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A Message from President Moore
On Friday, February 18^th, I will hold an all-campus meeting to discuss issues related to campus climate and my plans to investigate, evaluate, and resolve these issues in the future.  The strength of our College is our faculty and staff and our interdependency and reliance on each other.  For the College to be successful, it is critical that we respect, appreciate and honor each other for the work that we do for the College and for our students. 

Without a doubt, our external environment is extremely challenging and requires us to examine our current operations.  Consider some of the events of the last few years:  a significant decrease in state revenues eliminated salary increases for our employees; the state budget situation also forced the College to reduce our operating expenses in several key areas; the geographic size of our College district was reduced with the opening of Cascadia Community College putting extreme pressure on our enrollment situation; and the state changed the tuition structure so that there is less incentive for students to enroll as full-time students.  This year, the state community college system is experiencing a downturn in enrollment most likely as a result of the improvement in the economy.

When I was initially hired as president by the Board of Trustees in 2001, I was asked to improve our external revenues, to supplement our state funds, and to diversify our funding base. During this time, with the assistance of Workforce and Economic Development (WED) and International Student Programs, the College has received $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor, a $750,000 appropriation from Senator Murray and supported by Senator Cantwell, numerous other grants from corporations and the state to support high-demand programs, and increased revenues from our marketing efforts with international students.

I continue to advocate on the national and state levels for new allocations of funding for community colleges and for students.  My efforts on the boards of the Workforce Alliance and the Center for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) have positioned Shoreline Community College at the forefront of these opportunities.  We will continue to work with our national legislative leaders to set policy that will benefit not only Shoreline Community College, but colleges around the nation.

During these challenging times, I urge all of the campus to continue to work together so that we can deliver the finest services to our students.

Last week, representatives of faculty and administration participated in a meeting that brought forward some of the faculty’s most pressing concerns.  I am asking that all of you provide your thoughts regarding the working environment of this campus.  Come to the meeting with questions and concerns and join in the discussion.  If you are unable to attend, there will be other ways for you to provide input.  I will make a few opening comments, but a good portion of the meeting will be devoted to answering your questions.

I look forward to seeing you next Friday, Feb 18 at 12:45 pm in Room 2925.

Career Connections:  Mapping Your Career Pathway
Don't miss out on this year's Career and Technical Education Week 2005
February 14-18
The campus community, local high school students and the public are invited to SCC's annual Career and Technical Education Week, February 14-18th. Shoreline joins colleges across the country for this annual event where professional-technical programs are showcased. The week at Shoreline  is filled with program presentations, career training, employment preparation workshops, a career fair and a  fashion show to help direct students in their career pursuits.  Presentations on college programs such as the music, biotechnology, criminal justice, digital illustration and the nursing programs will be made this year and instructors will talk about articulation programs that take students from high school to SCC to four-year universities and into high paying careers in the Puget Sound region.

Employers seeking new employees will represent approximately 50 companies at the annual Career Fair, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, February 16th in the gym. Participating companies include Aerotek, Edward Jones Investments, PCC Natural Markets, Evergreen Health Care, the Seattle Police Department and the Department of Transportation.  Workshops include a four hour drop-in clinic for resume critique, an interviewing technique workshop, and a workshop on how to get hired by thinking like the employer.

See the latest in both fashion design and hair trends while getting your hair cut for $1 at the annual Cosmo Cut-a-thon and Fashion Show, a favorite event at Career and Technical Education Week at SCC.  Co-sponsored by the Cosmetology Program and the Fashion Merchandising Training Program, it all takes place on Wednesday, February 16^th, from 9 a.m. to noon in the PUB, 900 Building.  Cosmetology students give the $1 haircuts while instructors supervise and customers will enjoy a fashion show (on a real runway!) organized and emceed by Kristina Stratis and Yura Burkanov, students from the Fashion Merchandising Program. 

Click here for a link to the week's workshops and programs is provided below.

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SCC offers Virtual Enterprise entrepreneurial business program for ESL students

Imagine earning college credits while surfing the net to find the best price of mushroom ice cream and purchasing it from a supplier in France ― or setting up a checking account with an international bank — that’s what Shoreline Community College students enrolled in Business Basics for ESL are up to lately.  In this new ESL/Business class, students set up virtual businesses and buy and sell products and services online.  The class is the first of its kind at SCC.  In fact, Shoreline is the first college, university or high school in Washington state to offer the virtual enterprise program, and only the second community college in the nation to develop the course specifically for ESL students.

The Virtual Enterprise (VE) Project is a new concept that is being incorporated into high school, college and university curricula around the world to teach entrepreneurship as well as computer and language skills. Students build virtual businesses and go online with other VE students around the world to purchase the goods and services they need via a global VE network. 

