Nominate Your Exceptional Faculty Today! Deadline 6/14/24

Hello Shoreline Community! 

It’s that time of year again—time to celebrate the outstanding faculty who make Shoreline Community College a great place to learn and grow. We’re excited to announce the call for nominations for the Exceptional Faculty Awards

Since 1998, the Shoreline Community College Foundation, with support from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, has been honoring exceptional faculty members. This prestigious award recognizes dedication, expertise, and outstanding service in teaching, advising, counseling, and librarianship. 

Who Can Nominate? Anyone! Whether you’re an administrator, alumni, classified employee, faculty member, Foundation Board member, student, or trustee, your voice matters. Faculty members can also nominate themselves. 

Nomination Criteria*: Nominate an individual or a group of faculty members who have shown: 

  • Exceptional dedication, knowledge, or achievement in their field 
  • Outstanding teaching, advising, counseling, or librarianship skills 
  • Superior service in their duties 

*For more detailed information, please see the criteria listed below.

Eligibility: 

  • Individual faculty members need at least 9 quarters of full- or part-time work. 
  • Groups need a combined 18 quarters of full- or part-time work. 
  • Previous individual winners are eligible again after 5 years, and group winners after 5 years as well. 

How to Nominate: 

  1. Follow the link to complete the nomination form. 
  1. Submit by end of business on Friday, June 14, 2024

Let’s show our amazing faculty how much we appreciate their hard work and dedication. Get your nominations in and help us celebrate the exceptional educators who inspire us every day! 

SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 

EXCEPTIONAL FACULTY AWARD SELECTION CRITERIA 

Exemplary Work Performance: Enriching the classroom, counseling/advising center or library with knowledge, experience, and vitality; demonstration to a superior degree the characteristics of good college teaching/advising; knowledge of subject, enthusiasm, clarity of presentation, ability to involve students, creativity, and student empathy. Achieve high ratings for teaching/counseling. Constantly strives to find effective ways to teach/counsel. 

Other criteria that may be considered include the following: 

Positive Impact on Students: Being a mentor to students and/or an exemplary advisor/ counselor. Providing service and special assistance to students. Direct impact upon and involvement with students. Specialized individual tutoring and instruction or promotion of methods that enhance a student’s understanding of and enthusiasm for the course material. Ability to accommodate varying learning rates or capabilities. Generates excitement for learning. 

Professional Achievement: Unusual achievements of scholarly activities such as publishing efforts, presentations to scholarly organizations or community groups, research and consulting workshops, or continuing education courses. Evidence of excellence achieved in a faculty member’s area of responsibility. Possession of high scholarly standards for both the rigor and currency of course content. Service to professional organizations through holding office, committee work, etc. Recognition by peers in the profession. 

Commitment to Diversity: Demonstrating a commitment and service to special student and community populations, either in a leadership role, contribution of time and energy, or promotion of diversity in the curriculum and classroom. A demonstrated commitment to student success strategies for minority, disabled and/or disadvantaged students. 

Cooperative Spirit: That many of the activities of the faculty member are viewed by faculty and/or staff as having a positive impact on his/her professional capacity at the College; strong interpersonal skills. Maintaining a positive learning environment inside and outside the classroom. Makes positive contributions to the progress, well-being of his/her academic unit and of the College. Builds and maintains self-esteem of others. 

Leadership: Innovative with curriculum or teaching methods. Unusual efforts devoted to ensuring the quality of the student’s educational experience at Shoreline Community College. Enthusiasm for teaching, for a subject area. Sought out by others for advice on general academic matters or governance issues or teaching methods, processes, or approaches. 

Contributions to the College or Community: Participation in community organizations/College committees/campus activities. Evidence of exemplary service to the community. Extended learning and teaching beyond the classroom into community by involving students in special community activities appropriate to other required learning experiences. Club work, involvement with student organizations. 

Shoreline Career Fair! 5/21/24

Join us for the Shoreline Career Fair! 

  • Date: Tuesday 5/21
  • Time: 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
  • Location: PUB, Main Dining Room

This event is open to ALL SCC students and the community.

Regardless of where you are in your program of study, or how sure you are about what jobs you are looking for this will be a great event to increase your knowledge of the variety of opportunities that exist and gain practice speaking with employers in a professional setting.

We will have a wide range of employers that are relevant to SCC programs of study as well as employers who are looking to hire now regardless of education path.

Head to the Main Dining Room – PUB (9015)

We look forward to seeing you there!

Current list of registered Employers (as of 5/13 – the most accurate will be on Handshake, see the link):

  • Alliance Building Services
  • Kyo
  • Walgreens
  • City Year
  • Developmental Disabilities Administration for Washington State SOCR/SOLA
  • Seattle Golf Club
  • International Community Health Services
  • Town & Country Markets, Inc.
  • Dandylyon Drama
  • AGC Biologics
  • Partner Therapeutics (PTx)
  • Sphere Solar Energy
  • The Odom Corporation
  • bp
  • United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
  • Shoreline Fire Department
  • The Museum of Pop Culture
  • King County
  • Fastenal Company
  • El Centro de la Raza
  • Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office
  • YMCA of Greater Seattle
  • Washington Small Business Development Centers – WSU
  • SCC: On Campus Employment
  • Project Girl Mentoring Program
  • The Salvation Army Camp Arnold
  • Kadiant
  • Global Credit Union
  • Office of Forensic Mental Health Services (DSHS/BHA)
  • EvergreenHealth
  • Washington State Legislative Internship Program
  • Outdoors for All Foundation
  • ICAN Children’s Therapy
  • Edmonds School District
  • Genie, a Terex Brand
  • Luxury Bath of Seattle
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  • Platt Electric Supply
  • Puget Sound Kidney Centers
  • Jovie
  • Plymouth Housing Group
  • City of Seattle
  • NAMMBA – National Alliance of Minority Mortgage Brokers of America
This is advertising the career fair.  There will be headshots, resume reviews and giveaways!

