Building Demolition and Power Shutdown

April 21, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Buildings 800 and 2300 have been officially handed over to Bayley for phase 2 of the Bracken project. Preparation for demolition has begun according to the following schedule:

Building 2300

  • 4/22 – 4/27: Abatement
  • 4/27 – 5/12: Full Demolition

Building 800

  • 4/24 – 4/28: Abatement
  • 4/29 – 5/14: Full Demolition

In preparation for the demolition of Building 2300, Wartel will temporarily shut off power to Buildings 2000 and 2100 this Thursday, 4/23, from 5am – 6:30am. This outage is necessary to safely disconnect Building 2300 in preparation for its scheduled demolition.

We appreciate your patience during this necessary prep work.  Feel free to reach out to Facilities if there are any questions.

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Reflections: Indian Delegation Experience – Presented by Dr. Jack Kahn, Shoreline College President

April 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Flyer featuring event details and photo of a group of people in front of the Taj Mahal.

Join us for a photo tour of a recent international delegation experience in India. Through the Seattle Consulate, the delegation explored culture, global partnerships, and new international initiatives for Shoreline College.

  • DATE: 4/28/2026
  • TIME: 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
  • PLACE: PUB Quiet Dining Room (9208)
  • COST: Free

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Shoreline College and Faculty Union Reach Agreement to Avoid Faculty Layoffs 

April 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Shoreline College campus.

Amid significant financial pressures affecting higher education across Washington and the nation, Shoreline College has reached a collaborative agreement with its faculty union that prevents faculty layoffs and establishes a framework for addressing future budget challenges. 

This agreement comes as the College works to close an approximately $4 million budget gap projected over the next three years. Shoreline has implemented a combination of operational reductions, hiring freezes, and workforce adjustments with a continued focus on minimizing  impacts to students and preserving access to programs that support both transfer and workforce pathways. In evaluating potential reductions, the College relied on enrollment data and other operational factors to identify changes that would have the least impact on students. 

Formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the agreement establishes a voluntary option for eligible faculty to reduce their workload ahead of retirement and/or provide advance notice of retirement plans. This approach generates both immediate and ongoing cost savings while preserving faculty positions and supporting continuity for students.  

“Typically, the President is not in a position to work directly with the Union on issues like this.  However, our collective bargaining agreement outlines the opportunity to work collectively on discussions around reductions in force.  I genuinely enjoyed working with the Union team who were very conscientious, reliable, and creative in all of our discussions.  They clearly had the goal to support faculty as is their role and were really trying to find solutions that would help us prepare for both current and possible future financial scenarios,” shared Dr. Jack Kahn, President of Shoreline College. 

As a result of this agreement, the College has rescinded previously issued faculty RIF notices scheduled to take effect on July 1. While the College’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) outlines a required process for discussing faculty reductions, both the College and the union chose to go beyond those minimum requirements, extending conversations and working collaboratively to identify a solution that could better support faculty, students, and the institution as a whole. 

This work comes during a period of exceptional strain for higher education. Across Washington, many community and technical colleges are making difficult reductions to faculty, staff, administrative positions, and academic programs as they respond to state budget pressures and broader institutional challenges. 

This new agreement offers a more student-centered alternative by preserving faculty positions while also giving the College additional flexibility to continue evaluating and strengthening programs over time to meet changing student, community, and workforce needs. 

 “Our faculty’s active solidarity, as a labor union, enabled us to successfully negotiate alternatives to the College’s proposed layoffs. We appreciate that the College went beyond what our CBA required and engaged us in a good-faith collaboration to find alternatives that saved jobs, and opened up additional possibilities that faculty have long sought,” shared Eric Hamako, President of the faculty’s labor union, AFT Local 1950. 

The MOU was developed through months of discussion and problem-solving between college leadership and faculty union representatives. It reflects a shared commitment to protecting educational quality while also responding responsibly to ongoing financial realities. 

In addition to avoiding immediate faculty layoffs, this voluntary program provides a potential model for future collaboration should additional state-level reductions occur. 

Shoreline College leadership also expressed appreciation for the engagement of faculty, staff, and community members throughout the process, particularly those who participated in recent Board of Trustees discussions. 

“This collaborative work between the union and college is an outstanding example of people coming together to support our educational efforts in challenging times,” said Kim Wells, Shoreline College, Board of Trustees Chair. 

While this agreement represents meaningful progress, it does not eliminate the broader financial barriers facing the College, including federal and state funding challenges and declining enrollment trends. Shoreline continues to make difficult decisions across the institution, including reductions in other areas, as it works to address ongoing budget pressures and preserve student access, educational quality, and long-term sustainability. However, this effort demonstrates what is possible when institutions and their employees work together to find thoughtful, student-centered solutions. 

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Campus Updates 4/16/2026

April 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Hello folks, I hope your week is going well.  This has been a busy week for me.  Some highlights include working with the Foundation to tour a donor around Bracken and other spaces, attending the great event with the Shoreline Chamber of Commerce (also touring them around our campus), speaking to partners in India, and prospective partners in Ghana, and seeing many of you on campus.  Other than that, it has been a lot of the same for me – moving policies through participatory governance, budget development, and preparing a lot of communications.   

It’s been a very heavy week with the passing of our colleague Bo Fu.  I was fortunate to travel with Bo in China, so I got to know him a bit better than I might have otherwise.  For those who know him, you won’t be surprised – he was so kind, conscientious, and always looking out for me to make sure I was OK and comfortable.  I learned a lot from him in the short time I knew him, and I am thinking about all of you and our international partners.  Thank you, Bo, for all you have done for international education and for championing a vision about people that, although we are all embedded in culture, we connect and love and care for one another beyond imposed boundaries and expectations.  Bo embodies our Mission from head to toe.  Thank you to all of you who embody this vision as well. 

