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Edmonds College Art Gallery to display new exhibit

...The exhibit, “Origin / Identity / Belonging II,” showcases 50 black-and-white portraits of members of the Edmonds College community who have traveled to Edmonds from around the world. The artist, Michael Wewer, has taught photography at Edmonds College since 2001 and is an alumnus of the college.
Everett Herald, Oct. 8, 2025

Grays Harbor College welcomes new Computer Science program

This fall, Grays Harbor College welcomed its first students in the new Associate of Arts in Computer Science program. As part of the new transfer degree, GHC also introduced a new class, Foundations of Computer Programming (CS 141).
The Daily World, Oct. 7, 2025

Olympic College receives $475K grant from National Science Foundation

Bremerton's Olympic College on Oct. 1 announced that it received an Advanced Technological Education grant from the National Science Foundation — the government’s independent science agency — for $475K. 
425 Business, Oct. 6, 2025

Higher Education and Politics

Community college students want a social life

A survey by EAB finds that two-year students have been disappointed by their college experience when it comes to making friends and feeling as though they belong on campus.
Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 8, 2025

Staying the course on reforms

In the decade since Redesigning America’s Community Colleges was published, we have had the privilege of studying the efforts by community colleges nationwide to implement whole-college reforms based on the guided pathways model it proposed. 
Community College Daily, Oct. 8, 2025

DataPoints: Revenue by source

State governments remain the largest source of revenue for community colleges, followed by local governments and then tuition, according to an analysis by the American Association of Community Colleges of data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Community College Daily, Oct. 8, 2025