Edmonds Community College News
CyberSecurity Forensic Anaylst certification available at EdmondsCC
Posted Aug 21 - Digital forensics students at Edmonds Community College will have the opportunity to test for CyberSecurity Forensic Analyst certification. The certification test, developed by computer forensics experts in law enforcement and industry, requires candidates to process a computer forensic case from start to finish and submit an analysis of their findings. The CFSA certification is an industry-recognized certification for digital forensics examiners.
$5,000 to study Aerospace Manufacturing, Materials Science
Posted Aug 21 - For those who want to learn about aerospace manufacturing or materials science now, but still have the opportunity to pursue a bachelor’s degree later, Edmonds Community College offers a new Associate of Applied Science-T (transfer) degree in Aerospace Manufacturing or Materials Science The degree starts students on their way to a university, and gives them a working foundation in an area of expertise, beginning with several technical classes in their first two-years. Get up to $5,000 to earn these degrees! Call 425.640.1039.
What you want and need to know: NEW classes for fall!
Posted Aug 21 - Responding to the dynamic needs of our diverse community and preparing students to do the same, Edmonds Community College offers new classes, degrees, and certificates for fall. Students working toward advanced degrees or to advance their careers will find opportunities to learn the skills employers are looking for in respected, flexible programs. Fall classes run Sept. 22-Dec. 11. Enroll now. See the complete fall class schedule at http://schedule.edcc.edu. Call 425.640.1459, email info@edcc.edu or go to http://getstarted.edcc.edu.
21st Century Business Planning: Eight-week Workshop Series
Posted Aug 19 - Plan your business, increase your profits and prepare for financing. Edmonds Community College's Small Business Development Center presents an eight-week workshop series 6-9 p.m., Wednesdays, Sept. 10-Oct. 29 for business owners. Jennifer Shelton, Director and Business Development Specialist, teaches the courses with guest speakers. The cost of the series is $400, recommended for new business owners, or $59 per session. The series begins with Entrepreneurial Mindset-Leadership 6-9 p.m., Wed., Sept. 10. Discuss Michael Gerber's Entrepreneurial Myth Re-visited and outline a one page business and marketing plan with Maria Marsala, founder of Elevating Your Business (www.elevatingyourbusiness.com). $59
New art exhibit, Influence: Metal as Material
Posted Aug 19 - Influence: Metal as Material, an exhibit of works by 17 artists including sculpture, holloware, jewelry and mixed media curated by ArtsNow instructor Kristi Zevenbergen, shows Monday, Sept. 22 through Friday, Dec. 11 in the Edmonds Community College art gallery, third floor, Lynnwood Hall. Meet the artists at a reception 5-7:30 p.m., Friday, October 3 in the gallery. Culinary arts students provide light refreshments.
New Lean Manufacturing class at Edmonds Community College
Posted Aug 15 - Gain skills to improve quality and efficiency in a NEW Lean Manufacturing class, Materials Science Technology 211, , 4-6 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, this fall at Edmonds Community College. Fall quarter runs Sept. 22-Dec. 11.
Find out more about GED preparation classes
Posted Aug 13 - Interested in earning your GED to improve your educational and career opportunities? Get prepared, test with confidence. Attend an orientation (two evening or two afternoons in September) and learn about GED Preparation classes. Find out whether the five or 10 week classes are right for you. Improve your reading comprehension, strengthen your math and writing skills, and take practice tests. $25 tuition. Fee waiver available for eligible students. Classroom materials provided.
Earn a new restoration horticulture degree
Posted Aug 13 - Edmonds Community College offers a unique, new two-year degree in Restoration Horticulture that will train students to help restore damaged land, habitat, and ecosystems in a range of rural, suburban, and urban environments.
Go free with Community Transit and your EdPass, win an iPod
Posted Aug 12 - Skip that spendy stop at the gas pump. Edmonds Community College students ride free on Community Transit bus routes. Use your EdPass, get the bus sticker, and get to campus or anywhere else you are headed on Community Transit buses for free. You can also enter a drawing to win a 4 GB iPod nano. Staff and faculty at the college get three months for the price of one when they purchase a quarterly bus sticker for $45.
Explore the world. Learn a language. New Arabic and Chinese classes!
Posted Aug 7 - Edmonds Community College expands its modern languages and cultures offerings this fall adding new classes in Arabic and Chinese to its line up of languages including French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
Trustees take annual study session in August
Posted Aug 5 - The Edmonds Community College Board of Trustees will meet for their annual summer study session August 21-22 at Alderbrook Resort.
