Faculty and Staff,

Our annual Commencement ceremony is a significant milestone not only for our students, but also for us as employees to celebrate the collective achievements of our students.

To make this year’s virtual ceremony just as special as the in-person event, we are asking all employees to consider participating in a scripted video message that will be shown during the ceremony. 

This is the most important way you can participate in this year’s ceremony and we especially want to make sure the Class of 2020 knows how proud we all are of their hard work. However, time is short. We need your recorded video clip by Wednesday, June 10. 

Please take a few moments out of your busy schedule before June 10 to follow these three easy steps: 

1.       Video-record yourself reading the entire script.  

a.       To record in Zoom, open a new meeting, position yourself facing your light source in the frame, similar to this example photo:. Eliminate background noises or distractions. Press “Record – on this computer”. You can record to the cloud if you prefer and know how to get the video file afterward. After reading the poem, press “End” then “End Meeting for All”. Zoom will convert your video file, saving it to the location you set in preferences. 

2.       Name the file with your first and last name and “Congrats” (e.g. “Rob Berg Congrats.mp4”). 

3.       Upload the file and notify Rob Berg (rberg@shoreline.edu) that you’ve uploaded a video. 

a.       Rob is also available to answer any technical questions you may encounter. 

A few helpful tips: 

1.       There are a few lines that call for cheering. Please embellish here and show lots of animation. The video may show many of you cheering at once, so pretend you’re in a crowd cheering.  

2.       Place the script high on your computer screen as close to your camera as possible.   

3.       Make eye contact with your camera lens when possible and read at a measured pace with heart.  

4.       If you flub up, don’t start over, just pick up where you left off and keep moving. You are welcome to do multiple takes on a single line as you go; Rob will work his editing magic to make you look good.  

We hope you will take the time to record this video and help make June 20^th a very special day for our graduates.

Thank you! 

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Travis Tribble is the 2020 Commencement Student Speaker.

The Commencement Committee is proud to announce that Travis Tribble has accepted the honor of being student speaker at the 2020 Commencement Ceremony. Travis was born in Seattle, WA and completed his GED at Shoreline in 2017. Once returning for his transfer degree, he became involved in the Honors College and the student newspaper, The Ebbtide.

He is currently the Honors Student Council President and has received many accolades while here, including the Board of Trustees “overcoming obstacles to achieve higher education goals” award, 3rd place for “Feature Reporting” in PNAGE’s regional student news reporting contest, and 1st place in the national Literary Magazine Competition for his submission of “The Folly”. Please join the committee in congratulating Travis as the 2020 student speaker!

Employees from every area of campus are working to prepare for the visit from evaluators from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities from November 2 – 4, 2020. Note that this visit will most likely occur remotely via zoom. From now until the visit, you can help prepare by becoming familiar with aspects of accreditation most relevant to your day-to-day work as well as any college-wide projects you have been part of.

Self-paced training is now available on Canvas to walk you through the accreditation process and to provide step-by-step instructions for reviewing and contributing to Shoreline’s comprehensive self-study. This training has been approved for classified staff to take part in during remote operations or to earn compensatory time.

You can self-enroll in the course. If you have questions about the training or the accreditation visit, please contact Bayta Maring (bmaring@shoreline.edu).