Faculty Donna Biscay and Anita McEntyre developed Shoreline CC’s initial VE class, Business Basics for ESL. The class, first offered Winter Quarter 2005, was designed for ESL students as a way to prepare them for small business success while providing them with the English skills they will need.

“ESL students who want to learn only about the HR function or other small business positions [and do not plan on opening a business] can also benefit from this class since it is based on language skills and computer and entrepreneurship skills,” says Essential Skills Director Donna Miller-Parker.  Instructors explain the different jobs that a typical company would employ, and rotating students every few weeks gives them the opportunity to experience all roles.  They learn and practice roles such as president, chief financial officer, and sales and marketing staff.  The VE teachers act as consultants and let the students run the companies.

Students also develop a web site to market their products and services. Claire Fant and Donna Langley, both graduates of Shoreline's VCT program specializing in Web Design and Multimedia, worked together as freelance web designers to create the students' company web pages. Their work was essential to launching the new business on the Virtual Enterprise Network and both instructors and students thank the former students for their help. “Without these two, we wouldn’t have an online company. We are so grateful for their time and knowledge,” says Biscay.

SCC’s VE students named their company, Seattle International Sweet House, and are currently in the process of developing their business plan, working with a virtual bank for their banking needs. They plan to have their web site up by the middle of February. They will sell ice cream (one of those flavors being mushroom), chocolates, coffee and tea for their VE experience. They have “hired” a president and sales and marketing staff. VE classes usually have industry mentors, and Biscay and McEntyre will help students find a local sweet shop as mentors. They hope that students will have four or five companies running in the near future. Students can repeat the class twice if they feel the need to have more experience.

VE was initiated some 20 years ago in Europe as a means of teaching business principles and entrepreneurship to apprentices. Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York, along with the New York City high schools initiated the VE project in the U.S. in 1996 through funding from the U.S. Department of Education.  A number of colleges and high schools around the world have incorporated the program into curricula to teach entrepreneurship as well as computer and language skills. Workforce and Economic Development VP Darlene Miller, Humanities Dean Norma Goldstein and faculty members Biscay and Loomis traveled to New York last summer to learn about the project.

The program will be expanded Spring Quarter 2005.  Chuck Loomis will incorporate it into his Entrepreneurship course (BusAd 270) for native speakers.  Loomis will break the class into four to six teams with each building their own company — VE students will build virtual companies and entrepreneur students will build real companies. 

The College recently received a grant for approximately $26,000 to collaborate with Kingsborough, Edmonds and Howard community colleges, and Augusta Technical College to form a learning network with specific focus on the tourism and hospitality industries.  Edmonds CC will pilot their VE in their hospitality program this spring. 

For more information about the VE Project at Shoreline CC or how to enroll, please contact Donna Linn at dlinn@shoreline.edu or 206.546.6958. 

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SCC wins Best Practices Grant for new dental program
The college was recently awarded a $10,000 Federal Perkins Best Practices Grant for faculty to develop a new dental career pathway program.  The funding for the Dental Office Business Assistant Program will be used to develop an interdisciplinary training program from three prof-tech areas:  Health Care Information (HCI), Business Technology, and Dental Hygiene.  Graduates of this three-quarter program will be prepared to work in entry-level positions in dental office administration, such as receptionists, treatment coordinators, financial coordinators or dental office managers. Salaries start at $17 an hour.

The project will concentrate on the expansion and refinement of an already existing health care core of classes (HCI) and Business Technology classes.  The new curriculum will be developed by Fall Quarter 2005 (when the classes will first be offered) and parts of several already existing HCI and Business coursework will be integrated into the new curriculum.  Four core classes will be online classes.

Professional-Technical Education Dean, Berta Lloyd, who wrote the grant, is excited about the new program.  "This will be the first time that Dental Hygiene, HCI and Business Technology will be a part of an inter-disciplinary curriculum."  She explains that some of the coding coursework is already being taught in the HCI Program and that some of the business content is being taught in the Business Technology curriculum. 

Students will complete classroom instruction and a community-based internship in local dental offices or clinics where they will experience many of the tasks they will perform in the job. The target audience is incumbent workers, people making career changes and Worker Retraining. 

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Multicultural Week 2005 Recap
Blue Scholars Performance and Workshop
Blue Scholars, a socially conscious hip hop duo from Seattle, came to Shoreline for Multicultural Week 2005.  Students filled the PUB dining room as Blue Scholars performed selections off of their new album for a half an hour on the stage.  After the performance, sixty five students actively participated in a workshop facilitated by Blue Scholars that explored individual perspectives on current issues and the relationships between writer, audience and culture in hip hop lyrics. 

