Annual Report - Everett Community College

Academic Excellence
From field trips to Forest Park with botany instructor Andy Holland in 1941 to
analyzing sediment in Possession Sound in 2011, Everett Community College
has offered students innovative learning experiences inside and outside of the
classroom.
In 1941, classes were offered in a dozen subjects. Today, students can
choose from more than 100 programs, including the college’s unique Ocean
Research College Academy (ORCA), an early college academy for high
school students. The program is moving to the Everett waterfront in Winter
2012.
Experience is a critical part of an EvCC education. At EvCC’s Aviation
Maintenance Technician School students spend most of their time in the lab.
“My favorite part is the troubleshooting – finding a problem and fixing it,” said
Sam Warby, who was interviewed by CBS News in July 2011 for a story about
in-demand job skills. Sam started work at Boeing five days after he graduated.
EvCC has also seen demand for its health sciences programs increase. The
college is working with partners, such as Providence Regional Medical Center,
and using a U.S. Department of Labor grant to expand the programs.
The grant, part of the $6.8 million in grant funding EvCC was awarded in
2010-11, helped create EvCC’s Healthcare Pathways Center in 2011, which
offers English language training to health care professionals.
An Everett Junior College practical
nursing student learns about child
development. The college, which will
open a new Nursing and Health Sciences
building in 2013, has educated nurses
since the 1940s.
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The need for corporate and professional training is growing, and EvCC’s
Corporate & Continuing Education Center is responding. The center trains
more than 10,000 people per year. Offerings include the Small Business
Accelerator program, which provides custom coaching with the goal of helping
business owners double the size of their companies within five years.
As the population of East Snohomish County has grown, EvCC has expanded
offerings there, opening its East County Campus in Monroe in Fall 2010.
Students can earn their associate degree there in daytime or evening classes.
The college has also increased its efforts to educate students about
sustainability as part of the college’s commitment to sustainability in its
strategic plan and in the American College & University Presidents’ Climate
Commitment. In addition to learning about sustainability in the classroom,
students in 2010-11 discussed eating locally as part of the year-long EvCC
Reads program, participated in the Earth Day food and farm fair, and
attended a campus lecture by “The End of Food” author Paul Roberts.
EvCC’s Aviation Maintenance Technician School
opens at Paine Field. In 2010-11, the school doubled
its freshman class and will do so again in 2011-12 to
meet employer demand for aerospace employees.