Highline Community College Foundation has established the Sugar Tiger Scholarship Endowment through a generous donation from the college’s Board of Trustee Dr. Elizabeth Chen and her husband, Mark.

“The Foundation Board of Directors was delighted to hear of the Chens’ generous donation. We are most grateful for their support of Highline Community College,” said Lori DeVore, president of the Board of Directors for the HCC Foundation.

The scholarship will benefit low-income, single parents who plan on continuing their higher education at a four-year university or college.

One $1,000 scholarship will be awarded in fall 2010. Additional scholarships will be awarded annually beginning in fall 2011.

Federal Way residents Elizabeth and Mark Chen are longtime supporters of Highline and higher education in Washington state.

Elizabeth Chen was appointed to Highline’s Board of Trustees in November 1995 and re-appointed in September 1999 and October 2004. She has served on the Board of Trustees as the chair from 2001-2002 and 2006-2007 and was vice chair from 1996-1998 and 2005-2006.

In May 2006, she was named the “Trustee of the Year” by Washington state’s Trustees Association of Community and Technical Colleges, honoring her years of service to Highline and the higher education system.

In November 2007, she was elected to serve as the Pacific region director on the board of the national Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) for a two-year term.

She has also served as the chair from 2005-2007 and vice chair from 2003-2005 of ACCT’s Diversity Committee.

She currently is a board member of the HCC Foundation.