November 3, 2015 • Fall Edition Welcome Back! With the start of the Fall Quarter, constituents from across campus brought out the Welcome Wagon for our new and returning students. On the first day of the quarter, September 28, staff members were scattered throughout campus holding their trusted ASK ME binders to help students navigate campus to get to their classes. Additionally, greeters were strategically placed in high traffic areas to meet the students with a welcoming smile and their choice of coffee, hot chocolate, and breakfast treats.

Welcome to South Fair The festivities continued on Thursday, October 1, with the “Welcome to South Fair.” Set in the heart of campus at the Clock Tower Plaza, student clubs were set up to recruit new members while munching on complimentary popcorn and music filled the air under the fall sun.

Welcome to South Video Students were also greeted in video form with a collaborative project between the Communications and Outreach divisions. The video highlighted areas around campus and some West landmarks to help students #ExploreatSouth. For those of you who missed it, click here. Page 2 President’s Day

The annual President’s Day skit had a “Back to the Future” theme starring Director of Advising Jesse Knappenberger with his Is there anything better than starting your day with a nice, hot rendition of Marty McFly. In near panic mode, Jesse traveled from breakfast? We didn’t think so either, and thanks to the South decade to decade looking for President Oertli. Each decade was Seattle College Foundation, that’s how our faculty and staff started identified by the dress of the supporting cast, as the hilarity ensued. out their day in celebration of President’s Day on September 24. Emcees Erin Barzen and Stephen Coates-White guided the standing-room-only crowd through the agenda. The man of the hour, President Oertli, addressed the crowd and provided a state of the college address that celebrated some accomplishments over the last year and charted a course to reach some goals for this year.

Retired English Faculty Member Dolores Mirabella was honored with Faculty Emeritus status for her years of dedication to our students. Additionally, Vanessa Calonzo, Director of Outreach, and Analea Brauburger, Coordinator of Assessment and Continuous Improvement and Part-time Faculty, were honored with the Board of Trustees Lifelong Learning Award at Convocation on Wednesday, September 23, 2015. The award is made in recognition and support of the importance of continued intellectual and professional growth for all members of the Seattle Colleges.

A record number of new staff had an opportunity to introduce themselves to the crowd during the festivities as well. Page 3 President’s Day In addition to sharing a few laughs and honors, the event brought the campus together and served as a reminder of what makes South great – YOU!

On the Same Page

The morning session of President’s Day was wrapped up by a new initiative led by the President’s Committee on Diversity. This initiative is a year-long process to get “South on the Same Page.” President’s Day kicked off these efforts as attendees were invited to create a foundation for the continual discussion of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). The goal will be to reach an understanding of what EDI means on our campus and how we can embrace that shared understanding with a dedicated commitment. Stay tuned for several opportunities between now and April 2016 to help shape our commitment to EDI. Page 4 DiscoverU During the week of October 13-17, South participated in a regional celebration called “DiscoverU.” The celebration was done in partnership with the Road Map to College campaign and supported career exploration and higher education aspirations among young people. Several of the school districts in our service area participated in this project – including the Highline School District.

Here at South, we designed a celebration that has become a model for others. Throughout the week, students and staff members from across campus shared their personal stories that included their educational journey and professional aspirations on South’s facebook page. You can see them, here. In the middle of the week, members of our campus community proudly donned their alumni attire while students were encouraged to ask about their educational journey. Empowerment Series Folks from AANAPISI, the Club Center, Student Leadership and TRIO have combined forces to develop a series call “Empowerment.” The series invites community leaders of color to pass along advice and share their stories with our students. The series started on October 20 and featured former politician Velma Veloria. Representing the 11th District, Velma served from 1993 to 2004 and blazed new trails as the first Filipina American to hold office as a State Representative. While in office she left an indelible mark sponsoring a bill that made Washington the first state in the nation to criminalize human trafficking. Since then, 48 states have followed suit. Velma stressed the importance of civic engagement and the impact it can make on a community. Stay tuned for future additions to this series and join in the conversation!

