Commencement

2004-05: A Quick Look at Edmonds Community College

2004-05 Graduating Class

• 1,908 degrees and certificates
• 69 age of oldest graduate, Patient Care Technician certificate
• 17 age of youngest graduate, Associate of Arts degree
• 29 average age
• 59 percent female
• 41 percent male
• 9 percent international students
• 35 percent earned college transfer degrees
• 35 percent earned career degrees or certificates
• 30 percent completed GED, high school or basic education programs

Information is based on May 2005 data.

2004-05 College Highlights

• 152 student volunteers at the college gave 8,417 hours of service at 89 local agencies schools and nonprofits in service-learning projects.
• Materials science technology students teamed up with engineering students from Everett Community College to design, build and race a human-powered submarine for the International Submarine Races held in Maryland.
• Received a federal TRIO grant, one of only 76 new awards granted nationwide, to establish a Student Support Services program. With $880,000 over the next four-years, the college will increase the retention and graduation rates of low-income and first-generation college students and students with disabilities.
• Produced one of the state’s best community college art and literary magazines, Between the Lines 2004, according to the two-year colleges’ Humanities Association.
• Accounting students prepared 196 tax returns and answered 165 hours of tax questions February-April free of charge for the community.
• Signed an agreement to ensure the seamless transfer of two-year degrees at Edmonds CC to baccalaureate programs in Computer Science, Digital Arts and Electrical or Mechanical Engineering at Henry Cogswell College.
• Division league results for this past year’s athletic teams: men’s soccer, second; women’s soccer, third; volleyball, fourth; men’s basketball, fifth; women’s basketball, fourth; baseball, second and softball, fifth. 23 athletes were named all-stars.
• Started a new Hospitality and Tourism/Entrepreneurship degree and added Entrepreneurship/Small Business and Event Planning certificates.
• Began offering more classes focused on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, social class, disabilities, religion and global issues in the new Diversity Studies Department.
• Hosted Moroccan Fulbright scholar Said Graiouid through the Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World. Haitian ambassador Raymond Joseph, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Bobby Muller, jazz great Carol Sloane and Paralympic athlete Matt Glowacki were other notable speakers on campus.
• Secured funding from the National Science Foundation to begin a new project, which aims to spark high school students’ interest in a math and science career by teaching computer game animation. Workshops for students and teachers will be held this summer – www.edcc.edu/summerlearning