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March 6, 2007
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SCC's Global
Studies and LMC co-sponsor forum regarding the Kyoto Protocol
"The Kyoto Protocol is an
agreement made under the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The objective is the stabilization of
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level
that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with
the climate system.
Participating countries commit to reduce their greenhouse
emissions or engage in emissions trading if they maintain or
increase emissions of these gases."
The Kyoto Protocol now
covers more than 160 countries globally and over 55 percent
of global greenhouse gas emissions.
U.S. Country Analysis Brief by the U.S.
Energy Information Administration, 2005.
With the communication of news being distributed in sound bites and distorted by corporate media, it is challenging for Americans to understand what is going on in the United States and around the world. An initiative of the U.N. Association, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that supports the work of the United Nations, is to provide college students with opportunities to learn about their work in world affairs and to encourage active civic participation in the most important social and economic issues facing the world today. UNA Seattle chapter members visit colleges and universities to talk about these global issues and answer questions. Participating colleges select specific forums to focus on — human rights, preservation of the environment, nuclear weaponry, conflicting interpretations of the Geneva Convention and other international treaty obligations.
On February 16th, Dr. Trevor McMorris-Tate, interim chair, of the Social Science Division and a professor of political science and international studies at Bellevue Community College, talked about U.S. policy and the global environment in his presentation, "The Kyoto Protocol on Reducing Greenhouse Gases and U.S. Policy." Students, faculty and staff were impressed with the candor of the presentation and Dr. McMorris-Tate's presentation of the key scientific facts. Dr. McMorris-Tate received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Queen's University (Ontario) in 1992, where he was also a research fellow in the School of Policy Studies.
Dr. James Maynard, a BCC Center for Liberal Arts fellow and co-president of the Seattle Chapter of the USA-United Nations Association, spoke specifically about U.S. policy and how it is determined not by science but by politics. Dr. Maynard is a world health policymaker and former UN advisor to governments in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He has a medical degree from McGill University, and a master's degree of public health and a doctoral degree in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. SCC's February 16th forum was sponsored by the College's Center for Global Studies and the Library/Media Center.
International Programs recognized by National Association of International
Educators A number of internationalization efforts were outlined in the nomination essay, all supportive of SCC's selection. Campus design resembling a large Japanese garden, the College's diversity (49 percent being non-Caucasian and six percent of international students representing 28 countries), and faculty and staff reflecting 23 percent people of color. The College's GED, ESL and High School Completion programs were noted. Also considered was the fact that SCC has identified the importance of preparing our students for success in a global economy, having developed a strong multicultural education curriculum. Other important factors included faculty grants and commitment, our Study Abroad programs and our international student retention program. The IP program will be featured in the publication, 'Internationalizing the Campus 2007: Profiles of Success,' which will be distributed internationally. SCC's program will also be featured at the annual international NAFSA conference. Valparaiso University was also selected to be spotlighted in the NAFSA report. SCC is the only community college to be chosen for this honor, and none of the university winners were in Washington state. The selection jury was comprised of representatives from colleges and universities across the nation. Int'l Programs hosts Korean high school students
On February 1, the International Programs Office hosted 20 Korean high school students, three teachers and one administrator from Daecheon girls and boys high schools. The Daecheon high schools are located in Shoreline’s sister city of Boryeong. Seated next to President Lambert in the photo, front row, left to right: John Chang, President Shoreline Sister City Association, Lee Lambert, Ki Hyon Kim, President Seattle Korean Association, Tae Soo Kwon, Lead English Instructor, Daecheon Boys High School. The students were on a winter break trip that included a one week tour of New York City, Boston and Washington D.C. Their stop in Seattle was brief – just 2 ˝ days – but in that time they spent a half day at Shorewood High School, a half day at the College and a full day touring the area. The students were also able to get a brief glimpse into American home life by staying with local families. Many of the visiting students were already familiar with Shoreline Community College, as they had attended an information meeting presented by Colleen Ferguson in November of 2006 when the city of Boryeong hosted representatives from Shoreline’s city government, business and education sectors.
Automotive student and President Lambert testify about Opportunity Grants in Olympia Opportunity grants are awarded to low-income students so that they can receive the first year of training for high demand jobs. Students at SCC have used this grant to enter the GST (General Service Technician) pilot automotive program for entry-level positions in the automotive industry. Students who complete the introductory technical training program meet ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) standards, preparing them in less than a year’s time to work with skilled technicians in industry, earning between $9.50 and $14.50 an hour. SCC GST instructors teach with ABE and ESL instructors to provide the best learning opportunity for students. After completing the GST program, students have the option to immediately join the workforce or continue their education in one of SCC's factory-sponsored two-year automotive programs. Jasso is one of those students, currently enrolled in the Toyota T-TEN Program.
