Shoreline Community College Staff & Faculty,
Please take this short, 5 question survey regarding disability awareness to help us plan effective and useful presentations and events. Your input is important!
Thank you for your time.
Warmly,
Aleksa Overby
Human Resources Consultant
Hello! Would you be interested in the possibility of obtaining an Employee ORCA Card? Please take the survey below to let us know!
https://forms.gle/UUG9PSrAQstodFma7
Please retake the survey (if you already took the first one), as there was an error in the earlier format. This survey will be open until April 1st, 2023. Google Sign-In not required.
*Survey responses may help us bring this great program back to Shoreline CC!
Benefits
-Unlimited-use ORCA cards for all employees
-Employee cost-sharing option (i.e. employee pre-tax payroll deductions)
-Add value to cards monthly/as needed
-Online card management & direct customer support
-Vanpool & Vanshare subsidy (van to use for vanpool with paid gas, insurance, maintenance, etc.)
-Home Free Guarantee emergency rides (up to 8 rides for free per person via taxi, if regular transit ride home is missed due to emergency or unexpected late work)
Regards,
Office of Safety & Security
The Arabian Nights is a full-length drama adapted for the stage by Mary Zimmerman from Powys Mather’s translation of The Book of Thousand Nights and One Night. Passionate, playful, provocative storytelling, The Arabian Nights examines the fascinating tale of Scheherazade. In the wake of discovering his queens infidelity cruel King Shahryar has soured on all womankind. Then theres no one left but clever Scheherazade. Can her 1001 cliffhanger stories keep her alive?
The Arabian Nights tells the tale of Scheherezades nightly telling of evocative tales. 1001 nights later the storyteller and listener are forever changed. A twelve-member cast enacts Scheherazade’s tales of love, lust, comedy, and dreams. Scheherazade’s cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel ruler Shahryar, from murdering her, and after 1,001 nights, Shahryar is cured of his madness, and Scheherazade returns to her family. This adaptation offers a wonderful blend of the lesser-known tales from Arabian Nights with the recurring theme of how the magic of storytelling holds the power to change people. The final scene brings the audience back to a modern day Baghdad with the wail of air raid sirens threatening the rich culture and history that are embodied by these tales.
Students $5
Faculty/ Senior $10
General $15
Save the date: Day of Learning is May 5th, 2023
Submit a proposal by March 5th, 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/anujRcYU1K
Day of Learning site: https://shorelineccwa.sharepoint.com/sites/PD/SitePages/Day-of-Learning-2023.aspx
Our College history reflects the commitment to DEIA and lays a foundation for us to build upon. There is much still left to accomplish in this space to achieve our commitment to equity and inclusion. Together we can identify barriers to inclusion and dismantle them together.
This year’s Day of learning theme is Moving Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility to Action.
The tracts for the day are Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. Definitions below pulled from the DEIA website: https://www.shoreline.edu/about-shoreline/diversity-equity-inclusion.aspx
Diversity: Typically refers to the wide range of identities within the broad categories of race, ethnicity, gender, age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, veteran status, physical appearance, etc.
Equity: The act of developing, strengthening, and supporting outcome fairness in resource systems and procedures with a focus on eliminating barriers that have impacted historically marginalized and/or underserved groups.
Inclusion: The ongoing and adaptable action of providing equitable access, opportunities, and resources for systemically non-dominant groups or individuals in a way that acknowledges and shares power.
Accessibility: Creating and advancing the barrier-free design, standards, systems, processes, and environments to provide all individuals, regardless of ability, background, identity, or situation, an effective opportunity to take part in, use and enjoy the benefits of employment, programs, services, activities, communication, facilities, electronic/information technology, and business opportunities.
Submit a proposal by March 5th, 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/anujRcYU1K
Dear Campus Colleagues,
We have received correspondence from the Northwest Commission on Colleges & Universities (NWCCU) that indicates the College still has quite a bit of work to do to be in compliance with our accreditation standards. We will be receiving a formal letter from the NWCCU soon in response to their last site visit in October 2022. We will update you as soon as we receive the letter.
Specifically, quoting from the accreditation Standard 1.B.1, the College needs to “demonstrate a continuous process to assess institutional effectiveness, including student learning and achievement, and support services.” In addition, the College needs to “use an ongoing and systematic evaluation and planning process to inform and refine our institutional effectiveness, assign our resources, and improve student learning and achievement.”
As an institution, we will assess our effectiveness through data-informed reviews (self-reflections) in each area of the College. The good news is that most instructional departments and student services areas made significant progress on this work this last summer and fall; that analysis informed funding decisions for tenure-track faculty positions and instructional equipment. We will build on that momentum and ensure that all areas of the college complete a review by the end of this academic year: by June 16, 2023.
The review process will be “continuous” in that each area will complete a review each year (a shorter annual review) and a comprehensive review every 3-4 years. A DRAFT multi-year calendar can be found on a new Institutional Planning Sharepoint site.
The review process will inform how we “assign our resources,” which means if your area wants to request additional resources (i.e. funding-including up to $100,000 in Innovation Grants, staffing, or equipment beyond the tenure-track positions and instructional equipment that already have been approved), then you will need to complete a review by an earlier deadline of April 24, 2023, to allow for analysis that will inform the development of the 2023-24 budget.
We will be using the president’s goals to guide the College’s current strategic direction until a new Strategic Plan is created in the coming months and to prioritize resource requests. While we expect a tight budget year, the budget development process will be participatory, transparent, and informed by your area reviews. All Executive Team (ET) decisions will be shared out first to the Strategic Planning & Budget Council (the College’s relevant participatory governance group) before going to the Board of Trustees in May.
Please keep in mind that reviewing your specific area is the first step of this process. The NWCCU also expects us to look at the results of the review and make changes to our practices based on what we learn in order to demonstrate improvement. We then need to document that improvement in our accreditation report.
The Planning & Institutional Effectiveness (PIE) area will reach to each area individually with more details on your area review.
In the meantime, mark your calendar for tomorrow’s all-campus Accreditation Q & A session with the NWCCU. Come to understand the big picture of accreditation and ask questions: Wednesday, February 22, 2023, Noon-1 pm, room 1010M / Boardroom or Zoom.
A final piece of good news is that Shoreline applied for and has been accepted into the yearlong NWCCU Mission Fulfillment & Sustainability Fellowship program, which will provide a structured opportunity for advancing the College’s accreditation work with guidance not only from our NWCCU accreditors, but from national experts.
Sincerely,
Jack Kahn, President
Ann Garnsey-Harter, Associate VP-Planning, Institutional Effectiveness, & Project Management
Bill Saraceno, Interim VP – Business & Administrative Services
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