The Graduate School of the University of Washington provides generative leadership in empowering the excellence of graduate and professional education through advancing diversity and inclusion reflective of a pluralistic society and global community. We acknowledge and support our collective responsibility with faculty, staff, students and administrators across the Bothell, Tacoma and Seattle campuses to engage in transformative efforts at individual and institutional levels that address barriers of exclusion such as racism, heterosexism, ableism, discrimination and unexamined privilege.
We commit to partner with the University and broader community to be boundless in advancing a culture of welcome, reflection, dialogue, and equity in our meetings, classrooms, workspaces, labs as well as our research, scholarship mentorship and recruitment efforts. Through robust and effective engagement of differences of ideas, history, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion, gender identification, national origin, and ethnicity, the Graduate School serves as a catalyst to foster affirming and empowering learning experiences that equip students, staff and faculty to live and promote equity and justice as we build a vibrant and inclusive community of excellence.
The Graduate School has a long history of leadership in implementing and supporting activities and programs that address issues of diversity and inclusion from recruitment of underrepresented minority students, providing scholarships that increase access and success of students of color and first-generation students, creating spaces for discussion and dialogue about race and topics relevant to graduate student success and post-graduate professional opportunities, as well as discussion spaces for graduate students and post-docs to engage interdisciplinary research topics.
Updates and information:
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program
- Diversity Programming for Students
- Diversity Programming for Faculty and Staff
- Diversity Funding Opportunities
- Diversity Reports With support from the Race and Equity Initiative, the Graduate School expanded the Public Lecture Series and added the Diversity Course Series, both key programs for graduate students, faculty and staff.
- Public Lecture Series: Keeping the Conversation Going: Oppression, Transgression and Microaggressions (2015-16) and Privilege (2016- 17)
- Diversity Course Series (2015 -17)
Contact
Gino Aisenberg, PhD, MSW
Associate Dean for Diversity and Student Affairs
The Graduate School
206.616.9365