SBCTC Legislative News | March 10, 2023

March 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment

The ninth edition of Legislative News for the 2023 session is posted: Hearings resume as session passes major cutoff deadline

The House and Senate passed a critical deadline Wednesday as bills — unless necessary for the budget — had to be voted out of their originating chamber to continue in the legislative process. Moving this week were bills on student basic needs, dual credit, data sharing, nursing and corrections education.

Baydaa Alshatee has this week’s interns’ update: Never stop learning

I have worked in higher education as a student leader since 2020. I have learned a lot. I have also learned I have more to improve upon. Part of my interest during my State Board for Community and Technical Colleges legislative internship is diversity and inclusion in the higher education landscape. The question to start my research is: What does professional development in equity, diversity and inclusion look like in higher education?


Katie Rose

Communications and Marketing Associate

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

krose@sbctc.edu • o: 360-704-4367 • f: 360-704-4415

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Campus Updates 03/09/23

March 9, 2023 by Leave a Comment

EVENTS AND NEWS  

Hi folks, hope your week is going well!  It’s been a busy one as usual- I imagine for you as well.  I will give you a few highlights from my week here.  

Last week VP King, Dean Hamilton, and I presented to about 100 folks attending the WACTC Promising Practices: Innovative Practices in Dual Credit event.  The event featured a couple of other colleges and was very interesting.  Dean Hamilton did a great job describing our partnerships with our awesome K-12 district, Seagen and Fred Hutch, and our Biotech programs.  Collaboration with our various partners has been applauded by many groups. The faculty and staff that make it happen should be proud of what we are offering to students.  We will bring this same presentation to the board next month, so stay tuned! 

On Friday I had the opportunity to meet with interim Chancellor Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap from the Seattle Community College District over at Black Coffee Northwest.  It was great getting to know her and learning about her experiences here in Washington.  We discussed some shared project interests which I am hoping to get started with this spring.   

This week I also had my first opportunity to see how our tenure process works at Shoreline Community College.  The best part, of course, was hearing about the interesting and engaging work faculty are doing within and outside the classroom.  It was fascinating, and I am glad to be part of this process. 

Lastly, we had our monthly community forum this month also and I am very appreciative of the folks who attended.  We did a review of the budget and budget processes as well as an update on accreditation. We will do this every month to help increase financial and accreditation literacy across campus.  We will continue with the updates coming. 

Have a great week! 

Be well all! 

Cheers, 

Jack 

President’s Winter Quarter 2023 Virtual Open Office Hours: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84369347745

  • Thursday, March 16, 2023; 10:00 – 11:00 AM 

Accreditation Updates: 

Winter Quarter Updates 

ctcLink: 

  • ctcLink will be down for maintenance: Saturday, March 11th, 7-8 am. 
  • Nominate ctcLink Stars! 
    • Nominate folks who went above and beyond to get ctcLink ready for GO LIVE last February and those who are continuing to improve ctcLink.  Please submit your nominations by Wed., March 15: ctcLink Stars Nomination Form. 
    • Stars will be recognized at this celebration: 
  • Faculty Focus: Entering Grades in ctcLink 
    • Heather Munsell, ctcLink Faculty Lead, will be available to answer your grading questions at the end of the quarter. Drop in to see her in Zoom:  
    • Friday, March 24, 3-4pm  
    • Monday, March 27, 10-11am  
    • Tuesday, March 28, 2-3pm  
  • Budget authorities & support staff: check out the ctcLink Budget Documents site. Includes: 
    • The Budget Owner’s list: lists budget authorities and their budgets, with new ctcLink codes and HP/Legacy codes.  
    • Expense codes: helpful for payment paperwork as it maps ctcLink expense codes back to HP/Legacy codes.  
  • Updates to the Shoreline Support Center (which is where you go to get help): 
  • Direct link to ctcLink Support Resources in the Employee page of the Support Center (thank you TSS!): 
screenshot of ctcLink support resources button added to the employee page
  • Button added onto Intranet homepage (thank you Grant!): 
     
screenshot of ctcLink support resources button added to the intranet

Human Resources 

Know someone who wants to join our team? Visit: Job Opportunities at Shoreline Community College 

Events and Updates 

Follow Shoreline Community College on social media! 

