The Diversity Appraisal Process
The Diversity Appraisal in many ways fulfills the goals of the Diversity Compact, which asked the University to undertake a critical assessment of the way in which we carry out diversity work. Answering a request by students groups to reaffirm the University’s commitment to diversity in the wake of initiative 200, President Richard McCormick, the Board of Regents, student leaders, and administrators signed a Diversity Compact at the Multicultural Alumni Partnership Breakfast on October 21, 2000. They pledged to enhance the diversity of the campus through specific initiatives in outreach, retention, curriculum, and climate.
In December 2003, President Lee Huntsman issued a call to all units of the University to prepare reports on their diversity initiatives. Vice President and Vice Provost Nancy “Rusty” Barceló and a Diversity Appraisal Steering Committee asked that reports address three core questions to guide these reviews:
- How is diversity a visible and active part of your units?
- What are the specific ways that diversity is integrated into your academic mission in regard to your curricula, your undergraduate and graduate students, your faculty, and staff?
- What are the ways in which you have structured your unit so that diversity is institutionalized as part of your criteria for success?
Units from all three campuses engaged in self-assessments. The outcomes of this process are highlighted on this website.
Diversity Appraisal Report
Preface: Why Diversity Matters
I. Steering Committee Observations, Challenges, and Priority Recommendations
II. Overview: Appraising Diversity
IV. Diversity in Student Access and Opportunities
V. Diversity in Student Development and Retention
VI. Diversity in Engagement with External Communities
VII. Staff Diversity
VIII. Faculty Diversity
Unit Reports
Colleges and Schools
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Business School
- College of Architecture and Urban Planning
- School of Dentistry
- College of Education
- College of Engineering
- College of Forest Resources
- The Graduate School Appraisal
- Information School
- School of Law
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
- School of Pharmacy
- School of Public Health
- School of Social Work
- College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences
- Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
Administrative Units, Associations, and Projects
- Advisory Committee on Disability Issues
- Alumni Association
- The Burke Museum
- Center for Workforce Development
- Center for the Study of Demography & Ecology
- Development and Alumni Relations
- Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies
- Equal Opportunity Office
- Financial Management
- GBLT at the UW
- Hall Health Primary Care Center
- Harborview Medical Center
- Health Sciences Administration
- Office of the Executive Vice President
- Office of the President
- Office of the Provost
- Office of Research
- Office of Student Relations
- Office of the Vice President for Minority Affairs and Vice Provost for Diversity (Appendix A)
- Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs
- Office of the Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations
- Office of the Vice Provost Planning and Budgeting
- Office of Undergraduate Education
- Quatenary Research Center
- University of Washington, Bothell
- University of Washington, Tacoma
- University Relations
- UW Educational Outreach
- UW Libraries
- UW Tech Transfer
- UW World Series at Meany Hall
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