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By Brook Stallings. BCC has begun the process of developing three new degrees in progressive fields: Green business practice, Dissymmetry, (a new technology in nuclear imaging), and a four-year radiologist …

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. …

By Brook Stallings. The Associated Student Government (ASG) hosted two “Budget Cut Student Forums” this week to explain how Washington State’s projected $7 billion deficit will likely affect BCC students. …

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 Brook Stalling. At Tuesday’s ASG Board of Directors meeting, ASG President Amanda Alva and other board members challenged ASG Director of Legislative Affairs Vanessa Pantley at length regarding her …

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 Brook Stalling. On Tuesday, Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office of the President of the United States, becoming the nation’s 44th president. Over 400 BCC community members …

By Brook Stalling.On Tuesday, the Associated Student Government (ASG) Board of Directors unanimously approved funds for the Bellevue Eagles and the Circle K student clubs. The ASG Board received notice …

By Brook Stallings.On January 15, over 300 members of the BC community gathered at Carlson Hall to celebrate Martin Luther King’s life and legacy. The two-hour-long event, entitled “Preserving a …

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. …

The following was sent as an email to BCC faculty and staff.Dear Members of the BCC Community,I have notified President Floten that I will resign as Executive Dean of Instruction …

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