Soundings

Michael René Wood Associate Faculty Librarian mwood3@shoreline.edu Aware that attaining a college credential is crucial to earning wages that

could support a family, a student enrolls in fall quarter at SCC. Welcome week

events and the friendly faces of staff and faculty offer a promising start. But

gradually, in the weeks and months that follow, our student begins falling be-

hind. Perhaps it begins with attendance dropping because of a minor illness, or it

may be child care problems. Grades drop. Available support services go unu-

tilized. For whatever reason, the dream of advancement through education is

gradually lost.

Unfortunately, this scenario is all too common, and our hypothetical SCC stu-

dent all too real, as reflected by data obtained from the National Center for Edu-

cation Statistics quoted in a recent Gates Foundation funded study: 80% of two-

year college students enroll with the intention of completing a degree or certifi-

cate, but just 54% of them reach this goal (or are still taking classes, five years

later).

Soundings asked Acting Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs Bob

Francis about factors at the root of our completion problem. His answer will

come as no surprise to SCC faculty: “Many of the incoming students who come

here are not ready to step into the college experience. They have in their mind

that higher education is a lot like what they experienced in high school, and they

are not ready for the level of challenge that they receive in the classroom.”

Shoreline initiated a pilot program called First Year Fast Forward (FFF) that

launched this quarter to facilitate what can often be a difficult transition. This

new program structure offers students pre-selected classes, requiring just one

registration for a full schedule of carefully selected and supported courses.

At the Core of FFF is a research proven cohort model, in which a group of

students interact and advance together through the program over the three quar-

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Volume 42 Number 1 Oct 13. 2014

In This Issue

Your SCCFT Faculty Newsletter

Oct 13. 2014 Volume 42 Number 1

President’s Log 2 Faculty Senate News 4 Ice Pack Rescue 5 Classified Staff Contract 7 Library Director Interview 8 SCCFT Phone Bank and Social Night 10 Faculty Excellence Award 11 InfoBytes 12 Classified Star Award 13 Student Success Breakfast 13 Associate Faculty Focus 14 Labor’s Voice 16 Federation Membership 17 Spindrift Wins Award 17 AFT Election Endorsements 18 Kucinich to Speak 19 SCCFT Membership Form 19 SCCFT Executive Board 20

Board of Trustees Meeting

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

4:00-6:00 pm, Board Room

Veterans Day, College Closed

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

First Year Fast Forward: Retention Initiative Begins

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President’s Log

It’s been a busy four weeks since our academic divisions met on Opening Day, September 17, and since Shoreline held its Fall Convocation on Septem-ber 18. Opening Week was full of activities that set the stage for the 2014-15 academic year, a year which marks Shoreline’s 50th anniversary.

That first week, and the three weeks since, have been full of hopeful developments. The Shoreline community enthusiastically welcomed its new presi-dent, Dr. Cheryl Roberts. The College heartily wel-comed dozens of new administrators, faculty, and staff. And most importantly, we all happily wel-comed the thousands of students who are at the heart of our work at Shoreline every day.

It’s tempting once the instructional quarter begins to leave Opening Week rituals behind and put aside the various calls for joint action that tend to punc-tuate annual events such as Convocation, the New Student Welcome, and the All-Campus Lunch. This year, however, I think it’s important that faculty not ignore the clear invitation to participate in new thinking about Shoreline’s future that is coming from our new College president.

On Opening Day, President Roberts visited division meetings that were held on and off campus, taking time to speak with staff, faculty, and administrators who she had not had a chance to greet previously. These visits were part of what Roberts has called her 100 days of listening, a time during which she will get to know Shoreline, its students, its pro-grams, and its employees so that she can lead us in-to the College’s second 50 years.

President Roberts explained her inclusive leadership style to the campus in an optimistic Convocation ad-dress that focused on the need for everyone to work together to create Shoreline’s future. Saying that she was “honored and humbled” to have been se-lected as Shoreline’s president, Roberts made clear that the College should be proud of but not compla-cent about its reputation for innovation and aca-demic excellence. As a college, we have made it to our 50th anniversary, but as a community of educa-tors we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work to plan for the next 50 years!

Emphasizing that the mission of a community college is to “open students to their potential rather than to their limits,” Roberts spoke movingly about the transformative work that happens at community col-leges. Then she asked Shoreline employees, “What are we going to do together that will make a differ-ence for each other, and for the students and the community we serve?” In other words, how are we all going to pull together toward the future?

To begin to answer that question, Roberts says she wants to understand the structural organization of the College, and how that organizational structure, along with the College’s cultural climate, can truly support all of us to do our best work to transform students’ lives.

To that end, Roberts announced, “Over the coming months, I will spend a lot of time thinking with you about how the College is organized and how we all create the climate where we can do our best work. I’ll be asking you to join me in this conversation through engaging in a long-range strategic planning process to organize how we all create the climate to do our best work.”

President Roberts has begun this conversation and this planning process already. She and her executive leadership team are looking at Shoreline’s shared governance and committee structures and will be working with College Council to assess, rethink, and optimize the effectiveness of those structures.

At Roberts’ urging, the Strategic Planning Budget Committee will be working on long-term as well as short-term strategic planning this year, hoping to look further down the road than our annual budget cycle has allowed us to do in the recent past.

In addition, a newly-created Strategic Enrollment Management Team will begin working with the aca-demic deans to analyze Shoreline’s enrollment trends and develop strategies to address what ap-pears to be declining domestic student enrollment.

In the short term, a focus on the organization of the College might mean moving toward change slowly

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Amy J. Kinsel Professor of History, AFT Local 1950 President akinsel@shoreline.edu

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rather than quickly. Just this past Friday, President Roberts announced her decision not to fill the posi-tion of Vice President for Academic and Student Af-fairs (VPASA) at this time. Acknowledging that when the search for a new VPASA began, hiring sooner ra-ther than later for that position seemed prudent, Roberts now sees the selection of a VPASA as part of a larger conversation about the future direction of the College, and about opportunities that may lay ahead. She explained to the campus:

“I have now had some time to meet the people here at Shoreline, begin to understand the culture and more clearly see the tremendous opportunities that lay before us. I believe that the college and our stu-dents will be better-served by allowing some time for the immediate work before us to take root, to clearly define our strategic path and then open our arms to those who would join us and help lead us into the next 50 years.”

