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What is the role of the State board office?
The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges is authorized by statute to employ an executive director who serves at the discretion of the board as its executive officer, secretary and administrator of the Community and Technical College Act.
With the board's approval, the director employs a staff, headquartered in Olympia. The State Board staff is responsible for administering the Community and Technical College Act and providing leadership and coordination for the community and technical college system. The office has three main divisions:
Administrative Services
The administrative services division is responsible for:
- Legislative and state agency relations.
- Assisting in the development the policy agenda for the State Board.
- Coordinating the activities of the Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges (TACTC).
- Coordinating the statewide presidents' association, called the Washington Association of Community and Technical Colleges (WACTC).
- Assisting the colleges in the areas of student services, diversity initiatives and human resource management.
- General office management functions, including purchasing and mailroom services for the State Board office.
Educational Services
The educational services division is responsible for:
- Coordinating and providing service to the community and technical college districts in all matters related to instruction.
- Maintaining agency partnerships to coordinate education services and programs – such as transfer degree pathways, WorkFirst and Running Start.
- Encouraging the use of community and technical colleges to meet the workforce training and retraining needs of business and industry.
- Providing research and analysis to support statewide policy development.
- Administering adult education and literacy programs, the GED testing process and adult high school completion programs.
Financial Services
The Financial Services Division is responsible for:
- Preparing a single operating and capital budget request to the governor and legislature which represents the needs of the entire community and technical college system.
- Allocating funds received from the legislature to the community and technical colleges.
- General accounting responsibility for the system.
- Development, implementation and support of various Web-based agency and college data processing systems.
- Managing the collection, preparation and reporting of two-year college enrollment information to state and federal agencies and the college system.
SBCTC Management Team