Highline Community College
MEDIA RELEASE
FOR
RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: October 17, 2007
CONTACT: Lisa
Skari, (206) 878-3710, ext. 3705, lskari@highline.edu
DES
MOINES, Wash. — At their Board meeting on October 11, the Highline Community
College Board of Trustees moved to select National Search and Education
Consulting (NSEC) to assist them in their search for a new college president. NSEC is an educational consulting firm with
experience in conducting community college president searches. They have completed over fifty searches in
eleven states, both at small and large multi-campus colleges. In the state of Washington,
they have consulted on seven community college presidential searches in the
last two and a half years, including South
Puget Sound Community
College and Pierce
College.
"NSEC
has been very successful in assisting other community colleges in Washington in the
recruitment of highly skilled and desirable candidates to fill vacancies. We were most impressed with both their
written proposal and oral presentation to the college", said Karen Vander Ark, Board Chair.
The
board also announced the formation of a presidential search committee to work
with NSEC and the Board. The committee will
include representatives from the Highline
Community College staff,
faculty, students and community. The Board expects to have a final
decision by late spring in hopes that the new president will assume the office
by July 1st.
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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 one of the state’s
largest institutions of higher education. 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. Alumni include former Seattle
Mayor Norm Rice, entrepreneur Junki Yoshida
and noted author Ann Rule.
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