May 28, 2020
2020-21 Monthly Message Themes
Coordinating our messaging around monthly themes has proven to be a great way to maximize the effectiveness of our communications. We’ll again be using monthly themes in 2020-21, and the schedule for those themes is outlined below. Stories and social media posts that align with these themes are also more likely to be shared using central assets, such as the UW home page and the UW’s social media channels.
New this year is a theme focusing on population health, which encompasses human health, environmental resilience, and social and economic equity. You can learn more about population health as a concept and about the work of the Population Health Initiative on the initiative’s website.
The themes for the 2020-21 academic year appear below and in this printable PDF. For more information, check out this blog post or e-mail Jack Martin.
| Month | Theme | Strategic Considerations |
| July | Proven Impact #UWdiscovers |
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| August | Our Public Promise #UWserves |
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| September | BeBoundless #BeBoundless |
Celebrating the impact of the Be Boundless – For Washington, For the World campaign and the UW’s many supporters 9/1: Application for fall 2021 freshman admission opens 9/30: First day of autumn quarter classes |
| October | Population Health #PopulationHealth |
Highlighting the UW’s contributions to improving population health |
| November | Leading-Edge Student Experience #HuskyExperience |
11/15: Application for fall 2020 admission to Seattle campus closes |
| December | This is UW #ThisIsUW |
Celebrating student, faculty, staff and alumni accomplishments |
| January | Our Public Promise #UWserves |
1/11: Start of 2021 legislative session 1/15: Priority application deadline for fall 2021 freshman admission to UW Bothell and UW Tacoma |
| February | Proven Impact #UWdiscovers |
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| March | Innovation Mindset #UWinnovates |
Early March: Admission offers go out |
| April | Leading-Edge Student Experience #HuskyExperience |
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| May | Be Boundless #BeBoundless |
5/1: Decision deadline for fall 2021 freshmen |
| June | This is UW #ThisIsUW |
6/12: Seattle Commencement 6/13: Bothell Commencement 6/14: Tacoma Commencement |