Washington state community and technical colleges are continuing to face precipitous enrollment declines this year, part of a national trend, despite a return to in-person learning and incremental pandemic relief. To target downward enrollment trends,…
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COSI: Beyond Individualism, Towards Solidarity: The Limits of Identity Politics in Antiracist Activism
Alexa VillatoroOn Thursday, Dec. 2, the Seattle Central College Library hosted the last Conversations on Social Issues (COSI) session of the quarter. Central humanities professors Anna Hackman, Ph.D., and Vero Barrera-Kolb presented on the limits of…
As we’re painting the walls of my childhood home in Mississippi, readying it for a price tag, my mother tells me a story. You know the game MASH — that pen and paper kid’s game…
“As counselors, we have learned how much our students need stress relief, healthy connections to others and themselves, as well as time for healing and joy.” We created this column with the hope of reaching more…
Angela Davis once said, “Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison.” It is often ignored that the very constitutional…
Dr. Yoshiko Harden, Seattle Central College’s vice president of Student Support & Services since 2016, has been appointed as the college’s acting president. This follows the announced selection of Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange, who became…
March is here and full of hope – transfer students are submitting their university applications, COVID-19 cases are decreasing in Washington, and the Seattle Colleges is officially switching to the new system: ctcLink. After a…
The Seattle Colleges Foundation Scholarship for Fall 2021 – Spring 2022 is now open for applications. There are tons of scholarship opportunities for current students, new students, international students, incoming students, and students transferring out…
As Seattle Colleges continues to implement budget cut strategies which began in 2020 July, staff union members organized to stand against furloughs and lay-offs at a Counter-Convocation event on Wednesday, September 25. With over 100…
Though Seattle Colleges has experienced financial challenges in the past, including Central’s consecutive years of monetary cuts, COVID-19 has created unprecedented budgetary issues. In order to face what may be devastating results district-wide, Seattle Colleges…