Monthly Archives: July 2010

Ensuring Student Achievement and Retention

Ensuring student achievement and retention through academic support programs and scholarships to help students overcome barriers to completing their programs. Many of the students that attend a community college take prerequisites for a transfer degree, are getting specialized training for a professional certification, participating in the Running Start program to receive some college credits while [...]

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$500,000 Campaign Gift for Healthcare IT

We are thrilled to announce a gift of $509,638 from the National Science Foundation focused on Healthcare IT. This gift will bring the Advancing Student Success Campaign to over four million dollars, 61% of the way to our $6.7 million goal. Improving teaching effectiveness is a key component of the campaign and this recent gift [...]

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Scott Tuton, Bellevue College Alum

“Achieving the Associates Degree level of education at Bellevue College became my introduction into a higher level of personal success in my life. Even more, I received confirmation from myself, that with commitment and application, I could achieve my goals in any forum. I was given the flexibility and understanding by peers and faculty at [...]

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Engaging the Eastside Businesses

Through education Bellevue College plays a significant role in providing a benefit to our local region. Businesses can hire from a more appropriately skilled workforce; taxpayers and communities experience a drop in poverty and crime, as a result of a more highly-educated populace; and students and their families experience an increase in income, helping to [...]

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Campaign to Advance Student Success

Bellevue College is all about its students. The college is committed to preparing students to be successful academically and professionally. We continue to strive to remove obstacles that hinder learning, define best practices in teaching, and offer courses that provide the skills needed to be successful in a changing workforce. The Bellevue College Foundation is [...]

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