Day at a Glance

Featured Professional Learning:
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Featured Tech Tip:
When logged into a Zoom meeting you can change your name to include your preferred pronouns.

Featured Employee:
Name: Derek Jorgenson
Title: Instructional Designer
Length at College: 4 Months

Something you want everyone to know about the work you do:
The role of an instructional designer is literally designed to help with instruction. As part of the eLearning Services team, I’m here to help students and faculty with online, hybrid, and web-enhanced classes. This includes the creation of content that is engaging, accessible, and aligned with course outcomes as well as making sure everyone can use the educational technology that leads to student success. My goal is to provide solutions to identified problems when they arise, or to offer instructional ideas and options whenever they aren’t evident.

Whenever someone needs _____ they should contact you.
Assistance with or ideas on how to use educational technology

Connect with Rob by emailing him at djorgenson@shoreline.edu or saying hello on Teams!

The objectives of affinity groups are the following:

• • Participants will have opportunities to support each other including but not limited to collegial interactions and professional development.

• • Participants will connect solidarity-based groups to equity, inclusion, and student retention.

• • Participants will develop understanding of solidarity-based group processes (affinity/caucus groups) to inform course instruction/group facilitation.

For this reason, we are opening 6 virtual online affinity groups via Zoom. Please find these designated groups listed on the employee calendar. We understand that every group might not be represented here, but this is our intentional start as a campus to create a space for the marginalized and historically underrepresented groups.

If you feel there is a new group you would like to lead or co-lead, please reach out to Pilar Corder (pcorder@shoreline.edu) with the name of your group. She will then follow up with you on marketing your group.

Best,
The Inclusive Excellence Steering Committee

Dear Colleague,

Thank you to those who attended our May 7th Zoom Hall meeting about COVID-19 and spring quarter updates. Here is the video recording and Powerpoint presentation if you would like to refer to it.

During the meeting, we ran out of time to answer several questions posed by employees, so the Executive Team has provided written responses to those outstanding questions.

Our next campus gathering will be on Tuesday, May 19, for a Zoom Hall Budget Meeting in order to provide you with some important updates about our budget process and timeline. I hope you’ll join me then!

Respectfully,

Cheryl Roberts, Ed.D.
President