PEBB Annual Open Enrollment Open November 1, 2022

PEBB’s Annual Open Enrollment begins November 1

The Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) Program’s annual open enrollment begins Tuesday, November 1, 2022, and ends Wednesday, November 30, 2022.

Open enrollment is your opportunity to make changes to your health plans and enrollment. Annual open enrollment changes are effective January 1, 2023. This means that even if you make changes during the annual open enrollment period, your enrollment will stay the same through December 31, 2022.

Changes you can make

During annual open enrollment you can:

• Change medical and dental plans.

• Add or remove dependents

• Attest to the spouse or state-registered domestic partner (SRDP) coverage premium surcharge for 2023, if required. The PEBB Program will mail a letter in late October at the address on file to those who cover a spouse or SRDP and are required to attest. You can also log into PEBB My Account to determine if you are required to re-attest. Beginning November 1, you can also log into PEBB My Account to determine if you are required to re-attest.

• Enroll in the Medical Flexible Spending Arrangement (FSA), Limited Purpose FSA, or Dependent Care Assistance Program (DCAP) through Navia Benefit Solutions. *You must re-enroll each year*

• Enroll in medical coverage if previously waived.

• Waive your medical coverage if you are enrolled in another employer-based group medical plan, a TRICARE plan, or Medicare.

Learn more about the changes you can make on the PEBB open enrollment webpage and in the October For Your Benefit newsletter (this was also mailed to your home).

How to make changes

Starting November 1, you can make a change by:

• Submitting a paper enrollment/change form and any other required documents to your payroll or benefits office. Some changes like adding a dependent requires the use of a form instead of online.

• 2023 forms will be available on the Health Care Authority’s website under Forms and publications on November 1.

• OR Logging in to PEBB My Account to make the changes yourself.

o To access your PEBB My Account, go to https://www.hca.wa.gov/

o Click Login at the top right corner of the screen

o Select PEBB My Account

o Login or create an account if you have not done so already

If you have questions about your enrollment or PEBB account, please contact benefits@shoreline.edu

Preptober Creative Writing- Today 10/28

Preptober Session 10/28 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Come to a session to help you prepare for the NaNoWriMo creative writing challenge. Get advice from others who have done NaNoWriMo before and learn ways to organize your time, outline, plan, and otherwise prepare for the month ahead!

https://library.shoreline.edu/NaNoWriMo/Preptober

student group work being done at a table

3D Halloween in Manufacturing

Manufacturing is amazing! These cuties were made by the shop manager Ben! Aren’t they clever and “adorahorrible”! 😊

Thank you,

Wanda Waldrop

clay skull figures

Happy International Open Access week!

International Open Access Week (Oct 24-30) is a time to coordinate across communities to make openness the default for research and to ensure that equity is at the center of this work. Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. While OA is a newer form of scholarly publishing, many OA journals comply with well-established peer-review processes and maintain high publishing standards. To learn more about Open Access—as well as where to find Open Access articles—check out the Shoreline CC Library’s new Open Access and Open Data guide:https://library.shoreline.edu/openaccess

This year’s theme is “Open for Climate Justice” which speaks to the central role that open knowledge sharing and OA policies play in addressing our world’s most urgent problems. Openness can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing and service to address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them (“International Open Access Week”.)

Here are a few Open Access Week events happening online:

• The University of Oregon Libraries’ “Open for Climate Justice: A Panel with the Just Futures Institute,” Thursday, Oct. 27, 1-2pm (PST), via Zoom. Join the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice and UO Libraries to learn about the design, theory, and creation of multimedia public scholarship projects. Representatives from the AfroIndigenous Healers, Stories of Fire: A Climate Justice Atlas, and the Atlas of Essential Work projects will discuss how their work is embedded within the concept of climate justice and reaching local, regional, national, and international communities. Register here: https://uoregon.libcal.com/calendar/dreamlab/jfi-open-access.

• Knowledge Futures OA Week 2022 Events: https://notes.knowledgefutures.org/pub/oaweek-2022/release/3

https://www.openaccessweek.org/

Best,

Caitlan

International Open Access week event information. Open for Climate Justice

Guided Pathways Newsletter 10/20/22

Thursday, Oct 20, 2022. Eighth edition


Data data data

Those of you who responded to the “what topics for future newsletters?” survey indicated that you wanted to learn more about retention patterns. Well, I have lots of information and resources for you!

What we found:

  • Our retention rates are decreasing. While our overall numbers have been better than our peers’, it seems we are on a decline while they are either flat or getting better.
  • Part-time students are not as well retained as full-time students.
  • We have inequities in our retention rates. Generally, Asian American students are retained at the highest rate, while Black/African American students are poorly retained. White and Latinx retention rates are similar to each other. (Note: The data is a bit complicated, possibly reflecting year-to-year variability in Hispanic/Latinx enrollments. Also, our enrollment numbers for Pacific Islander students and Native American students are frequently too small to report.. Our selected peers have these same problems.)
  • When retention rates are disaggregated by race/ethnicity and by degree type, it appears that students are more likely to be retained in prof-technical programs than in transfer programs. 

You can see graphs of some of this information, here. You can also play around with the data yourself, using the State Board’s “FTEC” dashboard. 

What is this Newsletter for? 

This newsletter is an effort to keep campus employees informed of our Guided Pathways-related efforts, to share stories from projects, and address questions. It is intended to complement our Canvas site, our update reports, and any webinars that we may offer.

What to read the full edition? Contact Brigid Nulty to subscribe to the Guided Pathways Newsletter!