Category Archives: Education

Ten Bellevue College instructors chosen for pioneering Gates and Ford foundation student-success project

Ten Bellevue College instructors and staff have been selected to work on a ground-breaking project, funded by $6.1 million in grants from the Gates and Ford foundations, to create new college-level course content modules with the goal of dramatically increasing student success rates. Working in teams with peers from other Washington community colleges, and in collaboration ...

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Bellevue Businesses: College Planning Solutions

College Planning Solutions www.collegeplanning.com 127 Bellevue Way Southeast Bellevue, WA 98004-6267 (425) 455-4272

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Phi Beta Kappa Names Bellevue College President Jean Floten Recipient of Pathfinder Award

The Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa has named Bellevue College President Jean Floten to receive a 2010 Pathfinder Award. The award, to be presented at the chapter’s May 18 Spring Luncheon, honors Floten for making education more accessible by bringing baccalaureate degrees ...

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Governor appoints Marie Gunn to Bellevue College Board of Trustees

Marie Gunn, Bellevue resident and retired president of Bank of America in Washington state, has been appointed by Gov. Chris Gregoire to the Bellevue College Board of Trustees. Gunn will serve a five-year term, replacing Lee Kraft, a Bellevue attorney and former King County Superior Court ...

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Bellevue College science fair March 20 expected to draw 80 of the region’s most inventive high school students

Eighty of King and Snohomish counties’ smartest and most inventive high school students will compete March 20 in Bellevue College’s Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair. The 9th to 12th grade students from public, home and private schools will work individually or in ...

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