Roberts’ desire to understand the College and the employees she is leading before filling the VPASA position speaks to her inclusive leadership style. As Federation President, I have enjoyed only a handful of opportunities thus far to meet privately with President Roberts, but in those few meetings, I have felt her genuine interest in working with administra-tors, faculty, staff, and students to put Shoreline on a successful path.

The new leader of Shoreline’s Board of Trustees (BOT) has also shown his openness to inclusion. Board Chair Tom Lux invited open comment at the September BOT meeting, and he used his time at Convocation to call for fair and equitable compensa-tion for Washington State’s community and technical college faculty and staff.

A number of Shoreline’s key administrative positions are vacant at the moment, including at the vice presidential and dean levels. Most of these positions are currently filled by very capable acting or interim administrators, four of whom are tenured faculty members.

Permanent hiring for these positions will take time and, it seems, may be folded into ongoing organiza-tional planning processes. On the whole, going slow seems like a good idea; the hiring fatigue that Shoreline employees have experienced in recent months makes a pause in the current hiring frenzy among all constituency groups look very attractive.

Hiring new faculty members brings new instructors

to classrooms and new advisors to orientation, but, paradoxically, it also adds to the workload of exist-ing faculty. The recent faculty hiring frenzy has re-sulted in the addition of 20 new tenure-track faculty members to the College in 2014, with another 5 ten-ure-track faculty hires possible for Winter and Spring 2015. Together with the second- and third-year ten-ure candidates already in the tenure process, there may be 37 faculty Appointment Review Committees (ARCs) by the end of this academic year.

Additionally, the College hired dozens of new associ-ate faculty members this year and last year. Setting up Faculty Evaluation Plans (FEPs) for associate fac-ulty who are in their 5th and 6th quarters of employ-ment, as well as every five years for post-tenure and long-term associate faculty, further contributes to faculty workload. Faculty members who are not serving on an ARC by the end of this year will surely be serving on an FEP!

How all this committee work contributes to student success is at times less than fully obvious to overbur-dened faculty members. But think for just a minute about the purposes of the screening, ARC, and FEP committees. Each of these committees ensures that Shoreline Community College hires and retains ex-cellent faculty so that we can fulfill our mission of supporting student success.

If we as faculty argue that Shoreline’s outstanding faculty are essential to the College’s reputation for innovation and academic excellence, then service on committees that hire, mentor, and evaluate our fac-ulty is service to students.

Admittedly, acknowledging that our work on com-mittees contributes to student success doesn’t cre-ate any more hours in the day to do our work. Nor does it grant to faculty the Cost of Living Adjust-ments or step increases that faculty have earned but not received.

However, there is inherent satisfaction to be felt in maintaining Shoreline’s academic excellence, and there is joy to be had in helping Shoreline’s students meet the rigorous academic standards that will help them to succeed. I’ll close my column for this issue on that hopeful note, and get on with my grading.

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POLICY REVISIONS: GRADING AND ACADEMIC DISHONESTY

The Faculty Senate Council has been working in cooperation with the deans, upper administration, College Council, and others to revise two important policies: Policy 6260, Grades; and Policy 5033, Dis-honesty in Academics. We've made a number of improvements to the procedural guidelines of both policies and there are also some new provisions that you'll want to take into account as we start the new academic year. Here are summaries of the major changes to each policy.

Policy 6260, Grades

We have updated the format of the grading system, doing away with the minute details of decimal grade ranges and how they translate into letter grades with pluses and minuses. The new format was designed to communicate clearly and simply the meaning of the grades that appear on student tran-scripts.

Statewide changes in how grades below a 1.0 are handled by our baccalaureate institutions required us to revise the portion of the grade system dealing with 0.7, 0.8, and 0.9 grades. These grades may not be transferrable within Washington state, and credits earned with a grade below 1.0 may not be used toward the AA-DTA or the AS-T degrees.

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Faculty Senate News

Kira Wennstrom Professor of Biology, Faculty Senate Chair kwennstrom@shoreline.edu

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Ice Ice Baby: Injured Forst Keeps Working Thanks to Anonymous Ice Donor

"Kudos to the thoughtful and considerate employee who stored a therapeutic ice pack in the freezer on the 3rd floor of FOSS. “I took a hard hit to the knee last Thursday in the Xerox room and went to the freezer in search of some ice. “There was a therapeutic icepack there that I was able to wrap around my knee. I borrowed it for an hour and was able to finish up some work at my desk before heading home to ice it some more. “What great and considerate people I work with. “Thank you.” Linda Forst Director, Criminal Justice Program

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We have drawn a formal distinction between dropping a class and withdrawing from a class. Dropping a class is something students can do on their own. An instructor's signature is not required, and a stu-dent can drop any time through the tenth class day. If a student drops a class, no record of the stu-dent's registration appears on his or her transcript. Withdrawing from a class requires signed permis-sion from the instructor and the deadline for withdrawal is the first class day of the seventh week of regular quarter (or the summer quarter equivalent). When a student withdraws from a class, a W ap-pears on his or her transcript.

New language in the hardship withdrawal description makes it clear that Z grades should not be given during the first seven weeks of the quarter. During this time, dropping or withdrawing from the class are options still available to students. Hardship withdrawal also should not be seen as a last-minute way to get out of a class a student is failing. This option should only be used in cases of unforeseen crisis or unusual, extreme circumstance that prevent a student from continuing to perform passing work in a class.

Policy 5033, Dishonesty in Academics

There were two primary goals as we worked on the revisions to this policy: updating the procedural guidelines to reflect the increase in online education conducted at the college, and providing a mecha-nism to identify students with repeated instances of academic dishonesty.

An example of the type of change made to support faculty teaching in a distance education setting is the first step faculty must take if they discover an alleged academic integrity violation. The old policy read “the instructor will meet with the student within five instructional days.” Clearly, meetings with students who live in other states are difficult to arrange. The revised policy says “the instructor will inform the student within five instructional days.” There is also a special section of the policy de-signed to describe examples of cheating and plagiarism in an online setting.

The most important changes made to Policy 5033 involve the mechanism for reporting and tracking students involved in academic dishonesty. Instructors are encouraged to file a report of any instance of cheating or plagiarism with the Dean of Students. A form has been developed to facilitate reporting, and faculty must inform students if they are taking this action. Faculty members who give students failing course grades (0.0) as a result of academic dishonesty, must file reports with the Dean of Stu-dents documenting their actions.