NW Network’s Anti-Oppression Workshop
Multicultural Week 2005 featured two Anti-Oppression Workshops led by the NW Network, an organization that provides support and advocacy for those in the GLBT community experiencing domestic violence. Through interactive exercises, participants learned about the basic concepts of oppression and mistreatment that occurs systemically as a result of the cycle of oppression.  One activity, the Privilege Walk, enabled individuals to recognize how privilege has influenced their lives and the lives of others.  Both sessions were very informative and gave those who attended a deeper understanding of oppression.

What would you do?  Responding to Oppressive Comments
Faculty Rachel David and Brooke Zimmers led a session during Multicultural Week 2005 which addressed effective ways to respond to oppressive comments.  With eighty-five students in attendance, they led a great discussion after displaying different scenarios and giving ideas as to how to communicate when racist, sexist and bias comments are made.  Examples of ways to take action include challenging the comment, educating the commenter and rephrasing so that the individual might understand that what they are saying is oppressive.  Zimmers and David closed the session by encouraging the audience to initiate action for change on campus and in their communities.    

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News from SCC@LFP

Wintercollege is just around the corner

Lifelong learning is a powerful force that keeps people of all ages alert, engaged and involved in their community.  Wintercollege for Seniors, a popular learning opportunity for folks over 50, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., March 21-23 at SCC@LFP.  The annual event is sponsored by the Extended Learning Department. 

Enthusiastic instructors from institutions and organizations in the Puget Sound area will share their knowledge and expertise in a terrific lineup of timely topics.  Participants can choose from "Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice," "Canadian History,"  "Current Topics in Astronomy," "Northern Ireland Today,"  "Alfred Hitchcock’s Films," "International Relations," and several computer classes.

Lively discussions among returning students, newcomers and instructors promote a dynamic atmosphere that keep many Wintercollege students returning year after year.  Staff from Third Place books will facilitate book discussions over lunch each day. 

Three classes per day, complimentary refreshments and plenty of free parking — all for only $45.  If you know someone who might enjoy Wintercollege and has never attended, please ask them to give us a call at 206.533.6700 to request a brochure.

Summercollege will be held August 15-19 on the main SCC campus.  If you are interested in proposing a class, please contact Sharon Sneddon at ssneddon@shoreline.edu.

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KUDOS

Students work to help tsunami victims
Last month concerned students across campus took matters in hand and raised money to support the victims of the tsunami.  Members of the Worldly Philosophers' and Dismal Scientists' Society, the College's political-economy club, organized a fund-raising event and raised $923 through generous contributions from members of the campus community.  The money raised was forwarded to the relief organizations, Oxfam and World Harvest.  Members of the Indonesian Club raised just over $900 for tsunami relief, sending the money on to the Lions Club International Tsunami Relief Fund. 

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VCT instructors win awards
New full-time VCT faculty Jim Reddin recently learned that last year’s issue of the literary magazine Crosscurrents won the Bronze honorable mention (professional level for four color art books) in the local CraftNet Printing Guild awards.  Reddin is the Layout & Design Editor for this statewide publication.   He has been the art editor for five or six years and was in charge of production for 18 or 19 years.  The publication was also entered in the international competition where it won the Silver Gallery award in the International level competition for the same category.  Jim produced the publication for the Washington State Community and Technical Colleges Humanities Association.  The book was printed by Highline Community College. Art instructor Elizabeth Halfacre's art was chosen for the cover of the magazine.  Works by both instructors was included in the publication; one of Reddin's won the WSCTCHA Art Award for 2004.  The publication is juried by members of the Association. 

Reddin encourages students, faculty and staff to submit art, poetry, prose, music scores and short theatrical scripts for the 2005 edition of Crosscurrents.  If interested, contact Reddin, and he will make sure your submissions get to the new editor.

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EVENTS

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"Island Music" performed by Hapa
5pm & 8pm, Saturday, February 12
Campus Theater

Like the Hawaiian islands themselves, Hapa’s music is an amalgam of influences ranging from ancient Polynesian rhythms and genealogical chants to the strummed ballads of Portuguese fishermen, Spanish cowboys, and the inspired melodies and harmonies of the traditional church choirs of the early missionaries. Add to this a dose of American acoustic folk/rock, and you have what has been described by the Maui Times as the “most exciting and beautiful contemporary Hawaiian music the world knows!” Often encapsulated as the “Sound of Maui,” Hapa’s music is one of beauty and serenity, found in the majestic tones of the oli (chant), mele (song), the elegant movements of the sacred dance known as hula, and the exhilarating innovative sounds of the virtuoso slack key guitar. Hapa’s self entitled debut CD released in 1993, swept the 1994 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (Hawaii’s equivalent of the Grammys), becoming the biggest selling CD by a group or duo in the history of recorded Hawaiian music. The group’s ground-breaking music has established them as the most recognized name in Hawaiian music internationally since their debut release, with sold-out shows from Tokyo to New York. “These disparate ingredients blended together musically in the Pacific emotes the unique flavor of what Hawaii and Hapa music is: beautiful, fragile, spiritual, powerful.” – L.A. Times  $22, $20, $18.

