Excellence at the Seattle Community Colleges is reflected in an impressive number of
awards and honors for faculty, staff, administrators and students. These achievements
contribute to the success of our students, our campuses and our community. Below we
highlight a few:
Seattle Community Colleges Television
has been honored with regional Emmy nominations
for its Remarkable People program and also for station general manager
John Sharify, who was nominated for reporting and writing last year at other local
stations. Remarkable People is produced and written by award-winning television
journalist Jean Walkinshaw, and was nominated in the categories of Historical/Cultural
Program Special and Documentary: Cultural/Historical. Sharify, who joined SCC-TV at
the beginning of the year, received 12 nominations in categories including reporting
and writing, for prior work at KOMO-TV and at KCTS-TV. Awards will be announced on
June 7, 2008.
Bright Future at Seattle Vocational
Institute is being honored with a 2007 Golden Apple Award.
This awards initiative, sponsored locally by KCTS –TV, recognizes successful teaching
models and programs across the state. Students in Bright Future can earn a high school
diploma while they also earn a certificate of completion in one of SVI’s professional-technical
programs. The April 18 awards ceremony will honor a group of ten individuals and school and
community programs, and recipients will be featured in a primetime special that will air
on public television stations across the state.
Math instructor Marjie Vittum-Jones
and Worker Retraining instructor Jessie McDonald
selected 2007-2008 to
receive National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development
Awards at South.
They were selected for their commitment to students and professional development, as well as
their activities in support of the college mission and goals. NISOD is based at the Community
College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information, go to
http://www.nisod.org/ The Public Information Office at South has
won a bronze award for the quarterly class schedule
from CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education). The schedule received the third
place award in a juried competition which attracts more than 500 entries annually from four-year
and two-year colleges in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, and seven Canadian provinces.