The Dean of Students will monitor the reports and if an individual student is reported three times, the Dean of Students will meet with the student to discuss the situation. Multiple violations may result in suspension or expulsion from the college.

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Research indicates that successful student/peer

and student/instructor engagement is what makes a

first year experience program like FFF a reliable

indicator of student persistence and retention that

can enable them to attain certificate or degree

completion.

Asked if the cohort model could be a game chang-

er for underprepared students new to SCC, Acting

VPASA Bob Francis expressed some optimism.

“Current data indicates that students felt they were

very welcome here, but they didn’t feel very en-

gaged here. So what causes engagement? What

causes engagement is knowing other folks. Knowing

their professors. First Year Fast Forward allows for

a very early engagement experience with each oth-

er and with the college,” Francis said.

Fostering this engagement in FFF classrooms are

two veteran instructors: English Professor Pam Du-

senberry and Communication Studies Professor

Brooke Zimmers.

“The FFF cohort approach to improving retention

and persistence recognizes that making strong

connections with faculty, staff and other stu-

dents is a very important factor in staying in col-

lege.” Dusenberry said. “Students find their

sense of belonging this way. Already our cohort is

developing a much closer community than I usu-

ally see in the first three weeks of the quarter.”

Dusenberry credits the instructional skills of

Professor Zimmers for some of the positive class-

room experiences that FFF students are having

this quarter. “Brooke Zimmers is a master at en-

gaging students in collaboration, and in hearing

each other's voices through early speeches--these

have built community fast. She and I both work

on students' self awareness and metacognition so

they become more comfortably aware of their

strengths and weaknesses as students--and can

better solve learning problems and overcome ob-

stacles,” said Dusenberry.

To help underprepared students who do not un-

derstand that higher education is more than an ex-

tension of the high school experience to make the

cognitive adjustments needed for college level

work, study skills are a required part of the FFF

course package. The new curriculum addresses mis-

perceptions of college life directly, as Dusenberry

explained.

“We also explicitly teach "college culture," the val-

ues, beliefs, language, attitudes and behaviors ex-

pected in college, and how the college experience

transforms students' thinking, participation, and

citizenship in all their communities. Their first Eng-

lish paper is an expository essay on how college cul-

ture transforms lives in the narratives and essays we

have read, and how our students anticipate and

hope they are changed by their experience here.

One aspect of our approach is to micro-assess five

"habits of mind:" professionalism (attendance, work

in on time, adherence to communication stand-

ards), initiative (use of college resources, problem-

solving practices) organization (time planner, note-

book, backpacks and study areas), community

(attending campus events and interacting with

classmates outside of class), and self assessment

(reflection assignments),” said Dusenberry.

Bob Francis spoke of the metacognitive aspects of

cohort learning as well. “First Year Fast Forward

allows them to have a cohort experience- they can

be together and discuss that experience. We also

have instructors intentionally talking about what it

is, how this is different. It allows them a very early

engagement in the process of acculturating them-

selves to success at college,” Francis said.

Your editor asked Francis how a cohort curricu-

lum would be extended for First Year Fast Forward

students – would there be continuity?

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“There is ample evidence that First Year Experiences really im-prove retention rates.” - Bob Francis, Acting Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs

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“Absolutely, we are not saying this cohort model stops with one quarter. We are trying to build a first year

experience with this. We have this quarter, with English, Communications, and Math. In quarter two, we

are going to try to get them in English 102, Psychology, and a Math class, and we are beginning to talk

about quarter three.

“They move through together to provide a deeper experience, and there is ample evidence out there that

First Year Experiences really improve retention rates. So we are going to look at our attempts at building

a First Year Experience, look at what the impact is, listen to students and what they think about it, rely on

our faculty in terms of their feedback in how we might modify it. It’s a genuine pilot project to see how

we can take a significantly valid form of increasing retention that has been heavily researched, and fit it

into the Shoreline experience and curriculum.”

Related reading:

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/02/03/7-steps-to-success-at-community-college

http://www.ccsse.org/center/about_cccse/overview.cfm http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012253.pdf

Classified Staff Ratify Revised Contract Amy Kinsel, SCCFT Local 1950 President Negotiations of the 2015-17 Tentative Agreement for the WFSE/AFSCME Community College Coalition bargaining units concluded on September 19, 2014. Represented members ratified the tentative agree-ments on September 30, 2014. Shoreline Community College’s Chief Shop Steward, Jerry Owens, served on the bargaining team for the Community College Coalition of 12 Colleges. In rec-ommending that members ratify the tentative agreement, Owens noted that under the new agree-ment’s terms, part-time hourly employees would receive their first ever pay increase, and that, de-spite attempts by Washington State’s negotiation team to force concessions from classified staff, there are no takeaways in the new agreement. Shoreline’s classified staff had little choice but to accept small gains. The Washington Federation of State Employees/American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees represents many thousands of state employees, organized into 15 separate collective bargaining units, plus a separate health care agreement. Nine contracts were negotiated this year. Because the Community College Coalition is one of the small-er bargaining units represented by WFSE, once the larger units reached tentative agreements with state negotiators, options evaporated for the small-er units to continue to bargain for better terms than the larger units had already accepted. This reality meant that while the Community Col-lege Coalition’s represented classified staff made a

few contractual gains, their pay packages remain woefully inadequate in spite of small increases for both full-time and part-time employees. These small increases do not begin to make up for the wage increases lost by classified staff during the recent Great Recession. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the August 1, 2014 unem-ployment rate in the Seattle metropolitan area was 5.3 percent. As the economy has recovered from the crash of 2008 and the unemployment rate has fall-en, wages have increased in the private sector and at many county and municipal agencies, but wages have not increased more than a tiny amount for state employees. As a result of the declining real wages of state em-ployees, Shoreline is losing many talented classified staff who have quite understandably decided to seek and accept higher-paid employment elsewhere. High turnover of classified staff negatively affects Shoreline’s students. Every employee at the College regrets that classified staff colleagues are leaving Shoreline to take jobs elsewhere. Classified staff and other employees who remain must pick up the work of those who are gone and also serve on screening committees to hire replacements. Our AFT local stands in solidarity with our classified staff. We will continue to press the State Legisla-ture to fund full cost of living adjustments (COLAs) for all state employees, and to restore pay levels for all state employees to their pre-recession levels. Specific details about the recently-ratified Commu-nity College Coalition WFSE collective bargaining agreement are located on the WFSE/AFSCME web-site: http://www.wfse.org/ratification-ccc/

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Chris Matz was raised and educated in Oregon, then traveled all points of the compass to gain professional library experience and time on the beach. His most recent position was as Head Librarian for Leeward Community College in Hawaii. Prior to that, he worked in Savannah GA, Memphis, and Salisbury NC, so he knows his way around the mustard v vinegar argument for BBQ sauce bases. He earned his BS in Political Science from the University of Oregon, an MLIS from UNC-Greensboro, and an MA in English from the University of Memphis.

