DIVERSITY

The School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is one of 17 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 School 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 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 School
  • Seek new ways of recruiting diverse faculty, staff, and students
  • Seek to find and remove barriers to diversity at the School
  • Formalize mentoring efforts
  • Create partnerships with other diversity efforts, both on and off campus
  • Involve diverse members of the School
The School has also developed a graduate 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
The Harry Bridges Center For Labor Studies
The Ethnic Cultural Center
Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences
UW Diversity Page
UW Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity
UW Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action

Contact:

Laurel James, MS Student, laurelj@uw.edu

Michelle Trudeau, Director, Student and Academic Services, 206-616-1533, michtru@uw.edu

Ernesto Alvarado, Research Associate Professor, 206-616-6920, alvarado@uw.edu