Resources
Below is a set of resources intended to support units working on achieving goals identified in the Diversity Blueprint. Each link represents either a unit with which you might seek to partner or a program that serves as an example of an effort to address a goal that you may want to work on in your own unit.
Goal 1: Cultivate an Accessible, Inclusive, and Equitable Climate
The University must actively work to create and maintain learning, working, living, and healthcare spaces in which students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds believe they can thrive.
Goal 1 Resources
Our goal is to foster a welcoming climate that is accessible, inclusive, and equitable across our campus, research, healthcare, and virtual environments.
Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE)
Evans School Equity & Inclusion Survey
Office of Educational Assessment (OEA)
Q Center Climate Survey
Alumni-Student Seminar: Interrupting Privilege
Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW)
Bias Reporting Tool
Compliance and Risk Services (CRS)
Counseling Center
Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity (CCDE)
Center for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (CEDI)
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
D Center
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO IT)
Faculty Senate
Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS)
Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
Instructional Center
Leadership Without Borders (LWB)
LIFE Center // center of the National Science Foundation hosted at UW
Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA)
Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D)
Office of the Ombud
Q Center
Race & Equity Initiative
Resilience Lab
Safer Zone
Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC)
Student Advisory Board
Student Life
Student Senate Resolutions
Student Veteran Life
Undocu Ally Training & Education Program
Undocumented student resources
UW Curriculum Committee
UW Graduate School
Goal 2: Attract, Retain, and Graduate a Diverse and Excellent Student Body
The University must continue to actively recruit and support a diverse body of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Goal 2 Resources
The University must increase its capacity to serve students from communities that are underrepresented in higher education, including students who identify as Indigenous, Black, and People of Color; students from low- and modest-income families; students who identify as disabled, LGBTQ+, veterans, and alumni of foster care; international students; transfer students; and students who are part of recent immigrant populations.
Accounting Career Awareness Program (ACAP)
ALVA Business Professional Development Certificate
Business Educational Opportunity Program (BEOP)
College of the Environment Support for Diversity-Oriented Meetings
Community Health Professions Academy (CHPA)
Direct to College
Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO IT)
Dream Project
GeNOM Project
Husky Promise
Indian Health Pathway (IHP)
Office of Admissions
OMA&D Multicultural Outreach & Recruitment
Olympic STEM Partnership Program (OSPP)
Seattle MESA
State Academic RedShirt (STARS) Program
Summer Health Profession Education Program (SHPEP)
TRIO Student Support Services
UW Alumni Association
Washington STEM
Washington Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA)
Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium
Women’s Center
Women’s Leadership Summit
Young Executives of Color (YEOC)
ASUW Diversity Commissions
Brotherhood Initiative
Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
Disability Resources for Students (DRS)
Health Professions Academy
Interactive Oceans VISIONS
Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D)
Registered Student Organizations (RSOs)
State Academic RedShirt (STARS) Program
Student Life
TRIO Student Support Services
Undergraduate Advising
First Gen Graduate Students // type of student body served by the Core Programs
GEM Grad Lab
GO-MAP Recruitment & Retention Guide
Graduate School
Graduate Funding Information Service (GFIS)
Leadership Without Borders (LWB)
Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion (OSDI)
Summer Health Profession Education Program (SHPEP)
Undocu Ally Training & Education Program
Goal 3: Attract and Retain Diverse Academic Personnel
The University must increase efforts to recruit faculty, post-docs, and other academic personnel from backgrounds that are underrepresented in higher education, including those who identify as Indigenous, Black, and People of Color.
Goal 3 Resources
The University must increase efforts to retain diverse faculty at all ranks and to support the success of diverse academic personnel across the full arcs of their careers.
UW ADVANCE
Committee on Minority Affairs (CMFA) // representation in medicine and
biomed faculty
Handbook of Best Practices for Faculty Searches
Office for Faculty Advancement
Office of Research Central
Office of the Provost
Class C Resolution Concerning Equity, Access and Inclusion in Hiring
Handbook of Best Practices for Faculty Searches
Office for Faculty Advancement search committee workshops
Office of the Provost
Trainings by UW ADVANCE
Class C Resolution Concerning Equity, Access and Inclusion in Hiring
Faculty/Staff Affinity Groups
Office of the Provost
Goal 4: Attract and Retain Diverse Staff
The University must increase efforts to recruit staff from backgrounds that are underrepresented in higher education, including staff who identify as Indigenous, Black, and People of Color.
Goal 4 Resources
The University must increase efforts to retain diverse staff at all ranks and to support the success of diverse staff across the full arcs of their careers.
Faculty/Staff Affinity Groups
Hiring for Diverse Staff Checklist
Latinx Fair // health career fair hosted by the School of Public Health
Staff Diversity Hiring Toolkit
Staff Diversity Workshop for Hiring Managers
UW Human Resources
Faculty/Staff Affinity Groups
Professional & Organizational Development (POD)
The Whole U
Goal 5: Develop Place-Based Education and Engagement to Advance Access, Equity, and Inclusion
The University must provide all students, staff, and faculty with opportunities to better understand the environments in which their learning and work lives take place.
Goal 5 Resources
In particular, the University must rigorously explore its histories of racial, ethnic, and other forms of exclusion and actively engage the histories of the diverse communities within which its Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma campuses are located.
Examples:
Student led project – History of Asian Migration
Visualizing the hidden history of race – University of Minnesota
Professional Staff Organization – Seattle
UW of Tacoma Staff Organization
UW of Bothell Staff Organization
UW Sustainability Plan – Equitable Purchasing
Diversity at the UW
Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D)
OMA&D Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants
Race and Equity Initiative
Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA)
UW Diversity Council
Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
UW of Tacoma
UW of Bothell- Equity & Inclusion
The Whole U – DEI events
Goal 6: Improve Accountability and Transparency at All Levels
University leadership must commit to working towards established goals for diversity, equity, access, and inclusion.
Goal 6 Resources
Leaders at all levels must accept accountability by implementing new initiatives to achieve these goals; ensure that best practices are disseminated across all three campuses and across all of our research, healthcare, and virtual environments; and make clear the University community’s responsibility for advancing diversity, equity, access, and inclusion.
Creating and Sustaining Departmental Diversity Committees
Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action Consultant in Academic HR
Human Resources
OMA&D Diversity & Inclusion Seed Grants
Story Central // platform for sharing UW brand pillar stories
UW Diversity Council
Office for Faculty Advancement
UW ADVANCE
OMA&D Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants
University Advancement
Black Opportunity Fund