Articles by Elizabeth Ballinger

A memorial service will be held this weekend for Lynn Stafford-Yilmaz, the BCC instructor found missing from a Bainbridge ferry the night of January 13. Although Seattle police consider Stafford-Yilmaz […]

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. […]

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. […]

UW: Turning down spring applicants:The University of Wahsington (UW), due to a 13 percent expected state cut and current over-enrollment exceeding 1,000 students, will be closing it’s doors to all […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

By Elizabeth BallingerA recent Gallup poll determined 56 percent of U.S adults report believing racism against blacks is still a rampant problem. A gap, however, was found between races on […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

By Elizabeth Ballinger.After next week, BCC’s new science building may be just a

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 […]

By Elizabeth BallingerFor 10 days in Xi’an China, Nathan Brown will be a Saudi Arabian. Brown, along with six other students from Aslam Khan’s Model United Nations class, left Saturday, […]

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 […]

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 […]