Previous Years’ Schedules
2021 Opening Week Schedule
note: * All of the Zoom link information for Opening Week is saved on the college’s Google drive. In order to access this information, one must be logged into their Highline College Google account.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Welcome Day Program
Time: 9:00am-11:00am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: Join Dr. Mosby as he welcomes the campus to the 2021-22 academic year! This mandatory all-campus session will provide an opportunity for employees to hear the President speak to institutional priorities for the new academic year. This year’s program will also offer information on the equity-first strategic planning process and provide an opportunity to meet (virtually) the consultants guiding Highline College through this participatory planning process.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify three or more equity driven commitments Highline College has made in support of our communityi members.
- Align the “equity-first approach” with the strategic planning process.
- Outline opportunities that campus stakeholders (students, faculty, and staff) can expect to be involved in the participatory and engaged strategic planning process over the next 12 months.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
18th Annual Faculty and Staff of Color & Allies Reception
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Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Division and Department Meetings
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Target audience: faculty
Format Zoom Meeting* See your division/ department for exact time and Zoom login details. *Divisions or Department will provide a meeting link to attendees.
WPEA Classified Staff Training: Time Management
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Target audience: Classified staff
Description: As we have seen with the move to ctclink, some of us have had an increase in work-load, but not an increase in time to do the work. The idea with this training is to give some ideas for successful Time Management, and maybe even a little bit of project management, along with some ideas of how to prioritize the various things we do in our work lives. This would also be a good time to check in with everyone to see how their jobs have changed since the move to ctclink, and how the union can best support our members with these changes.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Breakout Session
Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Breakout Session
Time: 10:15am-11:15am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Welcome New Employees
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: Please join the Office of the President to welcome the many new faculty and staff that have joined our Highline Community in the last twelve months. This event will provide an opportunity for new and seasoned Thunderbirds to socialize while building and strengthening our ever growing community. All faculty and staff, new and seasoned, are invited to attend! A calendar invite will be sent for the event in advance of Opening Week. Please utilize that invitation to indicate your attendance to help our event planners.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
HCEA Hosted Faculty Luncheon
Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm
Target audience: open to all faculty – adjunct, one-year, program managers, tenure-track, and tenured
Format: Zoom Meeting*
WPEA Classified Union Virtual Potluck
Time: 12:30pm-2:00pm
Target audience: Classified staff
Description: Come join in on the first ever WPEA Classified Staff Virtual Potluck. This will be a “bring your own lunch to the camera” event (be prepared to share recipes!). Come and join for a safe space to engage with your fellow members, chat with shop stewards, find out what is new and exciting, and come hang out!
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Advising Retreat for Faculty
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Target audience: faculty
Description: Join us for the very first advising adventure of the year! This is an opportunity for all faculty, regardless of advising load or expertise, to reflect in community on ways to be more intentional about equitable educational planning and the connection between proactive advising and student success in the classroom as we move toward mandatory advising. You will also get to know your faculty pathway leads and representatives, and hear about our goals for the year. This is a great chance to set both individual and department objectives, and sign-up for some of the exciting professional development programming we have planned to support you in your advising adventure!
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify Faculty Advising goals for the upcoming academic year.
- Differentiate between ‘academic planning’ and ‘equitable educational planning’ as a step toward inclusive educational practice and how this ties into Degree Pathways goals and our role as educators both in and out of the classroom.
- Formulate concrete steps to practice proactive advising at the (a) individual, and (b) department level.
