Introduction Letters
A Welcome from Our President
Welcome to Spokane Falls Community College! SFCC is a leader in high quality transfer and career technical education in the region. We are grateful for our dedicated and talented faculty whose efforts inside and outside the classroom continue to make us shine in the community.
We are an Achieving the Dream and Guided Pathways college, and I look forward to working with you this year as we continue to remove unnecessary barriers for students and to build stronger and more integrated relationships between Academic and Student Affairs.
In today’s world, we are bombarded with news articles, studies, statistics and debates about the value of formal education and degrees. Most recently the debate has centered on the artificial conflict between STEM and the Humanities. Current society could learn much from Leonardo DaVinci who said “Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses – especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Here at SFCC, we are helping students to develop their complete minds. Thank you for all you do to help our students “learn how to see.” SFCC is committed to student success and student equity, and we would not be able to achieve these goals without your efforts and expertise.
I look forward to working with you in this coming year.
All the best,
President
Kimberlee S. Messina, Ed.D.
A Welcome from Our Vice President of Learning
Welcome! Here at SFCC we have a long tradition of excellence and have always taken pride in providing high-quality programs, courses, and teaching. In recent years, however, we have become increasingly aware of the support and guidance our students need in order to achieve their goals during their time at SFCC.
This is no small task, as the population we serve lives in a very complex world, and many factors can impact a student’s path to success.
However, we embrace the challenge. As a dedicated group of life-long learners, we are always working together, ever seeking to improve our practice, to live up to our potential as a college as we assist our students to achieve theirs.
There is much work to be done, but we have also made great progress.
Welcome to SFCC. I hope you will find it as meaningful as I do to belong to this community.
Vice President of Learning
Bonnie Glantz
A Welcome from Our Vice President of Student Affairs
I’m thrilled to welcome you to the 2023-2024 academic year at Spokane Falls Community College. This will be my second academic year serving as your vice president of student affairs, and I could not be more excited for the year we have ahead of us! The entire student affairs team is eager to support you and your students as we progress through the year. After years of diligent planning and design by our faculty and staff, it is nothing short of a historic achievement to begin fall as a guided pathways institution. This work will lead us toward eliminating opportunity gaps and increasing student completions and success. Student affairs will continue our collaboration with instruction to provide an excellent student experience. High on our priority list is implementing data-informed student interventions, working through the next phase of our customer relationship management (CRM) software implementation, refinement of our outreach and communication plan, and development of a program review model for continuous improvement.
I look forward to a wonderful year of working with you to support our students in the achievement of their academic goals.
Respectfully,
Vice President of Student Affairs
Patrick McEachern
Welcome and Appreciation from the CETL Director
Welcome to the Falls and to the SFCC Faculty Handbook!
This book was created by the Faculty Development Committee and maintained by that committee (particularly Donna Evans and Judi Throop) for several yeras. When the CETL replaced the Faculty Development Committee in 2022, the Office of EDI Program Coordinator Dahveed Bullis helped our original CETL Director Jared Anthony update it. In the summer of 2023, SFCC student Johannes De’Eldred further updated the content and migrated it to the Pressbooks platform. Dahveed and I have continued to update the handbook since the CETL has changed hands in 2024 but I want to acknowledge and thank each of these individuals for their hard and good work on this valuable faculty resource.
If you see something wrong with the book or would like to see something added, please email me at jessica.hoppe@sfcc.spokane.edu
And please keep an eye out for invitations from the CETL for professional development opportunities in the months and years ahead.
In gratitude,
Jessica Hoppe
Director of the SFCC Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning
