Trustees: Plan for worst-case scenario?

February 2, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger. Reluctant to cut jobs, BCC’s administration will have to lay off teachers and other faculty to meet their $3.5 million target cut for the next two years. […]

Chinese New Year honored by ISA

February 2, 2009 0

By James Storbeck. On Monday and Tuesday, the International Student Association (ISA) brought the Chinese New Year in with a celebration held in the cafeteria here at Bellevue Community College. […]

College enrollment skyrockets in bad economy

January 27, 2009 0

By Chris Mongillo, University of Washington, Olympia Legislative Reporting Internship Program. As Washington’s unemployment rate swells past 6.4 percent, community college officials fear they will have to start turning away […]

Unemployed worker fund running out

January 27, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger. If BCC’s Worker Retraining program doesn’t get a raise in state funds, they’ll have to start turning unemployed people away. The program, which helps laid-off or displaced […]

Who’s watching the watchers?

January 20, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger. If the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer charged a few days ago with the New Year’s Eve murder of 22-year-old Oscar Grant is found guilty, […]

Search continues for missing teacher

January 20, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger.The Investigation continues into the disappearance of Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz, the BC instructor found missing from the Seattle-Bainbridge ferry last Tuesday. Stafford-Yilmaz’s personal belongings

Floods force 40,000 out of homes

January 20, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger.Canoeing around their neighborhood streets, BC employee Susan Kingsbury and her husband spent last Wednesday afternoon trapped by an overflowing river surveying the damage of the flood that […]

ASG gets student voice on budget

January 12, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger. BCC is expected to lose at least $2.6 million in state money over the next few years, and Amanda Alva is trying to get students interested in […]

Campus takes MLK dream into new era

January 12, 2009 0

Forty-six years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial and told 250,000 civil rights supporters of a very particular dream he had, members of […]

Employee caught stealing equipment

January 5, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger.A BCC employee was arrested on campus at 5:31 am, December 9, for incidents of theft spanning the last several monthes. The suspect, who was caught in the […]

Governor urges $30 million higher ed. cut

January 5, 2009 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger. For the next two years, Governor Chris Gregoire has proposed a $300 million dollar cut across the board for community and technical colleges, a total 8.3% cut. […]

BCC may lose $6.7 million in funds

December 2, 2008 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger.BCC may face up to $6.7 million in state budget cuts over the next two years. In response to a report issued last week by the Washington State […]

New student fee for green projects

November 25, 2008 0

By Elizabeth BallingerA new fee will be added to registration costs beginning winter quarter, creating a pool of money for students to turn their campus green. The Student Environmental Sustainability […]

Policy will cut textbook costs

November 18, 2008 0

By Elizabeth Ballinger. Textbook prices might not be as expensive for next year’s students. A motion to adopt a course material cost saving policy was passed at BCC’s board of […]

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