Area Report for Board of Trustees

Good day Trustees, I hope you all had a nice and relaxing holiday with family and friends. I had my family visit from California for 2 weeks and many of them got to see snow in-person for the first time ever. They also got to experience 3 days of flight cancellations due to weather. But all in all, it was a wonderful time to see family.

And speaking of inclement weather, as a reminder, our campus has a protocol to determine closures or delay of start for classes and services. Many thanks this past week to Public Safety, Facilities and Dr. Pham for their assessment and leadership of the situation for when I receive those 5am recommendation calls. Your work is greatly appreciated as we want to ensure our campus community is always safe.

I want to thank the planning committee who yet again, put on an amazing Black and Brown Summit. This is one of our signature events at Highline College that gathers much media attention. This year was no different. Students from all over the area and state attended and participated in various workshops that were centered around how to foster their success.  Our keynote was the individual who brought this program to campus, Rashad Norris – what a great way to honor and thank him for his leadership and vision all these years. I look forward to Y.E.L.L. in spring ’23.

I want to provide another invitation to attend our Building 12 Winter Holiday Open House for Highline Faculty 7 Staff. Please join us in Building 12 next Thursday, December 8th from 12 pm – 2 pm. This is a chance to visit the President, Human Resources, and Administrative Services offices in our new space, spend time with fellow faculty and staff, and enjoy some delicious treats on us!  This will be right after our board meeting so we hope to see you all there!

I can’t believe the end of the year is here. I want to thank all our trustees for their support and commitment to the college community this past year.  I wish you and your loved ones a wonderful and peaceful holiday season.

John

Information Technology Services

Core Theme 1: ACCESS, Reduce Barriers and close equity gaps to access for all community members

• ITS is working with Financial Aid to provide more transparent information to students about where they stand in the Financial Aid process, as well as working to find ways to help make the process more efficient.

Core Theme 2: STUDENT LEARNING, Increase educational success, collaborate to improve

• ITS has worked through the fall launch of Aviso (Advising and Student Success support software) to respond to issues and improve the functionality of the tool for all users as we have more faculty and staff working regularly in the system.
• ITS launched a “Report Message” button in Outlook/Microsoft 365 to better enable employees to report suspicious emails for investigation and review, helping make our email security processes more efficient and effective. This works in parallel with new phishing lessons in our IT security training program.

Division Honors and Achievements

Congratulations to Deborah Lynn Wiley, who will retire this month after more than 30 years of service to the college, originally in Instructional Computing and most recently in IT Services. Deborah Lynn’s positive attitude and strong commitment to the college and our students will be missed

Title III Strengthening Institutions

Core Theme 1: ACCESS, Reduce Barriers and close equity gaps to access for all community members and

Core Theme 2: STUDENT LEARNING, Increase educational success, collaborate to improve

• Entry advising Year 1 objective met! Entry Advising was fully staffed and officially launched in winter quarter 2022. By Fall of 2022, Entry Advising met with 63% of all newly enrolled (non Running Start, non ISP) credit-seeking students. Year One target was 60%. Congratulations Entry Advising Team!
• E-tutoring consortium joined and will launch winter quarter
• Two tutors ready to go. Hours of availability are offered 24-7 but realistically 5am-Midnight. Academic Success Centers and Title III will work to see how we can expand the tutor pool to paraprofessionals
• Title III celebrated Umoja and Highline Promise service at the Umoja Open House
• Communities of Practice/Praxis launched. These will last one year and participants will make changes to their classes and track quantitative and qualitative impact
  • Antiracist CoPx
  • 4Connectios
• 4 Phase Advising Model and Roadmap complete.
• Title III welcomes new Dean of Advising and Enrollment Services, Jesse Knappenberger to the Steering Committee and Highline College

If you are interested in further information about Title III including a look at the updated Title III objectives, we invite you to read Title III’s full November report here.

Report submitted on Dec 01, 2022 by President, Dr. John R. Mosby