I sat down for a chat with our new library director, in his sunny, uncluttered office. His bike gear hung in the corner; on the table, a bowl of white Chiclets. “Come on in. Have some gum!” As expected, Chris is articulate, knowl-edgeable and passionate. I found his calm demeanor belies a quirky, dry sense of humor and charm. Chris was kind enough to answer the following questions. First up, we are all thinking, ‘He left Hawaii?’ What will you miss most? I appreciate that everyone very sensibly calls my judgment into question when I say I came here from Hawaii. It is a gorgeous, vibrant place to live. It would be audacious to say the state wasn’t big enough to contain me, but I still had things I wanted to do. When I interviewed at Shoreline, this was the job that if you could have written it down, you would have wanted it. I‘ll always think of Hawaii very fondly but I am from the Northwest and this is the place I feel I belong.

Is there anything we can learn from the way of life in Hawaii that might help us here? Hawaii is an island and people are friendly. But there is also a sense of community out of necessity. We are on a rock in the middle of nowhere. I like that practical application of culture and society and the whole, ‘Hey we need to make good decisions together.’ It informed a lot of the work that I did there and it helps sharpen my perspective on things that I would like to do here. How did growing up in the Northwest influence you? I blame Oregon for my compulsive need to recycle and sort trash. I think that growing up in the Willamette Valley also made me more appreciative of the value of a sunny day. Not that it is unvalued in other places, but here, it’s a wind-fall and you don’t squander it. Those days where the sun comes out, it’s like the secret you can barely contain be-cause it is just so lovely. What kind of student were you? I was . . . attentive, good grades. What is it Lisa Simpson says? ‘I have a graph for that.’ Well, I have lots of graphs. I was also someone who spent a lot of time in libraries. And for all the reasons you spend in a library: a sanctuary thing, a place where the books were—oh sweet delicious books, and a place where librarians were there to help. The idea that librarians meet patrons where they are, work with them from there, and build on those expectations, is some-thing I’ve carried with me. What two words would your classmates have used to describe you? And now? I appreciate the exercise that limits me to just two words. My classmates would have used, maybe not right next to each other, reliable and consistent. That sounds damning now, but I liked the idea that that was how I was, never a plateau, but a steady march. How would people describe me now? I hope as wildly optimistic. I am bullish on the fu-ture of libraries and the future looks very bright. Do you have a nickname? Not a printable one. No, I came from a big family and it was hard enough with every-one’s name. Just Chris will do. If it’s Mr. Matz, I look around for my dad. And he’s dead so we are in trouble if he shows up.

A Chat with Our New Library Director

Sounding Board: Chris Matz

Deanna Sukkar

Associate Faculty Librarian dsukkar@shoreline.edu

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Did you ever consider a career other than librarianship? Sure. When I was in high school everyone told me I would be a lawyer. I think they meant it well. I’ve always been interested in the knowledge that goes with the study of the law; I think that was a big reason why I was a political science major. Except when I got to senior year and people were saying why don’t you send out your law school applications, I was like, are you crazy? I may have put it more articu-lately, but no was the takeaway there. What led you on the path to becoming a librarian? When I was living in Portland, I got a job as a clerk in the library of a very large law firm downtown. On the first day, the director pulled me aside and said, ‘If you are still working here after three years, I am going to fire you.’ I said, ‘Uh, thanks for the pep talk?’ Leslie was very supportive and open-minded; she was never about title, but about making sure that you had everything you needed to do your job well. She believed in treating the people you work with not as subor-dinates, but as people who perform a service, who work together to create value. I learned a lot from her, including the ability to do re-search in law. I taught the summer clerks that came in. They knew all about electronic resources, but they assumed the law books were decoration. Some of the senior partners came in, too; they had grown up with books and knew them backwards and forward, but online? ‘What is this Westlaw that you speak of?!’ By the end of the first year, I was like, yeah, man, graduate school, let’s do it! It's Seattle and we love our coffee. If you could chat over a cup with anyone living or dead, who would it be and why? I miss my grandmother. She died when I was in college and we were very close. I expect she would have something to say about the year 2014. Not a day goes by when I don’t think of her. What you do in your free time? Ride my bike and the boat back and forth from Bremerton? People always give me that uh, you live in Bremerton; look, but Kitsap County has great places to ride. For work, I put on my big boy clothes and try to do the best I can, but it’s nice to be able to do something that is not that. We live in such a beautiful part of the world and to be able to see it at 8-10 mph, it’s just so physical and tactile. Can you share with us an amusing library anecdote? My first job professionally in a library was at a black college in Salisbury, North Carolina. It was a beautiful, decaying Carnegie library. The first Saturday night of the new semester, I’m working there by myself. At midnight, when it was time to go home, I flushed everyone out and turned out the lights. Then I heard this kind of squeaky noise, eee err, eee err. I snapped a couple of lights back on so I could see. Well, we had a dumb waiter to haul books—there was no elevator in the building—and there was something going on in that dumbwaiter. I thought, oh golly, is there a cart roll-ing around in there or what? Well, I realized the problem was not a cart. It was two young people . . . Amour, amour! What book are you currently reading? A biography of Richard Pryor. How amazingly gifted he was. Unless you are there to experience a person in their his-torical moment, we think of them however it is that we’ve experienced them. Everybody has pieces of themselves, and the parts of Pryor that Hollywood showed us are not representative of his ability or talent or what he wanted to share with the world. You worked with graphic novels in Memphis. What would you recommend? Where do I start? Brian Vaughn’s graphic novels. Y: The Last Man and the newer, Saga, sort of a science fiction-romance-y thing, which normally I’d be like, eeew, not so interested, but it’s the best TV script you’ve ever read. That’s his style of writing. Serially, he sets them up like potato chips: you just want to keep eating up those chapters, one after another. In closing, Chris told me he really loves opportunities to meet new ideas and people with ideas, that it broadens his worldview and in that way, working in higher education is a great fit. “It’s what we do. We are here to learn from our students as much as they are here to learn from us.”

