About Our College
Students and Community: At the Heart of All We Do
Our Mission
Edmonds Community College is a leader in providing quality opportunities for learning and service, responding to the dynamic needs of our diverse community.
Philosophy
Edmonds Community College is a community of learners, which upholds integrity and high educational standards and affirms the value of lifelong learning, community engagement, and sustainability. We strive to serve the needs of the individual and honor diversity of culture, ethnicity and thought. We see education as a collaborative process, valuing innovation, change and accountability.
Core Themes, Strategic Directions, and Key Performance Indicators
The college has identified six mission-related core themes that manifest essential elements of its mission. Strategic directions have been articulated for each core theme, and key performance indicators (or KPIs) have been established to evaluate accomplishment of the core themes and strategic directions.
Find out more about the core themes, strategic directions and key performance indicators.
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.
Find out more about the college's Accreditation.
