MEDIA RELEASE
DATE: December
10, 2007
CONTACT: Lisa
Skari, (206) 870-3705, lskari@highline.edu
Washington Community and Technical College
Humanities Association
Gives
award to Highline Professor
Highline Community College writing professor Sharon Hashimoto has been
given an Exemplary Status award by the Washington Community and Technical
College Humanities Association.
The award is for outstanding practitioners in the
humanities. Hashimoto was recognized for
her work as an author, teacher and adviser to the college’s award-winning
literary magazine, the Arcturus.
While teaching creative writing and basic
composition courses, Hashimoto also has advised the magazine and organized the
annual Flight Path Writers Conference. She served as a
judge for the Federal Way Arts Commission’s first writing conference this
spring, as well as on King County Arts Commission and Seattle Arts Commission
selection committees, and she contributes to Pacific Reader, the Asian Pacific
Islander book review published with the International Examiner.
Hashimoto
also has been published in a number of journals, including Poetry, The American
Scholar, Seattle Review, and Asian Pacific American Journal. She has received
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, King County Arts Commission,
and Artist Trust, published a chapbook, Reparations. Her book The Crane Wife, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize 2003,
was published by Story Line Press in 2003.
The Washington Community
Colleges Humanities Association exists to promote effective, inventive, and
vital Humanities instruction by Washington
state community and technical colleges instructors.
WCCHA strives to provide professional support and personal renewal through the
context of dialogues, presentations, and other exchanges that emphasize
essential and life-sustaining values. To sustain these endeavors, WCCHA strives
to provide active support for Humanities instruction throughout the Washington
Community College System; address the needs for collegiality, creativity, and
pedagogy among Humanities faculty on a statewide basis; maintain a forum for
the examination of the role, purpose, and value the Humanities provide in
academic and professional settings.
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 day,
evening, on-line, and weekend classes.
With the most diverse population of any
college in Washington
state, Highline takes a multi-cultural approach to
education for the success of all its students and the prosperity of its
surrounding communities. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice,
entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and noted author Ann Rule.