Update: Print Shop is Now Open

The Print Shop is once again open and will resume normal operating hours.

Join Us for the Shoreline College Council Meeting on 5/14/24

Greetings Campus Community~

The Shoreline College Council will meet on May 14th at 2:30PM.   All are welcome to attend. The agenda for the May 14th meeting can be found here. 2024.05.14_Agenda – Final.docx

The meeting is held in a hybrid format.


In Person

  • Board Room (1010M – Administration Bldg (#1000)

Remote

Campus Updates 5/2/24

Events and News

Hey there all, hope you are having a good week.

At the end of last week, I attended the All-Washington Academic Team event with Trustee Ringer.  The event was wonderful. Shoreline Community College had four students participate, and two of our students were in the top 16 students across the state! Below you can see a picture of these two very impressive students: Isabella Perez Briones and Joshua Fox. Governor Inslee did an inspirational presentation too!

This week has been really full with VP of DEIA interviews and of course prepping for the big Cedar event (more on that below!)

Last week the Board also recognized our very own Lori Yonemitsu as an excellent Executive Assistant.  This is true, and she is also a pretty excellent human being.  Please thank all our awesome assistants across campus when you see them- it’s a tough job (especially for Lori who has a zany boss ;-).

I also wanted to update you about the plan for legislative advocacy. In preparation for the community college presidents and boards legislative work next year, the State Board sent a survey (with three sections- underlined below) to share with colleges to rank order priorities.  While ALL items are important, the strategic priority is to narrow and unite across the state for impact.  Also, we will still be focusing on the other items listed, just not necessarily with a legislative advocacy focus in those areas if that makes sense. 

I shared this survey with the College Council (our representative body) and the Board of Trustees and submitted their recommendations with one caveat.  Information as an update is here for your review. This is OUR submission- I will update you when I have the state’s results (tallied from all our votes).

Budget Requests: (Changing your recommendation- only one change the rest is in the order submitted)

 (1) Student Services

 (2) DEI (Was ranked #5)

 (3) Compensation

 (4) IT & Cybersecurity

 (5) Basic Education for Adults

 (6) Dual Credit

 (7) Workforce Education

 (8) Safety & Security

 My reply to College Council:

Thank you to those of you who provided feedback and recommendations as to our legislative priorities.  As a representative body of the college this is very important and appreciated.  In the spirit of transparent communication and rationale, I want to provide you with what the results are and one change I am making (and why).

With a focus on students, (and a student-centered approach as a value in our strategic plan) the priority #1 makes good sense.  However, due to our focus on DEI in our strategic plan, mission and values, my concern is that without that specific designation in legislated funding we will not have the necessary early emphasis needed to address equity gaps across the college.  DEI funding also has a positive impact on several of the other categories as well.    I kept compensation in the top three as this is crucial in keeping the institution moving forward. 

Student Services Follow-Up (Following your recommendation)

  • Mental health (2) Flexible student basic needs (3) Advising/career

Workforce Education (Following your recommendation)

  • Industry training (2) In-demand workforce education 

Finally, I wanted to thank EVERYONE involved with the planning and organizing of the Cedar Building Grand Opening. From the student volunteers to our staff and incredible faculty! So many community members were thrilled at the engagement on campus- thank you ALL for all you do.  We are excited to share pictures and video footage of the event with you in the future. 

Thank you and have a great weekend!

Cheers,

Jack


Spring Quarter Updates

Accreditation

Please read the April Learning Outcomes Assessment Newsletter.

Business and Administrative Services

Two updates to share:

Please join me in welcoming Mr. Soroush Maleki as our new Director of Budget and Capital Finances who started in his official capacity on May 1st overseeing the budget, grants, and contracts service areas at the college. He is in Building 1200 along with the Financials Services team, Gayla Hocker, and me. As you recall from the prior email announcement, Soroush brings many years of relevant higher education work experience in California and Washington SBCTC. He previously worked at North Seattle and South Puget Sound. Welcome, Soroush!

Also, effective May 1st, Renee Burchfield is no longer with the college.  Please work directly with the Financial Services leadership team if you need any assistance:

  • For Purchasing, contact Raisa Minchuk at (206) 546-4513;
  • For Accounts Receivable and Cashiering, contact Shoba Malawarair at (206) 546-5804;
  • For Accounts Payable, contact Divina Dayrit at (206) 546-4527;
  • For all other issues, contact me or Gayla Hocker at (206) 546-7859.

We wish Renee the best of luck in her future endeavors.

Human Resources

Do you know someone who wants to join our team? Visit: Job Opportunities at Shoreline Community College.

Foundation:

We would like to offer an enormous thank you and a huge congratulations to everyone involved with the Cedar Building Grand Opening Celebration last night!  The faculty/staff demonstrations were amazing, the student tour leaders were wonderful, and our volunteers were fantastic.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Shoreline Community College MISSION – Our Purpose

Shoreline Community College offers accessible, high-quality education and workforce training that empowers students for success. Rooted in our commitment to diversity, equity, and community engagement, we foster an educational environment that contributes to the enrichment of both our local and global communities.