| Bellevue Community College |
$100,000 for Center for Information Technology Excellence
$75,000 to integrate English as a second language instruction with a nursing assistant program
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| Bellingham Technical College |
$100,000 to expand high-demand medical office assistant programs and move them to a fast-track model
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Green River Community College
Auburn |
$99,210 for the Washington State Center for Careers in Education (Center of Excellence)
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Highline Community College
Des Moines |
$100,000 to create a pre-nursing project to prepare ethnically diverse and disadvantaged personnel at long-term care facilities to be successful in nursing prerequisites, leading to acceptance in an associate degree in nursing program
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Lake Washington Technical College
Kirkland |
$54,500 to design and offer a program that integrates English as a second language instruction with the college’s industrial plant maintenance program
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Olympic College
Bremerton |
$100,000 to expand the college’s welding program, supporting demands at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and from other local employers
$53,018 to develop an integrated English Speakers of Other Languages/Nursing Assistant Certified program
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Peninsula College
Port Angeles |
$100,000 to further develop and expand the college’s medical assistant program
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Pierce College District
Lakewood |
$100,000 for Center of Excellence for Homeland Security based at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in Lakewood
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| Renton Technical College |
$99,974 for Construction Center of Excellence
$75,000 to develop a new program providing a customized pathway for non-native English speakers to successfully complete allied health skills training (certified nursing assistants to licensed practical nurses to registered nurses)
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Skagit Valley College
Mount Vernon |
$100,000 for Northwest Center of Excellence in Marine Manufacturing and Technology
$100,000 to expand capacity in the registered nursing program (Northwest Alliance)
$74,934 to develop a health occupations career ladder for English as a second language students, creating multiple pathways for ESL students to prepare for healthcare careers
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| South Seattle Community College |
$100,000 for development of the college’s wine technology program
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Spokane Community College District
Community Colleges of Spokane |
$100,000 to offer a licensed practical nursing program at Colville; the Institute for Extended Learning will deliver prerequisite courses through Spokane Falls Community College and LPN courses in partnership with Spokane Community College
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| Wenatchee Valley College |
$96,694 to support expansion of the college’s nursing program, an effort started in spring 2000
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