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Skagit Valley College Cardinals achieve record-setting fall season in volleyball, soccer
The Skagit Valley College (SVC) Athletic Department is celebrating a historic and record-setting fall 2021 sports season in volleyball, women’s soccer, and men’s soccer within the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC).The Cardinals were proudly ranked in the NWAC top 10 at No. 6 and received...
Skagit Valley College Student Nurse Club gives back to the community, decorates tree for Skagit Valley Hospital’s Festival of Trees
Skagit Valley College nursing students receive valuable, high demand clinical training at Skagit Valley Hospital (SVH) in addition to their rigorous lectures and labs at SVC. Thanks to a teaching agreement between the hospital and the college, nursing students learn from and train with experienced...
SVC instructor Claudia Avendaño-Ibarra receives Skagit Women’s Alliance and Network (SWAN) Women of the Year Award for Transformative Leadership
Claudia Avendaño-Ibarra, Skagit Valley College’s Human Services department co-chair and instructor, was among four women to receive the Skagit Women’s Alliance and Network (SWAN) 2021 Women of the Year Award for Transformative Leadership.Avendaño-Ibarra received her award Oct. 21 at SWAN’s...
Community invited to participate in community forums as part of Skagit Valley College presidential search
Skagit Valley College Board of Trustees have begun the search for a new college president in response to the planned retirement of current SVC President Dr. Tom Keegan. The new SVC president will provide inspiring and visionary leadership and continue the college’s mission of cultivating student...
Skagit Valley College Department of Music to present ‘A Musical Thanksgiving’
The Skagit Valley College (SVC) Department of Music will present “A Musical Thanksgiving” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1 in the Phillip Tarro Theatre at SVC’s Mount Vernon campus. The evening will showcase the SVC choirs, student soloists, and the inaugural performance of the new SVC Mariachi...
Gov. Inslee appoints Ozell Jackson III as new Skagit Valley College trustee
Gov. Inslee appoints Ozell Jackson III as new Skagit Valley College trustee.Ozell Jackson III has been appointed by Gov. Inslee to the Skagit Valley College (SVC) Board of Trustees and will serve from Oct. 2021 through Sept. 2026.“Ozell’s passion for helping Whidbey Island’s community diverse...
Skagit Valley College receives $2.5M federal grant to provide college access to migrant, seasonal farmworker families
Skagit Valley College (SVC) is pleased to announce it has received a $2.5M College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant provides academic and financial support services to eligible students from migrant and seasonal farmworker...
Skagit Valley College President Keegan announces retirement
Dr. Tom Keegan, SVC PresidentAfter 43 years of service in the Washington Community and Technical College system, and as the third longest-serving President of Skagit Valley College (SVC), Dr. Tom Keegan has announced his intent to retire effective Aug. 31, 2022.“I am forever grateful to have been...
Sen. Murray meets with SVC students on legislation to make community college tuition free
U.S Sen. Patty Murray recently visited Skagit Valley College to meet with students and staff to hear how tuition-free community college would help them and the local community.“As a former community college instructor at Shoreline Community College, I know how life-changing higher education can...
SVC announces a second-year award of pilot scholarship program
Skagit Valley College (SVC) is pleased to announce that the College has been awarded approximately $52,000 for a pilot scholarship program designed to assist SVC’s Running Start students by the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC).The SVC Running Start Pilot Scholarship will support student...