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August 9, 2005 TOP STORIES
2005 Budget issues addressed at open meeting The PLT presented a short-term plan that includes a reduction of a number of part-time faculty positions for a savings of $400,000 in salary and $100,000 in benefits; the reduction of one dean, for a savings of $92,000; one vice president reduction for a savings of $100,000; two vacant classified staff positions will not be filled for a savings of $58,000; another $15,000 savings in reduction of support and hourly positions; the elimination of the Special Assistant to the President for a savings of $42,000; and lastly, $245,000 will be saved by refraining from purchasing equipment. Total savings will be $1,052,000. Many of these recommendations have already been implemented and others will be by January 2006. The long-term reduction plan is based on four strategic areas — an enrollment plan, an instructional efficiency plan, program and department organization and a staffing plan. The 2006-07 budget will be developed considering all data from this plan. The ISC is developing the enrollment plan, with VP Miller, VP Stewart, and VP Backes leading the effort. Shoreline has received $184,000 from the legislature to be earmarked for marketing and recruiting efforts. The instructional efficiency model committee, led by Backes and Miller, is looking at how the instructional side can be more efficient in delivering classes. The committee plans to get cost information to College Deans to assist them in determining what classes are financially appropriate to keep, which ones to add more sections, and which ones to delete. A Budget Planning Committee will be developed, with VPs Lambert and Brandt leading the Program/Department review part of the long-term plan. They will examine the College organizational chart and recommend staffing changes. VP Brandt said that "cuts will likely go deeper if enrollment does meet last year's target as the budgeted tuition is based on last year's actual tuition collection plus the five percent tuition increase. Currently the Fall Quarter enrollment is approximately 100 FTEs behind last year's enrollment figures. Another open meeting will be held the first week of Fall Quarter.
Essential Skills Program hosts Chilean ESL
instructors According to Ramirez, there are 1,200,000 blind people in Chile. She is working with colleagues on the development of a new program for teaching English to blind students to help them obtain gainful employment such as telephone operators. Ramirez plans to incorporate Shoreline's immersion philosophy into the program. "I want to help them become productive members of society," says Ramirez. She has a master's degree in Learning Disabilities. Erickson says that Chile is one of the leading countries in South America to develop programs to help the blind. Erickson is the point person for faculty who are interested in teaching in Chile.
Foundation's Swinging Summer Sell-a-bration was a swinging success
SCC shoppers voted for their favorite monkey, with a tie between Curious George and Bobo! For those who are not Seattleites, Bobo (who actually is a gorilla) was captured as an infant in Africa in 1951, lived with an Anacortes family for 2 ½ years and then was sold to the Woodland Park Zoo, where he lived for 14 years. “Before the Space Needle, Bobo was Seattle, and Seattle was infected by a mad passion, Bobomania,” said writer David Humphries of The Weekly in 1981. Bobo passed away in 1968 and his taxidermied form is an attraction at the Museum of History and Industry. So the foundation had to give Bobo the winning vote. Thank
you to Esther Pineiro-Hall, Tony Costa, Ann Martin-Cummins, Sam Bess,
Michele Foley, Lori Yonemitsu, Judy Yu, Barb Kristek along with Norma
Goldstein, Ramona Durham and others in Humanities; Shalin Hai-Jew, Kae
Peterson, Lynn Yaw; and Nancy Lamus
and Becky Collard
for the donations.
For all who participated in this year’s “Swinging Summer
Sell-a-bration," Peterson and Yaw thank you and hope you had a fun time.
This and That -- New page added to Net News ANNOUNCEMENTS Campus Climate
Task Force update
Food Services to move temporarily to
accommodate PUB Remodel
HR CORNER
Jacqueline Johnson-Gladhart, Early
Childhood Specialist, PCC
Matt DeGooyer, Director of
International Programs, 7/5/05 EVENTS & SPORTS Recent Paintings by Saeed Mahboub
The Shoreline Community College Art Gallery is pleased to present Recent Paintings by Saeed Mahboub September 15th through October 26th. The value of every day events and objects is fundamental to the work of Mahboub, an SCC associate faculty member. He illuminates the ordinary with rich color and painterly surfaces, bringing credibility to a seemingly common yet impassioned point of view. "Recognizing the value of everyday events and things has been an important lesson for me," says Mahboub. "The personal and the common can have such a universal appeal, and It is interesting and at times gratifying to see the emotional response to my version of things." Mahboub says that he is "convinced that an honest and determined effort at presenting the simplest of ideas can be more than enough to give pause and delight. Wonderful things can happen out of the ordinary. I am determined to at least satisfy my own curiosity and to perhaps give credibility to a seemingly common yet impassioned point of view."
SPORTS CALENDARS KUDOS Cody Groom is Star of the Quarter
Cody Groom, music tech instructional assistant in the Music Department, was named the Summer Quarter Star of the Quarter. Several letters of recommendation were received by Human Resources and Employee Relations offering a number of positive qualities of Groom. He was commended for exemplary performance for the Music Department/Music Technology programs and for "doing wonders for the morale and well being of the students, faculty and staff in the Music Building." Groom was recognized for saving the department a substantial amount of money by repairing broken equipment and "his dedication and willingness to go the extra mile." He was complimented for planning and installing a new surround-sound monitoring system, upgrading digital audio hardware and software on 20 computers in two labs, and repairing a $75,000 console donated by the Paul Allen Foundation -- all done in one quarter. One letter said, "Cody has created an excellent academic teaching environment for faculty that is unsurpassed in the history of this position..." Groom was commended for organizing the lab stations and always makes sure that classrooms are prepared for faculty. "Cody is a tremendous asset to the entire Music Department, not just the Music Tech program. He is very knowledgeable...and always willing to help us in a timely manner anytime there is an equipment malfunction or break in the piano lab." Another letter said that Groom does the work of three full-time people. Groom also manages a student supervisor crew of more than six students and was recognized for his constant cordial, upbeat manner.
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Dunne's and Fiske's presentation was on a new
learning community connections class developed by Dunne and currently being
offered as a special project. The class is designed to serve adults with
developmental disabilities and to embrace the new State Working Age Policy for
Adults with Developmental Disabilities.
The goal of the class is to expose students with developmental disabilities
to an array of programs, vocational fields, disciplines and academic
subjects.
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Immigrant
Student Advisor
Aura Rios Erickson,
coordinated a two-week visit in July by Ivana Ramirez,
who teaches English at the North American Chilean Institute (NACI) in
Santiago, Chile. Ramirez was here as part of a training program
sponsored by Partners of America to learn how our ESL instructors teach
English, in particular, how they engage students with disabilities. She visited both day and evening ESL
classes, including
Jeanne Kirby's, Diane Clifford's
and
Kristin Mara's classes to
observe different levels of ESL instruction. She also visited the Community Integration
Program and saw the adaptive technology used by CIP students.
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Victoria Lauber, Retention Manager, High School Programs, was recently
awarded a master's degree in education with a focus on multicultural studies
from the University of Washington, Bothell campus. Lauber was the
recipient of the 2005 Association Scholarship Award from the Association of
Washington Community College Administrators. Lauber used the funds to
augment the costs involved with presenting her professional paper, "Latinas
in the Northwest: Locating Comunidad, Finding Place," at a conference
at the University of Oregon and costs related to her thesis study on
retention strategies for Latinas interested in earning a college degree.
She also won the award in 1999 to support funding for her bachelor's degree.