The Seattle Community Colleges are extending the public comment period on proposed changes to rules in the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) affecting the use of district facilities and grounds for limited public forums. The proposed changes to chapters 132F-136 and
King County Executive Dow Constantine will release the final King County Aerospace Study... Six specific action points have been cited as crucial to creating sustainability and fostering the long-term economic vitality, growth and global competitiveness of the local aerospace industry... South has a long and rich history of producing Aviation Technicians. South’s hangar at Boeing field is a unique public/private partnership that was the result of a $1 million fundraising campaign by South’s Foundation.
In the midst of the recession, Time Magazine identified entrepreneurship as one of the top ten jobs.
New University of Washington President Michael Young will be keynote speaker at district-wide Convocation for faculty and staff at the Seattle Community Colleges...The district sends more students to the UW than any other college district, where they do as well or better than students who start at UW as freshmen ...
On August 31 and September 1 Seattle Central Community College will host a training exercise for emergency responders.
Business and Government Leaders Hosted by North Seattle Community College The Sustainable Growth Summit, led by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in partnership with North Seattle Community College and the State of Washington Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs, was held on July 8, 2011. This daylong event, hosted by and held on North’s campus, was a great success.
South Seattle Community College will celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2011 at the annual commencement ceremony taking place at Benaroya Hall, at 2:30 pm on Thursday, June 16.... This year, 853 students have earned degrees and certificates, including 410 in academic transfer, 336 in professional/technical studies and multi-occupational trades, and 27 students in the college’s four-year Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Hospitality Management degree program. The graduating class also includes 42 new Registered Nurses and seven dual-graduate Running Start students, who are receiving a college AA degree and high school diploma concurrently. Behind the numbers are many student stories....
The Seattle Community Colleges, the Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center and the Manufacturing Industrial Council of Seattle are hosting a May 19 conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education in the workforce at the Georgetown Campus of South Seattle Community College. The gathering will take a "roll up your sleeves" approach to the anticipated shortfall of qualified manufacturing and industrial workers in the region and create an action plan through cooperation among industry, labor, the public schools and community colleges.
Yesterday, our Board of Trustees approved a restriction on camping on our college campuses. This restriction was added to an existing section of the Washington Administrative Code (WAC 132F-136), which has been in place since 1984.
This provision addresses issues of safety and security that were raised during the Occupy Seattle encampment last fall when the Thurston County Superior Court upheld an emergency rule prohibiting camping on our campuses. The ruling required the District to act quickly to permanently change this section of the Washington Administration Code to protect the health and safety of our campus communities.
The May 17 Board action followed a long process of review and public comment. Members of our campus community spoke out at public hearings in March and April, when an earlier WAC concerning the use of facilities for First Amendment activities was first proposed. As a result, we pulled both that WAC and its related procedure (# 270), off the table and asked the Board to limit its review to camping restrictions. The Board heard public comments on the revised proposal at its last two board meetings.
We still have work to do. As announced earlier this month, I am convening a task force to address the use of campus facilities for First Amendment activities. The group will examine our procedures to ensure we are meeting our commitment to the First Amendment as well as to the values that are integral to the delivery of education. Task force members were nominated from throughout our district. Their first meeting will be held this spring, and the group will conclude its work by December 2012. Thank you to the following individuals who have agreed to serve from the college community: Don Bissonnette, Ian Elliot, Rodolfo Franco, Kelly Grayson, Cessa Heard-Johnson, Tysen Hillquist, Larry Hopt, Hillery Jorgensen, Kenneth Lawson, Kimberly McRae, Orestes Monterecy, and Greg Morphew; as well as community leaders Al Sugiyama, Joan Weiss and an additional community member to be announced early next week.
The Seattle Community Colleges stand for both safeguarding free speech and providing excellent education. I am confident that the task force will provide us with their best thinking.