Core Themes

Strengthen our diverse community
Provide educational opportunities
Help students access career opportunities
Support student success
Encourage innovation, service, and lifelong learning

Values: The Board, Employees, and Students of Our College Value...

Collaboration and Communication

We promote respectful collaboration, communication, and interaction among students and employees.

We develop and maintain a safe, healthy, and professional environment that fosters creativity, innovation, learning, and personal growth.

Responsibility and Accountability

We manage our resources with efficiency and integrity to ensure the long-term health of the college.
We infuse sustainable and transparent practices throughout all aspects of the college's operations and programs.

Innovation and Creativity

We continuously seek opportunities to improve the quality of our lives, the college, our community, and the world.

We explore, create, and evaluate in order to improve.

Inclusion and Respect

We celebrate the individuality and uniqueness of our students and colleagues, as well as the diversity of our college, community, nation, and world.
We require equity and mutual respect.

College-Wide Abilities

Edmonds Community College offers opportunities to integrate knowledge and skills in order to reason clearly; communicate and interact respectfully; explore critically and creatively; and act responsibly. Emphasizing these core, college-wide abilities provides a consistent educational focus that encourages students and members of the college community to develop knowledge, habits and skills for lifelong learning.

Students, who earn any of our two-year degrees or shorter-term certificates, have many opportunities across the curriculum to develop and apply college-wide abilities in preparation for their roles in an increasingly diverse, information-driven society.

Find out more about the college wide abilities and outcomes assessment.
Integrated Planning

Edmonds has worked on improving, better defining, and documenting its integrated planning processes since its spring 2008 Self Study. This work, led by the college’s Institutional Effectiveness Advisory Committee, has resulted in a formal, written plan that standardizes unit-level planning throughout the college. This plan, named the SIMPLE Plan (with SIMPLE standing for: Strategic, Informed, Measurable Process Leading to Effectiveness), was approved by the Board of Trustees on June 10, 2010.

Find out more about the SIMPLE Plan.

See the Integrated Planning diagram that illustrates how the college's guiding principles align with one another.
Accreditation

Accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and governed by the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges.