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The College of Forest Resources is one of 16 schools and colleges at the UW, an institution committed to promoting respect for the rights and privileges of others, understanding and appreciation of human differences, and the constructive expression of ideas. The College enrolls about 500 students and employs about 175 faculty and staff at several locations.

We are committed to promoting diversity in our faculty, staff, and student body through both recruitment and retention. We collaborate with diversity efforts and resources across the UW, and have identified the following tasks and goals.

• Track diversity efforts within the College
• Seek new ways of recruiting diverse faculty, staff, and students
• Seek to find and remove barriers to diversity at the College
• Formalize mentoring efforts
• Create partnerships with other diversity efforts, both on and off campus
• Involve diverse members of the College

The College has also developed a graduate opportunity program diversity plan to increase the diversity of the graduate student population.

"Diversity is an integral part of the character of our company. It is very real to us. It gives us unity. It gives us strength. And it gives us talent..."
  Ed Artzt, former CEO, Proctor & Gamble

Diversity-Related Efforts and Resources

ADVANCE
BRIDGES
The Ethnic Cultural Center
Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences
Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences
Rural Technology Initiative
UW Diversity Page
UW Office of Minority Affairs
UW Equal Opportunity Office

Morris Johnson, a College of Forest Resources graduate student, recently co-authored a publication that is being reported by the USDA Forest Service to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget as an example of a scientific product that is highly relevant for management applications.

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