Cheers, 

Jack 

Executive Team (ET) Open Office Time 


The Executive Team (ET) is now scheduling and holding virtual open office time via Microsoft Bookings:  

Executive Team (ET) Open Office Time.  
 

Committee Updates 

Accessibility  

ADA Title II Update is Upon Us 

Believe it or not, it’s April 2026 and the ADA Title II Update will be enforced starting Friday, April 24. I appreciate all the hard work folks have been doing to improve the accessibility of their digital content! We still have a lot more work to do to be fully compliant. 

We have a great line up of accessibility training and support this Spring. Please download the document below for information about upcoming training opportunities.  

If you have accessibility questions or needs, please reach out to accessibleIT@shoreline.edu. 

ADA Title II Update is Upon UsDownload

Accreditation 
 

Find your 2025-26 Program Review here. 

Enrollments 

  • Archives of past daily enrollment tracking reports. 

Printing Services    

Printing Services will be closed the week of Monday, April 27 through Friday, May 1, and will reopen on Monday, May 4.  Please plan accordingly and contact Greg Jensen via email or phone at (206) 546-4674 if you need assistance with your printing needs.   

Technology Support Services (TSS) 

Outdated File Types and Message Quarantine 

Technology Support Services (TSS) would like to share an important update regarding email security and outdated file attachments that may require you to review and release messages from the Outlook quarantine. 

As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen campus security, TSS has been enhancing Microsoft’s email quarantine protections to reduce spam and fraudulent messages reaching user inboxes. These improvements have been effective overall; however, we occasionally receive reports of legitimate emails being mistakenly blocked or quarantined. 

Many of these false positives involve attachments using older file formats such as .doc, .xls, or .ppt. Microsoft now considers these formats outdated and potentially unsafe. Current, supported file types include .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx, which are less likely to be blocked by our security systems. 

If you are experiencing issues sending or receiving emails with attachments in older formats, we recommend converting those files to the newer formats. Please note that you may need to notify outside vendors/contacts to ensure they are sending current file formats when documents are attached to an email.  You can find step‑by‑step instructions in the following article: 

Converting Old Office File Types 

Thank you for your understanding and for helping us maintain a secure campus environment. If you have questions or need assistance, please contact TSS. 

Communication and Marketing 

We are working on creating two new viewbooks for the college- one targeted at domestic students and one for international and we are looking for some info. 

  1. In the domestic viewbook we will include a page with an infographic highlighting fun Shoreline stats and factoids, kind of like the example I included in the document below.  What kind of stats and factoids do you think would be compelling to students about Shoreline.  We’re not just looking for generalities that all community colleges can say, but what is specific to us. 
  1. We will also be peppering the viewbook with fun facts- so what bitesize 1 sentence fun facts do you love to share with students about Shoreline, or maybe they share them with you! 

If you have something that fits either one of these categories, please add it to this document.  We really appreciate the help! 

Foundation/Advancement/Alumni 

Thank you to everyone who has volunteered as a Scholarship Application Reader this year; your help has been tremendous! We’re nearing the finish line – all scores are due April 19. After that, students are expected to be notified of their scholarship award decision by May 8.  

Events 

Guest Lecture: Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina: State Structures & Human Stories 

April 21, 2026 

5:30 – 6:30pm 

Pagoda Union Building | 9208 

Visiting Hubert Humphrey Fellow, Bojana Ilic, will present on Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has one of the most complicated political and legal systems in the world – with five Presidents sharing leadership! The presentation examines the institutional and political systems of contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina nearly three decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement, while placing emphasis on the lived experiences of its’ citizens within those structures. Ms. Ilic will highlight the resilience, peacebuilding efforts and ongoing realities facing refugees and returnees. 

Our Grandmother the Inlet, Ask the Plantain, and our Sacred Earth

Short Film Screening and Panel Discussion 

Film Creators: Directors Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos and Kayah George

April 23, 2026 

5:30 – 6:30pm 

Shoreline College Theater 

This short film sheds light on the mental health challenges faced by Indigenous youth and the enduring spirit to reclaim their connection to culture, water, and land. 

REFLECTIONS: Indian Delegation Experience 

Presented by Dr. Jack Kahn, Shoreline College President 

April 28, 2026 

4:30 – 5:30pm 

Pagoda Union Building | 9208 

Join us for a photo tour of a recent international delegation experience to India. Through the Seattle Consulate, the delegation explored culture, global partnerships, and new international initiatives for Shoreline College. 

Human Resources 

Updates 

  • Registration is OPEN for the 2026 Day of Learning on May 1, 2026 
  • Registration Link: HERE 

Payroll Reminders 

  • Leave Reports are due:  Wednesday, 4/29/26 at noon (employee) and 5pm (supervisor)  
  • Timesheets are due:  Thursday, 4/30/26 at noon (employee) and 5pm (supervisor) 

New Employees 

Please join us in welcoming the following new employees to Shoreline College:   

  • Hannah Pope – Program Specialist 2 – Community Employment Program 

New Job Postings! 

Do you know someone who wants to join our team? Visit: Job Opportunities at Shoreline Community College.  

Updates from DAAG 

Follow Shoreline Community College on social media! 

Shoreline Community College MISSION – Our Purpose 

Shoreline Community College offers accessible, high-quality education and workforce training that empowers students for success. Rooted in our commitment to diversity, equity, and community engagement, we foster an educational environment that contributes to the enrichment of both our local and global communities. 

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FY2025-26 Closing Memo

April 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment

As the end of the 2026-2026 fiscal year approaches, we want to provide you with some important information, including upcoming year-end deadlines. 

Please see the FY2025-26 Closing Memo below for details. 

FY2025-26 Closing MemoDownload
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