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Name Founded Control Enrollment [1] (Fall 2022) Endowment Location Other branches University of Washington: 1861: Public: 52,319: $2.83 billion: Seattle: Bothell, Tacoma: Washington State University
The Washington State Community College system was first established by the Community College Act of 1967. [1] The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, along with administering the Community and Technical College Act, [2] provides the member colleges with leadership and information technology services.
The second 50 years, beginning in 1991, were marked by the conversion of the state's vocational-technical institutes to technical colleges. As part of this change, governance was shifted to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and authorization was given to grant two year, sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates of completion.
Originally named "Clover Park Vocational Technical Institute," in 1991 the school became Clover Park Technical College when the Washington state legislature passed the workforce training bill, converting the state's five two-year vocational schools into technical colleges, and joining them with the state's 29 community colleges. The school is ...
Vocational schools in the United States are traditionally two-year colleges which prepare students to enter the workforce after they receive an Associate degree. Students may also use courses as credit transferable to four-year universities. Programs often combine classroom lessons in theory with hands-on applications of the lessons students ...
The Seattle Vocational Institute is a constituent institution of Seattle Central College, a public community college in Seattle, Washington. It was founded as the Washington Institute of Applied Technology in 1987 and took its present name in 1991. [ 1 ]
It ranks 34 in the best Washington state high schools ranking, and is the best-ranked statewide from the Tri-Cities area. The student-teacher ratio is 23:1 with nearly 2,000 students.
In 1991, the state separated the state's vocational technical institutes from the local school districts and they came under the auspices of the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. [2] In 1992, the college took over ownership of Tacoma-based PBS member station KTPS-TV from the Tacoma School District, subsequently changing the ...