Trustee Bios

Roger Olstad

It was announced at the Shoreline Community College (SCC) Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006, that Lake Forest Park City Councilmember Roger Olstad was appointed the newest member of the College’s Board of Trustees.  Mr. Olstad’s term began October 1, 2006 and will end September 30, 2011. He replaces Jeff Lewis, who attended his last Board meeting that evening. 

Olstad was a science education professor at the University of Washington from 1964 to 1995; he was a Boeing Endowed professor from 1990-1995.  Mr. Olstad has been a member of a number of advisory committees and has worked as a consultant to numerous local, state, national and international groups, including the Ford Foundation (Nigeria), Shoreline School District (plus more than 20 other school districts), the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and more than 15 other state agencies and/or colleges and universities.  He also served on the KCTS/9 Curriculum Advisory Committee and on SCC’s Presidential Search Committee last spring.