Short description of your business:
Cascadia Community College is an accredited, public community college that provides high quality, affordable education to north King and south Snohomish Counties. Cascadia is committed to innovative instruction in small classes that emphasize active and collaborative learning. In addition to academic classes, the college offers continuing education classes, worker retraining for unemployed workers, career counseling, business training workshops, and basic skills training.
How many employees are there?
About 250
When was your business established?
2000
Who is your ideal customer?
Professionals looking to advance their careers, companies in need of training for their employees, workers desiring to improve their job skills, recent high school graduates, adult learners wanting to improve their literacy, high school students looking for a head start, and people wanting to enrich their life experiences will all find a place at Cascadia.
What is unique about your business that you feel distinguishes you among others offering similar products or services?
Cascadia’s focus on group work and collaborative learning in small classes teaches students how to communicate, solve problems, make decisions, and interact with diverse people and viewpoints. This is critical to success in the workplace and in our increasingly complex and interconnected world.
Tell us something that would surprise people about your business:
Cascadia was ranked the No. 2 community college in the U.S. by Washington Monthly magazine, a national publication.
