Area Report for Board of Trustees

Enrollment

As of July 3, Summer Quarter State funded enrollments are 2213.8 FTEs.

Core Theme 3

Build valuable relationships … within Highline College’s communities

Service is a traditional component of the faculty role. Highline’s faculty are no exception. In addition to serving the college and their professional organizations, many instructors lend their skills to the wider community’s needs. Bob Baugher (psychology) is an outstanding example. A nationally-recognized expert on grief and loss, Dr. Baugher gave 17 workshops and lectures on those topics to ten community and national organizations in 2017. Additionally, he co-authored a book with five widowed people and a nurse consultant entitled: “Surviving Widowhood: Suggestions from Widowed People to You for Coping with the Death of Your Husband, Wife or Partner.” At the invitation of the Bobby Reciniti Healing Hearts Foundation, Dr. Baugher traveled to Parkland, Florida, to participate in “A Day of Healing” for the Parkland community on May 20. While Dr. Baugher’s record is extraordinary, it is by no means singular. Closer to home, Charly Cohen (math) was honored by the Federal Way branch of the American Association of University Women for her work as an educational inspiration and role model.

Honorees in Academic Affairs

• Iliana Villanueva (Spanish) gave a presentation entitled “La inquietante irrupción de lo cotidiano en la obra de Elena Garro” (The disturbing irruption of the everyday in the work of Elena Garro) at the XLII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI) at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia in June.
• English instructor Shon Meckfessel’s article, “As If In Good Faith,” appeared in “South Atlantic Quarterly” earlier this year.
• Tim McMannon (history) will co-chair of the Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Committee on Community Colleges for 2018-19. The OAH is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history.
• In May, David Purnell (Communication Studies) made two presentations at the International Conference of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. The topics were “(Re)constructing Brotherhood: The Effects of Addiction on Family Relationships” and “I am Ex-Military, 6 feet 5 inches tall, and I Have a #MeToo Story: Men Need to Share Their #MeToo Narratives.”
• Helen Burn (math) has been appointed chair of American Mathematical Association of Two-Year College’s (AMATYC) committee on pathways.

Report submitted July 3, 2018, by Vice President Jeff Wagnitz, Ed.D.