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Highline Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Highline was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County. With approximately 10,000 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state's largest institutions of higher education.
• Highline offers you the opportunity to complete the first two years of a four-year bachelor's degree and to learn important skills that will help you achieve your career goals. Our services and programs include academic transfer programs of study, occupational degrees and certificates, career and academic support services, professional development, customized training, personal enrichment, workforce training and employment security assistance.
• Highline Community College offers three degree and three certificate choices: Associate of Arts (AA) degree, Associate of Science (AS) degree, Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree, Certificate of Completion (CC), Certificate of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and Certificate of Proficiency.
• Highline Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges and Universities of the Northwest Association of Schools and of Colleges and Universities, an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the United States Department of Education.
• Profile last updated: 10/19/2009.

In the News:

• Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Scattered clouds, 48.2 °F (Ballard News-Tribune)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 07:50:19 pm
  The Sea-Tac International Airport/SeaTac City Center light rail station will begin service at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 19. U.S. Sen. Patty Murray made the announcement Friday morning, Nov. 13, inside the new station at International Boulevard South and South 176th Street.
• Seattle Official Says Man Waged ‘War’ on the Police (New York Times)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 02:15:33 am
  The man, Christopher Monfort, 41, was charged Thursday with aggravated first-degree murder in the death of an officer.
• Des Moines man convicted of Internet threats against Boeing, Chevron, Shell (Kent Reporter)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 05:58:08 pm
  A U.S. District Court jury convicted a 47-year-old Des Moines man Friday of 19 felony counts in connection with threats he made against the Boeing Co., Shell Oil and Chevron Oil.
• Bombs, guns found at home of suspect in Officer Brenton's slaying (Seattle Times)
  posted on November 8, 2009 at 08:27:08 am
  Seattle police detectives are trying to determine why Christopher John Monfort, 41, suspected of arson and deadly shooting, held a grudge against officers that apparently spiraled from destructive to deadly in so little time. Police on Saturday labeled him a "domestic terrorist" who was apparently acting alone and whose motives remain under investigation.
• Flags were key link to cop slaying, bombings (Seattle Times)
  posted on November 7, 2009 at 07:07:44 pm
  An American flag left at the scene of Officer Timothy Brenton's slaying on Halloween and at a city maintenance yard where four police vehicles were torched on Oct. 22 gave investigators a key link between the two crimes even before a Tukwila man was identified as the suspect.

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