Campus Updates 5/17/24

May 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Events and News 

Hey folks- this week I ran into a colleague on campus who congratulated me for the “book chapter” (the one Samira and I wrote about International Education at Shoreline), and I was puzzled. I asked, “How did you know that?” She said it was in your weekly update. Honestly, I forgot I put that info in last week’s update, but I was elated to know it was being read! Yes! 

We were very fortunate last Friday to be visited by Governor Jay Inslee. Governor Inslee was interested in learning more about how we have incorporated clean energy/air programs into HVAC systems as well as learning more about our new CEDAR building (x̌əpay̓ac) and some of the workforce programs that support Washington state. He also had a great conversation with Honors students and learned about their research and connection to University of Washington’s undergraduate research emphasis. 

This is an image of several faculty and students posing in a picture with Governor Inslee in the Manufacturing Lab in the Cedar Building.

I also attended another WAVES/API celebration this month and attended Troy Osaki’s event about Art & Social Justice. Little did we know there was going to be a beautiful spread of Hawaiian food as well! It was fun connecting with folks and learning with Troy- his creativity and poetry were inspiring. 

I enjoyed attending the beginning of the Business program’s “Big Event” which was a wonderful retention/pathways event to help students better understand the options within the program. I only provided a brief welcome but heard the speakers and camaraderie were wonderful. Hoping to see more of these events as we develop as a college to bring current students together with faculty and community to learn more about the possibilities. Well done! 

I was also able to get to the Black Student Union meet and greet on Thursday. It was packed. Great music, food, people playing games, and a great group of students. I was asked by a couple of students if I wanted some food and told them I had already had lunch but then they reminded me of a good excuse “for later.” So, I did take a couple pizza slices “for later.”  

Finally, I am really looking forward to Matika Wilbur’s event tonight– “Changing the way we see Native America.” Hope to see you there!  

Be well! 

Jack 

 
Spring Quarter Updates 

Accreditation 

  • We just received the official report from the accreditation evaluators regarding our April Mid-Cycle visit. Their report is published on the Accreditation page. Thanks again to everyone who helped draft the report and participate in the visit! Questions or want to discuss? Contact Ann Garnsey-Harter. 
  • All learning outcomes assessment reports are due Friday, June 14, 2024. Questions? Contact Romina Plozza.  

Human Resources 

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

Foundation: 

Hi Folks! While we work to staff back up our office, please be aware that the Foundation office will have irregular hours for the next several months. Please do not send students to the foundation office without first calling to make sure I am here.  

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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. 

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Campus Updates 5/9/24

May 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Events and News 

Hey there all—hope you are having a great week.  And I have to say, it has been kind a a great week actually.   

Starting with our Cedar building Grand Opening. Oh my gosh it was amazing!  Having the community on campus to see the beautiful building, and all the learning opportunities our students have was so terrific.  Our faculty and staff were just so inspiring in how they discussed their passionate work in the classrooms and lab spaces.  Our partners from the Suquamish and Muckleshoot Tribes shared inspiring words of welcome (and even a beautiful song from our Muckleshoot colleagues).  The food trucks, musicians from our band, and the kind and welcoming atmosphere our staff and admin created was just incredible.  Wendy Coates, Cat Chiappa and team really did knock it out of the park—thank you to ALL the students and staff that did all the hard work and planning to set this event up.  SCC really made a mark last week! 

Lab students
Faculty Ben Wiggins with guests
In the Manufacturing Lab
Deans
DALILA PAREDES
Guests in lab
In root of "blood"
Justice Bill and Representative Shelley Kloba.

Did you see this fun video from Se Habla Media on the event?  Go to 2:43 and check it out! Some great SCC folks represented here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8diUo82yI0 

I also really enjoyed our Day of Learning. Theresa Harrington and team organized this like it was an international conference- SO well done.  I enjoyed our speaker Jeff Harry and the exercises we participated in. I think his suggestions for improving retention are spot-on.  I am going to begin by discussing these with ET members about what we can include in our meetings/practice and then as next steps ask them to do the same with their supervisees.  Let’s see where we can go with this!  

I also had the good fortune to meet with Dr Chris Villa for a lunch/hangout meeting today.  Dr Villa is the President of Skagit Valley College and has some really great insights into leadership and DEI work.  He shared some things Skagit Valley is doing, which I will bring back to our campus as well.  They are doing really well up North with an 11% increase in enrollment and some great strategies for outreach and using data to affect progress in recruitment of underserved communities.  More soon! 

Finally, as I discuss in the video below, we are working hard at discussing recommended innovation grants, one-time requests, and budget adjustments for the 2024-2025 budget cycle.  We are done with Innovation grants and now working on one-time funding requests and budget adjustments.  I will keep you posted on progress—the overall big picture budget will be presented to the board in May so please join us to get information for that as well.   