- Understand methods of formative assessment for Student Learning Outcomes for advising and ways in which this can inform departmental advising initiatives.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Attachments: Slides
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Institutional Effectiveness Committee: Introduction to the new Mission Fulfillment Report
Time: 9:00am- 10:30am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: How does your work contribute to the mission of our college? What even is the mission of the college? What are our goals and why are they important? We invite you to participate and contribute to finalizing Highline’s goals and mission for the years ahead. Highline strives to create a welcoming and equitable place for all of our students, staff and faculty through the services we deliver, and it takes every department to accomplish all of this important work. Departments will have the opportunity to orient their services to the mission and participate in creating their institutional effectiveness report
Learning Outcomes:
- Be aware of the purpose of the MFR: past and present
- Be able to Identify the core themes
- Be able to define the terms: Indicator, Outcome, Measure, MFR
- Understand the Institutional Effectiveness Report and how to fill it out
- Recognize how each individual contributes to the College mission
- Recognize how one’s department services contributes to the College mission
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Attachments: Slides
Student Panel- Feedback from Guided Pathways focus groups
Time: 10:45am-12:00pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: Join us for a student panel to reflect on how the student experience can inform our practices and policies as we move forward with Guided Pathways. Our students are leaders throughout campus in the Support Center, Umoja, TRIO, Center for Leadership & Services, Equity First taskforce, and Guided Pathways State Fellowship program. The student panel will be proceeded by a presentation on lessons learnt from the Guided Pathways student focus groups which point the ways in which Highline is primed for re-imagining and transformation as we re-open campus. Theme: From Unimaginable to Reimagined: Transition as an Opportunity to Re-imagine
Learning Outcomes:
- To better understand what working with students will look over this coming year, as we transition back to campus and develop a new post-pandemic campus culture that builds upon past trends while creating new equitable trends previously unimaginable
- To see how the small and large actions and decisions we make, can bolster student success and have strong implications for the school year
- To practice flexibility and consideration of students’ suggestions and experiences, as we transition back to campus
- To see how students’ experiences on-campus are all interconnected and the need for that interconnectedness reflected/embedded into student services and academic affairs
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Attachments: Slides
Video: Youtube
Virtual and Outdoor Community Potluck
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: Food is essential…to family, identity, and community building. We have been away from each other for too long! Please join this year’s virtual AND f2f outdoor campus community “potluck” as we share with one another through FOOD! You are invited to make a special dish or share a recipe that is important to your family, identity and community. For those who meet on campus f2f, we have an approved safety plan (socially distanced, hand sanitizer, etc.) and if you feel comfortable, we will be able to share food. Plates and utensils will be provided. If not, just bring your own food and meet new people! We can’t wait to see you!
Format: Zoom Meeting** or Meet on Lawn In front of Library
Guided Pathways Update: What have we accomplished and what are we doing this year?
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: Guided Pathways is here and its presence on campus will become more visible over the coming year. Come learn what has been implemented, what we are doing and how Guided Pathways will impact your work. There will be time for Q&A and an opportunity to learn how to stay connected and involved with this work.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the Guided Pathways work accomplished last year.
- Identify the Guided Pathways priorities, goals and organizational structure for this year.
- Understand how Guided Pathways intersects with other campus initiatives.
- Articulate how Guided Pathways impacts the work you do on campus.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Third Annual Assessment Retreat for Faculty
Time: 2:30- 4:00pm
Target audience: faculty
Description: “Exciting” and “Assessment” may not be words that readily go together, but for the 2021-22 academic year, these words definitely align! We can’t wait to see you at the 3rd annual Opening Week Assessment Retreat, where you will learn about exciting assessment happenings AND take a big task OFF your plate before classes even start (the magic is in #4 below!). This school year will propel course and college-level assessment innovations that have been in the works, making Highline a rising “force” in assessment compilation and reporting. YOUR great work with students is key to that momentum!
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify how survey results from the Highline Guided Pathways Research Team will inform outcomes assessment.
- Identify Assessment Committee goals for the upcoming academic year.
- Identify Highline’s first core competency assessment strategy in preparation for individual department participation.
- Construct the Department Annual Review for departmental course-level assessment planning for the 2021-22 academic year.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Friday, September 24, 2021
Returning to the Classroom
Time: 9:00am-10am
Target audience: faculty who are teaching on campus fall quarter
Description: Come learn about the planning and safety procedures put in place to ensure a safe return to the classroom. As well as your role and the resources at your disposal to support you in reinforcing the safe return to campus requirements and policies. Bring your questions.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
60th Anniversary Information and Idea Generation Session
Time: 9:00am-9:45am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: Come learn about what is planned to celebrate our 60th anniversary and how to get involved.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Keynote: Equality failed the system: Re-building the institution by Understanding the impact of Pandemics and Crises through an equity lens
Description: Racial and Covid pandemics spotlight on the intersection of institutional, community, and personal oppression
Speaker: Nellie Tran
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format: Zoom Meeting*
Presentation Recording: Recording
Division and Department Meetings and Retreats
Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Target audience: faculty
Format Zoom Meeting* See your division/ department for exact time and Zoom login details.
*Each department will provide their own link
WPEA Classified Staff Training: Self-Care and Self-Advocacy
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Target audience: Classified staff
Description: As we slowly move into a new-normal, while still navigating this ever changing pandemic, things can get more overwhelming than they used to. Are you taking the time each day to breathe? Are you taking the time to care for yourself? Are you taking the steps needed to make sure you receive the support you need from work and family? During this hour we will talk about different ways we care for ourselves and ways that we can advocate at home and work for the things that we need.
