1996 Strategic Plan

Table of Contents

Cover/Index

Message from the President

Mission/Philosophy/Values/
Operating Principles

Initiatives

Strategic Plan Home
Progress Report on 1996 Strategic Plan

Message From the President 

Friends,

This is Highline Community College's first strategic plan! This plan, along with subsequent revisions, will provide guidance and direction as the College steps into the future.

The faculty and staff at Highline take considerable pride in more than thirty years of exceptional service to its students and the community and the accomplishments of its graduates. With this history of excellence, a strategic planning process plays a different role than strategic planning does for most businesses and organizations. The College does not need a paradigm shift. The College needs to focus attention on opportunities for improvement while maintaining and strengthening its scope of excellence. This plan describes the areas of focus for the next few years.

The strategic planning process used by the College over the past two years produced two documents: The Strategic Planning Report, which includes a description of the process that produced the plan, a review of related issues, and a summary of trends and changes that impacted the strategic plan, and The Strategic Plan, which you see here. They succinctly explain how the College intends to change during the next few years.

I invite your comments, reactions, and suggestions to this plan and its contents. Likewise, any ideas you have that the College should consider as we begin our next iteration of the strategic planning process will be seriously considered.  Please contact the College Webmaster who will forward your email to the appropriate party. webmaster@highline.edu.

Edward M. Command,
President