Op-Ed: Offering a Degree of Change through Olympic College


What’s a class without a classroom worth? 

Increasingly, it’s worth a college degree for students who otherwise couldn’t have one.

When 23 students graduate today with Western Washington University bachelor’s degrees in human services, they’ll be the last students to have earned them from teachers in Olympic College classrooms. Beginning next January, online learning will replace traditional teacher/classroom instruction for Kitsap and Olympic peninsula students in the four-year WWU degree program. Online teaching will be supplemented with in-person seminars at Olympic College and at Peninsula Community College in Port Angeles.