Virtual Tour of Seattle Central

A virtual campus tour of Seattle Central Community College, developed by eCampusTours, is now available for anyone to view.

The eCampusTours.com web site is used by high school guidance counselors throughout the country as well as prospective students.

Please feel free to forward this resource to students, staff or the public to take a look at our campus online. But don't forget the Outreach Office at SCCC offers personal guided tours as well at seattlecentral.edu/outreach/tours.

http://www.ecampustours.com/virtualtours/default.aspx?FafsaCode=003787&login=false

Dental Scholarships

Washington State Department of Health’s State Oral Health Program was awarded a Health Services and Services Administration (HRSA) grant for the proposal entitled: “WA State Dental Network for Training and Coordination.”

Seattle Community Central College - Dental Hygiene/Expanded Function Dental Auxiliary (EFDA) Program was included in this grant and is to receive $20,000.00 for their Scholarship Fund. The intent of this award is to provide scholarships for 1-2 students who are committed to work in public health settings to take the 6-month Expanded-Function Dental Auxiliary (EFDA) training.

The primary purpose of the request for funds is to enable Washington State to enhance its oral health system capacity. The ultimate goal is to decrease the state’s oral health disparities, which are concentrated among those with low-income, from racial/ethnic groups, uninsured, eligible for Medicaid, with disabilities or special needs, and residing in rural and remote areas.

The EFDA, a new licensed oral health practitioner, was created in response to assist dentists reach and treat more underserved populations especially in public health settings. These practitioners are specifically trained to treat patients with tooth decay in a more cost effective manner.

Seattle Central Community College Dental Hygiene Program opened an EFDA program summer quarter 2009. The first class will graduate at the end of fall 2009. This new 6 month program will take in their second class in winter quarter 2010. Fourteen students are admitted each summer and winter quarter. The EFDAs are licensed to place silver and composite (tooth colored) fillings.

For more information about the program, students should contact William Spence: wspence@sccd.ctc.edu.

Update on student Dawit Alemu

When he was jumped by four men near a Beacon Hill playfield on June 18, Dawit Alemu was a young, hardworking man headed toward graduation from Seattle Central Community College.

By the time his assailants were done with him, Alemu was clinging to life with from a beating that left him blind and on a ventilator. Alemu, who tended others at a nursing home prior to the assault, remains hospitalized.

On Friday, Alemu, his family and friends received a first, small measure of justice Friday as one of the three men charged in the assault was sentenced to a 10-year prison term.

Read the entire article at The Seattle PI http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410099_sentence11.html

Seattle - One of the best cities to attend college.

Seattle ranks fifth in a new survey — compiled by an economics research team — of the best places to attend college.

Seattle ranked high in categories such “entrepreneurial activity,” “cost of living” (with an average rent of $957 a month for a two-bedroom apartment, only Minneapolis-St.Paul was cheaper — $873 — in the nation’s top 10 cities), and “city accessibility” (percentage of population who use public transportation, bike or walk).

Read the entire article in the Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/09/07/daily4.html