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May 16, 2019: Academic Affairs

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May 16, 2019: Academic Affairs

Area Report for Board of Trustees

As of May 7, 2019, Spring Quarter State funded enrollments are 4355.65 FTEs

Core Theme 1:  Promote student engagement, learning, and achievement

Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) degrees provide a valuable ― and expanding ― avenue for students to pursue credentials beyond the associate degree.  This month, Highline received final approval for its sixth — and Washington’s 99th — baccalaureate option.  Our new BAS in Integrated Design, the first to be housed in our Arts and Humanities Division, builds upon our associate-level degrees in Interior Design, Visual Communications, and Multimedia Design.  Already, over 20 students have expressed interest in the program, which launches fall 2019.  Meantime, our second-most-recent addition, the BAS in Teaching and Early Learning, is set to graduate its first class this June, with 16 students working to finish the requirements this quarter.  As many as 40 more future teachers may be ready for their fourth-year field experience in 2019-20.  Even as we’ve added new baccalaureate pathways, our original quartet of BAS options continues to be healthy, with an especially large uptick in 2019-20 applications for the Respiratory Care degree.  At present, Highline’s BAS enrollments total roughly 200 FTES.  System-wide, the figure is approaching 3,500.

Faculty and staff honorees

  • English faculty Wendy Swyt, Avery Viehmann, and Prairie Brown recently gave two conference presentations ― the first at the national Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) conference in Pittsburgh, and the second at April’s TYCA-PNWCA conference in Yakima ― on Highline’s new integrated reading and writing class, English Express, for pre-college students.
  • Shana Friend and Laurie Stusser-McNeil (Pre-College Studies) presented at the Coalition on Adult Basic Education (CoABE) national conference, held March 31-April 3 in New Orleans.
  • Ben Thomas (music) and his chamber group, Torch, are premiering their soundtrack for Scoot Kolbo’s digital film Passages May 22 on the main stage of the Triple Door.
  • Laura Soracco (English) presented at the Reading Apprenticeship conference at Renton Technical College, March 9, on summarizing and synthesizing through collaborative learning.
  • Highine’s Respiratory Care program has again received the Distinguished Registered Respiratory Therapist Credentialing Success Award from the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC). Highline has received this prestigious honor for several consecutive years.
  • On May 8, the faculty honored their newly-tenured colleagues Laurie Stusser-McNeil (Pre-College Studies), Nicole Hoyes-Wilson (Counseling), Syeda Nizami (Computer Science), and Steve Lettic (Criminal Justice) at an afternoon reception.

Report submitted May 09, 2019, by Vice President Jeff Wagnitz, Ed.D.