Published June 2003

Cascadia selected
as New Media Center

SCBJ Staff

Cascadia Community College recently was recognized as a leader in its use of technology by the New Media Consortium, a nonprofit organization that promotes enhanced teaching through new media.

Earlier this year, the NMC’s board of directors commissioned its fourth worldwide search for proven leaders among higher-education institutions in the application of technology to teaching, learning, research or creative expression.

Bothell-based Cascadia was among 50 colleges and universities identified in the search as a New Media Center, joining 125 other colleges, universities and museums to have already received the designation, including MIT, Princeton, Yale, Mount Holyoke, San Diego Community College and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

“The selection process was very competitive,” NMC President and CEO Larry Johnson said in a prepared statement. “We received the largest number of applications in our history, and the overall quality of those applications was just extraordinary. Taken as a whole, the results show the state of technology integration in colleges and universities is at a remarkably high level.”

In addition to the designation itself, institutions selected as New Media Centers become part of the NMC, working with colleagues across the world to help set the agenda for technology in higher education.

“It is an honor to be included amongst such a prestigious list of higher-education institutions,” said Cascadia President Victoria Muñoz Richart. “We are the newest college in Washington state in over 20 years. We are committed to making this college a hallmark of the latest innovations in education and technology.”

Cascadia, which opened in the fall of 2000 on a campus co-located with the University of Washington, Bothell, offers students easy access to high-tech computer labs and a media center complete with a multimedia studio. While attending the school, students develop personalized electronic, Web-based portfolios to showcase their skills.

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