On February 29, the governor of Washington state, Jay Inslee, declared a state of emergency, with confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on the rise. The virus, which started in Wuhan, China on December 1, 2019, has spread globally. Coronavirus is considered to be highly contagious and is spread…
Posts published in March 2020
Late on March 15 2020, Governor Jay Inslee released a new mandate on COVID-19 precautions. Bars were to close, restaurants would go to take-out service only and gatherings of over 50 people were banned. In King county, the effect took hold immediately and the rest of the state would wake…
It’s a difficult world for the faint of heart, for the indecisive, for the misguided, for those who have experienced traumas of relative, substantial proportions. I satisfy all of these criteria, as many of us do. What makes the journey all the more difficult, and perhaps paradoxically so, is my…
“We don’t have that privilege to shutdown,” said Becca, an employee of Information Central. “I have two kids at home, so I have to make money regardless.” This was said in the wake of Seattle Central College’s move to remote operations on March 7th, 2020. The following week, Governor Jay…
Dear Governor Inslee, We are deeply concerned by the dangers the COVID-19 pandemic creates for our incarcerated population in Washington. We have already seen COVID-19s devastating impact on the residents at LifeCare. Our nursing homes house many of our older and often medically fragile community members and we recognize that…
Seattle Central College Bookstore, located across Seattle Central’s Broadway Edison Building, has been providing Seattle Central College students access to get textbooks more conveniently on campus for years. On February 4th, 2020, the Associated Student Council of Seattle Central (ASC) sent an email to students stating the forthcoming closure of…
From the eerily smooth traffic to the glares one gets from a cough or sneeze instead of a “bless you,” it’s becoming clearer just how heavily the COVID-19 outbreak looms over the city of Seattle. As of this writing, Governor Jay Inslee is calling for a ban on events of…
It is evident that COVID-19 is impacting a lot of things in people’s daily lives but more so for the students that have traveled thousands of miles to be here. With the disease keeping them in the US, international students face uncertainty. Students from countries like China or Hong Kong…
Continuing Education classes on the Seattle Central Campus will finish out this week despite moving to mandatory on-line modalities for credited classes. Seattle Central offers a wide array of non-credit classes designed for working and older students. The classes are paid in full by the students and do not qualify…
Seattle Central offers a wide variety of classes. The difficulty is finding the right one for you, your budget, your schedule and your sanity. Worse yet, one might and often does find themselves stuck in a boring, but requirement-filling class that goes for three hours – through lunch time, with…