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We need a legislature that will prioritize higher education funding and support our faculty and students!

Together, we can elect education champions and create shared prosperity for all.

Join your colleagues and reach out to voters about the November election! Afterwards, we’ll celebrate our success at Pyramid Alehouse!

Thursday, October 23 Phonebank: 5:30 – 8:00 PM

UFCW 21 – 5030 First Ave South, Seattle AFT-Hosted Social at Pyramid Alehouse to follow - 1201 First Ave South, Seattle

To RSVP contact Renee Ambacher, AFT Washington Political Field Representative, at field-1@aftwa.org or 425-374-9228

SCCFT PHONE BANK AND SOCIAL NIGHT!

Get Out and Call! Get Out and Vote! A Plea for Political Participation from Your Local President, Amy Kinsel 2014 is an off-year in the election cycle. There is no presidential race this year, no guberna-torial or U.S. Senate race in Washington, no mayoral race in Seattle. Gosh, how boring! Well, not really. The future of higher education in Washington is very much in the hands of the electorate this fall. Without change in the leadership of the Washington State Senate, political stalemate in Olympia will continue. What does political stalemate mean for Shoreline? Political stalemate in Olympia has meant long legislative sessions stretching into June with no state budget adopted, disagreements over raising revenues to fund higher education, disagreements over cutting tax loopholes to fund higher edu-cation, and the State Senate repeatedly killing appropriations bills passed by the State House that would have authorized step increases for community and technical college faculty. To have a responsive state government in Olympia, one that does not continue to balance the state operating budget on the backs of state employees, including classified staff and faculty at Shoreline, changing the makeup of the Washington State Senate is essential.

If you want change, get to a phone bank, go out doorbelling, and VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!

Truly, if you don’t act now, you will have no right to complain about continued stalemate later. And besides, on October 23, AFT Washington is buying the beer! (See below.)

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One highlight of each year’s Fall Convocation is the announcement of the Annual Exceptional Faculty Award. This year’s honor went to Sarah Leyden, Professor of Mathematics.

Peer nominations for Leyden applauded her for being “deeply passionate about helping students succeed,” admired her “ongoing quest to better serve students,” and praised her as “a resource to the rest of the de-partment on new technologies.”

In announcing the selection at Convocation, Vice President of Hu-man Resources and Legal Affairs Stephen Smith commended Ley-den for making a positive difference for students in a department that is “especially critical to student success—Mathematics.”

Accepting the award, a surprised Sarah Leyden said, “I couldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the support of the Math Department. They have picked me up many times and given me inspiration to keep trying my best and doing all that I can for my students.” After noting that she was beginning her 26th academic year at Shoreline, she concluded, “Thank you very much for this honor, and I look forward to this year.”

Last week, Leyden took a couple of minutes out of her busy sched-ule to reflect on what winning the Exceptional Faculty Award means to her: “Since I work with so many great teachers, it was quite surprising to hear my name called for this year's Faculty Ex-cellence Award. I will admit, however, that it felt great; it still does every time I think about it. To have my hard work, which I am driv-en to do every day because I genuinely love teaching, recognized by my exceptionally talented peers is something I will always cherish.”

The Exceptional Faculty Award is provided for in the faculty collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and dis-burses state funds held in trust for community and technical college faculty excellence awards by the state treasurer. State funds may be supplemented by additional funds held by the College Foundation. Currently, annual recipients receive an award of $1,000.

By contractual provision, “The awards are intended to be used by the recipients for in-service training, in-cluding travel, tuition and books and/or attendance at professional development classes; replacement costs associated with professional development; publication and documentation of exemplary projects; to pay expenses associate with the holder’s program area, as designated by the recipient; and travel that is related to the recipient’s individual intellectual and/or professional development.”

Nominations for the Exceptional Faculty Award are accepted in Spring quarter and may be for individual faculty members or groups of faculty members. A committee of two faculty members and two administra-tors considers nominations and recommends the annual award recipient(s). See Appendix A, Article VIII, of the CBA for additional information.

2014 Exceptional Faculty Award Goes to

Sarah Leyden, Mathematics

Amy J. Kinsel

Professor of History, AFT Local 1950 President

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I wish I could say “It isn’t so!” but sadly, it is. After 30 years of exemplary service in the Ray Howard Li-brary, beloved campus icon, Ms. Margaret Parker, has decided to retire.

She gave a career and a half of service to students in the library, and now (quite fittingly) it’s Margaret turn.

When a broken collarbone briefly sidelined Ms. Par-ker early this year, the library team discovered just how many jobs went undone without Margaret’s con-stant care and attention to detail.

With a twinkling eye, subtle wit, and ceaseless vig-or, Margaret Parker kept the technical side of our campus library running smoothly.

Few here may remember that Margaret spend her first 15 years at the library working in the library’s circulation department under the direction of a well known administrator by the name of John Backes.

Before her first evening part-time shift at the circu-lation counter, Margret recalls Mr. Backes offering her this bit of reassurance:

“Margaret, if a certain community member comes in here and you see him pointing at you with his finger in an odd way, don’t worry! He’s harmless.”

Many familiar faces from across campus, including Mr. Backes, were on hand to attend Margaret’s re-cent retirement partly. Despite the music, food, and a throng of well wishers, I was able to pull her away for a moment to ask a question or two.

Margaret, what would you say is the biggest change in the Ray Howard Library that you have seen in your three decades of service here?

“The rise of computers and electronic databases.”

Of course! Over thirty years you adapted your work to support an enormous change in the array of tools we use to deliver information. Is there anything that hasn’t changed in your time work-ing here?

After a thoughtful moment, Margaret smiled warmly. “I can tell you two things that did not change at all: The interesting student questions, and the great people that I’ve worked with in the library! “

Margaret Parker is looking forward to a fun retire-ment with her husband and more time to visit her son. And a little trip to Paris France.

On behalf of us all, Bon Voyage, Mon Amie.

Margaret Parker Retires Michael René Wood

Associate Faculty Librarian

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“After working alongside the exemplary individuals who had received this award in prior years, this recog-nition means a lot to me.

