January
Bellevue College begins partnership process
Bellevue College and Washington State University began the continuing process of partnering together on what both parties have said will be a new type of institution in Washington State when the Bellevue Board of Trustees authorized President David Rule to explore potential financial partnerships in January. Months later, the two schools signed a memorandum of understanding and moved on to the second-level of talks to merge the two institutions. WSU president Elson S. Floyd, who spearheaded the partnership talks by approaching Rule in November 2014, died earlier this year, but the two schools continue to explore the partnership.
