Join us for the Feel the Love Art Festival is a showcase of student art and creative expression and a chance to celebrate queer love through art.
Date: Friday 2/9/24
Time: 1:00-4:00pm
Location: Gender Equity Center
Reminder Survey Closes 2/14/24: The Shoreline Community College Strategic Plan Team Needs Your Feedback!
February 7, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Hi everyone-
Today I am sending out a reminder to take a few minutes and fill out the Strategic Plan survey. The survey includes 25 questions, including 17 about the strategic framework of the plan and a small number of participant background information. The survey closes a week from today on Wednesday 2/14/24.
Many of you responded after our initial e-mail asking about seeing the strategic plan and I wanted to let you know that it is actually broken up into pieces throughout the survey, and the questions are designed to comment on each of those pieces. So, you have a chance to review the plan as you complete the survey.
The Planning team highly values your thoughts on the drafts, ensuring we capture the essence of our community.
Your answers will provide critical information that will help us refine our new mission, vision, values, equity statements, goals and objectives. Let’s celebrate what we appreciate about Shoreline to build an even more equitable, inclusive future to embrace the changing world!
Take the survey today: https://bit.ly/ShorelineStrategicPlanReview
Have a great day!
Cat
Message from the President: Introducing Dr. Ernest Johnson as Acting VP DEI
February 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Dear Campus Community,
I hope that you all had a nice weekend. Today I am writing to share an important update with you.
Currently our search for a new Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (VP DEI) is underway, and we hope to make a hire later this spring. However, while we work through the hiring process, I am excited to announce that Dr. Ernest Johnson has agreed to step into the role of Acting Vice President of DEI until the position is filled. Ernest is a much respected, retired Multi-Cultural Studies faculty member, and brings a wealth of experience to this role.
Dr. Ernest Johnson (Dr. J) is an associate professor emeritus, having taught Multi-Cultural Studies for 25 years here at Shoreline Community College, while being adjunct faculty in the American Ethnic Studies department at the University of Washington. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington Department of Linguistics and M.A. from the University of Khartoum (Institute of African and Asian Studies). He has taught and lectured at over a dozen community colleges or universities over the past 40 years in various subjects ranging from equity hiring, ethnic studies, ESL, multicultural studies, Black studies, African culture, sociolinguistics, religious fundamentalism, and African American history. He managed a school within a school program for differently-abled students for Seattle Public Schools and is a founding partner of a consulting business focusing on equity and diversity. He is a co-developer of the Multicultural Studies Interview Rubric (MCIR), which has been used throughout the community college system with an emphasis on increasing the ability of hiring committees to hire employees who are both equity-minded and culturally competent.
Appointing someone into this position is not a decision I take lightly, but considering the need for DEI leadership coupled with a sincere desire to continue to move several key initiatives forward, it was a decision that I felt to be especially important to make at this time. Ernest graciously offered to help us during this time of transition, and I was happy to accept.
Ernest will be working on a part-time basis and available Tuesday-Thursdays. While he is with us in this role he will be primarily focused on the following projects:
- Co-location project- getting all the centers and workforce together in one place to better serve students
- Creation of a regional advisory for Indigenous community support
- Working to develop practical ways to implement our anti-racist framework
- Guiding DEI antiracist professional development efforts for the College
- Helping to revive an Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies program here at Shoreline
- Other projects as appropriate
I hope you will all extend a warm welcome to Ernest as he steps into this role. As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Cheers,
Jack
Campus Updates 2/2/24
February 2, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Events and News
Happy February all—hope your month is off to a good start. It has been a very busy week with a lot to report on!
I had a great day last week in Olympia Washington with Trustee Rebecca Ringer, former student (and current employee!) Mashaal Shameem and current student Isabella Briones. We thanked our legislators for their support for community colleges and for advocating for our system. The students were of course the superstars, and several of our legislative representatives commented on how impressive they were!
On Tuesday, we held the Edwin T. Pratt community event here on campus. It was a great event with presentations from our new Mayor Chris Roberts, Police Chief Kelly Park, poets Kilam Tel Aviv & E Mandisa Subira, & Jean Soliz & Ken Winnick who provided a brief history (in words and photos) of Edwin Pratt’s life. It was a moving event, and it was so wonderful to see so many people come out for it. Special thanks to the Black Heritage Society and the Urban League being a part of the event, for your continued work on social justice issues and for preserving Mr. Pratt’s legacy.
We also had King County, WA Councilmember Rod Dembowski and his chief of staff Kristina Logsdon visit campus with Trustees Rebecca Chan & Jamie Stark for visiting Shoreline Community College yesterday. We showed him our new Cedar x̌əpay̓ac building and he was VERY impressed with the space (and even got to meet Professor Keith Smith and a few students). He was also super pleased to see all the creative work going on at the Center for Education & Career Opportunities (CECO) program, as well as what we are doing in our automotive programs! We look forward to finding more ways to support the county and be better connected- hey, we are North King County after all!
