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 Highline Community College serves as a major center of higher
education for a large ethnically diverse district of
South King County. As Washington State is the most
trade dependent per capita in the nation with one
out of every three jobs related to global trade, HCC
must prepare students to work within that context.
The Small Business Development Center housed at HCC,
Kent-Yangzhou Sister City Committee, and Trade
Development Alliance of Greater Seattle will partner
with HCC on "Expanding International Business
Education and Training: Creating Connections with
Yangzhou, China."
This project will meet the growing needs of Seattle area
small to mid-level size firms to develop their
export capacity, our need to further
internationalize and adjust our business curriculum
to serve non-traditional, mid-career, part-time
students, and the need of KYSCC to include
activities focused on business and trade in their
initiatives. The grant totals
$172,000 beginning Fall Quarter 2007
and runs through June 30, 2009. The international internships
will involve a few students under this pilot to
travel to China in year two.
For more information on what
the grant will provide, click here.
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State Board
for Community and Technical College Major Bill Recap |
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 2SHB 1096 -
Creating postsecondary opportunity programs -
Directs the State Board for Community and
Technical Colleges (SBCTC) to develop and
implement the Opportunity Grant Program.
ESHB 1179 -
Allowing part-time students at postsecondary
institutions to qualify for a state need grant -
reduces the minimum number of quarter credits
for which a student must be enrolled to receive
a State Need Grant from six to three through
June 2011.
SSB 5002 - State
higher education intuitions must waive all
tuition and fees for the children and spouses of
eligible veterans or National Guard members who
died, are permanently and totally disabled, are
missing in action, or are prisoners of war.
ESHB 1131 -
Creating the passport to college promise pilot
program - provides for outreach and information
to youth age 15 years and over in foster care
regarding opportunities for higher education,
including financial aid that may be available.
E2SSB 5098 -
College bound scholarship - The Washington
College Bound Scholarship is created. Eligible
students are students who qualify for free or
reduced price lunches. An eligible student must
pledge, during their seventh or eight grade
year, that they will: graduate from high school,
graduate with a C average, and not have any
felon convictions.
ESHB 1051 -
Expanding High School Completion Programs - the
high school completion program is limited to
two community and technical college pilot
programs rather than implemented on a statewide
basis.
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 The
third annual Allied Health Care Advisory Committee
met on May 8. A Consortium of Advisory
committee members representing all of the health
occupations programs at Highline - this yearly
combined committee meeting has been a very
successful model in creating partnerships that are
cross disciplinary within the health care programs.
Sharing resources, and connections between classes that
can avoid duplication of instruction are just some
of the outcomes.
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What are you doing?
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Jack Harton has been working
with faculty to develop web sites in conjunction
with their classes, most recently with Karen
Francis-McWhite on a website for teaching The Grapes
of Wrath.
http://flightline.highline.edu/reference/classes/grapesofwrath/
Ron
Sabado accounting coordinator, received the
Advancing the Dream award from the CWU College of
Business. Awarded every year to one community
college instructor who advances the dream for
students pursuing a Business degree.
Sharon Hashimoto and Allison
Green, along with a Green River Community College
instructor, Charlene Sain, were judges for a youth
writing contest as part of A Writer’s Retreat, a
writing conference that was held April 27 and 28
at the Dumas Bay Centre. The conference was sponsored
by the Federal Way Arts Commission.
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Conservationist Earns
Highline Honor
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Executive Director of Friends of the Hylebos
named Distinguished Alumni
Carrel
attended the college from 1982 to 1984, and graduated
with an AA with an emphasis in Economics.
He
has been the executive director of the Washington
Wilderness Coalition and was co-founder of
Atmosphere Alliances (now Climate Solutions). As a
freelance journalist, he put his passion to work in
his writings. In 1997 he won first place in the
Society of Professional Journalists’ Western
Washington Excellence in Journalism awards with his
writing about Consumer and Environmental Affairs.
That same year, he was awarded the third place prize
for the Washington Press Association’s Communicator
of Excellence awards when he wrote about ecology and
the environment.
In
1999, Carrel led the conversion of the Friends of
the West Hylebos from a wetland steward to a
watershed conservation organization. He has been the
executive director of the Friends of the Hylebos
since that time and has directly helped preserve
more than 140 acres of Hylebos Creek habitat.
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