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General Information: Building Up a Student Life
www.highline.edu/stuserv/programs
~ (206) 878-3710, ext. 3536
Get Involved
Highline Community College hosts a vibrant and exciting schedule of student activities and programs. Student Programs-Center for Leadership and Service has been established at the college to ensure that all students have options for learning, community building and personal exploration outside of the classroom, as well as to provide a place for such activities in the college’s student center.
Highline students contribute a quarterly Services and Activities (S&A) fee to help fund extracurricular and educational activities on campus. The Student Programs office is open to all students to explore ways of becoming involved in campus life that fit their individual interests.
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History
Student Programs has been a part of the college since 1962. Even early on, involved students played a key role in helping establish the traditions and activities on campus.
For example, the campus newspaper, The Thunderword, was named by the first Highline student government during its first meeting and earlier students were responsible for bringing many of the American Indian symbols and building plaques to campus.
This legacy continues today with current student efforts to build vibrant student communities with clubs and organizations and house these activities in the Highline Student Union (HSU).
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Purpose
Students Programs-Center for Leadership and Service provides communities and experiences that enhance growth and learning outside the classroom. Students are invited to engage in leadership and service roles. The Center for Leadership and Service ensures the creation of environments that promote connections and relationships, contribute to student involvement and success, and emphasize social justice awareness and the promotion of global citizenship.
Student Programs-Center for Leadership and Service ensures there is an activities program for students and a place for students to gather and connect with one another. Highline values the connections with others outside the classroom, with the hope that the network that is built today will help support students for a lifetime. The social spaces that are associated with Student Programs and HSU are intended to provide venues for making and nurturing these connections.
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The Highline Student Union (HSU): A Place for Students
HSU is the crown jewel of the college campus. Here’s just a sample of what’s inside:
- Fireside Bistro: coffee and pizza oven
- Recreation room
- Quiet study lounge with great view
- Cafeteria
- Three large conference and meeting rooms
- Bookstore
- Student Programs-Center for Leadership and Service with student government and caucuses
- Clubs and communities
- Leadership Resource Center
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Student Programs Offices-Center
for Leadership and Service
Building a Foundation for Success
Student Programs administrative offices are located in HSU. The suite of offices includes the Student Programs staff, the Associated Students of Highline Community College (ASHCC), student leadership, activities and a graphics design team that supports student activities.
The Student Programs suite is the base from which staff members provide three cornerstone areas of service to the campus community:
Student Leadership:
Building a student life requires a community of student leaders who are committed, organized and effective. Student leadership positions are found throughout the organization, but are supported centrally by the Student Programs staff training, leadership advising and workshop opportunities.
Well-known leadership positions at Highline include serving as members of ASHCC student government, as club and community consultants, as campus event consultants, as Phi Theta Kappa, HCC chapter, Leadership Team members or as various officers within student clubs.
Student Activities:
Student activities programs include groups that bring social and educational events to campus. ASHCC caucuses, clubs, multicultural and international programming, intramurals and performing arts programs in drama and music all contribute to a host of exciting and entertaining learning opportunities.
Whether students join Student Programs for the annual welcome back barbecue or the thought-provoking Unity Through Diversity Week, the programs will provide space for growth, learning and fun outside the classroom.
Community Service and Experiential Learning:
Highline has a distinguished history of providing high quality service to the campus and local community. The Center for Leadership and Service is committed to providing individuals the opportunity to both serve and learn. Training in the tenants of servant leadership is part of all of the center’s community and leadership opportunities and serves as the primary contribution to the lives of students. Student leaders will have the opportunity to do real work with real passion and to make a real difference in the world.
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Student Programs Offerings
Here’s additional information about the many activities and leadership opportunities available on campus.
Intercollegiate Athletics:
Committed to excellence in academics and athletics,
Highline’s strong intercollegiate athletic programs successfully
attract quality student athletes. Through educational ideals learned
both on and off the field of play, participation in athletics works
to instill in student athletes the benefits of competition, sportsmanship,
hard work, and commitment.
| Men’s Teams: |
Women’s Teams: |
| Basketball |
Basketball |
| Cross Country |
Cross Country |
| Soccer |
Soccer |
| Wrestling |
Softball |
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Volleyball |
Intramurals:
This program offers a variety of athletic activities for students to participate in throughout the year free of charge. Activities may include basketball, flag football, indoor soccer, softball and volleyball. No skills required, just a good attitude! For information, visit
www.highline.edu/stuserv/athletics/intramurals/intrahome.htm.
Multicultural Programs:
The goal of multicultural programs is to plan activities that enhance the campus community’s knowledge of different cultures and heritages and to promote participation in Highline’s ethnic clubs.
Multicultural programs helps students reach their academic and personal goals by programming events that promote multicultural awareness and supporting students to attend events such as the statewide Students of Color Conference. Annual multicultural events at Highline include Martin Luther King Jr. Week in January and Unity Through Diversity Week in April.
Performing Arts:
The performing arts scene has a rich tradition on Highline’s campus. Students have numerous ways to get involved.
