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Center for Experiential Learning
The Center for Experiential Learning connects UW undergraduates with opportunities to participate in research with faculty, to engage in community-based learning and leadership, and to compete for local, national, and international scholarships. Center staff also support faculty and departments to integrate service learning and research into their courses and degree programs.
Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center
The Carlson Center works with faculty, students, and community partners to develop and sustain partnerships that connect community-based learning with academic experiences.
Jumpstart
Jumpstart pairs UW students with low-income Seattle preschool children to build their language and literacy, social, and initiative skills - skills that provide the necessary groundwork for later academic and social success.
Mary Gates Endowment for Students
Scholarships funded by the Mary Gates Endowment for Students create new opportunities for UW undergraduates to participate in research and scholarly work with faculty and to become community leaders.
Pipeline Project
The Pipeline Project links UW students and facilty to tutoring and mentoring opportunities in the Seattle Schools and at rural sites around the state.
Undergraduate Research Program
The Undergraduate Research Program (URP) facilitates research experiences for undergraduates with UW faculty members across the disciplines.
Undergraduate Scholarship Office
The Undergraduate Scholarship Office serves as a clearing house of information on merit-based scholarships; gathering information on funding opportunities, both local and national, for which UW students can apply. The Undergraduate Scholarship Office works with individual students, faculty and staff to assist UW students with the development of tools and personal insights necessary to compete for local and prestigious national scholarships requiring nomination.
Classroom Support Services
CSS provides
comprehensive audio and video expertise to the campus community
and works with faculty, staff and students to enhance learning through
uses of new information technologies, photographic services, an
educational media collection and up-to-date classrooms. CSS also administers the Student Technology Fee/Services & Activity Fee
Equipment Loan Program. Through this program, students may borrow more than
$750,000 worth of equipment. Laptops, digital cameras, data projectors and
more may be borrowed by students for free.
Common Book
Beginning summer 2006, all incoming UW freshmen and transfer students will read the same book. This common intellectual experience helps students find social and academic networks that begin the day they arrive on campus.
The Diversity Working Group
The Diversity Working Group supports Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA) through raising awareness of diversity issues and facilitating ongoing access to UAA resources and programs for all UAA constituents.
Gateway Center
Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment (CLUE)
CLUE is a late-night academic center designed to support all UW undergraduates, with a strong emphasis on freshmen and transfer students who are enrolled in many of the UW's crucial lower-division courses.
First Year Programs
First Year Programs facilitates programs to assist new transfer students, freshmen and their families as they establish and enrich their relationship with the UW community throughout their first year of enrollment.
Undergraduate Advising
Academic counselors at Undergraduate Advising help premajor and preprofessional students develop academic programs to meet their educational goals.
Global Classrooms Project
Global Classrooms integrates international understanding into students' educational experiences at UW by electronically linking students and faculty in inquiry-based courses with parallel courses at institutions in other countries. Office of Educational Assessment
The Office of Educational Assessment provides a variety of services to the UW campus and external agencies including course evaluations, classroom test scoring, test administration, program evaluation, survey research, and assessment of learning outcomes.
Robinson Center for Young Scholars
The Robinson Center for Young Scholars is the gateway through which some of the brightest students in Washington enter the UW after 7th, 8th, or 10th grade.
Teaching Academy
The Teaching Academy offers UW faculty opportunities to participate in workshops and conferences aimed at enhancing their teaching capabilities. The Teaching Academy also sponsors the Distinguished Teaching Award, Excellence in Teaching Award, Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence and the S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award.
University Courses
A set of course offerings begun in 2005, University Courses offer UW students perspective into some of the great questions and themes that have shaped the histories of human thought.
University Honors Program
The University Honors Program provides a rigorous and enhanced educational experience for high-achieving students. The Honors Program engages Honors students in all the benefits of a large, world-class research university through an intimate, liberal arts setting. |
