Every Wednesday, show your #PhinNation pride by wearing Shoreline attire. It’s a fun way to connect with colleagues and students each week. Don’t forget to take advantage of your employee discount at the Bookstore. Looking forward to seeing everyone decked out in Shoreline wear on Wednesdays!

The Ebbtide student newspaper received high praise and a General Excellence award last weekend from judges in the Pacific Northwest Association of Journalism Educators contest.

Lauding the paper for being “serious, playful, insightful and relevant,” the judges awarded the Ebbtide second place in the prestigious General Excellence category.

This was the Ebbtide’s 8^th General Excellence award in 11 years. “If this keeps up, the Ebbtide will need a trophy stand that isn’t just the top of a file cabinet,” Editor in Chief Connor Tee said with a laugh. “Seriously, the staff came together through some unexpected challenges, and I couldn’t be prouder as I leave SCC. The awards are just icing on the cake.”

Last year, the Ebbtide staff won a first-place Sweeps award for earning the most award points across all the individual categories, from news reporting to page design.

This year, award winners in individual categories included:

• Frances Hui — 2^nd place in news reporting for her story on an SCC international student detained at the Canadian border
• Areeya Tipyasothi, Nellie Ferguson and Coral Nafziger — 1^st place in comprehensive coverage for a spread on academic dishonesty
• Areeya Tipyasothi — 1^st place for a profile of last year’s ASG president Winston Lee
• Kristen Clark — 1^st place in commentary for a piece on gun control
• CJ Priebe — 3^rd place in sports news for a story on the women’s basketball team
• Martin Musialczyk — 3^rd place in news photo for a shot of Elena Esquibel’s communication class performing in the PUB.
• Nellie Ferguson and CJ Priebe – Honorable Mention for a sports feature on SCC’s Cheer squad
• Aditya Wiputra – Honorable Mention for a feature photo of a drummer in the talent show.

This year’s contest covered community-college work produced March 2017 to March 2018. It was judged by journalism professionals and instructors at local universities.

As part of ongoing efforts to communicate clearly and accurately about all of Shoreline’s academic offerings, Shoreline will be transitioning to a database-driven, dynamic, electronic catalog for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Funded by a Shoreline innovation grant, the catalog will be created and maintained using Acalog, a software application from DIGARC.

A cross-functional team from Communications and Marketing, Advising, Curriculum Committee, Technology Support Services, and Dean Team submitted the innovation fund proposal, noting strong benefits to students and the College to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and accessibility of catalog development and publishing. The new electronic catalog will support and enhance forthcoming changes in the College’s website.

What will the change mean for you?

There will be some significant changes coming, particularly in advising students about course selection. Most notable among these are:

• • The full catalog will still be printable, but will have a different look and feel from our previous printed catalog. For samples of colleges using Digarc for their catalog solution, visit Edmonds Community College or Highline College.

• • As students are selecting courses, they can immediately read course descriptions by clicking on a course number. For example, in the list of courses that fulfill the social sciences distribution requirements, students can just click on the course and learn about the course, its prerequisites, and when it is typically offered.

• • All program planning guides and major preparation sheets will be captured within the catalog, not in separate documents, reducing the possibility for inaccuracy in reporting program requirements and recommendations.

• • The reviewing process for catalog and planning guide materials will be moved online and can be done from any browser, with all changes tracked and documented.

• • Some of the content from the planning guides, particularly information geared toward prospective students, will be captured on program option web pages;  whereas detailed information about program requirements and recommended courses will be included in the catalog.

If you have been involved in the planning guide or catalog revision process in the past, expect further communication in the next few days about what the process will look like this year and next.

Bayta Maring (bmaring@shoreline.edu) and Jenifer Aydelotte (jaydelotte@shoreline.edu) are the primary contacts for questions, with Jenifer taking on the role of “catalog manager.” They will be receiving extensive training on the editing process over the next several weeks. The new catalog will be published September 2018.

Shoreline Community College music student Trevor Eaden has advanced to the national semi-finals of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) vocal adjudications, and will travel to Las Vegas to compete at the NATS conference in late June.

Trevor, who studies voice with music faculty member Fred Lokken, will be one of just fourteen participants from across the country in the Men’s Lower College Classical Division. The top three finishers in each category will be awarded up to two thousand dollars in scholarship funds.

Congratulations to Trevor, and good luck in Vegas!