Campus Updates- All Staff (11/19/21)

November 19, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Hi Campus Community,  

Here are this week’s updates. We wish you a warm holiday season of togetherness over the coming days!

RETURN TO CAMPUS/COVID-19 

  • REMINDER: beginning winter quarter 2022, all classified staff will be required to work on-campus a minimum of 3 days per week (joining admin/exempt staff). Please work with your supervisor to finalize your schedule by November 19, 2021.  The only exception to the requirement would be a medical exemption and exemption requests should have been submitted to and in process with Human Resources: hr@shoreline.edu. 
  • Student Attestation:  New in-person or on-campus students attending winter quarter 2022 need to complete the COVID-19 vaccination attestation form by January 20, 2022 (10th day of the quarter) to avoid getting a hold put on their registration account.  
  • Disinfecting wipes and dispensers are being distributed to computer and piano labs so users can clean keyboards (not computer screens), as they would like.  In addition, employees are welcome to request wipes be distributed to their individual offices by submitting a Facilities work order. This effort is in response to requests, but also remember that per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the risk of getting infected by COVID-19 from contact with surfaces or objects is generally considered to below. 
  • Vaccine Clinic 
    • The next weekend clinic will be on December 4th and 5th in the Main Dining Room (MDR) in the PUB/9000 building for children ages 5-11 to distribute the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for this age group.  Make a follow-up appointment here. Expect thousands of people on campus that weekend so there will be no walk-ins. 
  • The clinic will close on December 17, 2021, in order to move to the Quiet Dining Room (QDR)/room 9208 and then will reopen on January 4, 2022.  It will stay open throughout the winter quarter M-F 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and will continue to offer COVID-19 vaccinations for ages 5-11, as well as ages 12-adult and booster shots. 
  • Please check the COVID-19 Updates site for more details. 

EVENTS AND NEWS 

Full Campus Water Shutdown 

Saturday, December 4th, 7:00 am – 4:00 pm 
Due to construction, water service will be shut down across campus. We apologize for any inconvenience.  There will be mobile bathrooms set up on campus for those living in 7000 and others that will be on campus. 

cTc Link Weekly Updates 

Starting December 1st, ctcLink updates will have a home here in the weekly all-staff update! Notes in this section will not be department-specific, but more of an update on project timelines, developments, and announcements. Thank you ahead of time for reading and staying current on this rollout.  

Welcome Steve Hanson, Interim President 

Beginning Monday, November 15, 2021, Steve Hanson joined Shoreline Community College in the Interim President position. President Hanson comes to Shoreline with over thirty years of administrative and teaching experience across multiple institutions within the Washington State community and technical college system. President Hanson comes with executive leadership experience at Renton Technical College (President), Spokane Community College (President), and Edmonds Community College (Executive VP – Instruction).  

“I am honored to have this opportunity to serve as Shoreline’s interim president. I especially want to express my appreciation for the warm and welcoming reception that I received this Monday when I was able to participate both virtually and in-person with many faculty and staff. I look forward to meeting with faculty, staff, and students over the coming weeks as we work together to ensure the success of our students, our programs, and our campus community.” 

Among the many strengths, President Hanson brings to this role is his experience with strategic planning, cultural diversity, budget planning and development, institutional effectiveness/research, workforce education, new program development, capital planning, community relations, grant administration, and distance learning. 

REMINDER: 2021 Winter Closure 

As we enter the holiday period, this is just a reminder of the upcoming December campus closure in observance of the winter holiday break. The specific dates of the 2021 Winter closure will be Monday, Dec 20th through Friday, Dec 24th, 2021. As you prepare for the 2021 winter closure period, please review the following information: 

  • Classified staff should use accrued comp time (or other applicable paid leave) for the four days the College is closed prior to the Friday, December 24th holiday.    
    • NOTE: Classified staff may request supervisor approval to work across the closure (excluding the Friday, 12/24/21 holiday) if desired to support ctcLink implementation tasks or to catch up on work impacted by ctcLink assignments. 
  • For those approved to work, remember that all non-urgent communications and tasks should wait for campus re-opening on Monday, December 27, 2021. 
  • If you have an emergent health condition during the winter closure, you may substitute sick leave for vacation leave on the applicable days. 