Format: Zoom Meeting*
2020 Opening Week Schedule
note: * All of the Zoom link information for Opening Week is saved on the college’s Google drive. In order to access this information, one must be logged into their Highline College Google account.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Welcome Day Program
Time: 9:00am-11:00am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Presentation Recording: Recording
Faculty and Staff of Color & Allies Reception
Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Welcome New Employees
Time: 1:45pm-2:45pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Division and Department Meetings
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm
Target audience: faculty
Topics: Accreditation among other departmental needs
Format: See your division/ department for exact time and Zoom login details.
WPEA Classified Staff Forum
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Target audience: Classified Staff – Both Dues paying and Non-paying Dues Members
Format Zoom Meeting*
Description: Come meet your Shop Stewards and WPEA Union representative and hear about all things Union! What committees are we on, what are the benefits of being a dues paying member, and what is all this bargaining and contract talk? Those are all things we will be discussing during this meeting.
Meeting Outcomes
- Gain knowledge of important information about our union on campus
- Understanding of who the Shop Stewards are, what Shop Stewards do, and have a chance to sign up for training.
- Understanding of how Contract Bargaining works, when to expect voting ballots, the process of voting in a new contract
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Breakout Session
Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions
Breakout Session
Time: 10:15am-11:15am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Learning Outcomes: see individual breakout sessions
Student Panel with Q&A
Time: 11:30am-12:15pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Description: This student panel will consist of student leaders from various areas of campus who will share their experience navigating Highline and a COVID-transformed world in the past seven months. Students will share what went well, what they learned, and how Highline can better support students as we navigate multiple pandemics and movements, namely the COVID-19 pandemic and the global uprisings.
Learning Outcomes:
- To better understand what working with students will look like over this coming year (in a remote learning and unpredictable environment)
- To better understand how both the coronavirus pandemic and global uprisings have impacted student learning in regards to core theme #1
- To see how the small and large actions and decisions we make, can bolster student success and have strong implications for the school year
- Understanding grit, resilience, accountability, and expectations for students in an equity lens
Accreditation Activity
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Target audience: staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Presentation Recording: Recording
Description:
- Learn the fastest ways to access and review the Mission Fulfillment Report and the Year Seven Self-Study Report.
- Enjoy game show answers to improve their understanding of Core Themes, Mission, and accreditation
- Work in small groups to consider how their work supports improvements to their work-related indicators in the MFR.
Learning Outcomes:
- Able to identify something you or your team did in response to evidence, to be more effective around a specific core theme, objective, or indicator in the Mission Fulfillment Report.
- Able to access the MFR and the accreditation self-study Year Seven report
Professional Development for Faculty Advising Updates
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Target audience: faculty
Format Zoom Meeting*
Description: Faculty Advising is essential to student success. We want you to feel prepared entering this new academic year.
Throughout this session, advising council representatives will briefly share an overview of the behind the scenes work with ctcLink & advising council.
We will discuss materials and resources that are available to support your advising needs, as well as host a panel of students ready to share their advising experiences. This is a time for reflection and feedback in effort to maximize our efforts during a time of seemingly endless transitions.
Learning Outcomes:
- Attendees will understand the impact of ctcLink on advising
- Attendees will reflect on advising experiences and needs for success
- Attendees will be able to identify advising resources
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Highline’s Response to Budget Challenges
Time: 9:00-10:30 am
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Presentation Recording: Recording
Description: Executive Cabinet will provide an update to the campus on the current budget situation, enrollment trends and the stratieges and steps the college will be taking over the next year to address these challenges.
Community Pantry Donation Drop-off(Contactless)
Time: 11:00 am -2:00 pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Description: The Highline College Community Pantry provides incredibly valuable support for our Highline community. The Pantry is currently seeking household and personal care item donations. Drop off household and personal care items such as laundry detergent, dish soap, disinfecting wipes and household cleaners, pads/tampons, razors, deodorant, lotion, etc. The pantry is not currently asking for food donations. All donations will be used to help students dealing with COVID-19 during the ThunderWeek distribution event happening Friday, October 2nd.
How to Participate: Drop off household and personal care item donations just outside of the Community Pantry at the parking lot for building 16. Please follow the marked route.
For more details and to see the marked route, see the Highline Serves! 2020 Community Service Projects page
Virtual Community Potluck + super awesome special guest
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Description:
Food is essential…to family, identity, and community building. Please join this year’s virtual campus community potluck as we share with one another through FOOD! You are invited to make a special dish or share a recipe that is important to your family, identity and community. We can’t wait to learn about you!
