Day at a Glance

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!

Shoreline’s Veterans Services would like to share that the 2018 National POW/MIA Recognition Day is Friday, September 21.

This annual event honors our missing service members and their families and highlights the government’s commitment to account for them.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, more than 83,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars/other conflicts. Out of the 83,000 missing, 75% of the losses are located in the Asia-Pacific, and over 41,000 of the missing are presumed lost at sea (e.g., ship losses, known aircraft water losses).

There are 58,318 names etched in the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Still considered unaccounted for are 1,594 Americans, for whom their families await word of their fate. As a Commemorative Partner of the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, Shoreline Community College joins others in encouraging our community to pause to remember the sacrifices of those who were prisoners of war, as well as those who remain unaccounted for and their families.

The stark black and white banner symbolizing America’s Missing in Action and Prisoners of War is flown below the US flag as a solemn reminder of our obligation to always remember the sacrifices made to defend our Nation.

For more information:
http://www.dpaa.mil

http://www.pow-miafamilies.org/recognition-day.html

https://www.shoreline.edu/oss/veterans/

Dear Colleague,

Opening Week is a time for our campus community to connect and learn together and prepare to welcome students for the new academic year. This year’s Opening Week (September 20-27, 2018) is designed as a purposeful week of learning together in a conference-style format with welcoming addresses, “big idea” breakout sessions, and time to connect with one another. 

I encourage all of us to engage in as many activities as possible to continue the work of creating the preferred future we’ve been building together for the past few years. Please review the Opening Week full schedule and concurrent sessions to learn more about our special week together.

• Thursday, September 20 – New Faculty Orientation, Division/Department Meetings
• Friday, September 21 – Convocation, Interactive Sessions, Lunch and Service Milestone Awards, Ice Cream Social
• Monday, September 24 – Concurrent Learning Sessions, History of Place Nature Walk, New Employee Meet & Greet
• Tuesday, September 25 – SCCFT Executive Board Meeting, SSCFT and Faculty Senate Joint Lunch and Meeting
• Wednesday, September 26 – First day of the quarter
• Thursday, September 27 – All Campus Food Truck Lunch

I look forward with great anticipation to starting the fall quarter and to see you at Fall Convocation and during Opening Week! 

Gratefully,

Cheryl Roberts, Ed.D.

President