In addition to that I had two meetings with presidents this week (one former, one current) for continued professional development and support. I really appreciate my colleagues taking time out to connect!
Cheers,
Jack
Winter Quarter Updates
Accreditation
- Friday, February 23: Mock Accreditation Visit.
- Read about our mock evaluators: About our Mock Accreditation Evaluators.docx.
- Hour-by-hour schedule coming soon.
- Friday, March 15: the deadline for Area Reviews has been extended from March 1st to the 15th to allow areas time to create goals for 2024-25 that support the forthcoming Strategic Plan framework, which will be finalized in late February. In the meantime, prepare by reviewing the DRAFT Strategic Plan framework (and give feedback here).
Human Resources
Do you know someone who wants to join our team? Visit: Job Opportunities at Shoreline Community College.
Foundation
Edwin T. Pratt Day of Remembrance
On the evening of Tuesday, January 30, 2024, Shoreline Community College hosted the City of Shoreline’s tribute to the life and legacy of Edwin T. Pratt. Mayor Chris Roberts read the official proclamation of January 30th as the Edwin T. Pratt Day of Remembrance. Mr. Pratt, one of the very first African American residents of the area that would become Shoreline, was the Executive Director of the Seattle Urban League and worked tirelessly toward the advancement civil rights in our community, including the desegregation of Seattle Public Schools and fair housing initiatives. Tragically, Mr. Pratt was assassinated in 1969, but his memory lives on in a growing number of tributes and memorials throughout the city, including the Shoreline Community College Foundation Edwin T. Pratt Scholarship for Students of Color.
Thank you to the wonderful volunteers who helped make Tuesday’s tribute to Edwin T. Pratt such a moving and wonderful event. Josh Krupke and Michelle Cimaroli deserve special notice for their efforts! – Wendy
Scholarship Application is Now Open!
Spring Quarter Scholarship application is open until Feb 28
Annual Scholarship application is open until Mar 29
Apply online beginning Feb 1
Volunteers Needed
Enrollment is up and that means that scholarship applications are up as well! The Foundation is seeking volunteers to participate in the scholarship review committee. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to directly assist students in need. Let Wendy know if you want to participate wcoates@shoreline.edu.
Student Emergency Aid
Applications for student emergency assistance grants are now being processed by the Benefits Hub. If you are aware of a student in urgent need of support, please refer them to the Benefits Hub and have them fill out an Emergency Aid application.
Business & Administrative Services – Risk Management
Please take a few minutes to complete a short safety survey with questions about workplace safety! Each year, the DES State Office of Risk Management, together with the State Agency Safety Professionals Alliance (SASPA), administers the safety survey. The 2024 Safety Survey will be open to all employees through February 18, 2024.
Because many employees are now teleworking on a permanent basis, to some degree, the first question of this year’s survey allows employees to choose their current work environment from six options. This will allow employees to answer survey questions that are only pertinent to their work environment. The six options are:
- working from home 100%
- working in the field 100%*
- working in the office 100%
- hybrid home and office
- hybrid home and field*
- hybrid field and office*
*Field is any work environment that is not a home or conventional office, for example, instructional clinical locations.
The intent of the survey is to enhance our culture of worker safety. State agencies use survey results to develop a safety action plan for addressing the issues identified. Survey information will help the Office of Risk Management (Joe Mazur) evaluate our current safety program, identify gaps, and plan safety initiatives to enhance employee workplace safety.
The 2024 Safety Survey is anonymous. Results will be collected by the DES State Office of Risk Management, then tallied and sent in summary form to each state agency. Thank you for your participation, and please let Joe Mazur know if you have any questions.
Events and Updates
- Campus Security Update: Vandalism Discovered on Campus this Morning 2/1/24
- Shoreline Community College Strategic Plan Needs Your Feedback!
- TSS: Update: Software and Database Restoration Progress 2/1/24
- Press Release- Preserving Heritage: Shoreline Community College Introduces New ‘Cedar’ Building, Honoring PNW Indigenous Peoples
- Coffee Klatch: Artificial Intelligence and What’s Happening in the Supply Chain 2/7/24
- Join us for Letter Aloud- A night of the Greatest Rejection Letters Ever! 2/10/24
- Lunar New Year 5K 2/25/24
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Shoreline Community College MISSION – Our Purpose
We serve the educational, workforce, and cultural needs of our diverse students and communities
Lunar New Year 5K 2/25/24
February 2, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The Lunar New Year 5K is an all-family event! Youth ages 10 and under or adults 65 years and older enjoy FREE registration. Adults age 60 to 64 also get a $5 discount on registration.
FREE booths, vendors and fun activities at Aurora Rents throughout the time of the event!
Date: Sunday 2/25/24
Time: 8:00am-12:00pm
Location:
- Check in: Shoreline City Hall (17500 Midvale Ave N)
- Main event space: Aurora Rents (17460 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline)
- Race track: Shoreline Interurban Trail
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