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
To learn more, please visit our webpage at https://www.highline.edu/about-us/mission-statement/
Description 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.
Highline College has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 90 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Highline College employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 86% of employees would recommend working at Highline College to a friend. This is based on 90 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
88% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Highline College as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Highline College.