Wind and rain began driving a few May Day protesters away Tuesday evening, hours after a cluster of about 75 demonstrators dressed in black and carrying poles interrupted peaceful marches to smash windows and clash with police in Seattle’s downtown retail core.... At Seattle Central Community College, where the march to Westlake started after 11 a.m., Michael Pham, vice president for administrative services, said the rally there didn’t disrupt classes.
The wayfinding kiosk being built for the heart of White Center is taking shape in the shop of Matt Tilton at Tilton Fine Metalsmithing.... Mustard, yellow, white, red, blue and violet will be applied in a special arrangement with Steve Ford and South Seattle Community College's automotive paint booth...
Scenic Hill Elementary visited Seattle Central Community College last week as part of the Kinder to College program.... Kindergarten students from Scenic Hill, parent chaperones, and staff members, visited Seattle Central Community College on April 18.
The Quiroz family is part of a growing community of people who came to the Pacific Northwest “to pursue the American Dream,” ... Quiroz is currently a senior at Garfield High School and hopes to study photography at Seattle Central Community College.
Soroptimist International began to recognize women in 1972 as part of its mission to help girls and women around the world.... Now attending North Seattle Community College to study nursing, Frances will graduate in June to pursue a job in pediatrics.
Colleges: Frank Ashby was named vice president for administrative services at South Seattle Community College.
Although the Seattle Monorail was meant to be either expanded or dismantled after the 1962 World's Fair ... it has provided jobs and a path to education -- tuition assistance is a perk of working for Seattle Monorail Services. Like his colleagues, Joseph Deng, 33, came to Seattle as a "Lost Boy of Sudan," he told me during one of his late shifts as a cashier at the Westlake Center station. He loves his job at the Monorail because "they treat their employees like their own kids." "It's like a big family," said Deng, who is studying international relations at South Seattle Community College ...
Since last June, a time bomb has slowly been ticking away for the Seattle Central Community College Film and Video Communications program. Students knew that the college was planning to end the program, but they thought that, at the minimum, they would be allowed to finish their course of studies.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine today announced that a private investor, Christopher Hansen, has sent a proposal to the City and County to construct a new arena in Seattle's Stadium District ...[Seattle Community Colleges Chancellor has been appointed to the Arena Advisory Panel]...
Mary Matsuda Gruenewald, along with her parents and brother, was among some 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans on the West Coast sent to relocation camps in World War II. Their age, occupation — even citizenship — were irrelevant.... Gruenewald will speak at 11 a.m. Wednesday at South Seattle Community College and at 1 p.m. Feb. 28 at North Seattle Community College, telling a story she kept inside for decades, its details still painful.
King County Executive Dow Constantine and the King County Aerospace Alliance today called for ways to support a "faster, stronger, better" infrastructure for the aerospace industry. ...Alliance members spoke today against the backdrop of the new Aviation Maintenance Technology hangar at South Seattle Community College, an alliance member.
President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night, Jan. 24, did more than touch on education, including the quality of public school teachers, the critical role of community colleges and tuition costs. He made it a major theme. ...South Seattle Pres. Gary Oertli said that while the president challenged some facets of the community college system, he was thrilled that Obama spent a large part of his address on the topic.
Seattle Central Community College has posted an eviction notice on campers at Occupy Seattle, giving them 72 hours to vacate the campus.
Seattle Central Community College officials on Tuesday moved forward with their campaign to evict the Occupy Seattle camp that has been located on its grounds since last month. ...A statement posted on the Occupy Seattle website said the movement's "[l]egal team will be responding."
In a pre-dawn SWAT raid, police surrounded Capitol Hill's 10th and Union area and stormed a building to flush out a group inside. Earlier Friday night, members of Occupy Seattle
SEATTLE -- Occupy protesters camping out on Capitol Hill's Seattle Central Community College campus will have to go.
Seattle Central Community College won't kick out Occupy Seattle protesters who are camping on campus until at least Friday, the date of a Superior Court hearing on the issue.
On Nov. 23, in a sham of a democratic process, the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Community College voted unanimously to pass an emergency rule solely intended to shut down the Occupy Seattle encampment at the Seattle Central Community College campus. Followi
Half-a-penny. That was the oft-repeated phrase from Gov. Chris Gregoire last week, when she proposed a temporary 0.5 percent increase in Washington's sales tax to blunt the pain of $2 billion in cuts. How viable is the idea?
..."We cannot sit back and watch the open doors of our community and technical colleges close to the students who desperately need the opportunity for education and training to get good jobs," said Tom Malone, TACTC President and Seattle Community College District trustee. "Further cuts to higher education would jeopardize our future economic prosperity. We must stand with the Governor and make this investment for our students and our state."
