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Lawmakers’ message to Cascadia Community College and LWTC: Merge

By on February 26, 2010 in Archived, Government, Headlines, School News

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Rumors of a possible merger between Cascadia Community College in Bothell and Lake Washington Technical College in Kirkland have been circulating for months. Now it appears lawmakers in Olympia have pressed the issue.
According to The Seattle Times, “An unusual proviso slipped onto page 211 of the House budget bill directs Cascadia and Kirkland’s Lake Washington Technical College to “develop and submit an implementation plan” that merges the two colleges at a “single consolidated campus” in Kirkland.”
Cascadia Community College is located on the University of Washington‘s Bothell campus.

If the two colleges merged, the likely location for the larger school would be the Kirkland LWTC campus. This move would allow UW Bothell to expand into facilities currently occupied by Cascadia.

For more information, please read the article in The Seattle Times.

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  • Andrea

    I’m so confused by this. Why would the state have spent so much money to set-up Cascadia on Bothell if it was just going to combine it with LWTC. I graduate from Cascadia in 2005. I thought the whole idea was for Cascadia to continue integrating with UWB…. Can someone tell me where this is more information on this issue?

    Thanks!

  • Andrea

    I’m so confused by this. Why would the state have spent so much money to set-up Cascadia on Bothell if it was just going to combine it with LWTC. I graduate from Cascadia in 2005. I thought the whole idea was for Cascadia to continue integrating with UWB…. Can someone tell me where this is more information on this issue?

    Thanks!