About Cascadia

Vision

Cascadia Community College will be a community of learners pioneering innovative pathways to successful learning.

Mission

Cascadia is a community college whose caring culture supports creative, comprehensive, culturally rich, technologically advanced and learner-centered education that is environmentally sensitive and seamlessly linked with the community, area enterprise and other educational institutions.

Profile

Cascadia is the newest community college in the state of Washington. It is a public institution offering two-year degrees, certificate programs and a broad range of Community Education courses, professional training, and business-specific customized contract programs.

Cascadia is located on a 128-acre campus along Beardslee Boulevard in Bothell, just northwest of the intersection of I-405 and SR-522. Cascadia and the University of Washington, Bothell are co-located on the same campus. The co-location provides a unique opportunity for students, faculty and staff to work together, sharing many services and activities, such as an advanced media center, dining services, bookstore, classrooms, and a library with access to University of Washington's six-million-volume collection.

Of the campus 128 acres of land, 58 acres are currently being to high-functioning wetlands, similar to those found on the site 200-300 years ago. It is described as the largest wetlands restoration project ever accomplished in the state of Washington. When the restoration work is done, more than 400,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants representing more than 20 plant communities will be hand-planted throughout the wetlands area. In addition, approximately 3,200 feet of North Creek will be rerouted to its original path through the wetlands floodplain. A trail will border the wetlands and will be accessible to the public when the wetlands restoration project is complete.

In April 2000, Cascadia Community College was chosen by the National League For Innovation in the Community College, to be one of 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges. This prestigious award was bestowed upon colleges across the country that proved themselves to be focused on students, and always willing to strive for innovation and excellence. Together, these 12 colleges meet regularly to share ideas and help each other improve higher education. Cascadia Community College students are fortunate to be a part of this dynamic effort to improve their success.

Cascadias degrees include an Associate Degree in Integrated Studies (AIS), an Associate in Science (AS) and an Associate in Applied Science (AAS). The AIS is a good match for students looking to pursue a variety of liberal arts majors after transferring to a university. The AS is ideal for students planning to pursue majors in the natural sciences, pre-med, engineering or computer science. The Associate in Applied Science Degree (AAS) is available with an emphasis in Network Technology, Software Programming Technology or Web Technology. Professional Technical certificate programs are offered in Network Specialist, Technical Support Specialist, Web Specialist, E-Commerce Specialist, Software Testing Specialist, Computer Applications Specialist and Web Design Specialist.

Cascadias service district, which is legislatively assigned, includes the cities of Bothell, Woodinville, Kirkland, Kenmore, Duvall, Carnation, Sammamish, Redmond and many smaller communities.

Cascadia offers non-credit, professional/technical classes as well as lifelong learning classes in a wide variety of subjects, including art, business, computers, dance and music, health and wellness, home and garden, crafts, professional development, writing, personal growth and industry-specific certificates.

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