I had always aspired to match the level of dedication modeled by my cowork-ers. A reputation of reliability and fairness takes time to earn. It’s simply not enough to announce your values – they have to be proven. My role models demonstrated these traits through their actions, which I observed like les-sons. I hoped to emulate them in my daily performance.

My work in Services for Students with Disabilities has been rewarding. One as-pect I appreciate the most is the privilege of listening to students. I get to learn a new perspective, a different lens through which to view the world, that I had not known myself. I am also inspired by the students, who often overcome great barriers and risks to build a stronger future for themselves and their families.

Many feel the weight of how much is at stake if they fail, and to make matters worse, that burdensome feeling can trigger symptoms of disability. By the time students come to my office, some have reached a level of desperation that finally provides the impetus to seek help. Fear of stigma and feelings of vulnerability can cause reluctance to access services that were available all along.

Every time I attend Fall Convocation, when the award is presented, I hear statements about the recipient and think “I hope someday those same de-scriptions can apply to me.” This year the descriptions of the recipient sounded like a closer match than usual, but of course I chose that exact mo-ment to dig through my purse. When my name was called, it reminded me of being called on in class – I snapped to attention and found some poise.

Immediately after delivering my acceptance remarks, I couldn’t remember whether I had made any sense when I spoke. My kind colleagues said I did just fine, and even asked whether I arrived with a planned statement!

Thank you for the attention to my award. I hadn’t realized this recognition would spread to so far.”

Honor Roll: Classified Star Award 2014 SCC Recognizes Angela Hughes

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M. Wood, Editor

Angela Hughes commutes to work at Shoreline by bicycle. Eight miles daily, rain or shine. The sun was shining on her during the recent 2014 Convocation, where she was awarded the Classified Star of the Year award. Asked about her work, her inspiration, and what her feelings were upon receiving the award, Angela shared a few thoughts with the readers of Soundings.

The 17th Annual Shoreline Foundation Student Success Com-munity Breakfast is coming on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 7 a.m. in the PUB main dining room.

This crucial fundraiser brings campus and community mem-bers together to support Shoreline students, raising much need-ed funds for student scholarships.

For more information on securing your seat, visit the foundation webpage. If you are unable to attend the event, but would like to support SCC students, donations can be made online.

Student Success Community Breakfast : November 6th

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In taking a graduate school course through West-ern Washington University during Winter quarter 2014, I wrote, as a final class paper, an abridged re-search proposal. The intent of the study was to gather information regarding the experience of ESL part-time faculty members at Shoreline Community College, particu-larly regarding resources and workplace climate. From this initial interest of mine in attempting to find a way for part-time ESL faculty members’ voices to be heard evolved a 3-question survey, sent out via email, to all part-time faculty members throughout the college. The survey was sent out at the end of Summer quar-ter, and within 24 hours of its dissemination, I had received 43 responses. The open-ended questions were as follows: 1) To what degree are you satisfied with your role as a part-time faculty member here at Shoreline Com-munity College? Please explain. 2) What additional resources do you need to be more effective as a part-time instructor? 3) What additional information would have helped you to be more effective during your first quarter as a part-time faculty member here at Shoreline Community College?

At this point I’ve received 115 responses to the sur-vey. I think this indicates the degree to which part-time instructors here at Shoreline Community College have a desire to speak and be heard about issues of salience to them as individuals and as a group. The goal and the hope are that as patterns of re-sponses to each of the questions emerge, this infor-mation might be used to inform decision-making campus-wide, at administrative and departmental levels, in order to better understand and support the associate faculty members who make Shoreline the institution it is and wishes to become.” SOUNDINGS UPDATE: Director of Institutional Assessment and Data Man-agement Bayta Maring has this update to share with the faculty readers of Soundings: “We are currently analyzing the data and expect to report results both formally and informally to part-time faculty and the campus at large at some point this quarter. Some informal communication has al-ready occurred – I provided some preliminary results to Bob Francis and Amy Kinsel to help inform some of the content of the part-time faculty orientation.”

Associate Faculty Focus

JaLynn Agustus

Associate Faculty ESL

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SCCFT Local 1950 Executive Board Vacancies

3rd Vice President, Part-Time Faculty Affairs

Humanities Division Representative

Social Sciences/ESJ/Library/Media/Parent Education Division Representative

Martin Luther King County Labor Council Representatives

For information about these vacancies, please contact any current Executive Board member.

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The November election is coming fast and AFT Washington is hard at work. Every two years, our members have an opportunity to make sure that we hold legislators accountable. Our collective voice will help elect those who are going to be champions who will fight for quality education, an economy that works for all of us – not just the wealthy – and strong communities.

It’s likely you’ve heard that there is a lot at stake this election, but what does that mean? Over the years, we’ve advocated for fully funding our education system from early learning through higher educa-tion, protecting our health benefits, respecting working families, and securing compensation options for our members. However, we’ve seen a State Senate come into power and begin to block real pro-gress on issues that our union cares deeply about, while introducing legislation that is anti-working fami-lies. All of this is under the guise of bipartisanship.

This November you will have a choice. Elections are our opportunity to make sure that we hold legislators accountable and that is why elections matter. Less than 100 votes can make the difference in close races like the ones we’ll see in November. The path to victory is steep and education is on the line.

We have the chance to shape our legislature into one that will work with us to advance our shared priori-ties. We need real leadership, not masked “bipartisanship”, to fully fund basic education, reinvest in higher education, and bolster working families.

This is why AFT Washington is working to mobilize our membership to elect leaders who reflect our values of quality education, strong communities, and an economy that supports working families. But we can only win with the support of members like you. Every vote will count and we need volunteers reaching out to voters in order to put our candidates over the top.

You are key to our success; we won’t be able to win without the help of each of you. To make sure these candidates make it to Olympia in January, we need to do more than cast our vote. We need to speak to each other and our neighbors about our values and the best choice when it comes to champion-ing those values in the legislative arena.

We need you on the phones, knocking on doors, and engaging your locals to help secure a govern-ment that works together with us to advance our shared priorities. We’re counting on you to join us this fall!

Labor’s Voice: Work for Change in November The Majority Coalition Caucus (MCC) of the State Legislature, tasked with solving Washington state’s ed-ucation funding crisis, have done little to support the hard working faculty members of AFT Washington. It seems that MCC Democrats and Republicans alike have collectively turned their backs on organized labor. But a brief window of time remains open to make our voices heard in the upcoming election.

