Category: Announcements
October 7th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
This Fri., Oct. 8 come meet the staff of the Multicultural Center from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the PUB room 9102 and learn more about:
-New internships in the Multicultural Center;
-Attending the Students of Color and the Queer I Am Conferences:
-The Student Diversity Coalition (SDC);
-Get involved with our annual Multicultural Week and MLK Jr. Celebrations and Social Justice Week!
-Got Workstudy? Talk with us!
Posted in Announcements, Events, Jobs on Campus, Services for Students Tagged with: internship, multicultural center
October 7th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Several Events in and around the Seattle area may cause heavy traffic Thurs., Oct. 8 and Fri., Oct. 9, meaning students traveling to and from Shoreline’s campus should leave themselves plenty of extra time to get to class those days. Here’s the info from the Seattle Department of Transportation:
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8th – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11th:
INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW: The latest makes and models of over 400 new automobiles are on display at the CenturyLink Events Center. Show hours are 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, 12 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9th:
PRESIDENT OBAMA VISIT: President Obama will visit Seattle to attend a fundraising event for Sen. Patty Murray at the Westin Hotel. Please plan ahead as the interstate and city streets will likely be impacted by the visit.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9th – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11th:
ST. DEMETRIO’S GREEK FESTIVAL: The 55th annual celebration at St. Demetrios features traditional Greek food, music, dance performances, and cultural items for purchase. Hours are Friday, 12 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. About 4,500 people are expected to attend over the weekend. Traffic in the Montlake neighborhood is likely to be heavier than usual, so please accordingly (some Baklava might help).
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10th:
MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER WALK: This walk benefits the American Cancer Society’s breast cancer research grants, and programs and programs for people undergoing treatment. The event starts and ends at the Seattle Center International Fountain at 9 a.m. The route heads east on Mercer Street, south on 9th Ave N through Denny Park, north on Dexter Avenue N, west on Mercer, south on 5thAvenue N, west on Broad at Denny Street returning back to Seattle Center on 2ndAve N. About 3,200 people are expected to participate.
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Posted in Announcements Tagged with: traffic delays
October 7th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
In honor of Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Office of Special Services (OSS) is working to raise awareness of disabilities by offering daily facts and tips about people with disabilities and living with disability. Please take a minute to read and broaden your understanding.
Today’s topic is: October 8, 2015 is World Sight Day. This year’s call to action:
World Sight Day is an important advocacy and communications opportunity for the eye health community. It is a great time to engage with a wider audience – a patient’s family, those who seldom get an eye exam, diabetics – and showcase why eye health needs everybody’s attention.
Eye care for all: This year, The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) urges you to focus on everybody who needs eye care services – everybody. Think of all the groups of people who need eye care – especially the most vulnerable or the ones most in need. What can we do to bring eye care to them all? How can we ensure that access to eye care is not limited by gender or geographic location, or even financial status? Do remember, ‘Eye Health’ also includes rehabilitation and assistive services for those with irreversible vision loss.
This World Sight Day, let’s do something that will draw attention to the great unmet need in eye care services.
On World Sight Day, IAPB members work together to:
1. Raise public awareness of blindness & vision impairment as major international public health issues
2. Influence Governments/Ministers of Health to participate in and designate funds for national blindness prevention programs
3. Educate target audiences about blindness prevention, about VISION 2020 and to generate support for VISION 2020 program activities
International Key Messages:
1. Approximately 285 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness
2. Of these, 39 million people are blind and 246 million have moderate or severe visual impairment
3. 90% of blind people live in low-income countries
4. Yet 80% of visual impairment is avoidable – i.e. readily treatable and/or preventable
5. Restorations of sight, and blindness prevention strategies are among the most cost-effective interventions in health care
6. The number of people blind from infectious causes has greatly reduced in the past 20 years
7. An estimated 19 million children are visually impaired
8. About 65 % of all people who are visually impaired are aged 50 and older, while this age group comprises only 20% of the world’s population
9. Increasing elderly populations in many countries mean that more people will be at risk of age-related visual impairment.
The above information was taken from the website of the IAPB. For more information about World Sight Day, click here.
Posted in Announcements, Services for Students Tagged with: OSS, world sight day
October 7th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
On Fri., Oct. 9 the Shoreline Community College music faculty present their annual Faculty Showcase performances at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. in the music building in room 818. Music and Music Tech faculty will play a light-hearted concert for students and other faculty members. A wildly diverse array of musical styles will be presented along with brief introductions as a kick-off to the new school year.
This has proven to be one of the more memorable events of the year in the past and the music department would love to see you in attendance!
Posted in Announcements, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Free Tagged with: music faculty, showcase
October 7th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Don’t forget to stop by the PUB Main Dining Room Thurs., Oct. 8 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. for the University Transfer Fair. Reps from top area colleges will be on hand to answer all your questions about what it takes to transfer to a four-year school after Shoreline.