Thank You, WSECU! What was once formerly known as the Advising Center (R.I.P.), has a brand new name thanks to WSECU! As of October 23, the Advising Center is known as the WSECU Advising Center. Since 2013, WSECU has made substantial contributions to our Foundation and have been active supporters of our 13th Year Promise Scholarship. Thank you WSECU! Page 5 In the News! APPRENTICESHIPS In the print world, South’s received some coverage from the For you early bird news watchers, you may have noticed that Seattle Times on a $4.8 million grant that was awarded for KING-5 has been shining their powerful spotlight on South apprenticeships. The funds from the grant will be allocated to recently. help support 12 existing programs in advanced manufacturing and will help create three new apprenticeship programs in 13TH YEAR PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP marine engineering. Link to the story. On September 16, KING-5 shared the story of the 13th Promise Scholarship. In addition to interviewing some current scholars, HEADS UP AMERICA! they also interviewed 13th Year Alum Myron Ramirez. After In support of Heads Up America, a grassroots movement completing his studies at South, Myron continued on his supporting President Obama’s America’s College Promise, South educational journey at the . Today, Seattle College hosted a press conference on October 26. The Myron is a Project Engineer for Bellevue-based construction press conference featured State Senators Pramila Jayapal (37th company, GLY. Link to the story. LD) and David Frockt (46th LD) who both voiced their support for offering two years of community college tuition free for CULINARY PROGRAM students who are “willing to work for it.” On October 7, KING-5 came back to campus and unveiled West Seattle’s best-kept-secret, the Alhadeff Grill! With the Alhadeff South Seattle College President Oertli, who was also in Grill as the centerpiece, the story highlighted our world-famous attendance, voiced his support for this concept to help keep our culinary program. Several students were interviewed for the local economy booming with home-grown power players. piece and supported the program’s reputation with their own "It’s critical that the students who graduate from our Seattle personal experience. Now that their secret is out, the restaurant public high schools have access to these jobs. If we could get noted an increase in their reservations immediately after the them the education they want, they could get those jobs, so story aired. Link to the story. it’s really about economic development. We here at South wholeheartedly support the concept of Promise Scholarships,” DIESEL AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT he said. And on October 28, KING-5’s morning show made another visit to profile South’s new DISC program from the Diesel and Heavy South was chosen as the location for the press conference Equipment Department. This one-of-a-kind program is a public- thanks in large part to the 13th Year Promise Scholarship which private partnership that gives students the skills needed to is a model for Sen. Jayapal and Frockt’s proposal. The 13th Year satisfy industry demand for diesel technicians. The first cohort Promise scholarship grants graduates from Cleveland, Chief of this program started this past fall and already recruitment has Sealth International and Rainier Beach High Schools one year begun to fill the Spring Quarter cohortLink to the story. at South tuition-free. Since inception in 2008, this privately- funded scholarship has served over 500 students and has tripled enrollment at South from the participating schools. Several members of the media were also in attendance including KUOW (click here for their story) and the West Seattle Herald (click here for their story).

Blood Drive Shout-out to all those who participated in this fall’s blood drive! Coming into the event, the goal was to have 36 donors. Not only was that goal reached, it was exceeded with 41 donors who contributed 26 units of blood! Thanks again for all who contributed! Let’s try to top these numbers next time, whaddayasay? We’ll keep the cookies warm for you – until next time! Page 6

Wheels on the Bus Since this past September, you may have noticed some buses rolling around town with some familiar faces on the back. Well, that’s because South’s Communications Division purchased ads on the back of buses as a part of their new marketing campaign encouraging students to “Find their calling” at South. The bus campaign will run through March. As the academic year rolls on (pardon the pun), continue to keep your eyes peeled for our advertising efforts.

