Hear Washington State Attorney General and Honors alum Rob McKenna, ’85, and daughter Madeleine McKenna, a current Honors student, to share the roots of their commitments to service and leadership.
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Gifted education expert to join College of Education and direct Robinson Center for Young Scholars
Dr. Nancy B. Hertzog will join the University of Washington’s College of Education faculty as professor and become director of the Robinson Center for Young Scholars. Dr. Hertzog will come from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she has directed the University Primary School since 1995 and will begin her work at the UW in the fall of 2010.
Watch: Alumni of Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break on its impact
This short film by UAA alumna Sophia Agtarap (’01), a participant in the University of Washington’s first Pipeline Alternative Spring Break, takes a look at the program, 10 years later.
Student Artists: Help design the cover of the 2010-11 UW Common Book!
The University of Washington COMMON BOOK project is seeking an artist to develop cover art for the front and back covers of the 2010 UW COMMON BOOK. Portfolios due by 5 p.m. Monday, April 5, 2010.
UW students to volunteer in rural Washington classrooms for an Alternative Spring Break
Each spring, some 50 University of Washington undergraduates forgo the typical spring break trappings of beaches and flip-flops, choosing instead to volunteer in rural and tribal communities throughout Washington state as part of the UW Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break program.
UAA Service Awards for February-March 2010
Congratulations and thank you to these Undergraduate Academic Affairs employees who reached milestones in their service to the University.
Anthropology students and Pike Place Senior Center members connect over oral histories
The Carlson Leadership and Public Service Center connects UW classes with community-based organizations so students experience first-hand what they are learning about and so organizations benefit from student service. “Hello in There” looks at Holly Barker’s anthropology class, a reciprocal learning experience for both students and members of the Pike Place Senior Center.
Mary Gates Endowment for Students announces annual scholarship awardees
The Mary Gates Endowment for Students at the University of Washington has announced a total of 112 awardees for its respected scholarship program. The applicants were selected to receive the award for their work on research and leadership projects.
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, February-March 2010
Dear UAA Colleagues,
Certain changes are afoot for our campus as part of the strategic steps the University will take in response to the ongoing economic climate. Our tuition will increase. We will increase the number of undergraduate students on campus. They will be ever more diverse and we will continue to be an institution with high standards, asking our students to engage in inquiry in many ways.
These moves crystallize the fundamental purpose of Undergraduate Academic Affairs: to deepen, enrich, and engage all students from the moment they enter to the moment they graduate.
I recently asked some of our faculty: What do you want most for our freshmen? What do you want them to experience and know? In different ways, each faculty member said we want freshmen to find their community, to find a way to engage at the UW. Secondly, we want their engagement to lead to deep, critical, rigorous thinking. We want our students to always be asking new questions.
As they interview and prepare for a new group of Freshmen Interest Group leaders, as they look to the future of Freshmen Interest Groups, Becky Francoeur and LeAnne Wiles in First Year Programs are addressing these questions.
As we challenge our students more, as we invite an increasingly diverse range of students to our campus, my appreciation for the ways Undergraduate Academic Affairs reaches across campus is growing. Collaborations that Janice DeCosmo and Debbie Wiegand are forming with colleagues in the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity prepare us for centralizing the work of diversity and reaffirming our commitment to creating research, experiential, and critical engagement opportunities for every student who so desires. In a year from now, you will see the reformation of the floor plan in Mary Gates Hall’s ground floor in service of these ends.
I am happy to welcome a new director of the Robinson Center. Professor Nancy Hertzog will be joining us from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where her interests include instructional strategies that challenge all children and gifted programming practices. We look forward to Nancy’s leadership at the Robinson Center.
Leadership and leadership opportunities can become the sine qua non of our work. A prominent and core competency of UAA is creation of leadership opportunities for students and formation of student leaders. For years, UAA has provided real, genuine, and lasting leadership opportunities. They’ve been Mary Gates Venture, Research, and Leadership Scholars; Honors students with a desire to do a little more; Freshmen Interest Group leaders and orientation leaders; and more.
These past few months, we’ve been talking a great deal about the budget. To be sure, the coming months will also be months for UAA to live up to its mission. Now is the time for us to lead.
Sincerely,
Ed Taylor
Vice Provost & Dean
University of Washington Received National Recognition for Community Service, Named to President’s Honor Roll
The University of Washington has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. The UW is the only public, 4-year institution in Washington state to receive this recognition this year.