There will also be an opportunity to contribute a photo and recipe to the upcoming Highline Community Potluck Recipe book. No need to bring dessert, we have a special guest to remind us of the importance of community.
Assessment Goals Retreat for Faculty
Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm
Target audience: faculty
Format Zoom Meeting*
Description: Did you know we have new college core competencies? These college-level outcomes, too, will need to be assessed regularly to validate that our students are getting the education we promise.
Learn more and give your input on the proposed core competency assessment rubrics at this year’s assessment retreat!
We will begin as a large group to introduce the competencies and why we have adopted them, and then split into smaller groups to look at the proposed rubrics and provide feedback to the assessment committee.
Guided Pathways for Faculty Coordinators
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Target audience: faculty coordinators
Format Zoom Meeting*
Description: TBD
Learning Outcomes: TBD
Friday, September 25, 2020
Keynote: Transforming Trauma – How to do this work and sustain
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Speaker: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky from the Trauma Stewardship Institute
Target audience: faculty and staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Presentation Recording: Recording
Description: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky from the Trauma Stewardship Institute will join us to frame this upcoming academic school year of transition and ambiguity in the light of multiple pandemics and movements, namely the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings. This keynote dives into Highline’s work related to trauma/secondary trauma and finds ways to sustain as an institution and individuals. The keynote aligns with HC’s Core Theme 1 – Promoting Student Engagement, Learning, and Achievement.
Laura will engage with Highline faculty and staff related to topics of racial trauma, increased anxiety/depression related to COVID-19 and isolation, support for HC’s faculty/staff dealing with compassion fatigue, and the negative impact of trauma on student success.
Learning Outcomes
- Raising awareness and responding to the cumulative toll on those who are exposed to the suffering, hardship, crises, or trauma of humans, other living beings or the planet itself.
- To help others develop a deeper understanding of trauma exposure and the tools for reconciling such exposure, so folks can do their work sustainably.
- Teach people in a broad base of fields how to create a sustainable individual and collective culture.
Topics:
- Identify the Trauma that we are all experiencing: We are all in the same ocean but in different boats.
- Setting the Context for Cumulative Toll: We will discuss the context for how a cumulative toll arises and how we’ll engage in this conversation. We’ll discuss some principles that may be helpful in taking in the information.
- The Trauma Exposure Response: These are the specific manifestations of cumulative toll. From numbing to anger to cynicism we’ll dive deeply into how one is impacted individually and collectively.
- How to Sustain Individually: We’ll look at very concrete strategies for how to create sustainability for oneself individually.
- How to Sustain Collectively: We’ll broaden the conversation by looking at how to create sustainability for oneself within a larger context as well as how to create larger organizational, institutional, and movement-level change.
Handouts
WPEA Classified Union Forum
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Target audience: Classified Staff
Format Zoom Meeting*
Description: Let’s talk Benefits and Professional Development and other training and learning opportunities! Come learn about the different benefits that we have as union members, and as Washington State Employees, as well as the various different ways that Classified Staff can pursue Professional Development and how to get the training that you want.
We will do a quick EAP Orientation and discussion the various benefits you can get from EAP, as well as different trainings and webinars that they offer. We will talk about funding that is available to help pay for PD Opportunities you might want to go after. We will talk about scholarships and free education the union offers.
We will talk about STTACC and the different opportunities they provide Classified Staff around the state for Professional Development. Lastly, in this session, the Shop Stewards want to hear from you! If we were able to have forums for all Professional Development Days and Weeks, what kind of trainings would you like to see? Come prepared to share your interests so that we can look at having more opportunities on campus for PD.
Meeting Outcomes
- Knowledge of the Employee Assistant Program and what they offer
- Knowledge of the different ways the union can help with continuing education
- Knowledge of the way members can pursue PD or continue their education on campus
- Knowledge of other opportunities for Classified Staff to get PD through other outlets across the state
- Shop Stewards will gain understanding on what PD Classified Staff what to be able to participate in during PDDs.
Division and Department Meetings and Retreats
Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Target audience: faculty
Format: See your division/ department for exact time and Zoom login details.
Campus Event Statement:
If you need accommodations due to a disability, please contact Access Services at (206) 592-3857 (voice), (206) 592-4853 (TTY), or by email at access@highline.edu.
2019 Opening Week Schedule
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
All Campus Breakfast
8:15 – 9:00 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Welcome Day Program
9:00 – 10:45 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Faculty and Staff of Color & Allies Reception
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room, Building 8
The One-Stop Course Launch Shop –
Description
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Library Classroom, Room 206A
Division and Department Meetings
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Various locations campus-wide.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
All Campus Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Diversity Programs and Global Initiative tables
More Information
8:00 – 2:00 p.m.
