Highline Community College

MEDIA RELEASE

FOR RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: June 29, 2009

CONTACT: Kat Chappell: (206) 878-3710, ext. 3494, kchappel@highline.edu
Lisa Skari: (206) 870-3705, lskari@highline.edu

Highline Community College students win academic scholarships

DES MOINES, Wash. — Twelve Highline Community College students received scholarships for fall quarter recognizing their outstanding academic achievements.

Academic Achievement Scholarships cover tuition costs for one quarter and honor students who have a 3.5 GPA or better.

The scholarship winners, by city, are:

Auburn                       Laurel Grose

Federal Way              Spencer Kabelac, Angela Stone

Kent Nataliya Dutchak, Kevin Mar

Pomeroy                     Jordan Beale

Renton Solomon Haile

SeaTac                        Hang Mai, Amina Mohamed

Seattle                         Erika Estes, Trevor Mays, Dennis Weymouth

Academic Achievement Scholarships are awarded fall, winter and spring quarters and administered by Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.

To apply for the scholarships, students must be Washington state residents and submit an essay, letters of recommendation and school transcripts.

Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 10,000 students and more than 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, online and weekend classes.

With the most diverse population of any college in Washington state, Highline takes a multicultural 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 Washington state poet laureate Sam Green.

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