Vets Taking Flight Earlier this quarter, South’s Aviation Maintenance division once again broke new ground. Thirteen service members (10 active duty) enrolled in a one-of-a-kind program that will help them transition from service life to civilian life and gain employment as Aviation Maintenance Technicians. The eight-week course, two of which are dedicated to aiding the students find employment, is designed to fill the gaps between the skills they built in the service and the requirements of the FAA Airframe participant license. South, is the only public institution in the country offering this program. Under the guidance of instructor Eric Klevsted, these students are set to graduate from the program in December. Recruitment for the second cohort, which will begin in January, is already underway and is expected to fill up quickly. In April, South earned a designation by the Washington State Department of Veteran Affiars as a Veteran Supportive Campus. With ground-breaking programs like this, South will surely continue to earn that important designation. Veterans Honored In other Veteran’s news, Veteran’s Day will be observed on Wednesday, November 11. Although classes will not be held, the campus will remain open. In conjunction with this special day, we have a full week of activities planned. Here’s the run-down: • November 9: across campus our annual slideshow will be displayed honoring the Veterans with a connection to South. • November 10: a flag ceremony will be held at 12:30 immediately followed by a reception in JMB-B • “Socks from South”: a new event added to our remembrance week, Student Government and the Veterans Student Center have organized a clothing drive in a partnership with Seattle Stand Down for Veterans to help raise awareness about the homeless veteran population and their families. Page 7 New Staff! From September to present....

CHRISTIAN CLEMMENSEN ISMAILA MAIDADI Director of Web Services Program Administrator for Academies and Christian most recently served as the Webmaster at Western Pre-Apprenticeships/Georgetown Wyoming Community College. He is also the sole proprietor A native of Cameroon, Ismaila came to the United States after of Filmtracks Publications and held multiple roles relating to high school to pursue his education as an international student. the web at the Karl Tyler Auto group. Christian has a Bachelor’s He completed his Masters of Arts in Policy Studies (MAPS) at degree in Organizational Communication from the University of UW Bothell after having attended a community college and Montana and a Master’s degree in Speech Communication with a four-year institution. Prior to South, Ismaila worked as a an emphasis in Technical Communication from the University of Program Manager for the Center for University Studies and Washington. Programs (CUSP) at UW Bothell where he served as the central administrative and fiscal point of contact and retention specialist. JULIUS MOSS He assisted with curricular issues, designed and presented 13th Year Specialist workshops to First Year and Pre-Major Students as part of the Julius spent more than six years at Dallas County Community Student Success Team, researched and developed retention College District working as a program manager for the initiatives, and managed the department’s website and the Educational Opportunity Outreach program, which focused various faculty resource pages. on student recruitment and retention. He also has experience in the Advising Department at the University of Texas and has MYTOAN NGUYEN-AKBAR worked for the Renton School District and De Soto Independent Asian American Cultural Specialist/AANAPISI School District. Julius has a Bachelor’s degree in History from Mytoan comes to South with a Doctorate in Sociology with a the University of Texas, Arlington, and a Master’s degree in distinction in Racial and Ethnic Studies. She’s won a number Educational Administration from Angelo State University. of fellowship awards along the way. Mytoan worked with the Immigrant Student Program and APA Student Development KISHA-MARIE SCHNEREGER Program at UC Berkeley, and as a legislative intern and policy Program Assistant/Georgetown advocacy intern. Locally, she has been a visiting assistant A graduate of St. Mary’s University, Kisha-Marie comes to us from professor at the University of Puget Sound and served as the University of Washington’s Office of Ceremonies. Well-versed the interim Program Director for Leadership Program for in Microsoft Office products, customer service, and a variety of Communities of Color for the Rainier Valley Corps. Mytoan will be communication styles, Kisha-Marie has a strong background that working with faculty, staff, and students to improve engagement fits with the variety of programs at Georgetown. From a family of and success for our diverse student population, with emphasis on tradespeople, she will be able to understand our students’ desire our Asian American and Pacific Islander students. for hands-on learning. DOUG RUPIK EMILY WOLFKIEL Full-time Tenure Track Welding Instructor 13th Year Coordinator Doug comes to South after serving the last four years as tenured Emily most recently worked at Summer Search, where she full-time welding faculty at Lake Washington Technical College. worked with high school students to provide them with college Doug is both an accomplished instructor and welder. Doug access counseling and weekly mentoring. She also completed brings 13 years of instructional experience and 16 years welding graduate internships at , the University of background in the private sector. Doug has two Bachelors’ Washington Bothell, and the University of Puget Sound. Emily degrees and is currently completing a third BAS in Technical has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Art History from the Teaching at South. Doug brings a wealth of credentials including: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master’s degree American Welding Society (AWS) Certified Welding Inspector in Student Development Administration from Seattle University. (CWI), AWS Certified Welding Educator (CWE), Washington Association of Building Officials (WABO) Approved Welding Examiner, WABO and AWS certified welder in sheet metal, rebar, plate and pipe, GMAW, FCAW, SMAW, OSHA 502 and 7600 certified. Page 8

