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Welcome Week Activities
Welcome Week at Highland is full of fun! Student Activities has daily events to help you relax and reconnect to HCC as we start fall! Join Success Center staff for workshops each day on everything from transferring and career prep ...
Highland partners with world-class cannabis college to offer the best in cannabis education
Highland Community College has formed a partnership with Oaksterdam University in California to provide HCC students with access to OU’s comprehensive online educational content for cannabis education and resources, including its valuable alumni network. As part of this educational partnership, students ...
Clarence Mitchell Library holds One Book One Highland program
Highland Community College’s Clarence Mitchell Library will hold a One Book One Highland campus reading program this fall. Copies of the book, “What the Fact: Finding the Truth in All the Noise” by Dr. Seema Yasmin, will be available at ...
Highland Trustee Shawn Boldt elected to a second term as ICCTA Board Treasurer
The Highland Board of Trustees is proud to announce Trustee Shawn Boldt has been elected to serve as treasurer for a second term on the Executive Board for the Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA). Boldt was reelected in June. “Being ...
Highland trustee Doug Block receives statewide ICCTA award
Highland Community College Trustee Doug Block of Pearl City received the 2023 Ray Harstein Trustee Achievement Award from the Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA) at a banquet held in June in Bloomington, Ill. The award recognizes exemplary service by ...
Highland Community College Announces 2023 Spring Graduates
Highland Community College announces the 2023 spring graduates. Graduates were awarded academic credentials including associate degrees and certificates. Auburndale: Annalise Jewell, Equine Science-Associate of Applied Science, Stable Manager-Certificate, Equine Riding Instructor-Certificate, General Equine Science-Certificate Baileyville: Jake Thede, Associate of General Studies, Machine ...
Highland Spring 2023 Dean’s list
Highland Community College proudly announces the dean’s list for the spring 2023 semester. Students who have completed 12 credit hours or more during the semester and have a minimum 3.25-grade point average (GPA), based on a 4.0 scale, are included ...
Highland brings ‘Matilda the Musical’ for Summerset 48 to the stage
Highland Community College is excited to bring to the stage the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl’s “Matilda The Musical” for Summerset 48. Production dates for “Matilda the Musical” are June 22, 23, 24, 29, and 30, and July 1 at 7:30 ...
Highland adds new programs in Agriculture, Business, and Education
Students will have new options among the 70-plus programs offered at Highland Community College this year. Whether students follow a transfer pathway or prepare for a trade to get them directly into the workforce, they will find possibilities with certificates, degrees, ...
HCC Early Childhood Education program hosts successful open house
The Early Childhood Education (ECE) program at Highland Community College recently partnered with the YWCA Northwestern Illinois to host roughly a hundred visitors during an April open house at the Children’s Hands-On Museum in the Lincoln Mall. “The spotlight and resources ...