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Faculty Feature: Dr. Pressley Rankin, IV

Like many adult learners, Professor Pressley Rankin followed a nontraditional route to higher education. Initially going to college right after high school, Pressley decided after two years that this was not the path for him. After a fifteen-year hiatus in which he worked a number of jobs, including business, tech support, and nonprofit, Pressley decided…
City University of Seattle Receives NSA Award to Develop High School Cybersecurity Teachers

City University of Seattle (CityU) received a $700,000 grant to fund the NCAE-C Cybersecurity Highschool Innovation (CHI), which is a collaborative multi-state initiative. Together with a consortium of twelve National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) from seven northwest states, CityU‘s Center for Cybersecurity Innovation will build a sustainable network to educate, train, and prepare high school teachers to instruct complete cybersecurity courses in their school districts. The goal…
Innovation in Education

CityU Alumni Spotlight: Heather Leslie Innovation drives the educational experience at CityU. When Heather Leslie, class of 2019, was looking to advance her career in higher education, she was referred to CityU’s Master of Education in Adult Learning and Instructional Design by Pressley Rankin, an Associate Professor and Program Director at CityU. Despite already having…
CityU Student Balances Education and Amazon Career

Marvin Gold lives to learn and grow. After serving six years in the Army, Marvin earned his Undergraduate Certificate in Web Systems Development at City University of Seattle (CityU), and is now studying for his Doctor of Information of Technology (DIT) at CityU. He also works full-time at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a systems…
Switching Careers: How a Data Analytics Degree Can Help

Switching careers can be daunting, but there sometimes comes a time during a person’s career where they hit a fork in the road. In one direction, there is a previously unforeseen opportunity, and in the other direction is the path that was planned out. For CityU student Scott Frayo, he had a plan in place…
Black History Month: CityU’s Social Justice Coalition

SOCIAL JUSTICE 101: LEARNING TOGETHER – CREATING COMMUNITY As we begin the journey toward understanding Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI)there may be words and phrases that are unfamiliar or not well understood. We want to take this opportunity to provide definitions of some commonly used phrases within the field of EDI work. Each issue will highlight a…
Mental Wellness Month

January can be a hard time of the year – The holiday season is ending, our families and friends are heading back home, and depending on where you live, the weather doesn’t help. We at CityU want to raise awareness and are dedicating this month to recognizing January as National Mental Wellness Month. Improving your…
A Holiday Letter from CityU President, Randy Frisch

To our CityU family, partners, alumni, and students, There are no leaves on the trees on Wall Street in Seattle, and the chill in the air confirms it is the Holiday Season and the end of a challenging, and at times, a bewildering year. Together we were able to make 2020 not only a memorable…
A Day in the Life of a CityU Doctor of Education in Leadership Student

City University of Seattle’s student, Alexis Howell, is one of many students who decided to take their program 100% online. Working as a Zone Manager at a national tv station in Chicago, Alexis is currently working towards earning her Doctor of Education in Leadership degree. Alexis said “I started at Michigan state in journalism, where…