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2022 Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture Featuring Dr. Ali Mokdad
November 8, 2022
The 2022 Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture was held on Thursday, October 20, 2022. The evening began with a reception for Dr. Mokdad at the stunning Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (Kelly ECC) with delicious appetizers and community socialization. Attendees gathered at high-top cocktail tables and chatted together until the crowd moved across the street to Alder Hall…
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2022 Message from the UDO Celebrating Our First-Generation Community
October 31, 2022
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, On Tuesday November 8, the University of Washington joins the Council for Opportunity in Education, NASPA’s Center for First-Generation Student Success, the American Association of Colleges & Universities, and higher education institutions across the country in recognizing the National First-Generation College Celebration. This celebration falls on the anniversary of the signing of the Higher Education…
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Becoming Doctor June Hairston – A First-Generation College Student Journey
October 27, 2022
Dr. June Summers Hairston, commonly referred to by students and colleagues as Dr. June, has worked for the University of Washington for almost 38 years. She began as a Student Activities Adviser in 1979 and worked with ASUW Commission Directors and registered student organizations for six years. Dr. June’s education journey spans four decades, three colleges and universities, and culminated…
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Prime Minister of Tonga Visits the UW
October 13, 2022
Siaosi Sovaleni, the Prime Minister of Tonga addressed the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2022. He spoke to world leaders about the global problems of the climate crisis and emphasized that rising seas and stronger ocean storms are not just troubling to the people of Polynesia, but it is catastrophic to their way of life. Before his speech…
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Perfect Pitch
August 15, 2022
Collaboration between higher education, college access programs, nonprofits and private industry led to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a teen to pitch her ideas to national leaders. One late spring morning in 2022 , 15-year-old Nova Sportsman and 16-year-old Shaelin Triebe, both sophomores at the time at North Central high school in Spokane, Washington went to school like it was any…
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The Work of MOR – Equitable Access to Higher Education
July 15, 2022
As part of the University of Washington’s (UW) promise to expand college access to more Washingtonians, especially those from systemically minoritized groups, UW created the Multicultural Outreach and Recruitment (MOR) team which is housed in the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D). Since the 1980s, MOR has been committed to identifying, attracting, and recruiting American Indian/Alaska Native, Black/African American,…
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Chenoa Henry (Tulalip) Appointed Director of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House
July 1, 2022
The University of Washington Office of Minority Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Chenoa Henry (Tulalip) as the new director for OMA&D’s wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House. Henry’s appointment will begin on August 1, 2022. Chenoa is a Tulalip tribal member and has served as manager of the Grants and Self-Governance Department for Tulalip Tribes of Washington. She has…
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TRIO Programs Upward Bound and STEMsub Team Up to Support Washington Students
June 13, 2022
By Helen Chyz | Academic Advisor | UW Math Science Upward Bound (STEMsub) 69 high school seniors from the University of Washington Upward Bound (UB) and Math Science Upward Bound (STEMsub) programs will be attending the UW Seattle campus this fall, and they have already had the chance to meet to their future advisors in UW Student Support Services (SSS).…
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University of Washington Attends NCORE – 2022
June 12, 2022
From May 31 through June 5, 2022, the 34th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE) convened again for an in-person conference in Portland, Oregon. The UW was well represented in attendance with 84 students, faculty, staff and alumni coming from all three UW campuses registered to attend. Among the day-long pre-conference institutes, and hundreds of…
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Celebration is Back! Highlights from the 2022 Celebration Gala
June 1, 2022
A Message from VP Rickey Hall Thank you for supporting our annual gala, Celebration, presented by the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and the Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program Board! We are grateful to our community of supporters who came together in person and virtually last week to honor Frank Irigon as the Charles E. Odegaard award recipient…