Career Technical Education Week Benitez says the First Annual Career Pathways Fair at Shoreline Center was quite successful, with high school students really engaged. "We're really making a difference and providing valuable career planning information to potential students," she says. "Our partners at Shoreline Schools are thrilled with the outcome and already are talking about continuing this event for years to come."
Spindrift 2007 Approximately 400 people attended the jury show, where the artwork was on display for viewing. People were also encouraged to vote on items to be included in the College's award-winning art and literary anthology. More than 300 entries were submitted this year with the majority of them coming from current or former SCC students. A number of entries were submitted by people from across the state and across the country. Jury votes will be tallied and selections will be made for the 2007 edition over the next month. Christine Shafner, faculty art advisor, says, "It's an organic process as we bring funding support to do the best job possible with the creative content, design of the cover and interior, and current paper and printing costs. This is such a worthy, dynamic cause. The student team is incredibly dedicated and professional, and we all know each other very well after spending so much concentrated group effort on this publication. The quality of the product we put out there is the highlight of my academic year. And every year brings together a new team and fresh art." Debbie Handrich is the faculty literary advisor. SCC print shop manager, Andy Conrad and students manage the printing of the book. Spindrift will be printed in March and released in May. Copies will be for sale at release parties (one on campus and one off campus), the SCC Bookstore, and at several local independent bookstores, including Third Place Books, Elliott Bay Books and Left Bank Books. Spindrift sells for $10 a copy to support students budgets. Announcements President to present proposed organizational restructuring options at the next all-campus meeting March 9th
For the past two years, the College has had to make structural changes in response to budget concerns. The goal of every restructure change is to improve the effectiveness of administrative organizational structure through improved communications, closer collaboration, streamlined decision-making, greater accountability that expands the responsibility of decision makers, and improved succession planning. Once proposals are presented to the campus, comments will be taken regarding these proposals and final decisions will be made and presented to the campus by April 6th. DEC students prevail at state competition
Fourteen members of Shoreline’s College DECA (DEC) group recently competed at their State Conference, February 22-24. The Conference was held in Leavenworth, Washington. ALL MEMBERS qualified to advance to their International Conference, April 19- 25. The international competition will be held in Orlando.
Science Division begins new program to recruit students "We are targeting several audiences," says Fagel. "We would like to attract students who are at SCC but not considering science to have a fun introduction to a science topic. Maybe it will help them choose a science distribution class to their liking and just maybe a few will begin to consider science as a possible field for them." Students who do the AAS Option A (transfer) degree, which is the most popular degree, must take classes from a variety of Distribution categories in addition to the General Education Core requirements. The four Distribution categories and the number of required credits are: Humanities (15), Math-Science (15), Social Sciences (15) and Intra-American Studies (5). Click for more information. The campus community was invited to attend the Science events and join in on interesting and stimulating discussions. Topics were selected for their relevance to a wide spectrum of people. Events to date have included The Chemistry of Romance by Dr. Clarita Bhat, Chemistry Emeritus Faculty, The Importance and Future of Stem Cells by Leoned Gines, Biology Faculty; Should You Be Afraid Of Genetically Engineered Food? by Dr. Guy Hamilton, Biology faculty. Faculty to test drive online plagiarism software
program
Student Success Fair and
retention update Registration banners have been put up on campus and emails have been sent to faculty asking them to remind students about registration. Information sheets have been put into classrooms across campus, and Student Ambassadors are giving a lot of campus tours. HR Corner
New Employees
Employee Changes
Separations
Retirements KUDOS Unique marketing effort -- Last month, Mountlake Terrace High School's Senior Class sponsored the second annual fundraiser, “Terrace Idol," a spin-off of FOX Network's “American Idol." Students from Edmonds and Shoreline school districts competed in the singing competition, including Mountlake Terrace, Edmonds-Woodway, Lynnwood, Meadowdale, and Shorecrest high schools. The money was raised for the senior class at MLT High School. Auditions were held on three nights, with eliminations each week. A panel of judges critiqued the performances and determined who would go on to the next round of auditions. Four voice faculty from SCC’s Music Department participated as judges ― Susan Dolacky, Catherine Treadgold, Fredrick Lokken and Andy Shaw. Dolacky says, "this was no average high school talent show; the judges were astonished by the high quality of the performances. If the American Idol judges had heard this group, the Seattle segment might have had a different outcome altogether!" Twenty students competed in Round 1 on January 12th, with 10 of them making the cut. Dolacky, Treadgold, and Shaw were the judges that round; five more students were eliminated at the second round on January 19th, where Treadgold, Shaw, and Lokken were the judges. Then, the final round was held on the 26th at which Dolacky, Shaw and St. Thomas More School's instrumental teacher, Craig Lawrence, judged the contestants that day. On the third and final night, the audience voted for the winner of Terrace Idol 2007. The vote was unanimous -- all agreed that MLT High School student, Brett Morrison was the winner. Morrison won both the audience choice and the judge's first choice award. Lynnwood HS junior, Ira McIntosh won the judge's second place and MLT sophomore, Shelly Bondrovsky, won third place. Dolacky, Treadgold, Lokken and Shaw enjoyed this recruitment activity! Automotive
