BELLEVUE, WASH.- Using skills and strategies learned in class, student entrepreneurs at BCC are tapping the campus craving for coffee to fund third-world humanitarian projects and create new opportunities to learn about international sustainable commerce. Students in the college’s International Business Exploration Club (IBEC) opened the Pura Vida Cafe Sept. 18 in the lobby of …read more
BELLEVUE, WASH.- Minority Access, Inc., a private, nonprofit organization that promotes diversity in education, government and business, has named Bellevue Community College one of the “Nation’s Leading Colleges and Universities Committed to Diversity.” With a mission to “honor and publicize inspirational role models,” Minority Access expressed its desire that the designation bestowed on BCC and …read more
BELLEVUE, WASH.- Bellevue Community College (BCC) has been named one of the first two community colleges ever to participate in the U.S. Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program. The Fulbright award will bring Fahad al-Balushi, an English instructor from Oman, to BCC to teach courses in Arabic language and culture during the 2006-07 school year. …read more
BELLEVUE, WASH.- Dr. James Bennett, a resident of the Greenwood/Phinney Ridge neighborhood in Seattle, has been named the first Vice President for Equity and Pluralism at Bellevue Community College (BCC). In this role Dr. Bennett will lead the development and implementation of programs to promote diversity and intercultural understanding at BCC. Dr. Bennett has worked …read more
