Events and News 

Hello folks! I hope you are doing well! I am writing from Washington, D.C., participating in the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) National Legislative Summit with Board Chair & Trustee Rebecca Chan and Trustee James Stark. Community College representatives from across the country are here to meet with members of the U.S. Congress and/or their staff to advocate for students and community colleges. It has been a wonderful experience to connect with presidents, trustees, and students, as well as learn more about their colleges and the great work being done to serve students and our communities. 

A team of us from Washington first met with Senator Murray. She was extremely busy but spent some time thanking us for coming and describing some of the projects she was working on. She emphasized her support of community colleges and all that we do. She also mentioned that she once taught at Shoreline Community College! And yes, after she mentioned that, Trustee Chan and I did cheer! After her presentation, her aide Abby Laver sat with our team and engaged in the conversation. Students from some of our sister colleges began the conversation discussing some of their challenges including food insecurity, childcare, and financial aid. The focus was on expanding the PELL for short-time programs, helping with the delayed FAFSA roll out, assistance with workforce programs, and other topics. We also had a great team meeting with King County folks from the Seattle district, and we met with Representative Pramila Jayapal. She was amazing. She sat with us for about twenty minutes and discussed similar topics, and some of the roadblocks she (and some of her other colleagues) have been struggling with recently. She was very open and warm to us, and it was really wonderful to know she is on our side! Her aide Michael Bauduy was really great as well. I’m so glad we strengthened these relationships. 

It has been a great conference but I’m ready to return to Shoreline. I will be recording the February monthly update video with a special guest! Get ready! Hope you had a great week. 

Cheers, 

Jack 

Winter Quarter Updates 

• Executive Team Winter Office Hours 

Accreditation 

• February 5-12: accreditation report DRAFT being reviewed by our NWCCU Liaison and mock evaluators for feedback.  
• February 23: Mock Accreditation Visit 

• Review the schedule for the visit Mock Site Visit Schedule Feb 23.xlsx 

• Attendees needing accommodation for these in-person activities should reach out to Human Resources scchr@shoreline.edu  by Wednesday, February 14 for coordination. 

• About mock evaluators: About our Mock Accreditation Evaluators.docx .   

• March 7: Mid-Cycle Accreditation report (final draft) due to NWCCU.  
• March 15: Area Reviews due (deadline was extended!): find your area review here Institutional Planning & Assessment Calendar 2011-2028.xlsx . 

• Break the work into doable chunks following this 2023-2024 Area Reviews Scaffolded Timeline.docx 
• For February 5-9, 2024: finish the Activity / Workload section. 

• April 18-19: Mid-Cycle Accreditation Visit on Campus  

• External evaluators will determine the exact hour-by-hour schedule closer to the visit.   

• April 22: Celebrate with the Accreditation Committee, 1:30-3 pm, Boardroom, 1000 building.  

Human Resources 

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

Events and Updates 

• Message from the President: Introducing Dr. Ernest Johnson as Acting VP DEI 
• Reminder Survey Closes 2/14/24: The Shoreline Community College Strategic Plan Team Needs Your Feedback! 
• Join us for Feel the Love Art Festival 2/9/24 
• DECA Chipotle Fundraising 2/13/24 
• Join us for Letters Aloud- A Night of the Greatest Rejection Letter Ever! 2/10/24 

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Shoreline Community College MISSION – Our Purpose 

We serve the educational, workforce, and cultural needs of our diverse students and communities 

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 

• Executive Team Winter Office Hours 

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 30^th 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: 

1. working from home 100% 

2. working in the field 100%* 

3. working in the office 100% 

4. hybrid home and office 

5. hybrid home and field* 

6. 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 

Events and News 

This Saturday I attended the Latino educational Training Institute 2024 kick off. This included a nod to all the students in their leadership programs (they have programs now at Edmonds and Skagit for example), words from state representatives, and a great Chicano Studies presentation documenting the history of LatinX/Hispanic influence in the state of Washington. SCC is working with LETI now to add ESL courses to help support some of their constituents. I’m hoping we can explore one of the leadership programs as well. I was very involved with supporting Puente and MEChA at previous colleges and LETIs model is one we could investigate! 

I was pleased to be able to volunteer for desk duty this week at the library.  I got to hang out with Mary Blanchett and a few students who trained me on several items (computer check-in and return, photocopies, etc.).  It was great to spend the time with them and learn about how our operations work.  Sometimes things got a bit interesting when I had to tell a few patrons to please be patient with me as it was my “first day” (I did not reveal my secret identity). 😉 

In terms of meetings, this week was spent in several involving the strategic plan, to assist getting everything in the best shape for the draft info to go the Board for Wednesday’s meeting.  I also attended the WACTC legislative affairs update, which was helpful for many reasons. 

