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February 8, 2024

Celebrating Black History Month

The 2024 theme of Black History Month is “African Americans and the Arts,” which explores the key influence African Americans have had on visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary, and other forms of cultural expression. African American artists have used art to preserve history and community memory as well…


November 9, 2023

Raise the Bar Transfer Summit

Today, November 9th, CCRI Director Lia Wetzstein joins fellow delegates selected to represent Washington state at the Raise the Bar Transfer Summit where over 200 higher education professionals are gathered. This summit brings together state, institution, and other leaders in the field and is part of the Raise the Bar: Attaining College Excellence & Equity…


November 7, 2023

STEM Transfer Partnership’s Convening 4

We are excited to share the great work being accomplished with this community of practice which is dedicated to improving transfer for STEM students from low-income backgrounds. The STEM Transfer Partnerships program convened for the 4th time last week and we experienced new connections being made for STEM pathways among 2- and 4-year institutions in…


October 16, 2023

National Transfer Student Week

Happy National Transfer Student Week! Transfer students are an important part of the University of Washington community. As such, we wanted to highlight and celebrate the amazing community of Transfer students and prospective transfer students at our acclaimed university. Make sure to check out the amazing list of events to be held during the week…