OLYMPIC COLLEGE

1600 Chester Avenue • Bremerton, WA 98337 • www.olympic.edu President: Dr. Marty Cavalluzzi, 360-475-7100, [email protected] Trustees: Shannon Childs, chair; Harriette Bryant, Tom Eckmann, Candelario Gonzalez, Cheryl Miller

KEY FACTS (DATA FROM 2018-2019 ACADEMIC YEAR. REFLECTS HEADCOUNT UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.)

Year Founded Enrollment STUDENT PROFILE — STATE-FUNDED 1946 Headcount (all sources) 11,522 Type of Student Attendance FTES (all sources) 5,774 6% Service Area basic skills 4% Headcount (state-funded) 10,016 other Kitsap and Mason counties FTES (state-funded) 4,757 Legislative Districts Students in Selected Programs 23, 26, 35 53% 47% Applied bachelor’s 157 37% workforce 53% part-time academic/ education full-time Highest Enrolled Programs Apprentices 755 transfer • Associate Transfer I-BEST 350 • Nursing International 152 • ATA: Industrial Trades Running Start 1,177 Technician Worker Retraining 729 53Race/Ethnicity* +376447Median Age: 25 +53 African American 6% Family and Finances • Certificate of Completion: Asian 13% Students receiving Industrial Trade Technician Hispanic/Latino 12% need-based financial aid Native American 4% • Computer Information Systems in eligible programs 29% Pacific Islander 3% Students who work 47% Other race 2% Students with children 24% White/Caucasian 74% *May not add up to 100% Gender because students may be Female 53% counted in more than one race. Percentages calculated on Male 47% reported value.

POINTS OF INTEREST

Career Connected In alignment with Governor Inslee’s Career Connect efforts, Olympic College partnered Washington with a wide array of local employers, industry representatives and other colleges to develop an 8,000-hour Associate Controls Specialist apprenticeship program. Siemens Corporation, MacDonald- Miller and other local employers collaborated in developing the program, along with the West Sound STEM Regional Network, , Clover Park Technical College, South College and . Approval was also granted for a 2,000-hour youth apprenticeship program, Controls Programmer, to be offered in the Bremerton, Central Kitsap, Chimacum, Peninsula, South Kitsap and Tacoma school districts.

Olympic College’s In October 2019, OC’s Cybersecurity program received the Circle of Excellence Award from the Cybersecurity Program International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council). The award program Receives National formally highlights academic instructions with lasting impacts on cybersecurity education. OC rolled Recognition certification into its Ethical Hacker program, providing $400 towards the $800 cost and removing a barrier to becoming certified for many students. Through our partnership with WWU, graduates of OC’s associate degree program may transfer seamlessly into Western’s Cybersecurity Bachelor of Science program offered locally at our Poulsbo campus.

Olympic College Military On May 21, the Navy Tuition Assistance program announced it did not have enough available funding and Veteran Programs to provide tuition assistance for the rest of the fiscal year, through Oct. 1. That left 125 OC students Fill Funding-Gap for using the Navy’s tuition assistance program without the means to pay for classes in fall quarter. To Active Duty Navy fill this void, OC Military and Veteran Programs offered a temporary grant to affected students. The Students grant allowed 75 OC students to pay for fall quarter classes and continue their education without interruption. Of those helped, 55 percent were first-generation college students, and 46 percent were underrepresented students, including African Americans (18 percent), and Asian and Pacific 26 Islanders (8 percent).