Outreach and Continuing Education
Olympic College and Western Washington University are strengthening their partnership to increase enrollment in the community college and encourage more Olympic Peninsula residents to continue on to earn their four-year degrees at WWU. Washington’s rapid growth and development as a global hub of innovation and commerce has created enormous opportunities in education, technology, and employment, but the state’s students and working people haven’t had equal access to these opportunities. This… Read more about Olympic College and WWU focus on opportunities for transfer students
The higher education community is on alert this autumn as cyberattacks against college campuses continue to rise. Common targets include student, faculty, and staff accounts and finances accessed through malware-loaded phishing attempts, but more sophisticated hacking attempts to steal intellectual property and university data are also on the rise. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, so should your personal and institutional cybersecurity practices. College and university… Read more about Keep campus cyber-secure by following these 8 security measures
WWU is coordinating the 2023 Salmon Recovery Conference on April 18 and 19, 2023 in Vancouver, Washington, and event organizers are calling for abstracts through Oct. 28.
The theme of this year’s conference is "A Shared Future," which reflects the desire to hear broad community perspectives with regards to salmon recovery. You have until Oct. 28 to submit your abstract.
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Need-based Scholarships for Certificate Programs

Two decades into the 21st Century, new patterns of work require people to continually evaluate their education in order to determine how best to progress in their careers, or pursue more rewarding opportunities.
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Expanded Education Helps Mitigate Pandemic's Insecurity

The Kitsap and Olympic Peninsulas are some of the most underserved areas in the state in terms of access to a four-year college degree, and this deficit takes on even more urgency as the COVID-19 pandemic has starkly exposed how important educational attainment is to job security.
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A Sustainable Future with WWU Energy Certificates

The Institute for Energy Studies at Western Washington University is a multi-college collaboration that offers interdisciplinary undergraduate degrees and certificates to address the science, technology, policy, business, and economic aspects of energy systems.
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Kailey Fiedler-GohlkeGraduate Student, 2019

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