Drama:
The Drama department is committed to providing students with a strong foundation for their education and career in theatrical performance or design. For more than 25 years, graduates have entered the most competitive professional training schools in the U.S. and Great Britain. Students have appeared on Broadway, in films, on television and are working as designers and technicians in theaters from New York City to Los Angeles, as well as in Seattle and Tacoma.
The department offers a rich and varied curriculum, which gives beginners and advanced students plenty of challenge and excitement in the classroom and on stage. Audiences enthusiastically applaud the accomplishments of Highline students at new shows each quarter. Auditions are open to everyone; backstage workers are welcome to join the team.
Music:
The Music department invites students to explore their musical abilities and meet others with similar interests. Students can participate in choir, jazz ensemble or world percussion ensemble. Instrumentalists have the possibility of performing in small ensembles and in regional symphony orchestras such as the Rainier Symphony. Faculty members will help and advise those students who wish to put their own group together.
Student Clubs:
These student-led organizations enrich campus life and give students a way to meet new people, share similar interests and develop new skills. Students may find a club that matches their interests or they may start one of their own.
Each year, Highline boasts approximately 50 clubs, which means students are certain to find an organization that matches their interests. Although the lineup of student clubs changes annually to reflect the college’s current students, here is a partial list of campus clubs that have been active recently:
- Asian and Pacific Islanders Club
- Black Student Union
- Cambodian Student Association
- Campus Crusade for Christ
- Chess Club
- Engineering Club
- Highline Association of Library Technicians
- Highline College Paralegal Association
- International Club
- Jazz Ensemble
- Muslim Student Association
- Nursing Club
- Poker Club
- Rainbow Pride
- Science Club
- United Latino Association
- Vietnamese Student Association
Student Design, Publications, and Services
Publications:
The Thunderword weekly newspaper is an award-winning publication that accepts articles from both staff and at-large writers. The literary magazine, Arcturus, is a student-produced, edited and printed annual journal of creative writing, poetry and visual arts that is also regionally acclaimed for its quality.
Campus Event Planning, Promotion, and Design Services:
Student Programs-Center for Leadership and Service has information and resources to help students plan events. The knowledgeable staff can assist with all phases of the planning process: brainstorming, organizing, promoting, implementing and evaluating. Individual students and/or small groups that identify an event or activity they are interested in presenting to the campus may be able to access resources through Student Programs.
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Student Leadership
First Fridays Leadership Institute:
A regular series of leadership development workshops offered the first Friday of each month (2-4 p.m., September through June). The sessions are hands-on, interactive and designed to build practical leadership skills, including public speaking, interpersonal communication and conflict resolution.
Winter Leadership Retreat:
This event, held every January at a local retreat center, brings together students from across campus to explore leadership in depth and to build a community of student leaders. Retreat applications are available middle of fall quarter.
Leadership Consultation:
Many students aspire to be great leaders but don’t know where to begin. Highline’s leadership consultation service will help students get started on the path to leadership by finding areas they are passionate about, create goals, write a personal mission statement and much more.
International Leadership Student Council (ILSC):
This team of five student leaders coordinates various international events on campus. Its mission is to provide international students with additional support, build a strong multicultural environment on campus and in the community, and encourage global understanding.
ILSC members assist with international student orientations and activities and act as mentors to new international students. Events ILSC members have worked on include Conversation Pals, winter ski trip and GlobalFest.
Phi Theta Kappa (PTK):
PTK is the international honor society of two-year colleges. Highline’s chapter is one of the largest in the country and is actively involved in leadership and service both on and off campus. Phi Theta Kappa offers students the opportunity to grow outside of class and develop as responsible members of the community. Highline’s PTK chapter provides students several ways to get involved with service and scholarship.
Student Government:
Student Government: ASHCC invites all students to participate in student government. Student government provides a means which students represent interests, concerns and viewpoints in the college governance structure.
It also provides leadership-training opportunities that include public speaking, parliamentary procedures, program development and evaluation, group dynamics, conflict resolution and skills in conducting effective meetings. Student government serves as a training ground for developing the skills necessary for democratic government.
Whether students are interested in serving in one of the two elected positions or volunteering for one of the many campus committees or ASHCC caucuses where students have a voice, there is an opportunity for everyone.
ASHCC Caucuses:
Student leadership community groups collaborate with other students, staff, faculty and the surrounding community to discuss and support leadership concepts being explored by the student body.
Campus Communities
Students gather for community building in many ways, whether through academic study groups, recreational interests, team projects as part of a class or other means. The Center for Leadership and Service offers resources to these small groups.
Leadership Resource Center:
This center, located in HSU, 3rd floor, provides students with a physical space and resources to pursue leadership interests. Students can search the Internet, peruse the leadership library or network with other student leaders on campus. It’s a place to explore one’s leadership potential in the context of the community and a space to refine leadership vision. Students are invited to visit the center.
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Check Out Student Programs
Contact the Student Programs office or read the Student Handbook that is published annually with more detailed and updated information.
This page was last edited
10/08/2009 |
