Campus Updates 1/10/25

Thursday 1/9/25 

Events and News 

Hello all and welcome back officially!  It’s a SUNNY Thursday and enrollment is tracking 2.5% up this morning with Domestic enrollment at .6% up from last spring and International Enrollment at 4.5% up from last year’s spring.   

It has been a busy week, but great to see some of you out and about.  I’ve been working on completing evaluations and some prep work for the quarter on my end.  I’m looking forward to the ASG event “Dessert with the Deans” later this afternoon.  The Deans definitely deserve dessert (keeping with the alliteration trend). 

Yesterday VP Ramos, Sarah Swanberg and I met with representatives from Roosevelt Alumni for Racial Equity (RARE) to learn more about their mission and to see whether we might work together and with other King County representatives to support black consciousness and collaborations needed to support Black/African American students in K-12 and Community Colleges.  The meeting was really productive, and we look forward to next steps, which likely will include a showing of their powerful documentary “Beyond Black & White”.  Yesterday we also met a very interesting team from Sheridan College in Wyoming who wanted to tour our Cedar building as they are building a new STEM Lab space and are looking for innovative ideas.  Well, they came to the right place!  

Our hearts go out to friends and family who have been affected by the Los Angeles fire tragedy.  I know I have been checking on my friends and colleagues often, and I hope your communities are getting the support they need. 

Finally, I wanted to share/ reshare our new Community page. If you have any webpages that list events or are of overall community interest –please email Cat Chiappa cchiappa@shoreline.edu 

Cheers, 

Jack 

Fall Quarter Updates: 

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/Council Updates:  

• Accreditation Committee 
• Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee 
• ctcLink Leadership Team 
• College Council Updates 
• Facilities Technology Committee 
• Strategic Planning Budget Council 

Accreditation 
 

Program Reviews: 

• You should be implementing your goals for the 2024-25 year and document your steps in the “Progress on This Year’s Goals” section of the Program Review. 
• Instructional areas should start the “Student Success” section.  
• ProRata faculty position requests due by February 3: sections “Background,” “Equity” and “Activity / Workload” need to be finalized in the Program Review. 
• Need help? Inspiration? Collaboration? Join a Program Review Drop-In session from the comfort of your own office:  
  • Wednesday, January 15^th, Noon-1 pm (Zoom link) 
  • Thursday, January 23^rd, 3-4 pm (Zoom link) 
  • Wednesday, January 29^th, 12:30-1:30 pm (Zoom link) 
     

Enrollments: 

The winter 2025 daily enrollment report is available to all employees.   

Technology Support Services 

Network Rewiring and Hardwiring Connection Project Update:   

Below is the updated building list of the rewired and hardwired network connections that have been restored and those in progress with expected completion dates. As mentioned at the beginning of this project, most of the building wiring has not been updated for over a decade or more (emphasis on more). During this project, we have already encountered several major issues in the buildings as we run new cabling and test the integrity of previous network connections.  We continue to utilize our third-party vendor (Milne) and expect to be fully completed in early 2025.    

Building	Expected Completion Date	Status
800	24-Jan
1000		Complete
1100		Complete
1200		Complete
1300		Complete
1400		Complete
1500		Complete
1600		Complete
1700		Complete
1800		Complete
1900		Complete
2000		Complete
2100		Complete
2300		Complete
2900		Complete
3000		Complete
4000		Complete
5000	31-Jan	In progress
9000	14-Feb

DEIA: 

Join us in celebration of Korean American Day with Dr. Moon-Ho Jung’s lecture on Framing and Commemorating the History of Koreans in the Pacific Northwest. The talk will be held on Tuesday, January 14th from 12-2 pm at Shoreline Community College in the Main Dining Room (MDR) in Room 9215. We will be serving Korean Street Food from a local business.   

Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History and the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (2022), winner of the David Montgomery Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association, and the Theodore Saloutos Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2006). He served as the President of the Korean American Historical Society in 2007-2016.  

In 2007, Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire signed a bill designating January 13th as “Korean American Day.” This date marks the first arrival of Korean immigrants to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1903. What is the history of this migration? How and why did Koreans move to the United States, and to the Puget Sound region in particular? This talk will suggest a framework for interpreting local history–a critical step in defining our identities and communities.