Renée Ambacher is a new AFT Washington Political Field Representative, recently hired to help en-gage our membership in volunteer activities to influence the general election in November.

In her message below, Ms. Ambacher appeals to the readers of Soundings to help elect education and labor friendly candidates into office this November.

For more information on how you can get involved, contact Renée Ambacher, AFT Washington Politi-cal Field Representative at field-1@aftwa.org or 425-374-9228.

Online Information About the November 4 General Election:

King County Elections: http://www.kingcounty.gov/elections/election-info/2014/201411.aspx

Kitsap County Elections: http://www.kitsapgov.com/aud/elections.htm

Snohomish County Elections: http://snohomishcountywa.gov/224/Elections-Voter-Registration

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Federation Membership Information

Amy J. Kinsel Professor of History, AFT Local 1950 President

SCCFT Local 1950 (the Federation) represents all faculty members employed at Shoreline Community Col-lege by negotiating and working with the College administration to implement a faculty collective bar-gaining agreement (CBA). Union dues approved by vote of the membership are deducted from faculty paychecks in consideration of the labor representation the Federation provides for all faculty through col-lective bargaining and union representation.

While all full-time and part-time faculty are represented by the Federation in matters concerning the CBA, faculty employees do not automatically become members of the local union upon hiring. Shoreline faculty must sign up to become members of the local union by filling out and submitting individual mem-bership forms. See page 19 for a current membership form.

Joining the union has benefits! Member benefits include the right to vote in Federation elections for un-ion officers, Executive-Board representatives, SCCFT Local 1950 constitution and by-laws revisions and amendments, and for ratification of revisions to the faculty collective bargaining agreement, including distribution of salary allocations made by the State Legislature. If you have not signed a union member-ship card, you will not receive union ballots for elections or contract ratifications, and you will not be eli-gible to have your vote count on any of these important Federation matters.

In addition, through the local union’s affiliation with national and state American Federation of Teachers programs, SCCFT Local 1950 members are eligible for low-cost home refinancing, free consumer credit counseling, and group rates on home, auto, and life insurance, among other benefits.

A membership form for SCCFT Local 1950 is included in this issue of Soundings on page 19. If you have filled out this form previously and have since changed your name or your mailing address, please update your mailing and contact information by filling out a new form.

It is especially important for you to provide a personal email address to the Federation on your member-ship form. By state law, the union cannot contact its members about union organizing or political matters using state email services.

Please contact SCCFT 1st Vice President Leslie Potter-Henderson lhenders@shoreline.edu with questions about union membership or to submit completed membership forms. Faculty members who choose not to become union members may seek refunds of the small portion of their Federation dues that does not go to county labor council fees, or state and federal AFT per capita payments. Depending on whether the percentage deducted from their salaries exceeds the costs of per capita payments to affiliated labor organizations, individual faculty members may not be eligible to re-ceive refunds. Contact SCCFT Local 1950 Treasurer Juliet Lovejoy jlovejoy8@shoreline.edu for details.

Spindrift Wins Regional Award

In its Annual Literary Magazine Competition for 2014, the Community College Humanities Association has awarded second place in the Pacific-Western Division to Shoreline’s literary publication Spindrift.

See http://www.ccha-assoc.org/literary-mag-comp/Literary-Mag-Comp-2014-Winners.pdf for a complete list of national and regional winners.

Commenting on the honor, Spindrift faculty advisor Prof. T. Sean Rody (English) noted that “the award re-flects on the quality work of the faculty and staff who teach and work with the arts on this campus.” He went on to congratulate the students who worked on the winning issue: “They worked very hard. Great group of students.”

For more on Spindrift’s award, see a longer story posted to the Shoreline News website: http://news.shoreline.edu/2014/10/03/spindrift-wins-regional-award/

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AFT Washington Endorsements for the 2014 General Election

AFT Washington conducted an extensive vetting process to endorse these candidates based on their legisla-tive record and responses to our COPE questionnaires. Responses from each candidate for the State Legisla-ture and US Congress were rated on a point system. Not all candidates responded to our questionnaire.

US Congress House of Representatives:

1st CD: Suzan DelBene 3rd CD: Bob Dingethal 8th CD: Jason Ritchie 9th CD: Adam Smith

Ballot Measures Yes on Initiative 594 Yes on Initiative 1351 Judicial Elections State Supreme Court, Position 4: Charles Johnson

State Legislature

1st LD: Derek Stanford (House Pos. 1) 2nd LD: Greg Har tman (House Pos. 1) 3rd LD: Marcus Riccelli (House Pos. 1) and Timm Ormsby (House Pos. 2) 5th LD: Essie Hicks (House Pos. 1) 6th LD: Rich Cowan (Senate) 8th LD: Larry Haler (House Pos. 2) 11th LD: Zack Hudgins (House Pos. 1) 15th LD: Gabr iel Muñoz (Senate) 17th LD: Monica Stonier (House Pos. 1) 18th LD: Mike Br iggs (House Pos. 1) and Maureen Winningham (House Pos. 2) 19th LD: Br ian Blake (House Pos. 2) 21st LD: Strom Peterson (House Pos. 1), Lilli-an Ortiz-Self (House Pos. 2), and Marko Liias (Senate) 22nd LD: Chr is Reykdal (House Pos. 1) and Sam Hunt (House Pos. 2) 23rd LD: Sherry Appleton (House Pos. 1) and Drew Hansen (House Pos. 2) 25th LD: Dawn Morrell (House Pos. 1) 26th LD: Nathan Schlicher (House Pos. 1), Larry Seaquist (House Pos. 2), and Judy Arbo-gast, Senate 27th LD: Laur ie J inkins (House Pos. 1) and Jake Fey (House Pos. 2) 28th LD: Mary Moss (House Pos. 1), Chr istine Kilduff (House Pos. 2), and Tami Green (Senate) 29th LD: Steve Conway (Senate) and David Sawyer (House Pos. 1) 30th LD: Greg Baruso (House Pos. 1), Roger Freeman (House Pos. 2), and Shari Song (Senate)31st LD: Pam Roach (Senate)

