System News | Opinion
Bellevue College planetarium gets phenomenal upgrade'; community shows planned
Bellevue College students and the greater community can experience digital space travel like never
before with a recent $450,000 upgrade to the college’s Willard Geer Planetarium, the
school announced this week.
425 Business, April 23, 2025
BBCC to present Drum Fest on Saturday
Big Bend Community College will get rhythm this Saturday when the Drum Fest takes over the Wallenstien theater.
“It will be a workshop-slash-mega drum line,” said John Owen, associate professor
of music at BBCC.
Columbia Basin Herald, April 23, 2025
Olympic College launches 2 new healthcare programs
“Olympic College has announced two new healthcare programs Diagnostic Medical Sonography and Radiologic
Technology – that will prepare students for “essential, high-paying roles while directly
improving access to healthcare services that lead to the health and well-being of
our region.”
KIRO 7, April 22, 2025
Opinion: Community colleges help create a thriving economy
Peninsula College is running on all cylinders. We’re filled with top-notch fuel in the tank and road
ready with all-grip tires. Unfortunately, if the Legislature looks to PC and the state’s
other 33 community and technical colleges to help fix the state’s budget deficit,
we’re going to have to take a pit stop.
Peninsula Daily News, April 19, 2025
Higher Education and Politics
Washington Watch: Trump signs executive order on workforce programs
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order (EO) entitled Preparing
Americans for High-Paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future that orders the secretaries
of Commerce, Education and Labor to take specified actions to improve the efficacy
of the federal government’s workforce development programs.
Community College Daily, April 24, 2025
Washington Watch: White House releases executive order on accreditation
...The document begins by stating that “the accreditors’ job is to determine which
institutions provide a quality education. Unfortunately, accreditors have not only
failed in this responsibility to students, families, and American taxpayers, but they
have also abused their enormous authority.”
Community College Daily, April 24, 2025
Read the full letter from universities opposing ‘government intrusion’
Hundreds of college presidents and other officials have signed a letter protesting
the “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” that higher education
is facing under the Trump administration.
PBS News, April 24, 2025
