Check out the new Waves of Gratitude:

• A wave of gratitude from Debora Sztain to Fiel Cheever! For teacher appreciation week, Fiel went WAY out of her way to making the Parent/Child staff feel appreciated. Even through isolation, she looks at ways of helping us all feel like we are part of a team.

• A wave of gratitude from Lianne Almughirah to Jessica Gibson! Jessica has been awesome in a very chaotic and stressful time. Her positive attitude towards challenges is much appreciated. Jessica, I appreciate you!

• A wave of gratitude from Lianne Almughirah to Julianne Scott! Julz has been calm, cool and collected during this chaotic time. Her ability to change direction quickly, and adapt to new situations and technology is much appreciated. Julz continues to remain positive in spite of challenges! Thank you so much Julz!

• A wave from Jenna Durney to Megan Minto! Thank you Megan for keeping me on top of organizing and implementing the first Online Workforce Education Information Session. I appreciate the scheduled meetings, reminders and good questions to make sure that the session was successful. You bring such valued insight.

• A wave of gratitude to Fiel Cheever! She always supports her coworkers, creates a motivational work environment. I am really appreciate and admire her work.

• A wave of from Jenna Durney Michael Boehm! Thank you Michael for helping make the first Online Workforce Information a Success. Thank you for pulling the team together, when I didn’t have the brain space to do so. I also appreciate your positive attitude and ideas.

• A wave from Jenna Durney to Laura Drake! Thank you Laura for all your help with organizing the first Online Workforce Education Information Session. I appreciate your attention to details, knowledge of how to be more accessible and general positive attitude. Knowing that our funding session could be more engaging, you took it upon yourself to learn how to do Polling in zoom, which was really above and beyond.

• A wave of gratitude from Inez Olive to Susie Schroeder ! Susie has been a fantastic colleague! In the last two weeks, Susie helped me crafted two CRM email messages ahead of my projected time-frame. Her expertise in custom messaging makes her a great asset to our team. Thank you, Susie!

**If you would like to submit a wave of gratitude for your fellow colleagues please use this form.**

-The Recognition Committee

Don’t forget to join us for Water Cooler Wednesday this afternoon at 2:00pm.

Drop in any time by clicking on the zoom link! Further details listed on the employee calendar.

Communications & Marketing is making improvements to the home page and the main navigation ofwww.shoreline.edu, but we can’t do it without you.

About the project:
In the past year, the home page of our website (www.shoreline.edu) has received over 800,000 page views. People come to our website with a range of goals and information needs. We want to make sure they can accomplish those goals and find the information quickly and easily.

By participating in our survey or user research task, you’ll help us better understand what changes we need to make.

There are several ways you can help us with this project:

1. Fill out an employee survey – due date: Please have this done by June 1^st.

Time to complete: 10-20 minutes

Summary: 10 questions to help us understand the changes you’d like to see on the site. All questions are optional except those that help us identify the person submitting the survey.

View survey

2. Participate in user research activities

Current activity: Tree test – Due by May 21^st

Time to complete: 10-15 minutes

Purpose: Helps improve the navigation and menu options on the site

How it works: You’re given 10 tasks to complete. We want to see where you’d go to complete those tasks.

View tree test research

Notes about the tree test: The tasks provided in the test are a sampling of tasks that we know students (as well as faculty & staff) struggle to complete on our site. We’ve done additional research to get us to this point, so if you don’t see a task related to your department, that just means other testing has been or will be done to ensure that information can be found.

3. Encourage students or colleagues to participate in the tree test research  (item #2)

Please feel free to share the tree test link with your students and colleagues. For current students, we’re doing a raffle for (3) $50 gift cards to Amazon. Some professors have offered students extra credit to participate in these studies. If you want to do that, please let us know and we can work with you to identify the students who participate.

Please do not share the employee survey with students or other college employees. That is specific to shoreline employees.

There will be more user testing opportunities for you and your students. Stay tuned!

Thank you,
Adam & Cody
Web Team

Self Care Tip

Take breaks from watching, reading, or listening to news stories, including social media. Hearing about the pandemic repeatedly can be upsetting.

Quote of the week
“Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind,  it will work night and day to achieve it” Jack Canfield

Shoreline Moments

• • Employee Engagement and Wellness Bingo starts this week!

Open to all employees! Earn up to seven “tickets” each week by choosing five different activities, bonus points if they make a Bingo! Prizes for the top winners!  Click here for the full list and how to submit your activities each week. Email Pilar Corder (pcorder@shoreline.edu) with any further questions or help in accessing the list.

• • “Unmuting the Mic” starts tomorrow! Featuring Jeff Kashiwa!

Join us at 12:00pm to hear our very own Jeff Kashiwa. You won’t want to miss this visit the employee calendar for more information or join using the Zoom link.

The library wants your help naming our Skull and Muscle figures! The winning name will be announced by June 5th.

You can find more information here: https://library.shoreline.edu/callmebymyname. Contest ends on May 15th! Students, faculty, and staff are all invited to participate.

Watch a short video about the contest.

Commencement 2020 preparations are in progress by the Commencement Committee.

The Commencement Committee requests nominations for student and faculty speakers. Nominees for Student Speaker will be interviewed via video conferencing and reviewed by the Student Speaker subcommittee at a later date. Speakers will be selected based on their accomplishments and potential to deliver meaningful, thought-provoking messages to graduates and guests. Those that are not chosen to be Student Speaker will still be able to communicate their story on the day of the ceremony, as some of the footage recorded will be displayed during the ceremony. Student nominees must have their graduation applications submitted by the April 30th deadline.

Shoreline Community College is also pleased to continue the tradition of presenting a Student Service Award to honor one or more of its graduating students. This award recognizes a student’s service and contributions to the College and is presented prior to the commencement ceremony each year. The recipient(s) will receive an individual plaque and their names will be added to a permanent plaque that is displayed in the Student Leadership Center.

Nominations can be submitted online. All submissions will need to be submitted by Friday, May 22nd, 2020 (by 4:30 p.m.) to be considered for either honor.

We would also like to put out a call for Administrators, Staff, and Faculty to participate in the selection process. If you would like to participate in this process, please contact Sarah Pearce at spearce@shoreline.edu by Friday, May 15th.