Assistant Professor
Bellevue College
Betty Torrell is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Bellevue College with an interest in foreign study pedagogy in relation to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and study abroad opportunities for Nontraditional and Underserved students. Torrell led a Study Abroad Program thorough SUNY Alfred State University for Architecture students and is in the process of developing a quarter-long foreign study course in partnership with the Sant'Anna Institute based in Sorrento, Italy for the Interior Design Program at Bellevue College.
Torrell's research in global education is based on the innovative Experinetial (ExL) pedagogy of University of Washington (UW) Professor Emerita Astra Zarina who was the founder of the UW Rome Center and the UW Architecture in Rome (AIR) and Italian Hilltowns (IHT) foreign study programs in Italy.