South Seattle College’s 10th Annual

ANDREW SWANSEN Director of Information Technology An 18+ year veteran of progressive technical and leadership HEALTH work experience in the IT field, please welcome Andrew Swansen. For the past three years Andrew worked as Chief Technology Officer for the City of Seattle where he managed all aspects of IT operation and infrastructure. Prior to that he FAIR worked in IT leadership positions at Auburn Medical Center, Please join us! Davis Wright Tremaine, and Starbucks. Some of his professional accomplishments include: Datacenter consolidation; Wednesday, January 13, 2016 implementation of MS office 365 for 12,000 users; development 11am - 2pm of business continuity and disaster recovery plan; spearheading companywide systems upgrade. Andrew has a Bachelor of Hosted by South’s Gender Equity Center, the fair brings free Science degree in Engineering and a Masters of Business healthcare resources to students, faculty, staff, and the West Administration from University of Illinois. In addition, he holds Seattle community. Take this opportunity to sign up for several IT professional certifications. affordable healthcare insurance! Next time you see Christian, Julius, Kisha-Marie, Emily, American Red Cross, Gay City Health, King County Public Ismaila, Mytoan, Doug or Andy be sure to introduce yourself! Health, and Ovarian & Breast Cancer Alliance are just a few of our community partners that will be providing resources. Location South Seattle College, Jerry Brockey Student Center 6000 16th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98106 GREG DEMPSEY Admission is free! All are welcome.

Chief Data and Strategy Officer For More Information Greg started a new role here at South on October 19. Formerly Sol Mendez, Gender Equity Center Program Coordinator our Dean of Enrollment Services, Greg has been selected Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion to serve as Chief Data and Strategy Officer. In this position, 206-934-6801 • [email protected] Greg will ensure campus-wide coordination between strategic planning, assessment, and data collection at South. We want to hear a peep Additionally, it will provide opportunities to get the campus out of you! involved in assessment and strategic planning initiatives and activities. Congratulations, Greg!

CHANCELLOR SEARCH As many of you know, Chancellor Jill Wakefield recently announced her upcoming retirement at the end of this academic school year. While she will leave behind some big shoes to fill, If there’s something you would like to see in the Seattle Colleges Board has started searching for the right the next Update please contact Kevin at: candidate with the assistance of the American Association of [email protected] Community College Trustees (AACCT). As part of the process, each college will host a forum for faculty, staff, and students to give input on the challenges and opportunities that the next chancellor will face and the skills and characteristics that you would like to see in our next district leader. South’s forum is scheduled on Monday, November 16, 2015, 1:00-2:00 p.m. in Olympic Hall Auditorium. Dr. Laura Saunders, ACCT consultant, will facilitate the forum discussion. This forum is open to all of us and we hope that you can join us. Page 9

CAmPus Security Reports

SUSPICIOUS PERSON REMINDER Our Campus Security Department wants to encourage you to report any suspicious behavior you observe by calling 206-934-0911. Something you see or hear could be a warning sign. While your observations may seem inconsequential, there may be a part of a larger issue that security is handling. Remember, if you see or hear suspicious behavior; report it to Campus Security immediately. See It, Hear It, Report It.

