An All Campus Meeting (ACM) is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 14,  from 12:30 – 2 p.m. in the PUB’s Main Dining Room.  The meeting’s topics: State of the College; Emergency Management.

The ACM will be available via video stream. The ACM will also be recorded in its entirety.

From the Human Resources Office:  If you are planning to attend the meeting in person, please abstain from wearing personal care products (including hair products, perfume or cologne) containing chemicals or fragrances that might impact individuals with chemical sensitivities.

Thank you.

Good morning!  It may be hard to believe with this weather, but spring is just around the corner and with it comes – commencement!

For some students this is the culmination of years of effort and for some it is the beginning of their educational journey, but in either case it is our time to celebrate their accomplishments and our work together as a campus community.

Please take a moment and nominate a student and/or a faculty member to speak at our 50th commencement.  The forms are attached and also located at the information desk or in the Dean of Student’s Office

Make sure to fill out the form and submit it to Jennifer Mahern by email or intercampus mail at room 5202A in FOSS by March 5!

Dear fellow employee,

Effective Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, the College will begin using an online recruitment system provided by NEOGOV to improve the hiring process for job seekers and hiring managers.

Using this system, job seekers will be able to quickly and more easily apply online for positions currently open at the College via www.shoreline.edu/hr.  Interested job seekers may apply for current vacancies or sign up for new openings that become available at the College.  With NEOGOV, hiring authorities, screening committee members, and Human Resources staff can access and review application materials online in a secured environment to better support timely screening committee work and hiring decisions by the College.

Screening committee members selected for future recruitment processes will receive training on how to access and use this new online recruitment resource, however please direct questions about NEOGOV or other aspects of our recruitment and screening processes to Human Resources staff at any time.

NEOGOV is a market technology leader in fully hosted (“cloud computing”) Human Resources management applications for public sector agencies and education institutions. More than 1,000 agencies and institutions nationwide use NEOGOV including states, cities and counties, colleges and universities, K-12 school districts.  Here is more information about NEOGOV.
Submitted by: Stephen P. Smith

Spread the news! Applications for the 2014 – 2015 school year are now available and more information can be found on the SCC Foundation scholarship page.

Deadline to apply is 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.

The following scholarships are new this year:

• Jack Rogers Memorial Scholarship
• JD Humphreys Memorial Clean Energy Scholarship
• Joseph W Sullivan Nursing Scholarship
• Troy Wolff Memorial Humanities Scholarship

There are scholarships for students who will be new to SCC in the upcoming school year and for present SCC students who will be continuing their studies during 2014 – 2015.

Contact Lynn Yaw in the SCC Foundation office, room 1005, (206) 533-6783.

In honor of Black History Month, the Multicultural Center welcomes a part of local Seattle history. Aaron Dixon will share with us his life experiences as told through his recently published book “My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain.” on Tuesday, Feb. 11, from 1-2:30 p.m. in the PUB quiet dining room.

Aaron Dixon “My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain”

In the spring of 1968, while attending the funeral of teenager Bobby Hutton in Oakland, California, Dixon met Bobby Seale who along with Huey P. Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP).  The Panther leadership was impressed by 19 year-old Dixon and he was given instructions to form the Seattle Chapter.   With his appointment as Captain of the Seattle Chapter, he formed the first branch of the BPP outside of California.

Dixon and his fellow Panthers were able to turn their Panther chapter into a thriving center of militant Black activism and community service in Seattle’s Central District. From the Party’s headquarters on Yesler Way, Dixon and the Panthers created a free medical clinic (still in operation today as the Carolyn Downs Clinic), five breakfast programs for schoolchildren, the first free food bank in Seattle, a prisoner visitation program, and free legal services for poor people.  The Party also responded to calls from the community regarding police brutality and harassment.

Please contact me if you would like to request a poster to put up, reserve space for a class, or if you have any questions.

James Lawrence Ardeña