Participating colleges and universities include, but aren’t limited to:
Bastyr University
Central Washington University
City University of Seattle
Cornish College of the Arts
Eastern Washington University
Eastern at Bellevue College
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Grand Canyon University
Johnson & Wales University
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
North Seattle College
Northwest University
Oregon State University
Seattle University
The Evergreen State College
University of Washington
University of Washington-Bothell
University of Washington-Tacoma
Western Governors University Washington
Washington State University-Vancouver
Western Washington University
and More . . . .
Hope to see you there!
Posted in Announcements, Events, Free Tagged with: transfer fair
October 6th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Please join us in the PUB courtyard (inside the main lobby of the PUB if it’s raining) at 12:30 p.m. on Wed., Oct. 7 for a campus community photo to show our love and support for the students, faculty and staff at Umpqua Community College. A social media campaign using the hashtag #IamUCC features photos of campus communities across the nation standing in solidarity with Umpqua – we’d like your help in adding Shoreline’s voice to that show of support. The Student Leadership Center will have banners and posters made in advance for participants to display for the photo, so no need to bring anything but yourself, your friends and your smile.
Posted in Announcements, Events Tagged with: #iamucc
October 6th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Celebrate #PhinNation Spirit Days decked out in Shoreline style. On Spirit Days (the first Wednesday of each month), Shoreline students get a 15% discount on purchases of Shoreline apparel at the bookstore. The first Spirit Day is Wed., Oct. 7, so head over to the bookstore and get yourself some Phin gear – stat!
Posted in Announcements, Events
October 6th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
October 7, 2015 is World Cerebral Palsy Day. In honor of this day, the students in Shoreline’s Disability Awareness Society will be hosting a table in the PUB from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. to help educate the campus community on cerebral palsy…a disability that affects 17 million people world-wide.
Although cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in childhood, it is widely misunderstood. Through World CP Day, we have the opportunity to raise awareness of CP in our communities and assist others to look beyond the disability.
Public awareness is an issue because CP is a complex, lifelong disability. It primarily affects movement, but people with CP may also have visual, learning, hearing, speech, epilepsy and intellectual impairments. It can be mild, such as a weakness in one hand, to severe cases in which people have little control over movements or speech and may need 24-hour assistance.
People living with CP can experience a range of responses from others in their communities. On one end of the spectrum, they can face deep-seated but misguided sympathy, or even pity. Though intentions are good, they infantilize the person with CP. They can be smothered with (too much) love, and spoken to in a simple, childlike way. Others can subconsciously over-protect a person with CP, and thus prevent them from having essential life experiences.
On the other end of the spectrum, CP is viewed through deep-seated cultural beliefs. It may be seen as validation of superstitions about the mother, or wrath upon a family. Some even believe that CP is contagious or that a child with CP brings shame to a family. Mothers may be abandoned with their child, or a person with CP may live their life in an institution.
And in the middle are thousands of fine people who still find it difficult to make eye contact or know how to communicate with someone who has CP. It is not that they feel any ill will, it is just best—maybe even polite—to not engage.
There is nothing to be gained in blaming people for their ignorance about CP. Instead, we will work to put an end to it. We have the ability and the moral obligation to ensure everyone knows the real truth, and acts accordingly.
The above information and more can be found on the World CP Day’s site. For an infographic with even more information about cerebral palsy, click here.
Posted in Announcements, Clubs, Services for Students Tagged with: cerebral palsy day, disability awareness month, disability awareness society
October 5th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Remember to show us your school spirit on #PhinNation #SpiritDay this Wed., Oct. 7 and get free food + fun with your #PhinFam!
On the first Wednesday of each month, we’re hosting a #PhinNation #SpiritDay to celebrate the awesome community here at Shoreline. Each Spirit Day will have a different theme, with the first one being school spirit. Wear whatever Shoreline gear you have – seriously, anything gold and green or adorned with a dolphin – on Oct. 7 and get some free lunch in the PUB courtyard. #Yummy!
We’ve got school spirt – do you?!
Posted in Announcements, Events, Free Tagged with: #phinnation, #SpiritDay
October 5th, 2015 by pio@shoreline.edu
Shoreline Community College Art Gallery presents… DUWAMISH REVEALED
Please join us this Thurs., Oct. 8 from 5-7 p.m. for the opening reception ofDuwamish Revealed. Check out the stunning exhibit and enjoy a guest performance at 6 p.m.
The exhibit will be showing in the Art Gallery in the lobby of the Administration building (1000 bldg.) Oct. 5-30. The Duwamish Revealed exhibit is the culminating event of the community project that took place in south Seattle from May to September, 2015. It involved a series of outdoor art installations, performances, community activities and other adventures to celebrate Seattle’s only river. In the hopes of reaching out to all of the different language and cultural groups along the river, the project directors, Nicole Kistler and Sarah Kavage, worked with the multi-lingual outreach team at the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle. The Shoreline Community College Art Gallery is honored to share in this celebration by bringing art installations, cultural artifacts, photo documentation and performance from the project to our campus.
Please join us at the opening reception to celebrate the efforts of our local artists, writers, performers, cultural groups, and campus faculty in this exciting celebration of the Duwamish River!
Posted in Announcements, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Free Tagged with: art gallery, duwamish revealed