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November 2, 2015 The Update is South’s newsletter produced by the Welcome Back! With the start of the Fall Quarter, constituents from across campus Communications Department: Glenn Gauthier, graphic design specialist and brought out the Welcome Wagon for our new and returning students. On the first day of the quarter, September 28, staff members were scattered throughout campus holding their trustee ASK ME binders to help photographer; Kevin Maloney, director of communications; Ty Swenson, assistant students navigate campus to get to their classes. Additionally, greeters we strategically placed in high traffic areas to meet the students with a welcoming smile and their choice of coffee, hot chocolate, and breakfast director of marketing; Christian Clemmensen, director of web services, Mario Mitchell, treats. Here’re a few photos that documented the day. web manager, and Cortney Marabetta, web specialist. Get the publicity you need! The South community is encouraged to submit items of interest, including events, awards, presentations, conference attendance, student achievements, and photos Welcome to South Fair to [email protected]. For press releases and readerboard The festivities continued on Thursday, October 1, with the “Welcome to South Fair.” Set in the heart of campus at the Clock Tower Plaza, student clubs were set up to recruit new members while munching on announcements, please allow 4-6 weeks prior to the event you want publicized. complimentary popcorn and music filled the air under the fall sun.

Welcome to South More photos? Video Students were also greeted in video form with this collaborative project with Go to the G drive, PIO folder, Photos of South folder. the Communications and Outreach Divisions. The video highlighted areas around campus and some West Seattle landmarks to help students #ExploreatSouth. For those of you who missed it, click here. Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Emergency Closure Communications

Closure Annoucement Posting Sites Weather Closure Process (as circumstances allow): NOTE: In a power outage, the campus phone system will operate • www.schoolreport.org for about 30 minutes of backup power, and our web site could be • Local television and radio stations (using schoolreport.org impacted. information) Campus divisions, offices, faculty and staff should change their • Main campus phone message line (206) 934-5300 personal recorded telephone greeting to reflect closure information. • www.southseattle.edu (Use “refresh” to ensure you see This can be done from home by dialing (206) 934-6999, entering updated information.) your extension, password, then pressing 3 and following the • Campus Alert to computers and cell phones (sign up required: instructions for changing your personal greeting. https://alert.seattlecolleges.edu/LogIn.aspx ) • Official South Facebook (southseattle.edu/facebook) and If the campus is open, but you are unable to get here, notify your Twitter (twitter.com/SouthSeattleCC) sites department. Call or leave a message on your department’s main phone line, not on a support staff member or administrator’s Only closures and delays are announced. personal line. If your message is left on a main line, anyone who Broadcast media do not accept “we’re open” messages because they makes it to campus can retrieve the message. create confusion. As your own status or the campus status changes, please update Don’t call Security; they are not in the closure decision loop and do your personal voice mail message immediately, so that students and not have road information. staff are able to get the most current information. Don’t rely solely on your department’s support staff to be able to relay your status to Closure Announcement Timing students. Day classes/offices For contracted events at South (e.g., a meeting in the Brockey Conditions permitting, decision announced by 5 a.m. Center) alternate closure action may be necessary. For example, Evening classes/offices if meeting participants are able to reach the campus and wish to Conditions permitting, decision announced by 2 p.m. continue their meeting, that event location on the campus may need to remain open. Decisions about specific building opening/ Saturdays closing and staffing in these situations will be made by the Campus decisions and announcements will be made if students and President or designated official and senior staff involved. staff are on campus for classes or workshops. Sundays Colleges will make individual determinations for any campus activity. Weekends during break periods as listed on the District Instructional Calendar Colleges will make individual determinations for any campus activity. Single campus closures Each campus will make its own decision and announcement for closure due to weather-related emergencies such as snow, or in situations that affect only one campus (such as power outage, fire). The decision will be communicated to the chancellor or designated official. District-wide closures In event of widespread or catastrophic emergency, a decision and announcement will be the same for all campuses and offices of the district, following discussion by the college presidents and chancellor (or their designees), or by the Emergency Communications Committee, as called for in the district-wide Click Here! emergency communications plan.