Shoreline Community College
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| Type | Public community college |
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| Established | 1964 |
| President | Dr. Cheryl Roberts |
| Vice-president | Dr. Alison Stevens |
| Dean | Kim Thompson |
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Academic staff
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150 permanent, 76 associate |
| Students | 13,795 (2004-05 academic year) |
| Location |
Shoreline Lake Forest Park, Washington, United States |
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Shoreline: 83 acres Lake Forest Park Campus Salon |
| Mascot | Dolphin (used to be Shoreline Samurai) The mascot was changed by vote in the early 1990's. R.C.B |
| Website | www.shoreline.edu |
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Shoreline Community College is a community college in Shoreline, Washington, United States, 10 miles north of downtown Seattle. It is located in a residential area east of Shoreview Park. The college contains over 80 acres and continuously serves 12,000 full- and part-time students. Shoreline Community College has been operating for over 50 years, having "opened its classrooms in January of 1964", and offers a wide variety of degree and certificate programs. The campus is made up of 26 buildings including an award-winning automotive training center, a visual arts building, computer centers, laboratories, a student center, a theater, a gymnasium, a child care center, a multimedia center, and the Ray W. Howard Library/Technology Center. Shoreline also offered off-site classes in the early nineties. Besides helping many athletes attend college by providing scholarships. Shoreline promoted a diverse array of physical achievement by not only offering students to join the men's and women's basketball team, baseball, softball and volleyball teams as other schools typically do. students were also able to join in in fencing weight lifting weight training and intermural volleyball if they so desired. R.C.B
Faculty and professional staff help students choose between several transfer degrees and more than 100 professional, technical, and workforce training degrees and certificates, some short-term, others taking up to two years to complete. Career Education Options (CEO), WorkFirst, Running Start, and Study Abroad programs are a few of the other educational opportunities offered by SCC. One can also earn Academic Certificates in Global Studies, Multicultural Understanding or Masters of Business Administration Preparation. Shoreline Community College has international students enrolled from 45 countries. Over 140 scholarships are awarded annually, as well as over $14.4 million in financial aid.
According to a study released in October 2013, Shoreline Community College is the best value for an associate degree in the state of Washington and among the best in the nation. As pointed out in the study, graduates are shown to earn $456,269 more in their lifetime than they would without the associate degree.
Shoreline Community College was the brain-child of Dr. Ray W. Howard, superintendent of the Shoreline School District. He felt that Washington state's increasing host of high school graduates did not have adequate opportunities for higher education and "actively worked with other school districts in the area to convince legislators of the needs of 'non-traditional' students who could not, because of economic circumstances, attend the University of Washington or other four-year institutions." In 1959 he brought forward the idea of a community college in Shoreline.
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