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Ren Natividad stands in the training kitchen at Seattle Central's Culinary Academy.

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"I know that I can move forward. And so I do."

Seattle Central student Ren Natividad on navigating culinary school while deaf.

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Sewing up global success

Sara Johnson, alum of Seattle Central's School of Apparel Design & Development. Support the School of Apparel Design & Development.

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Catalysts of opportunity: The new Pugh Family Scholarships

New scholarships celebrate the inter-generational impact of higher education. Read the profile of Mary and her family.

Jacob Sutton (far left) at 2023's Imminent Mode fashion exhibition.

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"The program does a remarkable job blending the creative and the practical."

Seattle Central Apparel Design alum Jacob Sutton blazes onto the fashion stage.

Four students working together and looking at computer screens

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Seattle Colleges Receives $1.5 Million Investment from Amazon to Broaden Access to Computer Science Degree Program

Amazon committed $1 million to Seattle Colleges in 2021 to launch the B.S. in Computer Science program, bringing its total investment in the Colleges to $2.5 million in one year

Seattle Colleges Respiratory Therapy students

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Recent Respiratory Therapy grad thrust to frontlines of COVID-19 crisis

Faiza graduated in 2019 from Seattle Central's Respiratory Therapy program. Now she faces the pandemic firsthand as one of Seattle's communities essentials workers.