Chalisa Thompson and Chase Williams water a bean plant during a class that merges environmental science with sociology at Highline College in Des Moines on Tuesday. “Umoja is really there to show you that... (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Seattle Times: Black scholars find support, success in Highline College pilot program

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By , Seattle Times staff reporter

Four years ago, a group of faculty and staff members at Highline College took an exploratory trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Their mission: Find some way to help more black students earn enough college credit each school year and lower the rate at which they enter remedial classes — which they would pay for at full cost but earn no credit.

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