Strengthening Institutional Programs (SIP) Grant and Starfish Updates 

The College recently received two competitive Title III Grants, the SIP and the AANAPISI grants. In order to leverage the synergy and alignment between the SIP grant and College’s Guided Pathways efforts, rather than hiring a separate director for the SIP grant, the director of Guided Pathways, Brigid Nulty, will take on the additional responsibility of overseeing the SIP grant. The day-to-day implementation of the grant will be managed by an Associate Director of the SIP Grant, reporting directly to Director Nulty. The Associate Director position will be fully funded by the SIP grant. Moriah Shistle, the temporary Business Analyst managing the Starfish implementation, was identified as an ideal candidate for the Associate Director position based on her skillset and familiarity with the College and its operations. 

An open hiring process will be conducted this fall for a new Business Analyst, and the role will be funded by the SIP grant moving forward. Until this position is filled, Ms. Shistle will continue to oversee the Starfish project while easing into her Associate Director of SIP duties. We do not anticipate any disruption to the Starfish rollout. 

Contract Approval Protocol 

Gayla Hocker started as the new Executive Assistant to the VP of Business and Administrative Services on November 17 and will resume management of all contracts and agreements for approval.  As a reminder, the contract review form must be completed and submitted to Gayla prior to obtaining the VP’s signature.  Gayla can be reached at ghocker@shoreline.edu or at 206-546-7859.  Welcome to Shoreline Gayla! 

Winter Registration opens for all November 22nd, 2021 

REMINDER: How to request college graphics:
C&M Serves the college through this page. It is important for college creative and graphics to be consistent and branded.
For all Communication and Marketing Requests, please send to the following:
Graphic Design Requests: designrequest@shoreline.edu
Web Design Requests: websupport@shoreline.edu
Crystal Berry (description): crystal.berry@shoreline.edu
Diana Dotter (description): ddotter@shoreline.edu
Please include a timeline for your project. We will respond within 24-48 hours.

Have a wonderful weekend! Thank you for all that you do for our students.  

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Campus Update Meeting: Thurs, Nov 18, 2021; 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

November 17, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Meeting Topics

• STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics) Building Update
• Reopening Update
• ctcLink Update
• Q&A

To connect to the November 18, 2021 Campus Update Meeting
~Via link, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81731942856
-or-  
~Via telephone:
Call/Dial/Key-in to one of the following numbers. Start with the first number. If you receive a busy signal or an “all circuits are busy” message, try the next number on the list. 
        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)

        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)

        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)

        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)

        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)

Meeting ID: 817 3194 2856

*The November 18th Campus Update Meeting will be recorded and the link to the video, sent after closed captioning of the video has occurred.

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Two New Grants + Guided Pathways

October 18, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Dear Shoreline Community,

I am writing to provide additional details about the two highly competitive grants that the College was recently awarded.  As some of you may be aware, the College has made attempts to procure federal Title III grants in the past. It was truly gratifying to learn that this year, Shoreline Community College received not just one, but two Title III grants! This is wonderful news for our students; while each award has its own specific parameters and outcomes, student success is at the core of both. 

The two grants that the College received are the Title III – Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP) grant and the Title III –Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) grant. Since early winter 2021, I have worked closely with research and grant staff Executive Director Bayta Maring and Director Zack Thill, Acting Dean Lisa Malik, Acting Director of the Honors College Mari Kosin, and Director of Guided Pathways Brigid Nulty.  Our combined work helped shape the submission of these two grants. 

I.        AANAPISI Grant

·           Our project title is Student Achievement through Guidance and Engagement (SAGE).

·           The grant amount is $299,588 for five years – a total $1.5million.

·           The grant covers a large percentage of our student body, including the 19% of Shoreline’s students who identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI students).

·           It covers 29% of Shoreline’s students who are eligible for need-based financial aid (referred to as Pell Eligible or low-income students).

·           It covers nearly 28% of who students are the first in their family to attend college (i.e., first-generation college students). 

·           At Shoreline, we will focus and design new systems to close equity gaps by providing comprehensive onboarding, orientation, and financial aid counseling; critical academic advising and career planning; academic learning activities; and peer mentoring and tutoring services. The project will also offer programming to build a sense of belonging and community among AAPI students, who may often feel excluded or placeless on campus.

II.         SIP Grant 

·           The grant amount is $444,525 for five years – a total of $2.3million.  

·           Shoreline’s project will include the development of a first-year student success course, provide enhanced peer tutoring services for gateway math and English courses, redesigned orientation programming with peer mentoring that introduces students to the college and student services, and enhanced mandatory student advising. It will also include adding technology (common advising tools and resources) for all students.