programs get rave reviews NATEF certification is awarded every five years. Program self evaluations are conducted, applications for recertification are completed and a NATEF team leader visits campus to do an onsite evaluation. These findings are then provided to NATEF. NATEF representative, Norm Chapman, says that our "programs go way beyond the requirements of NATEF." Peter Calkins, director of automotive programs at the College, says that they are waiting to hear the results from NATEF, but he expects to hear positive results soon. EVENTS Meet Jim Krause, NW
Designer/Illustrator/Photographer The Visual Communications Technology Club presents "Keeping It Fresh," a lecture by Jim Krause. Krause has worked as a designer/illustrator/photographer for nearly 25 years. Over the past several years he has authored the How Index Design series of books for designers and other creative professionals. They are available world-wide and have been translated into five languages. This lecture is part of “The Business of Doing Visual Business” Series. The series is a continuing presentation of lectures and workshops by regional Design, Art, New Media, Photography, and Print professionals. Local graffiti artist talked about his work and donated piece to MC
On Tuesday, February 6th, in conjunction
with Multicultural Month activities, American Popular Music and
Culture of Hip Hop instructor, Jason Soldam gave a
presentation on the history of graffiti and its associations with
Hip Hop. Solam, also advisor for the Hip Hop Elements Club,
and club members invited a local graffiti artist, Sean Murphy, to
come to class to talk about his experiences as a graffiti artist
over the last 16 years. Topics ranged from who participates in
this art scene, what are their motivations and inspirations, as well
as the on-going debate over art v. vandalism. Murphy also created a
graffiti "piece" which is on display outside the Multicultural
Center.
Upcoming Events Shoreline Concert Band Student Recital Small Ensemble Recital Funkngroove
Place as art / art as place, works by David Traylor runs
through March 28th "For many years I have worked as a landscape architect designing and planning gardens, parks, arboretums and city neighborhoods. I have worked to make extraordinary places – functionally, aesthetically, civically, and (sometimes) spiritually. As I progressed further as a ceramic artist, I found that I was interested in similar issues to those that I had been working on as a landscape architect. They focus on three questions: Presence - How can you demarcate or define a particular place? Narrative - What can you say about that place, either imagined or actual? Context - How can you affect the relationship between that particular place and its surroundings? "My ceramic work continues this exploration of sculptural presence and narrative. Up until recently, it has been focused solely on the study of sculptural presence through form (markers, plumb bobs, filled bowls), glazes (heavy, metallic looking glazes and slips) and surface decoration (repeated elements like spikes, spheres and extruded coils of clay). Many of the shapes and textures that are used are inspired by the garden outside my studio, the red knitted caps and “bibs” found on the small statues of Buddha at Japanese temples and cemeteries, tea cozies and African masks and figures." Traylor's current work is more focused on developing a narrative.
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Volleyball team finishes fourth
Soccer teams finish 1st in division
Basketball at SCC Former men's basketball coach, Steve Eskridge, who coached the women's team for one and a half years, is currently recruiting for next season. He is attending high school playoffs and local and state tournaments to recruit student players. Athletics Director Doug Palmer says that things are gearing up for spring sports. The baseball season began last weekend, but no home games will be held till late in the month. Tennis kicks off in April.
SCC’s sports schedules are online at
http://www.shoreline.edu/athletics/
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Between
150 and 200 seniors from area high schools (Shorecrest, Shorewood and Kings)
attended SCC-sponsored Career Technical Education Week with activities taking place
over the first two weeks of February.
Workshops were held on the main campus and a
Career Pathways Fair was held at the Shoreline Center. The fair
featured employers from the Puget Sound and provided students with an
opportunity to "get to know" their career options as they consider
professional-technical education. SCC's services and educational programs
were also highlighted.
Workshops provided information from how to find tuition funding to what
Prof/Tech programs are offered at the College. Donsa Benitez,
SCC's co-located Employment Security Representative here on campus,
organized and coordinated the event with assistance from the Shoreline School District and WorkSource North.
On
Friday, March 9th, President Lambert and his leadership team will present
several proposals to restructure the organization of the College. The
SCC College Council has suggested a
process that will be directed by the President’s Leadership Team (PLT) with
appropriate input from the Council, the Budget Committee, and the campus.
Jeff
Omalanz-Hood says approximately 150 students attended the
Inspired by his work as a landscape architect, David Traylors’
ceramic pieces explore sculptural presence and narrative. Many of the
shapes and textures he uses are inspired by the garden outside his
studio, Japanese architecture, tea cozies and African masks and figures.
"Dancer Bowl" is a stoneware piece in the exhibit.