College Profiles

 

Highline Community College

 

Background

 

Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 9,500 students and 350,000 alumni, it is the state’s most diverse community college. The college offers a wide range of academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with online, day, evening and weekend classes, and takes a multi-cultural approach to education for the success of all its students and the prosperity of its surrounding communities. At the core of Highline’s mission and vision are the principles of stewardship for all students, regardless of their backgrounds. Highline does this by participating in and leading innovative local, state, national and international initiatives.

 

Achieving the Dream Goals

 

Highline Community College’s Achieving the Dream initiative provides a framework for revitalizing and sustaining a mission-driven, institutional commitment to the continuous improvement of success rates for all students, through the rigorous identification of barriers and the thoughtful design of interventions. The college has identified the following goals:

• Improve success rates for students placed in multiple developmental courses
• Improve success rates for students in developmental math courses
• Improve transition rates from noncredit basic skills courses into courses within certification and degree programs

Through its Achieving the Dream work, the college plans to strengthen student engagement, improve academic planning, and better connect students with college resources.

 

 

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