About Us

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The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is responsible for administering the Community and Technical College Act and providing leadership and coordination for Washington's public system of 34 community and technical colleges. The SBCTC is governed by a nine-member board appointed by the Governor.

The SBCTC is headquartered in Olympia, with a majority of the IT division staff providing technology services to the system from an office located in Bellevue. The SBCTC deploys its services to the colleges and other stakeholders from three divisions:

Director's Office

• Coordinates with the nine-member State Board and system stakeholders.
• Assists the colleges in the areas of human resource management.

Education

• Coordinates and provides service to the community and technical college districts in all matters related to instruction and student services.
• Maintains agency partnerships to coordinate education services and programs – such as transfer degree pathways, WorkFirst and Running Start. 
• Encourages the use of community and technical colleges to meet the workforce training and retraining needs of business and industry.
• Provides research and analysis to support statewide policy development.
• Administers adult education and literacy programs, the GED testing process and adult high school completion programs.
• eLearning and Open Education

Finance

• Prepares a single operating and capital budget request to the governor and legislature which represents the needs of the entire community and technical college system.
• Allocates funds received from the legislature to the community and technical colleges.
• General accounting responsibility for the system.
• Manages the collection, preparation and reporting of two-year college enrollment information to state and federal agencies and the college system.

Government Relations

• Legislative and state agency relations.
• Assists in the development of the policy agenda for the State Board.
• Communications, media relations, Website management.
• Coordinates the activities of the Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges (TACTC).
• Coordinates the statewide presidents' association, called the Washington Association of Community and Technical Colleges (WACTC).
• General office management functions, including purchasing and mailroom services for the State Board office.

Information Technology

The information technology division is responsible for providing information technology services to the 34-college system.

 

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