One more update! Samira Pardanani and I co-wrote a book chapter in the textbook: Narratives and Strategies of Effective Leadership in Community Colleges. Our article is called “The Evolution of a Successful International Education Program at a Community College: Harnessing Leadership to Create Meaningful Global Engagement at Shoreline Community College”. It was just released this week!  It was great working with Samira on this and I am excited about having some additional positive discussion of our great International Education program out there! 

Be well! 

Jack 

Spring Quarter Updates 

Business and Administrative Services  

The Budget Office is continuing the work on 2024-25 Budget Development as stated in Jack’s opening message in preparation for the May 22, 2024, Board Budget Workshop. 

Human Resources 

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

Foundation: 

Josh Krupke is moving on to a great new job! His last day at the foundation will be 5/15! Please drop by the foundation office between noon and 1:00 on the 15th to wish him well and enjoy a snack!  

We’ve retooled the Foundation job descriptions they can be found here and here – Please share widely!  

Summer scholarship application window is OPEN until 6/4!! Please share and post this link https://shoreline.awardspring.com/ 

Heads up! The Foundation office will be short-staffed for the foreseeable future. Please be patient, and please know that the office could be closed during normal business hours.  

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Campus Updates 5/2/24

May 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment

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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Campus Updates 4/26/25

April 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Events and News 

Hello all—wow what a week! 

The accreditation visit went extremely well. Thank you to all who attended the “exit” presentation late Friday afternoon. The excitement in the room was palpable as the accreditation team shared their comments. The team commented on nearly every aspect of the College- from the report itself, our beautiful grounds, the hard work faculty and staff have put in to focus on data and learning outcomes, our awesome deans—really seeing how this work involves all of us to move forward and continue to shift our focus to planning, use of data and outcomes.     

Consider this one of many thank yous from me. Everyone really took this to the next level! 

Next Steps: 

  1. They have sent Dr. Ann and me a draft report to allow us to comment on any factual errors 
  1. We will get an official report from them (with corrections if appropriate) within a month 
  1. They will send a confidential recommendation to the commission about our accreditation status 
  1. The commission meets in late June and votes on our status  
  1. We hear within one month of that meeting 

So exciting. 

Another exciting update: Due to the great teamwork of Dr. Lucas Rucks, Derek Levy, David Berner, Chippi Bello and the enrollment services team, Shoreline Community College is now a preferred partner and Amazon will market their Pathways Program (Clean Energy) and the Career Choice program (all our programs) in their employee dashboard. 

Finally, just to let you know it is that time of the year when ET is going through innovation grant requests, budget adjustment requests, and staff prioritizations to help prepare for next year’s budget. I will keep you posted and of course share the results when complete. Thanks to all of you who have contributed ideas and suggestions. As was the case last year, we are limited in resources and will only be able to work within the parameters of those resources but will do so within the guidelines suggested by the Strategic Planning Budget Council and with the new Strategic Plan in mind.  

Happy Passover to those who celebrate! 

Cheers, 

Jack 

 
Spring Quarter Updates 

ctcLink 

  • ctcLink will be unavailable to all users on Saturday, April 27 from 7:00am-2:00pm for system updates. 
  • Canvas will still work. 

Business and Administrative Services  

As Dr. Kahn referenced above in his weekly update, E-Team has begun the process of reviewing, discussing, and ranking the Innovation Grant requests, new position requests, and new operating budget increases. There were 10 Innovation Grant Request Applications received totaling $300,000 and new position and budget increase / correction requests totaling over $3,000,000. 

Mr. Soroush Maleki joins the team on Wednesday, May 1st, as our new Director of Budget and Capital Finance. He will be located in Building 1200, Room 1208M. Please join me in welcoming him to our team. 

Printing Services  

Printing Services will be closed on Thursday, May 2nd and Friday, May 3rd and will reopen on Monday, May 6th. Please plan accordingly and contact Greg Jensen via email or phone at (206) 546-4674 if you need assistance with your printing needs. 

Human Resources 

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

Foundation: 

Next week is the Cedar Building Grand Opening Celebration! Thursday May 2, 2024, from 4:00-6:00pm. Please RSVP here! 

This is a flyer for the Cedar Building Grand Opening Celebration on 5/2/24 from 4-6pm

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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. 

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Campus Updates 4/19/24

April 19, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Events and News 

Hello folks! Hope all is well. This one is going to be short. Last Saturday I was able to attend the ShoreLake Shoreline Short Short film festival hosted by ShoreLake Arts. It was a great event featuring diverse film genres, techniques, and moods. It included students, some of our faculty, and community work!  We are lucky to have them as a community partner, providing wonderful opportunities for our faculty and students. 

What else did I do this week? Like you: 

PREP FOR ACCREDITATUON VISIT! We are doing great folks!! Keep it going! 

Cheers, 

Jack 

 
Spring Quarter Updates 

Accreditation 

 
Today is the second and final day of our Mid-Cycle Accreditation visit. The entire campus is invited to the final session from 3:30-3:50 pm in the Boardroom 1010M-in person only; the evaluators will instruct us on what to expect next.  

