The EvCC President

Good afternoon!
This has been an extraordinary year at Everett Community College.  Positioning the College to help our students and communities bounce back from the many challenges they have faced this year underscores the role of EvCC in our economy. We have been reasonably successful with our efforts despite more than $3 million in reductions from [...]

Good morning!
I wanted to share some brief blog comments with you before the holiday break. First of all, best wishes to all of you for an enjoyable and safe holiday break with your family and friends. This is a good time of year for all of us in that we get a much needed break [...]

Good Afternoon!
Well, here we are beginning our fourth week of the term. It’s been so busy with so many students on campus and events that the first three weeks just flew by us.  We continually see and hear about the challenges and hardships of so many people impacted by the poor economy, and with the [...]

Good morning!
So here we are at the beginning of an historic fall term, and the official end of a real summer (with actual hot weather). Record numbers of students will appear on campus today and we’ll begin the new academic year with many more challenges including parking, potential flu, new construction, changing faces and offices [...]

Greetings:
There certainly have been significant changes for all of us these past several months with the national elections, the inauguration, winter storms and, most notably, the condition of both our national and state economy. On a daily basis we read about the continued deteriorating financial and housing markets, increased unemployment, bankruptcies, and a slumping retail. [...]

Happy New Year!
It’s the new year and I wanted to begin this year with a blog posting since it’s been quite some time since the last one, probably prior to the Thanksgiving holiday. Hopefully, I can be more diligent with some regular postings. It’s not as if there aren’t many subjects to share information with [...]

Good Afternoon!
The campaign rhetoric is about to end as all the state and national campaigns head into this final week. To a great extent, it will be most refreshing and pleasant to return to the normal news and daily routine without hearing about all the pledges and promises of candidates from both parties. And, perhaps, [...]

Greetings!
It’s quite busy for everyone early into this term with more students and the increased number of proposed new initiatives. When I think about the accreditation self study process, the First Year’s Student Experience, Campus Sustainability, Campus Emergency Management and Security efforts, International Education, Corporate Training and Education, and the possibilities of a campus review [...]