Shoreline Community College is a community college in Shoreline, north of Seattle, Washington. It is located in a residential area east of Shoreview Park. The college contains 83 acres (340,000 m²) and continuously serves 12,000 full and part-time students. Shoreline Community College (SCC) has been operating for over 40 years, offering a wide variety of degree and certificate programs. Faculty and professional staff help students choose between two transfer degrees and more than 50 professional-technical programs, some short-term, others taking up to two years to complete. Career training, worker retraining, WorkFirst, Running Start, CEO and Study Abroad programs are a few of the other educational opportunities offered by SCC. Shoreline Community College was the brain-child of Dr. Ray W. Howard, Superintendent of the Shoreline School District. He felt that Washington state's increasing host of high school graduates did not have adequate opportunities for higher education, and in 1959 he brought forward the idea of a community college in Shoreline. After several years of research and development, Shoreline Community College began operations on January 2, 1964. Dr.