Study abroad in Costa Rica or Italy this year
Posted Jul 31 - Apply now to study in Costa Rica for Winter quarter or Italy for Spring quarter 2009! The deadline to apply for Costa Rica is October 1. Earn college credits to count towards a degree at Edmonds Community College. Financial aid can be applied.
Learn to capture light: Take a photography class this fall.
Posted Jul 29 - Enroll now for fall quarter photography classes in Basic or Intermediary Black and White Photography (PHOTO 101 and PHOTO 102) or Color and Digital Photography (PHOTO 103). Fall classes start Sept. 22.
ArtsNow faculty exhibit works through Aug. 29
Posted Jul 28 - View the ArtsNow Faculty Exhibit, through Aug. 29, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., weekdays at the ArtsNow Gallery at the Edmonds Conference Center, 201 Fourth Ave N., Edmonds. View work by ArtsNow instructors including photography, jewelry, clay, mixed media, drawing, prints, painting, and fiber art by Meredith Arnold, Barbara DePirro, Yuming Zhu, Michael Wewer, Ray Pfortner and Dan Neish. Free. Call 425.640.1243. ArtsNow holds artist receptions during the City of Edmonds’ Third Thursday Art Walks 5-8 p.m. and offers a variety of non-credit classes in art and the arts business.
Project management certificate internationally recognized
Posted Jul 25 - Edmonds Community College's Project Management Certificate is now recognized by the international professional Project Management Institute. Start this fall with Project Management (MGMT 270) 9:30-10:20 a.m., Mon.-Thurs., Microsoft Project (MGMT 165) online, or Principles of Management (MGMT 214) a hybrid class, online and in class, 8:30-9:20 a.m., Mon.-Thurs. These classes are offered by the college's Business Management department.
Examine diversity in visions, voices and viewpoints
Posted Jul 25 - Take a Diversity Studies class! Classes fulfill cultural diversity degree requirements. Many classes on-campus and online. • African-American History, DIVST 117, Online! • Survey of Visual Art, DIVST 120, Online! • American Religious Diversity, DIVST 130, Online! • Introduction to Women’s Studies, DIVST 200, Evening and online!
Hospitality and Tourism: Online lodging and event planning classes
Posted Jul 25 - Edmonds Community College's Hospitaility and Tourism Department offers short-term certificates in Event Planning, Lodging Management and Hospitality and Tourism as well as two-year career training degrees and an Associate of Arts that transfers to Washington State University's School of Hospitality Business Management. Classes to begin the event planning and lodging certificate are offered online this fall. The event planning certificate for professionals can be completed in less than a year. The lodging certificate prepares students for entry-level jobs in the lodging industry such as front desk, in-house communications, reservations and front service (bell staff) positions.
Register all summer for fall classes, many online!
Posted Jul 24 - Check out our classes! See what’s new. Fall classes start Sept. 22. • Take a global look at natural resources, the environment, and society in our new online geography class: Sustainable Development, GEOG 150. • Watch key scenes and read and discuss six of the master’s plays in Shakespeare, ENGL 265. The class meets 12:30-1:30 p.m., Monday-Thursday. • Start a new 15-credit dental front office certificate with an online class, Dental Office Management, BSTEC 233. Prepare to enter or advance your career in a dental front office.
Edmonds Community College receives Learn and Serve grant
Posted Jul 24 - Edmonds Community College was one of 17 colleges in Washington and Idaho named by Washington Campus Compact as a recipient of a Learn and Serve in Higher Education grant. The college will receive a share of a $400,000 award from the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) to promote service-learning, convene educators, and coordinate service-learning opportunities. Edmonds Community College students provide nearly 30,000 hours of service to 57 organizations per year in the college’s nationally recognized service-learning program.
Free writing workshop: Exploring Haibun with Rebecca Brown
Posted Jul 22 - Join us for a free hands-on writing workshop, Exploring Haibun, 1-2:30 p.m., Monday, July 28 in Mukilteo Hall. Local author Rebecca Brown introduces writers to haibun, a Japanese form of writing which combines elements of prose and poetry, and fiction and nonfiction. From Basho in 17th century Japan to Kerouac in 20th century America, writers have experimented with hybrid forms, merging paragraphs of prose with lines of poetry. This workshop is appropriate for writers of all levels who enjoy writing in any genre. To register, email amanda.laughtland@edcc.edu.