Two items coming up at the end of the week include a meeting with the embassy of El Salvador in Washington DC (Coordinator) National Directorate of Medicines (DNM) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador International Cooperation Agency to discuss possible partnerships, and the “Hill Climb” event in Olympia with a couple of students and Trustee Ringer.  More info to come! 

Have a great week! 

Cheers, 

Jack 

Winter Quarter Updates 

• Executive Team Winter Office Hours 

Accreditation 

• March 1: Area Reviews due. 

• Find your Area Review: Institutional Planning & Assessment Calendar 2011-2028.xlsx 
• Break the work into doable chunks: 2023-2024 Area Reviews Scaffolded Timeline.docx 

• January 22-26: finish the Equity section. 

• Friday, February 23: Mock Accreditation Visit – read about our mock evaluators.  
• If you see old Core Theme posters around campus, please take them down. We no longer use core themes as part of our accreditation process. 
   

Enrollment  
Good news; we are serving more students!  

• The Daily Enrollment Report shows a 7% increase as compared to last year. 
• The 10^th day enrollment report shows that this is the first winter enrollment increase in five years.  
• We now have seen this enrollment trend reversal for the last 4 quarters (spring 2023, summer 2023, fall 2023, winter 2024). 

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 – Tuesday, January 30^th at 5:00 pm 

Join us in the PUB Main Dining Room as the City of Shoreline proclaims January 30^th as the Edwin Pratt Day of Remembrance, celebrating the life and legacy of local civil rights leader Edwin Pratt (1930-1969). Before his tragic assassination in 1969, Mr. Pratt served as the Executive Director of the Seattle Urban League. He worked tirelessly on the desegregation of Seattle Public Schools, fair housing initiatives, and other critical advancements in civil rights. There is no charge to attend, and refreshments will be served by the students from Shorecrest Culinary Arts and North City Bistro. Visit the Edwin T. Pratt Day of Remembrance page to learn more and RSVP.  

Volunteers Needed! 

1. Volunteers are needed to assist Facilities and Foundation staff in setting up the Main Dining Room for the Edwin T. Pratt event on January 30. There will be an event in the room until 4:00 pm, and the Edwin Pratt event begins at 5:00 pm. Students and Staff are welcome to sign up to volunteer and stay for the event. Food will be available as part of the event.  

2. You can transform the life of a student by joining the scholarship committee. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the challenges and triumphs of SCC students and provide practical assistance to those in need. Let Wendy know if you want to participate wcoates@shoreline.edu. 

Scholarships  
Spring Quarter Scholarship applications will open Feb 1 – Feb 28  
Annual Scholarship applications will open Feb 1 – Mar 29  
Apply online beginning Feb 1 

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. 

Technology Support Services (TSS) 

The TSS department has completed the college-wide conversion to the new Microsoft Teams VOIP system. Faculty and Staff with active Shoreline CC phone numbers should be able to send and receive calls within the new Teams phone system. ACTION REQUESTED: If you have a Shoreline CC phone number, please check to ensure that your MS Teams VOIP was properly ported and verify that your work number is correct. You can check for an active line and verify your work number by: 

1. Opening your MS Teams application,  
2. Go to the “Calls” tab on the left,  
3. You should see a numeric keypad with your active work number underneath it.  
4. If your active work number is correct, please refrain from using your old desktop phone if you still have one and use the new MS Teams system for your calling needs.  
5. If you do not see the 10-digit numeric keypad or the active work number is not correct, please contact TSS to have this corrected.  

As always, you can contact TSS via email at Support@shoreline.edu  or via the ticketing system at https://support.shoreline.edu.   

Events and Updates 

• Shoreline Community College Experiences Upward Enrollment Trend, Reflecting Post-Pandemic Resilience 
• Fire System Update 
• Edwin T. Pratt Day of Remembrance Tuesday 1/30/24 
• Resume Building Workshop 1/31/24- Please Share with Students 
• Press Release: Shoreline Community College Welcomes James Stark as Newst Board of Trustees Member 
• Title IX at Shoreline 2/7/24 
• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Rally 2/8/24 
• Lunar New Year Event 2/15/24 
• Commencement 2024– Save the Date: Friday, June 21, 2:00 pm. More information is available on the Commencement webpage.  
• Dolphins Basketball home games on Saturday, January 27^th– Women 2:00 pm; Men 4:00 pm 

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Shoreline Community College MISSION – Our Purpose 

We serve the educational, workforce, and cultural needs of our diverse students and communities