President, Education ​/ Teaching

Highline College President

Highline College seeks an innovative, collaborative, and mission-driven leader to serve as its next President. As one of the most diverse colleges in the country, Highline College is deeply committed to social justice, student success, and creating equitable pathways that empower students to achieve their educational and professional goals. The President will lead this dynamic institution in advancing a vision of belonging, closing opportunity gaps, and strengthening partnerships that enhance the economic and social vitality of the globally diverse communities it serves.

Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the President will provide strategic leadership that advances Highline's commitment to access, learning, community engagement, and organizational excellence while ensuring the long-term sustainability and impact of the College.

Highline College stands at a pivotal and exciting moment in its history. The institution is engaged in a comprehensive transformation designed to strengthen student success, advance equity, and position the college for long-term sustainability and impact. Highline is reimagining how it serves its diverse communities through intentional, institution-wide change.

The next president will inherit an institution with significant momentum and a community eager to continue this important work. The successful candidate will embrace and accelerate these transformational efforts by leading with courage, inclusivity, and strategic vision, building trust across the campus community, and ensuring that Highline's commitment to equity and student success translates into measurable and enduring impact. The president will have a unique opportunity to guide a college that is not merely adapting to change, but intentionally redefining what an equitable, student-centered college can be.

Highline College is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the Secretary of the United States Department of Education.

The Board of Trustees is a five-member board that is appointed by the Governor of the State of Washington and confirmed by the Washington State Senate. The role of the Board is to oversee all operations of the College. On behalf of the people of the state of Washington, the five-member Board of Trustees governs Highline College by providing strategic perspective and definitive leadership in determining the programs to be provided by the College and by specifying the guiding policies and principles the President will use in operating the College.

As a South King County college striving for social justice, Highline College partners with global students as they envision, plan and achieve their educational and professional goals.

Highline College creates anti-racist, equitable pathways in higher education to close opportunity gaps experienced by our students. We support employees to foster the conditions for student and workplace equity. We accept people as they are and honor the life experience they bring. We are cultivating a collaborative learning community that centers the well-being of the whole person and provides a sense of belonging.

We highly regard the families and support systems that enable our success and acknowledge that by working together we are limitless.

Highline College seeks to live out these values in everyday practice:
Accessibility, Accountability, Cultural Responsiveness and Agency, Environmental Sustainability, Equity-First Focus, Life Long Learning, Partnership with local and global communities, Respect, Social Justice, Student Centered Approaches and Transparency.

No matter who students are or where they come from, they are welcome at Highline College. As one of the most diverse colleges in the United States, Highline prioritizes diversity, equity, inclusion, and access for all students, faculty, and staff, as evidenced through its Mission, Vision, and Values and its unwavering commitment to educational equity and social justice.

Students come to Highline with unique personal experiences, beliefs, identities, and…