Here is the link to the March 10, 2017 Winter Campus Update #1 Video:
Thank you.
#YouAreWelcomeHere – Message from President Roberts
April 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dear Colleague,
Last week, as we welcomed our students to spring quarter, I expect many of you noticed new t-shirts, buttons, and signs promoting key phrases from our Community Standard. While we always extend a big “welcome” at each quarter’s launch, this quarter’s welcome has a little more behind it and I wanted to let you know what is happening and why.
Many employees and students were asking questions about the changes they have seen nationally and globally and what this means for us at Shoreline. I have heard from you — and certainly feel myself — that we need to learn new and better ways to have constructive conversations with each other. I also heard we need to know what actions we can take to uphold our deeply held values of respect, inclusion, and student engagement at the College.
Our Shoreline Community College Community Standard reflects a process that we engaged in winter and spring 2015 and captures in words the values that are reflected on our campus. Drawing on our Community Standard, we are taking the following actions this quarter:
- We created a #You Are Welcome Here” video and are sharing it on social media and in various venues across campus.
- We have new #YouAreWelcomeHere t-shirts and buttons for sale at the bookstore for employees ($5 per t-shirt, $1 per button). Students can pick up free t-shirts and buttons in the Student Leadership Center.
- Beginning April 19, and each Wednesday thereafter, we encourage employees and students to wear their #YouAreWelcomeHere t-shirts and buttons to show we care about our collective values of respect, inclusion, and student engagement.
- There is a Community Standard response protocol in place to address any acts of intolerance if they unfold on campus.
- We will offer bystander training to the administrative team and faculty this month so that we can learn how to respond if we hear or see someone taking actions that are contrary to our Community Standard. I had an initial conversation with Chief Shop Steward Jerry Owens to discuss offering bystander training for classified staff during spring term.
- We will hold an interactive conversation on “Why Do We Value Free Speech?” this Friday, April 14 (1:30-3:30 p.m., PUB Main Dining Room) with Michele Storms, Deputy Director, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington. I hope you will join this discussion about how we express our ideas in a diverse society and what it means to disagree and live in community. Come explore ways to address the challenges of living together in the face of differences in expression and ideas.
- We have joined the Office of Student Life’s conversation series From Margin to Center. Dr. Christopher Parker, professor of political science at the University of Washington and Devin Burghart, VP for the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, will provide a conversation on Monday, May 1 (11:30-12:30 p.m.) entitled White Fright: From Redemption to Donald Trump – the dynamics of race and racism from the Civil War through present day.
Please share your ideas on respectful actions we can take to better serve our students and each other by emailing pio@shoreline.edu.
Respectfully,
Cheryl Roberts, Ed.D.
President
Join us for the Spring 2017 Campus Update #1: Why do we value Free Speech? Fri., April 14
April 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Join us on Friday, April 14 in the PUB’s Main Dining Room (#9215) from 1:30-3:30 p.m. for a conversation (entitled Why do we value Free Speech?) with the ACLU of Washington’s Deputy Director Michele Storms related to the issue of First Amendment rights on college campuses.
Join this interactive conversation about how we express our ideas in a diverse society and what it means to disagree and live in community. Some questions we will consider are:
- What does it mean to speak out when our ideas and expressions clash?
- How do we function as a society when we don’t agree?
Come explore ways to address the challenges of living together in the face of differences in expression and ideas.
Information on the Spring 2017 Campus Update #1 was first announced on the April 3, 2017 Spring Message from President Roberts.
The April 14 Campus Update will be recorded and the link to the video provided after closed captioning is completed.
From the Human Resources Office: If you are planning to attend the Campus Update in person, please abstain from wearing personal care products (including hair products, perfume or cologne) containing chemicals or fragrances that might impact individuals with chemical sensitivities.
From Margin To Center: Active By-Stander Intervention Training Wed., April 12
April 11, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Join Student Life for the “From Margin to Center” program series with this training that will provide strategies to intervene in hostile/violent contexts. Wed., April 12 1:30-3 p.m. in the PUB 9208.
Tolu Taiwo and Luke Ruiz bring this training to talk about ways to be active bystanders while considering positionality and identities. This training prepares each member of the Shoreline Community College community to be active bystanders and look out for one another in order to create a safer community for all. We care about our friends – this presentation provides an overview of warning signs and skills for response when they are at risk.
Tolu Taiwo and Luke Ruiz both work at Pacific Lutheran University. Tolu serves as the Prevention and Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Gender Equity at Pacific Lutheran University, has served in an array of roles advocating for those in marginalized communities, and was recently selected as a faculty member at NASPA’s Dungy Leadership Institute. Luke Ruiz is a Resident Director for two upper division residential communities and his work crosses over with a number of offices, especially the Center for Gender Equity, where he has been involved in Active Bystander Training for the past couple of years and strongly believes in speaking up and out against injustices in our society.
Turning points in life for a young professional, Wed., April 12
April 11, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Join us for “Turning points in life for a young professional,” a talk by Stephen Murphy on Wed., April 12 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the PUB 9208.
University of Washington grad (1966), Stephen Murphy traveled east to Harvard Business School, where he faced his first turning point. Next, he struggled through Vietnam and Pacific typhoons, eventually finding his way to Columbia Business School and onward to Brazil. Later, he lands positions in both Bush administrations. In between, and since, he has had a successful career as an advisor to businesses on both sides of the U.S./Latin American border(s). To find out more about Steve’s “turning points of life,” on many roads both familiar and less traveled, join us. This is a frank and personal discussion of success, failure, and lessons learned by a Seattle boy who became a global wanderer.
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