Shoreline Community College

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Shoreline Community College

Abbreviation:	SCC
Established:	1964
Type:	Public community college
President:	Lee Lambert
Cities:	Shoreline Lake Forest Park
State:	Washington
Country:	United States
Enrollment:	13,795 (2004-05 academic year)
Faculty:	150 permanent, 76 associate
Campuses:	Shoreline: 83 acres Lake Forest Park
Mascot:	Dolphin
Address:	16101 Greenwood Avenue North Shoreline, WA 98133
Telephone:	(206) 546-4101
Fax:	(206) 546-4630
Web site:	www.shoreline.edu

Shoreline Community College is a community college north of Seattle, Washington, USA, in the city of Shoreline. It is located in a residential area east of the large Shoreview Park. The college contains 83 acres (340,000 m²) and continuously serves 12,000 full and part-time students.

Shoreline Community College (SCC), located just north of Seattle city limits, has helped students meet their educational goals for over 40 years. SCC offers a wide variety of degree and certificate programs —faculty and professional staff help students choose between two transfer degrees and more than 50 professional-technical programs; some short-term, others take up to two years to complete. Our transfer degrees are designed to help you transfer to four-year universities as easily as possible. Career training, worker retraining, WorkFirst, Running Start, CEO and the Study Abroad programs are just a few of the other educational opportunities available at SCC.

A satellite campus, located at the Lake Forest Park Town Centre, offers extended learning classes in computer basics and web design, technology certificate preparation programs, business and professional skills classes and personal enrichment courses in addition to degree classes.

1 History
2 Notable alumni
3 Bibliography
4 Links

[edit] History

Shoreline Community College was the brain-child of Dr. Ray W. Howard, Superintendent of the Shoreline School District. He felt that the increasing number of Washington state's high school graduates did not have adequate higher education opportunities, and in 1959 he floated the idea of a community college in Shoreline.

After several years of research and development, Shoreline Community College began operations on January 2, 1964. Dr. Howard resigned his Superintendent position to serve in the temporary position of Administrative Officer of Shoreline Community College until the college had hired its first president, William K. Ramstad.

During its first two years, evening classes were held at Shoreline High School until the college had established its permanent campus. Initial enrollment was 850 students. Through local levies and a grant from the Washington State Board of Education, the college was able to purchase land from the Boeing family, and construction of the campus began in the fall of 1964. The campus opened to students in January, 1966.

[edit] Notable alumni

James Creswell — Los Angeles Opera Resident Bass

Romeen Abdollmohammadi — Starting Football Place Kicker at Washington State University

Reyna Gross — Women's Basketball Guard at Howard University

[edit] Bibliography

"About Us: History of the College". Accessed 19 Jan. 2007.
"Board of Trustees, Administration, Faculty". Accessed 19 Jan. 2007.
"History". Shoreline Community College 1965-66 Catalog. University Printing: Seattle, 1965.