Enrollment  
 
The 10th day enrollment report shows a slight increase in spring enrollments compared to last year, continuing the College’s trend of increased enrollments. 

Financial Services  

 
Please refer to the 2023-24 Travel Reimbursement Expense Cut-Off Deadlines Memorandum for the upcoming fiscal year end (FYE) close to ensure that the Accounts Payable time has ample time to process payments and reconcile accounts. 

Below are a few key points regarding our deadline: 

  • Travelers are still eligible for travel reimbursement even if they travel after June 10th.  
  • Travel authorizations for travel through June 30, 2024, must be fully approved by the June 10, 2024, cutoff — contact travel@shoreline.edu and rburchfield@shoreline.edu if an exception is needed 
  • Expense Reports for travel dates through June 30, 2024, must be fully approved by July 5, 2024, with prior notice. Will be processed with an accounting date of June 30, 2024. Same for other reimbursements — with prior notice. 

Technology Support Services (TSS) 

Three items for this week’s update: 

  1. TSS received an update from our third-party partner on the Wired Network restoration project’s status.  We were previously scheduled to begin work on the week of April 22nd; however, we have been informed that the Union Local 46 has gone on strike and this unfortunately involves the workers that were scheduled to being here on campus. They are anticipating an agreement to come together soon, so we are tentatively scheduling work to begin the week of April 29th. Once we have confirmation of this start date, an updated communication will be sent including timelines for each building.  
  1. TSS has created a spreadsheet that includes the location and information of all physical Microsoft Teams phones across campus. This information was requested for anyone who needs to use a phone but does not have a license for Microsoft Teams (i.e., Students, Guests, etc.).  Although a phone number is listed, you must check with each department on availability.  As new phones are rolled out across campus, this list will be updated. The spreadsheet can be found at the following link:  VoIP phone devices across campus (location).xlsx 
  1. TSS has received reports that some flash drives are not being recognized by the new Ricoh machines across campus. Please see the instructions below if you are having issues with your flash drive being recognized on the new machines: 

IMPORTANT: The following steps will erase all data on the flash drive. Please temporarily move ALL files from the flash drive onto a folder on your computer, only AFTER this task reformat the flash drive with FAT32 File System. 

To reformat the flash drive: 

For PC: 

  1. Open the File Explorer and right-click on your Flash Drive. 
  2. On the popup menu click “Format”. 
  3. Make sure that “FAT32 File System” is selected. 
  4. Uncheck the “Quick Format” option, if checked. 
  5. Click “Start”. 
  6. After it is finished, close the “Format” window. 
  7. Your flash drive is now formatted. You can now move your files from the temporary folder back onto your flash drive. 

              For Mac: 

              1. Open the Disk Utility app and right-click on your Flash Drive. 
              2. On the popup menu click “Erase”. 
              3. Make sure that “MS-DOS (FAT)” is selected. 
              4. Click “Erase”. 
              5. After it is finished, close the “Disk Utility” app. 
              6. Your Flash Drive is now formatted correctly. 

                         Notes: 

                        • After completing the above steps, if your flash drive is still not recognized by the Ricoh machine, you may need to use a different brand of flash drive (SanDisk, Kingston, etc.). 
                        • Please keep in mind that flash drives with a larger amount of data may take a little longer to be recognized. If you have a large drive, please give a little extra time for the Ricoh machine to recognize the device. 
                        • If you need help with formatting a flash drive, please contact TSS for assistance. 

                        Human Resources 

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

                        Marketing and Communications (MarCom) 

                        The Grand Opening Celebration for the Cedar Building is happening in two weeks! You all should have received our fun invitations in the mail. I want to say a huge thank you to our Senior Graphic Designer, Mia Bradshaw, for creating such a beautiful invitation for this event! 

                        It’s going to be a fantastic event and we hope to see you all there! 

                        This is an image of the Cedar Grand Opening Celebration Digital invitation graphic.

                        Foundation: 

                        Michelle Cimaroli, Foundation Manager, has decided to go on a great adventure! Her last day at SCC will be 4/30. Please come celebrate her service, wish her well, and enjoy some goodies on Tuesday, April 30th at 4 PM in the Board Room in Bldg. 1000.  

                        Annual Scholarship Applications are being evaluated now! If you are an evaluator, thank you! Your service makes a huge difference in the life of our students. If you want to be an evaluator, let Wendy in the Foundation know! 

                        Thank you to all who are helping put together the Cedar Opening Celebration! We are still looking for volunteers to help on the day of (May2 from 4-6). If you want to help let Cat or Wendy know. 

                        SIFF Opening Night Party!! Tickets now on sale…Click here to buy your ticket! 

                        This is an image of Siff's 50th anniversary logo advertising the Opening Party on May 10th at 5:30pm

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                        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. 

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