earth’s ecosystems, endangering the ecological foundations of society.” But the outlook also offers ideas for changing the way the world eats, buys things, generates energy…
Interior Design Showcase Wows Auditors and Public
Bellevue College had its big accreditation visit in March, and the interior design department just kept riding the wave, having their own accreditation visit in May. The Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) visits campus every six years and evaluates the program according to 119 expectations distributed across 16 standards. Program chair Dan Beert said that…
Colleges Help High School Students with Autism Reach Higher Education
The transition from high school to college is challenging for any recent graduate, but students with autism have additional obstacles that colleges and universities are trying to help them overcome. Sara Gardner, director of Autism Spectrum Navigators at Bellevue College, says that 80 percent of social expectations are learned nonverbally by neurotypical people.
Conference at BC to Help Autistic Students Navigate Collegiate, Workplace Success
Up to 200 autistic high school and college students, their family members, and the educators and professionals who support them will converge on the Bellevue College (BC) campus May 11 for a truly unique conference, “Imagine Your Future in STEM” which will focus on “Autism and STEM: Fostering Balanced and Inclusive Communities at School and…
Bellevue College rallies for higher education funding
Community and technical colleges across the state are frustrated with legislative inaction on investment. Bellevue College (BC) was one of the 11 schools that participated in a week of action, calling for the Legislature to invest in community and technical colleges for the sake of students, employers and the community.
Sports and their impact subject of museum lecture
“What Do Sports Teach Our Kids?” will be the focus of the lecture by Eric Davis, associate professor of sociology at Bellevue College. The lecture “is really focused on this idea of how sports shapes society,” Davis said.