The Center
The Center is located in this building.
What is Building 8?
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What is Student Union Building?
All people deserve an abundance of opportunities to authentically connect with one another and be in community. We foster access and culturally responsive ways of leading and making change in our society.
What is Global Community?
The Center has this much Core teams.
What is 8?
Race prejudice + social and institutional power
What is Racism
The closest AED machine to the Center office is located in this building.
Where is Building 6?
The area where people can hangout and play chess or eat lunch together by the window overlooking the water?
What is the "Hot Tub of Knowledge?"
Student leaders are community members and scholars first. We maximize our greatest potential by practicing self-care. Our highest standards are actualized through showing up as our best selves.
What is Sustainable Excellence?
The day and time Core meetings happen.
When is Monday and 4pm?
The various ways people differ, including the race, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, religion, economic class, etc.
What is Diversity
A place full of information for your academic needs and research through either printed or online publications.
What is the Library?
The Center falls under this division.
What is Student Services Divison?
Leaders work with a generous purpose and use their skills to honor the diversity and intersecting identities at Highline College. We work on behalf of our community and seek culturally responsive ways to affirm, highlight, uplift and advance their vibrant voices.
What is Inclusion?
We share this type of statement at the beginning of events to express gratitude and honor the traditional and ongoing stewards of the land.
What is Land Acknowledgement?
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What is Land and Labor Acknowledgement?
A state of belonging, when persons of different backgrounds and identities are valued, integrated, and welcomed equitably as decision-makers and collaborators.
What is Inclusion?
Highline College's mascot.
What is a Thunderbird?
This is the complete name of CCIE.
What is Center for Cultural and Inclusive Excellence?
Recognizing the complex intersections of identities within our communities, we equip students with a broader perspective and educate them to deconstruct oppression, empowering them to be social change agents. We provide experiences to reconstruct social behavior and frameworks needed for all to advance in a more equitable society.
What is Social Justice?
The 30second to sometimes 1minute talk to engage someone or talk about your role.
What is Elevator Speech?
The A in LGBTQIA+.
What is Asexual
The S in S.P.A.R.K.
What is Sincerity
The CLS and CCIE believe in serving with intention through their leadership pillars. What are these six (6) pillars?
What is Global Community, Inclusion, Legacy, Social Justice, Sustainable Excellence, and Transformative Leadership?
We inspire students to narrate their own story by creating space that allows growth and development. We challenge our community to find their authentic voice, to honor their value and belief systems while discovering their identity. Our work is student centered; our impact transcends to the greater community.
What is Transformative Leadership?
The leadership retreat that is required for all Core leaders to attend.
What is Winter Leadership Retreat?
This umbrella term refers to folks who, due to the way our society has constructed race, are most impacted by systemic racism.
What is People of Color?
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What is Communities of Color?
The series of events during first week of the quarter.
What is Thunderweek?