Area Report for Board of Trustees

Dashboard: June 2018

Media Coverage

Links to the following articles are available in the Highline in the News section.

Coverage where Highline College is primary or significant focus:

• “Life After Death: How to Build a Whale” — Out There Outdoors, 6/19/18 [Highline features prominently in this article from the first sentence: “When children enter Highline College’s Marine Science and Technology Center at Redondo Beach and look up at the 38-foot gray whale skeleton…”]
• “Tacoma Resident and Businessman Ed Ramos Receives Highline College Distinguished Alumnus Award” — The Suburban Times, 6/17/18
• “5 Reasons to Get Outdoors” — The Pierce Pioneer News, 6/11/18 [Highline MaST Center is one of the five places recommended.]
• “Transitions” — The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6//7/18 [Article includes John Mosby as next president of Highline.]
• “Newsmakers: New CEOs” — Community College Daily, 6/1/18 [Article includes John Mosby as next president of Highline.]
• “The Road to Helping People With Disabilities” — Federal Way Mirror, 6/1/18 [Article was written by Highline’s Jenni Sandler and Julie Pollard; it also appears on Highline’s website as part of the Highline Voices series.]
• “Northwest Dive News” — SCUBA H20 Adventures (national magazine) [Article talks about the man-made reef at Redondo and the MaST Center’s involvement.]

Coverage where Highline is a secondary focus or has a significant mention:

• “Principals in Washington Can’t Hire Enough Special-Education Teachers. Here’s One Reason Why.” — The Seattle Times, 6/21/18 [Article includes this mention of Highline: “Bungart said she has been working with Central Washington University-Des Moines to debut a similar program this fall for special-education paraeducators who want to study at Highline College.”]

Note: Campus events and athletics also receive coverage, but are usually not included in this recap.

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Glacier In-School Poster

Highline College posters continued to run in 11 area high schools until June 20.
Purpose: General awareness to high school students of the academic options available at Highline. Highlighted areas are prof-tech, transfer, running start, and our five BAS programs.

CineMedia Theater screens

We continue to run a 15 second on-screen ad in three theaters in Kent, Federal Way and Auburn.
Purpose: General awareness, increase admissions.

Federal Way Mirror

Two grad strip ads in High School Grads section.
Purpose: General awareness and recruitment of recent high school grads.

LaRaza

Half-page ad in June 22 Education edition.
Purpose: General awareness of the opportunities available at Highline.

Events

Off Campus

Auburn Mountain View High School Signing Day Event – 15
Young Adult Job and Career Fair – 125
Fife High School Signing Day – 25
Kent School District Senior Celebration – 50
Chinook Middle School Celebration – 200
Teen Summer Kickoff Festival/Foster High School – 250

On Campus

Cascade Middle School – 50
Decatur High School – 25
Auburn Riverside HS – 15
Evergreen High School – 15
Foster High School – 25
Thomas Jefferson HS – 25
Todd Beamer – 10
Federal Way High School – 10

Community Meetings

Hispanic Roundtable Community Summit – 250
Highline Information Session @ SCORE Jail Facility – 18

Report submitted by Vice President Lisa Skari, Ed.D.