Monthly Archives: May 2004

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Bellevue Community College has won a national Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Collaboration Award for 2004 from the Community College National Center of Community Engagement. Service learning is an educational approach that combines classroom instruction with community service to develop critical, reflective thinking as well as personal and civic responsibility. Although service learning …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. – There is light at the end of BCC’s parking tunnel! After years of increasingly inadequate parking due to growth, Bellevue Community College is opening a 764-space student parking garage on its campus. The new garage should solve the college’s parking problems for the foreseeable future. The 240,000 square-foot facility will open officially …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Bellevue Community College President B. Jean Floten delivered an address entitled “Developing State-of-the-Art Information Technology Programs” to a plenary session of the International Conference of School and Industry Partnerships in Guadalajara, Mexico, May 19. The conference was part of an on-going exchange of ideas between Washington state and the Mexican state of …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Teenagers will have an opportunity to experience college learning this summer with the launch of the Summer Program for Teens at Bellevue Community College in July and August. Designed for 12- to 18-year-old students, classes will be offered in computers and technology, art and music, writing and languages, SAT preparation and outdoor …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Bellevue Community College students have placed second in the nation and first in the northwest region in the 2004 American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges math competition. It was the sixth year in a row that BCC students placed first in the region, which includes Washington, Idaho and Oregon. In individual results, …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Two Bellevue Community College students took first place in their division and another placed third at Delta Epsilon Chi’s International Career Development Conference held April 14-17 in Nashville, Tenn. The competition included more than 2,000 students in various events. David Wright, of Redmond, and Adrian Menstell, of Auburn, took first place in …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. The Bellevue Community College Foundation will confer Margin of Excellence Awards on five BCC faculty and staff members May 12 in recognition of their outstanding work in support of the college and its students. Nominated by BCC students, faculty and staff, each will receive a $1,000 award from the Foundation. Honorees are: Debi …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. – Bellevue Community College student Angel Kelchev, of Bellevue, has been selected as one of only 27 students nationwide to receive a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship of up to $30,000 per year to continue his education at a four-year school. The 27 scholars were selected from among 863 nominees proposed by 559 …read more

BELLEVUE, WASH. – For the second year in a row, the Bellevue Community College vocal jazz ensemble “Celebration!” has won first place among two-year and four-year college choirs at the Reno Jazz Festival, sponsored by the University of Nevada-Reno. The competition was held April 22-24 in Reno. The achievement follows their first-place performance in the …read more