The Seattle Community Colleges board has voted for an emergency ban on camping on community college campuses, effectively evicting Occupy Seattle’s main camp from Seattle Central Community College. The unanimous vote comes after weeks of complaints from the college,
SEATTLE— It was standing room only in the warm conference room, where the Seattle Central Community College Board of Trustees decided the fate of Occupy Seattle demonstrators who have been in the cold, camping on the campus as they continue their protest.
“Speak your mind, and speak up!” South Seattle Community College‘s communications director Candace Oehler exhorted a room full of students just before Governor Chris Gregoire entered a moment ago. She is here to talk about her supplemental budget – which is not a pretty picture for education around the state, including post-secondary. Video of event available here.
Governor Chris Gregoire has recognized four Washington programs for their ability to strongly connect workforce training to employer needs. The 2011 Governor's Best Practices Awards for Workforce and Economic Development were announced yesterday. Each has a community or technical college connection, including... • Youth program nurtures Seattle's manufacturing pipeline - SODO, Inc. combines manufacturing-related certifications and other job readiness training with internships with area industries and other employers, providing valuable work experience for disadvantaged young adults. Partners include South Seattle Community College Apprenticeship and Education Center, Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center
The Seattle City Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution in support of Occupy Seattle that calls on the city to examine its banking and investment practices, home-foreclosure patterns and the financing of local elections.
No sooner had the panel finished opening remarks last night than a woman scampered up onto stage and yelled, "Mic check!" It was an orchestrated effort by several dozen activists to use the People's Mic to interrupt a forum at Town Hall—a forum in favor of Occupy Wall Street, featuring three wonks and three activists from Occupy Seattle. Their stunt replaced what was supposed to be an informed discussion of the movement with an uninformative, shout-a-thon about process that consumed most of the evening. They booed opinions they disagreed with and drove supporters out of the building.
SEATTLE — Officials at Seattle Central Community College say they're getting fed up with Occupy Seattle. The protesters moved their encampment to the school late last month after city officials told them they couldn't pitch overnight tents in a downtown park. KING-TV reports the college estimates the demonstration is costing it $20,000 a week.
Big media's preoccupation with parental concerns about drug use near Seattle Central's childcare center playground is a little peculiar if for no other reason than the TV people haven't once mentioned the school is planning to cut the program and close the center
Seattle Central Community College is working to separate a children’s play area on campus from the hundreds of Occupy Seattle protesters camping there. After complaints from parents who say the grounds are unfit for children’s play, the school covered a chain-link fence separating the playground and protester tents with a tarp.
This has been a good week for visibility for our colleges. As you may have heard, President Obama released his proposed budget for 2013 at Northern Virginia Community College, calling for “giving community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers” where we teach “skills that businesses are looking for right now,” from aviation to IT and health care. This AACC Bulletin highlights proposals for “landmark investments in community colleges,” including a College to Career Fund, a $1 billion Race to the Top for higher education and a First in the World fund to help colleges develop and expand strategies for completion.
And on Tuesday morning, the King County Aerospace Alliance selected the South Seattle Community College Aviation Maintenance hangar at Boeing Field to announce an ambitious plan to support a “faster, stronger, better” infrastructure for the region’s aerospace industry. The five-point plan includes developing a pipeline of trained aerospace students into the workforce. As members of the Alliance, we helped to shape this initiative, which includes “workforce navigators” to guide students into well-paying aerospace careers. At Tuesday’s news conference, we heard that the average age of workers at the Boeing Company is close to 50 years old, and that local schools are preparing only half the number of trained workers needed for production every year.
Our colleges already play a major role in supplying workers for this key industry for our region, and we have been developing many more programs and partnerships. As partners in the statewide Air Washington consortium announced last fall, North is receiving $1.1 million to increase the number of students getting into the pipeline by focusing on aviation electronics, and South will receive $1.4 million to increase the capacity and success of students in the Aviation Maintenance program. All of our colleges have strong programs in science, math, engineering and technology (STEM). Seattle Central has a long history of providing opportunities for students to enter the NASA STEM pipeline: Since 2005, the college has partnered with the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium to provide scholarships and Undergraduate Research opportunities for students at Central. Through Washington NASA Space Grant funding, the college has sent two students to work at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, funded 18 Undergraduate Research projects, and provided scholarships for 85 students at Central, in addition to two transfer scholarships to the UW.
Surrounded by our aviation students on Tuesday, King County Executive Dow Constantine called aerospace “an indispensible source of family-wage jobs” in this area. It remains one of the most important industries for the Puget Sound. Did you know that every job at the Boeing Company generates three more in related industries throughout the region? We are in a position to create a significant impact on individuals, families, and our community in the near future and for future generations.
Please keep this week’s news in mind as you speak with business leaders, partners, educators and elected officials about the value and contributions of community colleges and our students.