·           Shoreline’s project will also expand work-based learning experiences, increase the number of students who are exposed to work-based learning pathways, and increase the overall number of students who choose a work-based learning pathway or opportunity.

·           The focus of our SIP grant will be on better serving Shoreline’s historically underserved students, for whom significant equity gaps persist for critical indicators of student success. For students attaining 15 college-level credits in their first year—an important early indicator— the College has an 11-to-9 point opportunity gap comparing Shoreline’s Historically Underserved Students to other community colleges in the state.  To close these equity gaps and ensure that all students succeed academically, the goal of Shoreline’s SIP project is to increase the retention, completion, and transfer rates of all students, while also closing equity gaps between underserved students and other students. 

These two grants will provide resources and services that will complement and work alongside the $1.1million in annual support that is provided to the College for Guided Pathways (GP). As many of you are aware, our GP initiative is now in its 3rd year and led by Brigid Nulty and Dutch Henry, along with a large team of faculty and staff. In addition to work on meta-majors, general education and learning outcome realignment, and equity in teaching and learning, other GP efforts to redesign intake and advising, student voices, student success courses, student mentors, and tutoring will all overlap the work of our two new grants.

It is with great excitement that I reiterate that the opportunity to serve our AAPI students in the Shoreline service area with the SAGE project has been part of a multi-year plan to enhance student support services. With these types of activities, we can begin to engage our AAPI community, and we can start to demonstrate significant gains in student completion and success.  For our SIP project, the technology resources will provide a heightened user accessibility to online advising and educational planning, and provide for college-wide systems support and case management for all students. These two new incredible opportunities have the potential to significantly alter the access and success trajectory for students at Shoreline Community College.

As these two grants unfold, I am aware that our African American and Hispanic students also have gaps in access and completion. We have much work to do at Shoreline, and I fully expect that we will also develop more targeted outreach and accompanying support programs for these student populations.

Finally, I am pleased to re-announce that the College recently hired Chitpasong Bello as the Director of the AANAPISI SAGE Project. She will begin on November 1, 2021. Brigid Nulty, already working as our Director of Guided Pathways, will take on the work of SIP to become the Director of GP/SIP. Please contact me, Zach Thill, Bayta Maring, Derek Levy, Chitpasong Bello, or Brigid Nulty for more details as each grant unfolds.

Sincerely,

Phillip J. King

Acting President

Shoreline Community College

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Wa Cares Fund (Long Term Care) – Exemption Request Period

October 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Good Morning all,

Thank you for your patience as I worked to get information regarding the new, WA Cares Fund, also known as Long Term Care (aka LTSS) from the State of Washington, below is the information received.  If you have questions regarding the program, please contact Employment Security directly, the link is below under the heading questions.

Exemptions

The LTSS exemption request period begins 10/1/2021.

The application for exemption from the LTSS program is primarily online and will be available beginning 10/1/2021. Individuals will be able to find the link on October 1 here: http://www.wacaresfund.wa.gov/private-insurance/. 

Employees will need to submit an online application. ESD will accommodate those who are unable to apply online. Employees whose exemption requests are approved are permanently exempt from the LTSS program the quarter following the submission of the exemption documentation to the employer. ESD will accept applications until December 31, 2022 however, employees must have a private long-term care insurance policy in effect by November 1, 2021.

Employees who have been approved by ESD for an exemption will receive written documentation from ESD and are required to provide a copy of their exemption approval letter to all current and  future employers if they do not want premiums deducted from their wages for the program.

Questions

Delene Bryant
Payroll Manager
HR & Employee Relations

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LGBTQ+ History Month

October 4, 2021 by Leave a Comment
October is LGBTQ+ History Month, and to celebrate the Gender Equity Center and Student Life are hosting a series of events throughout the month to educate and raise awareness amongst our students, faculty, and staff.

Join us for the following: 
LGBTQ+ History Exhibit – all month long in the PUB lobby
Project Pride Meeting – Tues. 10/5 at 4:30pm via Zoom (e-mail smusnicki@shoreline.edu for the link)
National Coming Out Day – Mon. 10/11 from 10am-1pm on the PUB Courtyard
Virtual Fireside Chat – Tues. 10/19 at 5pm viz Zoom (bit.ly/LGBTQchat)
Virtual LGBTQ+ Ally Training – Weds. 10/27 from 1-3pm via Zoom (bit.ly/SCCally_FA21)

For more information about these events, visit the Gender Equity Center on Instagram (@genderequityscc) or e-mail smusnicki@shoreline.edu.
https://www.instagram.com/genderequityscc
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