South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) was voted for the Best of South Sound Gold for Best Community College, and Bronze for Best Higher Education and Best Trade/Technical School.
The awards recognize businesses, organizations, and individuals contributing to the region, determined by community votes.
“We are honored to be recognized as a leader in higher education in the South Sound. This award reflects the hard work and dedication of our faculty, staff, and students. It underscores our commitment to serving all people in our community and meeting them where they're at,” SPSCC President Dr. Timothy Stoke said in a press release on Monday.
The institution has served the city of Olympia and the surrounding communities for more than sixty years.
SPSCC has around 5,000 students spread “across many goals and Pathways, including degree-seeking students, high schoolers, veterans, international students, and underemployed workers,” the college shared.
Small class sizes with “world-class faculty” and staff utilizing modern facilities align with the college’s mission of amplifying student success.
SPSCC aspires to ensure that annually its thousands of students land a job, learn a new skill, earn a degree, and pursue opportunities across its Olympia and Lacey campuses, some classes in Yelm, and online.
The press release stated that SPSCC’s core themes of student achievement, equity, learning, and engagement are the heart of the work completed by its departments and faculty.
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BobJacobs
I support all of our local higher ed institutions. But I'm sure that their statistics and sociology faculty would agree that this award is meaningless. It compares entirely different kinds of institutions in some situations. And its participants are a self-selected subset of the population. Furthermore, there are no meaningful measurement criteria -- just a general question of "which do you think is best?"
This is quite common in the world of journalism. Apparently journalism curricula don't include basic statistics. I hope JOLT will do better in the future. What would actually help would be an article explaining how and why these surveys are meaningless in all categories from restaurants to colleges.
Bob Jacobs
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