(Mt. Townsend)
Study Abroad Student Panel
8:45 – 9:15 a.m.
(Mt. Townsend)
Overview of the Breakout Sessions and Day Schedule
9:15 – 9:20 a.m.
(Mt. Townsend)
Breakout Sessions
9:30 – 11:45 a.m.
View workshop descriptions and locations. (Click Here For Breakout Sessions)
HCEA Faculty Luncheon
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room, Building 8
Carpool Matchmaker
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
A fun event (with snacks) for all the frustrated commuters out there who are ready for a driving partner in their life that will take their I-5 hustle to the next level!
Come and meet other perturbed Tacoma, Puyallup, Milton, West Seattleites, or even east-siders that live in your neighborhood. This could be the carpool lane ticket that changes your life forever!
Don’t live your life alone on a jammed freeway when you can be carpool-karaoke’ing your way to work.
Mt. Skokomish, Building 8
The One-Stop Course Launch Shop –
Description
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Library Classroom, Room 206A
Volunteer Service Event
Go Here
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Professional Development for Faculty Advising – Highline Pathways
More Information
9:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Meet in Building 7
Celebrating Our Diversity
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Join and Participate in the Celebrating Highline Diversity by presenting a culture/heritage, ethnic food, and/or music.
More about Celebrating Our Diversity
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Come Welcome New Employees
Description
(Sponsored by the President’s Office)
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room, Building 8
Friday, September 20, 2019
Assessment Goals Retreat for Faculty
Description
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Mt. Townsend, Building 8
Division and Department Meetings and Retreats
11:00 a.m.
Various locations campus-wide.
2018 Opening Week Schedule
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
All Campus Breakfast
8:15 – 9 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Welcome Day Program
9 – 11 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Faculty and Staff of Color & Allies Reception
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room, Building 8
Division and Department Meetings
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Various locations campus-wide.
Bookstore Open House
3:30 – 4:30 p.m., Highline Bookstore 2nd Floor, Building 8
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Breakout Sessions
9:30 – 11:45 a.m.
View workshop descriptions and locations.
HCEA Faculty Luncheon
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room, Building 8
Department/Division Meetings, and Instructional Planning
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Various locations campus-wide.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Professional Development for Faculty Advising – Highline Pathways
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Meet in Building 7
New President’s Meet and Greet
2 – 3:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room, Building 8
College Success Kick-off
5 – 7:30 p.m.
Mt. Townsend, Building 8
Sponsored by Academic Affairs
Friday, September 21, 2018
Campus Breakfast and Professional Development
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Poster Session
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Building 8
- The Jelly Team, Katy Kachmarik
- ROV Technology, Jessica Lotz
- Tracking Nudibranch Populations
- Accessible Technology
- CanvAssistance, Marc Lentini
- Highline Community Pantry, Lauren Wearsch
- ACHIEVE, Julie Pollard
- Black & Brown Summit, Black & Brown committee members
- Y.E.L.L. Summit, Y.E.L.L. committee members
- Tennis Court Repurposing, Fawzi Belal
- Puget Sound Welcome Back Center, Linda Faaren
Community Service Projects
10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Various locations throughout the community.
View Community Service Projects.
2017 Schedule
Tuesday – September 19, 2017
All Campus Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Welcome Day Program
9:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Faculty and Staff of Color & Allies Reception
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room, Building 8
Division and Department Meetings
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Various locations campus-wide.
Bookstore Open House
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., Bookstore 2nd Floor, Building 8
Wednesday – September 20, 2017
Breakfast – Hosted by Student Services
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Building 6
Breakout Sessions
9:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
View workshop descriptions and locations.
HCEA Faculty Luncheon
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Mt. Constance/Olympus Room Building 8
Department/Division Meetings, and Instructional Planning
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Various locations campus-wide.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Breakfast – Hosted by Academic Affairs
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
OPEN HOUSE: Academic Success Centers
Building 25 (6th Floor)
Professional Development for Faculty Advising – Highline Pathways
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Meet in Building 7
College Success Kick-Off
Student Services Open House/Tours
Faculty Advising (various locations)
2 p.m. – 7 p.m.
2 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Faculty Advising and Resource Tables (Building 8)
2 p.m.-5 p.m.: Services Open House and Campus Tours (various locations)
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.: Evening Info Sessions (TBA)
View Agenda
Friday, September 22, 2017
All Campus Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Mt. Townsend Dining Room, Building 8
Community Service Projects
10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Various locations throughout the community.