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2013-2014 Annual Report Expansion. Collaboration. Growth. Page 2 Dear Olympic College Students, Employees, Community Partners A Letter and Friends, from the I am pleased to share with you the progress and Olympic College continued to expand its accomplishments of the 2013-2014 school year. involvement with the community. The College It was a very productive year. held a diversity conference Are your Roots Showing: Exploring Diversity in the Puget Sound President During the 2013-2014 year, Olympic College Region last June. The event was so well received, programs and events have put Olympic College the College will be hosting its second annual in the forefront of the community. The College’s diversity conference Explore, Exchange, developing partnerships, associate degrees, and Experience next summer. bachelor programs have helped meet the needs of individuals in our community. The Bremerton campus hosted a successful multi-departmental Homeland Security training Our partnership with Western Washington exercise; the Kitsap Emergency Management University (WWU) and Olympic College team and local police and fire departments Poulsbo resulted in expanded opportunities for converged on campus for the event. our students to obtain bachelor degrees without leaving the peninsula. Students are now able to This annual report showcases a few of receive an undergraduate degree from WWU in Olympic College’s highlights and achievements Environmental Policy, Environmental Science, or, over the past year. It showcases our efforts to as of fall 2014, Business Administration. enrich education in our area for students, employers and the communities we serve. It is A substantial grant of $200,000 from the very fulfilling to us when community members SBCTC allowed us to kick off Olympic College’s tell us how proud they are to have Olympic Annual Report second baccalaureate program. The first cohort of College in the community. Thank you for your Table of Contents the Bachelor of Science in Information Systems support and please join us to help make this year program started in fall 2014. even better. The College’s residence hall, purchased by the Sincerely, Bremer Trust, is now open to students. Living A Letter from the President 2 near campus and in community enriches the $200,000 Grant for BAS Degree 2013-2014 Olympic College 3 experience for our local and international Regional Diversity Conference Board of Trustees 4 students; it will also help attract students from 5 Olympic College Poulsbo & Western Washington University Beverly Cheney around the world. Olympic College Shelton: Jim Page 7 We are anticipating breaking ground on the new Creativity. Innovation. Collaboration. Darlene Peters 75,000 square foot College Instruction Center David C. Mitchell, Ph.D. 9 Olympic College Residence Hall Alice Tawresey (CIC) that will be home to the Art, Music, President, Olympic College 11 Active Shooter Training Exercise Stephen Warner 13 2013-2014 Facts & Figures Drama, and Health Occupation programs. 15 Strategic Initiatives 17 College Updates Master Plan 19-27 Foundation Revenue & Support with Chart / Foundation Board 2013-2014 ANNUAL REPORT $200,000 Grant for BAS Degree Olympic College was awarded a These new grants are being made possible due $200,000 competitive grant from to the recently passed Washington State Legislature Senate Bill 5624 which aligns high the State Board for Community demand secondary STEM or career and and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) technical education programs with applied to initiate a Bachelor of Applied baccalaureate programs. Science (BAS) program in Community college baccalaureate programs Computer Information Systems provide local residents with additional (CIS). affordable educational opportunities close to Regional home. The focus of the grant is on building Science Diversity Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) pathways from K-12 to the baccalaureate level. The college developed a Conference baccalaureate program in Computer Information Systems, with the first cohort This event drew in nationally recognized keynote starting in fall of 2014. The new Bachelor of lympic College hosted its first speakers Dr. Joy DeGruy and Yoskiko Harden as Applied Science Information Systems prepares regional diversity conference on June well as a full agenda of subject tracts with at least graduates to strategically plan, manage, and apply 26-27, 2014. Are Your Roots Showing: five options for each of the five concurrent information technology solutions to business Exploring Diversity in the Puget Sound Region sessions for the more than 200 individuals who processes and challenges. O was the theme for this groundbreaking attended the conference. The diversity conference This broad-based, rigorous degree is designed for conference. The conference offered participants brought together educators, students and students with a variety of experiences and the opportunity to enhance their understand- community members and helped individuals backgrounds. The curriculum is ing and skills in the areas of diversity, inclusion, increase communication, build relationships, and competency-based and aligned with multiculturalism and social justice. Feedback experience diversity in a whole new way. in-demand industry certifications to ensure that shows this as being a tremendously positive step students can demonstrate successful mastery of for not only our campus, but for the surrounding The Conference Planning Team did a remarkable relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities. community. job, and is already planning the 2015 conference scheduled for June 25-26. Page 6 Olympic College and Western Washington Olympic College Poulsbo University partnered to offer baccalaureate degrees with the creation of the Western & Western Washington Washington University Center at Olympic College in Poulsbo. University The collaboration between Olympic College and Western Washington University is expanding as Western plans on having tenure track faculty Olympic College and Western Washington University located in Poulsbo to provide undergraduate and Mothers, fathers, working professionals— graduate programs on the Kitsap and Olympic anyone who wants to pursue the brighter futures Partner to Offer Bachelor’s Degree Programs Peninsulas. that higher education makes possible—will be on the Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas “I am pleased to be collaborating with Western able to do so,” he said. Washington University on this exciting new Western’s Huxley College of the Environment and endeavor. They are a strong institution with great WWU’s Woodring College of Education vision and it is truly an honor to be partnering currently offer courses on the peninsulas. In with them,” said Olympic College’s President, 2014, Western’s College of Business and David Mitchell. “Moreover, partnerships such as Economics will offer quality business education this are crucial to developing new and innovative tailored to the needs of students and employers educational opportunities that better serve the on the peninsulas. diverse population of our community. These new “Businesses on the peninsulas are innovative, programs along with the flexibility of the with a focus on sustainability and technology, Poulsbo location will greatly broaden the areas in which the College of Business and horizons for individuals and businesses that call Economics has strengths,” said Brian Burton, Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas their home.” Dean of Western’s College of Business and Western Washington University President Bruce Economics. “We hope to translate those strengths Shepard agreed, saying, “Though Western has into a program in Poulsbo that will give the been active in Poulsbo for some time, we are very region’s students the education they want with the excited about the new opportunities that this flexibility they need, with a combination of partnership with Olympic College creates for the Poulsbo- and Bellingham-based faculty.” citizens of Kitsap County and the Olympic In addition to the College of Business and Peninsula as a whole.” Economics creating a business degree for the “The WWU Center at Olympic College Poulsbo program, Huxley College of the Poulsbo is a terrific example of how we can Environment will be adding two new tenure leverage our respective strengths to serve critical track faculty positions to Poulsbo; they will serve needs in the state, especially for those who are students at Huxley’s Port Angeles, Bremerton, time- and place-bound. Everett and Poulsbo sites. 2013-2014 ANNUAL REPORT Page 8 Creativity. Innovation. Collaboration. Shelton faculty and staff engage with students and community to enhance learning and strengthen partnerships. Carmen Hoover, English Faculty Kandace MacKaben, Business Management Faculty e work within the Social Sciences and Humanities Mission: “To promote The Business Management program mission is: W critical thinking and inquiry, to nurture “To assist individuals in mastering the management, creative expression, to inspire a lifelong love of leadership relationship while adapting strategies that Basic Studies at Evergreen learning, and to foster strong and clear foster personal growth, technological skills, and the Elementary communication. We are committed to social justice, ability to manage change in a dynamic global the investigation of human cultures, and to the business environment.” liberal arts tradition—to teaching our students to Olympic College Shelton, through the Adult Basic Studies learn how to learn.” Changing Lives. program, began offering