Edmonds CC Community Read chooses Middle Passage
Posted Jul 22 - For its all campus and community read in 2008-09, Edmonds Community College has selected Charles Johnson's Middle Passage, recipient of the 1990 National Book Award for fiction. Johnson was the first African-American male to win this prize since Ralph Ellison received it for Invisible Man in 1953. Middle Passage is about a newly freed slave in New Orleans 1830 who ends up leading a revolt aboard a slave clipper bound for Africa.
Creative Retirement Institute drums up fall lunch
Posted Jul 17 - Join the Creative Retirement Institute for lunch with Simone LaDrumma, founder of Ladies Don’t Drum, and instructor of Drumming and the Holistic Expression of Rhythm" 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 11 in Triton Union Building at Edmonds Community College, 20000 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood. The lunch costs $20 or $12 for CRI members. Purchase tickets by August 27 at the Edmonds Conference Center, 201 – 4th Ave. North, downtown Edmonds. No phone reservations.
Start here. Get there! University transfer fair July 24
Posted Jul 15 - Transfer students find out more about places to continue your college education at a university transfer fair 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Thursday, July 24 in Snoqualmie Hall first floor lobby. Meet representatives from the following universities: Bastyr University * Central Washington University * Seattle University * University of Washington-Bothell * Washington State University * And more!
Free, 24/7, online writing assistance
Posted Jul 15 - Edmonds Community College has joined the The Northwest eTutoring Consortium. That means students can now get free online assistance with writing assignments around the clock. For in person tutoring, visit the Learning Support Center in Mukilteo Hall 113.
Sample this class: Computer Forensics Sept. 6
Posted Jul 15 - The next no-cost sample of the Computer Forensics Fundamentals class will be 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 6 in Snoqualmie Hall, 212. To enroll in the class email Information Security/Digital Forensics instructor Steve Hailey: shailey@edcc.edu. Learn about this exciting field in a free class appropriate for all levels of experience at Edmonds Community College.
Women's conference seeks proposals, deadline Sept. 26
Posted Jul 15 - Edmonds Community College's 4th Annual Women's Conference will be noon-5:30 p.m., Friday, April 10, 2009. The Heart and Grace reception, honoring a local woman artist, follows 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the library, third floor, Lynnwood Hall. Workshops and discussions at the conference will focus on Wellness: Mind, Body and Spirit. The conference is currently seeking presenters on the theme. Submit proposals by Sept. 26, 2008.
More student housing available in Sophie Court
Posted Jul 14 - Edmonds Community College has an additional building this fall for student housing. Sophie Court Residence Hall is just a few steps down the street from the Clearview Building. It has 50 beds in newly built condo-style apartments. There are also 60 beds for students in the Somerset Apartments.
Edmonds CC students help with Quilceda Creek restoration
Posted Jul 14 - The Adopt-A-Stream Foundation (AASF), in partnership with Edmonds Community College and the Department of Ecology (DOE), set out to restore a section of a tributary of the West Fork of Quilceda Creek. That salmon stream flows from Arlington through Marysville to the Snohomish River on the Tulalip Reservation. It has been negatively impacted by low oxygen levels and high fecal coliform levels (an indicator of harmful pathogens).
College manager earns MBA in Sustainable Business
Posted Jul 9 - In June, Alison Pugh, Instructional Program Manager at Edmonds Community College, earned her MBA in Sustainable Business from Bainbridge Graduate Institute. The innovative program preserves the rigor of a traditional MBA program, while infusing sustainability—environmental and social responsibility—throughout every course. Pugh is a member of the college's Sustainability Council, a committee that recommends sustainability goals, objectives, and targets for college operations and instruction; facilitates projects to meet those goals; provides resources and promotes awareness; and advises the President's Cabinet in advancing the Sustainability Initiative.
Three full-time AmeriCorps positions available
Posted Jul 8 - Edmonds Community College has three full-time AmeriCorps volunteer positions open to work as Retention Project Student Engagement Specialists during the 2008-09 school year, Sept. 1-July 15. One position will be working in TRiO Student Support Services, another in the Career Action Center, and the third supporting the LEAF school and Veterans Conservation Corps. Review of applications begins July 11, but the positions will be open until filled. The volunteers will receive a living stipend of $11,400 (distributed over 10.5 months) and an education award of $4,725 at the end of service.
