Seattle Maritime Academy in the news

From the Seattle PI

In a bleak year for public education funding, one corner of the community college system is booming.

Seattle Maritime Academy, part of Seattle Central Community College, is preparing to raze the portables that form its offices and put up an $18.3 million building on its campus by the Ballard Bridge.

It just finished a $1.5 million refit of its docks, which sport a flotilla of donated vessels, including a 105-foot former king crab boat called the Alaska Sea, a 177-foot former Alaska ferry called the E.L. Bartlett, and the USNS Assertive, a 225-foot former Navy surveillance ship valued at $50 million.

The new building and the bigger ships will support an expansion of the program, which now serves about 35 students a year - who typically graduate to multiple job offers in the marine industry.

Read more at http://www.seattlepi.com/local/407727_maritime06.html