32nd LD: Cindy Ryu (House Pos. 1) and Maralyn Chase (Senate) 33rd LD: Tina Orwall (House Pos. 1), Mia Gregerson (House Pos. 2), and Karen Keiser (Senate) 34th LD: Joe Fitzgibbon (House Pos. 2) and Sharon Nelson (Senate) 35th LD: Kathy Haigh (House Pos. 1) and Irene Bowling (Senate) 36th LD: Gael Tar leton (House Pos. 2) and Jeanne Kohl-Welles (Senate) 37th LD: Pramila Jayapal (Senate) and Sharon Tomiko Santos (House Pos. 1) 38th LD: June Robinson (House Pos. 1) and Mike Sells (House Pos. 2) 39th LD: Char les Jensen (House Pos. 2) 40th LD: Kr is Lytton (House Pos. 1) 41st LD: Tana Senn (House Pos. 1) 42nd LD: Seth Fleetwood (Senate) and Satpal Sidhu (House Pos. 2) 43rd LD: Jamie Pedersen (Senate), Brady Walkinshaw (House Pos. 1), and Frank Chopp (House Pos. 2) 44th LD: Mike Wilson (House Pos. 1) and Hans Dunshee (House Pos. 2) 45th LD: Matt Isenhower (Senate), Roger Goodman (House Pos. 1) ,and Larry Springer (House Pos. 2) 46th LD: Gerry Pollet (House Pos. 1), Jessyn Farrell (House Pos. 2), and David Frockt (Senate) 47th LD: Chr is Barr inger (House Pos. 1) 48th LD: Joan McBride (House Pos. 2) 49th LD: J im Moeller (House Pos. 2)

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SHORELINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Membership Form/Records Update

Home mailing addresses will be used for election purposes. Personal email addresses will be used for dis-tribution of Soundings, the SCCFT 1950 newsletter, and for direct communication with the union.

I wish to become a member of the Shoreline Community College Federation of Teachers. I am willing to share in the privileges and obligations of membership in the organization. This form guarantees voting

rights with no additional cost.

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Associate Faculty

Librarian soundings@sccft1950.com

SCCFT Executive Board Office Officer Email Phone President Amy J. Kinsel akinsel@shoreline.edu 206.546-4679 1st Vice President/Parliamentarian Kira L. Wennstrom kwennstrom@shoreline.edu 206.546-4578 2nd Vice President Davis Oldham doldham@shoreline.edu 206.546.4768 3rd Vice President Bonnie Frunz bfrunz@shoreline.edu 206.546-6987 Secretary Elizabeth Hanson elhanson@shoreline.edu 206.546-4555 Treasurer Shannon Flynn sflynn@shoreline.edu 206.546-4705 Past President Gary Parks gparks@shoreline.edu 206.546-4785 COPE/Legislative Representative Leslie Potter-Henderson lhenders@shoreline.edu 206.546-4554 HO/PE/BUS Rep. 1 Alison Leahy aleahy@shoreline.edu 206.546-5891 HO/PE/BUS Rep. 2 Sueanne Seegers sseegers@shoreline.edu 206.546-4710 HO/PE/BUS Rep. 3 vacant Humanities Rep. 1 Ruthann Duffy rduffy@shoreline.edu 206.533-6766 Humanities Rep. 2 Ruth Gregory rgregory@shoreline.edu 206.546-4789 Humanities Rep. 3 Grace Rhodes grhodes@shoreline.edu 206.546-4101 x4308 Math/Science/Auto/Mfg Rep. 1 Steven Bogart sbogart@shoreline.edu 206.546-6986 Math/Science/Auto/Mfg Rep. 2 Leoned Gines lgines@shroeline.edu 206.546-4543 SS/ES/LIB/Media Rep. 1 Betsey Barnett bbarnett@shoreline.edu 206.546-4680 SS/ESJ/LIB/Media Rep. 2 Chip Dodd cdodd@shoreline.edu 206.546-4653 King County Labor Council Rep. 1 Tim Payne tpayne@shoreline.edu 206.546-4706 King County Labor Council Rep. 2 Sarah Zale szale@shoreline.edu 206.546.4655 The following positions do not include E-Board membership: King County Labor Council Rep. 3 Jonathan Betz-Zall jbetz-zall@shoreline.edu 206.546-6939 King County Labor Council Rep. 4 vacant King County Labor Council Rep. 5 vacant

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President Amy Kinsel, History akinsel@shoreline.edu X4679

1st VP/Parliamentarian Leslie-Potter Henderson, Library lhenders@shoreline.edu X4554

2nd VP/Grievance Rachel David, GWS rdavid@shoreline.edu X4760

3rd VP/Part-time Faculty Vacant

Treasurer Juliet Lovejoy, Mathematics jlovejoy@shoreline.edu X4574

Secretary T. Sean Rody, English srody@shoreline.edu X6983

Immediate Past President (ex officio) Gary Parks, English gparks@shoreline.edu X4785

COPE/Legislative Rep. Jonathan Betz-Zall, Library jbetz-zall@shoreline.edu X6939

HO/PE/BUS Rep. 1 Marjorie (Betty) Kost, Nursing mkost@shoreline.edu X4737

HO/PE/BUS Rep. 2 Brad Fader, Accounting bfader@shoreline.edu X4688

HO/PE/BUS Rep. 3 Toni Semanskee, PE tsemanskee@shoreline.edu X4743

Humanities Rep. 1 Alicia Zweifach, Advising ehanson@shoreline.edu X6639

Humanities Rep. 2 Vacant

Humanities Rep. 3 Tony Doupé, Drama tdoupe@shoreline.edu X5829

Math/Science/Auto/Mfg. Rep. 1 Steven Bogart, Mathematics sbogart@shoreline.edu X6986

Math/Science/Auto/Mfg. Rep. 2 Kristopher Gutierrez, Physics kgutierrez@shoreline.edu X6789

SS/ESJ/LIB/Media Rep. 1 Vacant X5818

SS/ESJ/LIB/Media Rep. 2 Tim Payne, Economics tpayne@shoreline.edu X4706

King County Labor Council Rep. 1 Vacant

King County Labor Council Rep. 2 Vacant

King County Labor Council Rep. 3 Vacant

King County Labor Council Rep. 4 Gary Parks, English gparks@shoreline.edu X4785

King County Labor Council Rep. 5 Elizabeth Hanson, ESL ehanson@shoreline.edu X4555

The following positions do not include Executive Board membership: