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Highline College has received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education for the third consecutive year.
“Highline is honored to receive this award for the third year in a row and to be recognized for our commitment to diversity and the work we do every day on our campus,” said Highline President Jack Bermingham. “Diversity is more than a program or an initiative at Highline; it is the soul of our institution.”
As a recipient of the annual HEED Award – a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion – Highline will be featured along with 91 other recipients in Insight Into Diversity magazine’s November 2015 issue.
Highline also received the HEED Award in 2013 and 2014.
Insight Into Diversity magazine selected recipients based on exemplary diversity and inclusion initiatives, and ability to embrace a broad definition of diversity on campus, including gender, race, ethnicity, veterans, people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community.
“Our standards are high, and we look for institutions where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being accomplished every day across a campus,” said Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of Insight Into Diversity magazine.
Highline is the most diverse college in Washington and was one of only two colleges in the state, and the only community college in Washington, to receive the 2015 HEED Award. Diversity is one of the college’s core themes and its current success was also validated when Highline won the Twenty-First Century Colleges’ National Award of Excellence for Advancing Diversity in 2014 from the American Association of Community Colleges and Bermingham was named as a Diversity Visionary by Insight Into Diversity.
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