Highline Community College Company
Highline Community College
Overview:
Since 1961, community members have counted on Highline College to meet their educational needs close to home. As our area has changed over the years, so have our classes and programs. Today you will find comprehensive community college programs as well as applied bachelor’s degrees. Come to Highline to discover why we are still our community’s college after more than 55 years.
Highline College is nationally and internationally recognized as a premier community college, a reputation earned through the development of an institutional culture that values innovation, globalization of curriculum and community participation. Highline is one of 34 community and technical colleges in Washington state.
Mission:
As a South King County college striving for social justice, Highline College partners with global students as they envision, plan and achieve their educational and professional goals. Adopted October 2022.
Vision:
Highline College creates anti-racist, equitable pathways in higher education to close opportunity gaps experienced by our students. We support employees to foster the conditions for student and workplace equity. We accept people as they are and honor the life experience they bring. We are cultivating a collaborative learning community that centers the well-being of the whole person and provides a sense of belonging. We highly regard the families and support systems that enable our success and acknowledge that by working together we are limitless.
Values:
Highline College seeks to live out these values in everyday practice.
Accessibility | Accountability |
Cultural Responsiveness and Agency | Environmental Sustainability |
Equity-First Focus | Life-Long Learning |
Partnership with local and global communities |
Respect | Social Justice |
Student-Centered Approaches | Transparency |
Staff Benefits:
We promote a work-life balance in the workplace and offer various great benefits to accommodate our staff's needs. To learn more, please visit: https://humanresources.highline.edu/benefits/
Commitment to Diversity:
Highline College, which was the first community college in King County, also welcomes students from around the globe, with more than 750 international students studying at its main campus in Des Moines, just 20 minutes south of Seattle. Close to 15,000 students attend Highline each year, making it one of the state’s largest institutions of higher education. It is also the most diverse in the state, with approximately 70 percent students of color.
Highline College actively promotes and supports a learning and work environment which ensures social justice, mutual respect, understanding, civility, and non-violence. Highline College is committed to the elimination of discrimination based on biological sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnic background, national origin, class, economic status, age, military and veteran status, disability, language, culture, and religious beliefs. Approved by the Highline Board of Trustees, 2016.
Highline College Center for Cultural & Inclusive Excellence:
( Please visit: https://ccie.highline.edu/ )
The Center for Cultural & Inclusive Excellence provides transformative leadership in creating a learning environment that is equitable, inclusive and celebrates all identities. In commitment to increasing social consciousness, the Center for Cultural & Inclusive Excellence educates through a diversity and social justice lens, empowers students as social change agents, and dismantles institutional oppression.