COVID-19 Updates   

Cases   

  • For the week of March 1 – March 7, the College saw 2 positive cases of COVID-19 reported, down three from last week’s count. 

News 

Questions?      

Shoreline Community College MISSION – Our Purpose 

We serve the educational, workforce, and cultural needs of our diverse students and communities. 

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Shoreline Community College selects Gary Hunter as the New Head Coach for the Men’s Soccer Team

March 9, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Shoreline Community College has hired Gary Hunter as the new men’s soccer coach. Coach Hunter holds a master’s degree in sports administration from Grambling State University and has many years of coaching experience. Coach Hunter has held the head coaching position at the community college level, high school level, and was an assistant coach at the division one level. Please join me as we welcome Coach Hunter to the Phin family!    

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From VPDEI M. Dixon: Celebrating Women’s History Month & Dr. Patricia S. Cowings 

March 9, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Dr. Patricia S. Cowings (1948-present) was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City. Her career at NASA began in 1971 as a graduate student when she received a fellowship in NASA’s Graduate Research Science Program. She graduated in 1973 with her psychology doctorate from UC Davis.

A few years later in 1979, she became the first African American woman scientist to be trained as an astronaut by NASA. Though she never made it to space, she spent her 34-year career at NASA researching the effects of gravity on human physiology and performance.

Dr. Cowings helped develop and patent the Autogenic-feedback training exercise (AFTE) method and system. This intense 6-hour training was developed to teach astronauts to voluntarily control their physiological responses (space sickness). In 2009, Patricia was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame (WITI). We celebrate Dr. Patricia S. Cowings and her advancements for women in STEM.

Melanie Dixon

Pronouns: she/her/hers Why pronouns?

Vice President of Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Building 1000 (Administration) Room 1019A

photo of Dr. Patricia S. Cowings in celebration of Women's History month
photo of Dr. Patricia S. Cowings in celebration of Women's History month
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New Study Away Program to Alabama, to be offered Spring Break 2024

March 8, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Congratulations to faculty members DuValle Daniel and Brooke Zimmers for their collaborative, successful grant application to develop and lead a study away program at the conclusion of the Winter quarter, of 2024.  Daniel, Zimmers, and their students will follow a segment of the Civil Rights / Freedom Rider Trail, from Birmingham to Montgomery, Alabama.

The group will visit several important sites to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and will engage with locals who participated in the movement.  Plans include visiting the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham where in 1963, a bomb exploded killing four young black girls and injuring many others, drawing national attention to the hard-fought and often dangerous struggle for civil rights for African Americans. In Montgomery, they will visit the Freedom Rides Museum and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Afterward, they will visit the powerful National Memorial for Peace and Justice which recognizes the thousands of lynchings that occurred across the United States. In Selma, the group will visit the National Voting Rights Museum. They will also walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, challenged to imagine the fear and bravery of the Black citizens who in 1965 walked the bridge toward an ‘army’ of white Alabama state and local police officers, and were brutally beaten. The harsh history of African Americans in the United States will be made clear through these potent experiences and faculty-led discussions.   


Shoreline students enrolled in Zimmers’ or Daniel’s Winter Quarter 2024 classes, Communicating for Social Change (CMST 203), African American Literature (ENG 247 or 247W), English 101, or English 102, will engage in readings, discussions, and writings exploring systems of power and privilege with a focus on the significance of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s, and the connection to present-day police violence and voter suppression tactics. The Alabama study away program will serve as an optional final project for students in these courses.


The mini-grant funding for this project was sourced by the International Education department through a College Innovation grant.  Please direct questions regarding this project to Colleen Ferguson at cferguson@shoreline.edu

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