Advancing the values of diversity, equity and inclusion is core to our mission at the University of Washington. Equity Focus amplifies a sampling of the stories, news and events that highlight this great work happening across our tri-campus community.
Feature Stories
Awakening the canoe: UW Canoe Family prepares for this summer’s Tribal Canoe Journey
For months, the students have come to the Burke Museum classroom at least once a week to carve canoe paddles from yellow cedar.
With only hand tools to shape the wood, the students – mostly University of Washington undergraduates, as well as a few alumni, faculty and staff – carve the traditional Coast Salish paddles not for themselves, but for a canoe, the Willapa Spirit.
DO-IT Center celebrates 30 years of championing students with disabilities, building community
The impact that our program has is building that community, number one, so students can actually feel like they belong somewhere with other people like them,” said Kayla Brown, a DO-IT program coordinator who was a DO-IT Scholar in 2005.
First Muckleshoot cohort became 'a close-knit family of sisters'
To provide more resources for educators, the Muckleshoot Tribal College and the University of Washington Tacoma began offering an educational doctoral program centered on Indigenous curriculum and taught by Indigenous instructors. On June 9, with an in-person ceremony, 10 members of the Muckleshoot cohort received their doctoral degrees.
UW Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Chadwick Allen's New Book Featured
The book is incredibly in-depth and traverses disciplines such as literary studies and archaeology with a critical eye that counters the white supremacist notion of Native earth art forms as bygone or archaic.
UW Tacoma Family Room: Building Momentum
The creation of the Family Room and a registered student organization offer new resources to the Native and Indigenous community at UW Tacoma.
Changing the face of education
Last summer, the School of Educational Studies’ Dr. Allison Hintz, associate professor; Dr. Yue Bian, assistant professor; and Amy Couto, assistant director of Academic Services, were awarded a LEADER initiative grant from College Spark Washington focusing on community-driven solutions to elevate representation in Washington state’s education workforce.