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Opera Workshop Performances
7:30pm, February 24 - 26, 2005
Campus Theater
An adapted one-act opera, Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenback will be performed with a chamber orchestra. Operatic scenes from The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi; The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan; Susannah by Carlisle Floyd; and Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck will be accompanied by piano.

“This year we have an exceptional group of young singers,” says Susan Dolacky, producer/musical director at SCC. “The scenes are dramatic gems from a variety of opera styles, and the one-act version of Tales of Hoffmann is a fresh, abbreviated take on three romantic and magical stories from the author of The Nutcracker. It's a great way to introduce newcomers to opera.”

Teresa Metzger Howe is the guest conductor. Metzger Howe received her DMA in orchestral conducting at The University of Washington in 2001 under the tutelage of Maestro Peter Erös. This is her fourth year as guest conductor of the SCC Opera Workshop Performances and spring musical.

Paul Linnes, stage director, earned his master’s degree in vocal performance from USC. He has many years of experience as a studio singer (Jurassic Park, Bram Stoker’s Dracula), choral soloist (three international tours to the Far East as a featured soloist with the Roger Wagner Chorale), and principal artist in opera, most recently in residence with Opera San José. In addition to his work at Shoreline Community College, Linnes maintains a private voice studio and is frequently musical director and pianist for ArtsWest Playhouse in West Seattle.
General admission is $12, $10 for seniors and college students, and $8 for children 14 and younger and SCC students with college ID card. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling x4606 or at the Cashier’s Office in the FOSS Building, or at the door. $12, $10, $8.

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La Bête
7:30pm, March 3 - 5 & March 10 - 12, 2005 
Lobby Theater
This dazzling comedy is written in rhyming couplets and follows the wild fortunes of a 17th-Century acting troupe. Embedded within the absurd high-comic style are important questions about life and art as the troupe’s director and it’s scenery-chewing star fight over its artistic soul. The play’s Broadway opening launched a famous controversy itself when a group of 28 theater luminaries wrote a letter of protest to the New York Times whose critics had dismissed the play. They urged readers to judge for themselves this “amazing evening in the theatre.” We invite you to join us and do the same. Written by David Hirson, Directed by Chris Fisher.  $8, $7, $6.

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MUSIC DEPT EVENTS

Student Recital
12:30pm, Friday, March 4, 2005
Music Bldg, Room 818

Shoreline Concert Band
7:30pm, Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Shorecrest Performing Arts Center

Small Ensemble Recital
11:30am - 1pm, Friday, March 11, 2005
Music Bldg, Room 818

COS Winter Classical Performance
7pm, Saturday, March 12
Shorecrest Performing Arts Center
3pm, Sunday, March 13
St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Lynnwood

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SPORTS

Come on out and support our teams!
If you're interested in rooting for our sports teams, be sure to check out the game rosters at http://success.shoreline.edu/athletics/.

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COLLEGE GALLERY

Pottery Works by Skagit artist, Allen Moe

Skagit Valley artist Allen Moe exhibits three dimensional art in which he has incorporated bits and pieces of the natural world at an exhibit at the Shoreline Community College Gallery, February 4 to March 3, 2005.   The public is invited to an artist lecture at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, February 17th in the art building (Bldg. 2000) in room 2059.  

A biologist for 15 years, Moe homesteaded in Alaska while creating artwork influenced by the reoccurring rhythms and patterns in nature.  “I began making pots there, developing a technology corresponding with my nomadic life.  I can make my pots anywhere and fire them in a campfire,” says Moe.   He covered the pots with fish skins and caribou skins and in 1984 first showed his pots at a gallery in Fairbanks.   The current work includes castings from trees, cracks in clay, and ceramic pots finished with fish, cow stomachs, and the skins of chicken feet. 

Moe grew up in Yosemite Valley and earned a degree in ecology from U.C. Berkeley.              The College Gallery is located in the Administration Bldg. (1000).  Art instructor Natalie Niblack is the College Gallery director.

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