It is that time of year again! The Organization of Student Social Workers (OSSW) is looking for the next T-Shirt Design! If you or a friend want to submit a drawing or digital design KEEP READING!

The creator of the winning design will receive a free t-shirt with their design on it!

Check out the flyer for more information. You can scan the URL code on the flyer or go to https://tinyurl.com/osswshirt2019 to submit your design!

Tshirt design 2019Flyer

Please join us for the Health Equity Circle General Assembly on November 4^th from 5:30-7:30pm in SCC 301.

HEC is a interprofessional student group where you can learn how to organize and develop teams to take action on social determinants of health.

Questions: Cassie Pawloski, casspaw@uw.edu

General Assembly 2019

Turn a common barrier to biking — inclement weather — on its head this November and celebrate biking during the rainiest month of the year. Ride in the Rain, a month long mileage challenge hosted by our friends at Washington Bikes, invites seasoned pedalers, new bike riders, and cyclists from all over our state to bike as much as possible for any reason during November 1-30. It’s a fun and free competition to encourage your friends and colleagues to experience firsthand the joys and benefits of riding a bike everywhere and any time, rain or shine!

Sign up for the challenge

16th Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium

Call for Proposals: October 21 through December 9, 2019

UW faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students are invited to share their innovative evidence-based teaching practices or research at the 16th Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium (April 6, HUB Ballroom, UW Seattle campus).

Showcase your work and build community with colleagues from all three campuses. Visit our Call for Proposals page for guidelines and a link to the submission form.

 

Submit your proposal by dec 9

About Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation
SYL Foundation is a public charity founded in 2008. By combining compassion and philanthropy with strategic grant making, SYL Foundation strives to advance quality health care and education for all. Through its grant-making program, the Foundation addresses chronic inequities within the health and education systems by seeking and funding innovative programs serving immigrants and refugees in Washington’s King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. SYL Foundation also provides rapid response grants to local partners, Emergent Needs grants to address urgent issues within the immigrant and refugee community, and Lotus Scholarship grants for immigrant students.

Scope of Work
SYL Foundation is seeking a part-time employee to provide administrative and program support to the Foundation while also assisting with the Foundation’s communications strategy.

Job Description Program and Communications Coordinator

We would appreciate your assistance in letting your students know that the Graduate School is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 International Research and Study Fellowships. Please see the attached announcement for more information.

Graduate students in all tuition-based degree programs are eligible to apply (students in fee-based programs are not eligible). The application deadline is Monday, January 27, 2020 at noon. No late applications will be accepted.

UW Graduate School 2020-21 International Research Study Fellowships

Are your students looking for other funding options to do research overseas?

We highly encourage students to explore the following nationally competitive options, open to U.S. citizens. The Office of Fellowships & Awards can provide assistance with preparing applications:

Boren Fellowships: fund up to 12 months overseas—students must incorporate language study into their plans but can combine with independent research, other academic study, or internships (or propose exclusively to study language). This opportunity is currently quite undersubscribed at the graduate level—nationally, approximately 1 out of 3 applicants were awarded last year! Application deadline is in January; please see our website for scheduled information sessions and application support

206.543.7152
gradappt@uw.edu

NCORE 2020 STUDENT SCHOLARS APPLICATION

SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 16, 2019

NCORE Conference

In 1988, The Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies launched the first Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) to address the resurgence of racist incidents in higher education. Since its inception, NCORE has evolved into a vital national resource for higher education institutions, providing an annual multicultural forum that attracts Black/African Americans, American Indians, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Latino/as, and European Americans representing higher education institutions across the United States.

The NCORE conference series constitutes the leading and most comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in American higher education. The conference focuses on the complex task of creating and sustaining comprehensive institutional change designed to improve racial and ethnic relations on campus and to expand opportunities for educational access and success by culturally diverse, traditionally underrepresented populations.

NCORE is designed to provide a significant forum for discussion, critical dialogue, and exchange of information as institutions search for effective strategies to enhance access, social development, education, positive communication, and cross-cultural understanding in culturally diverse settings.

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UCONJ550: Healthcare in Underserved Communities. We are getting the word out about this course and want to encourage enrollment by social work students.

UCONJ 550 Flyer 2020

Week 6 | It’s spooky season!

It’s that time of year folks, don’t be easily spooked by what the remainder of the quarter has to bring….

This quarter has already flown by super fast, but no worries. Let’s celebrate how far we’ve come this quarter at Staying Connected this Friday, November 1st, at Still Liquor. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to fellowship amongst friends starting at 5:30PM in Capitol Hill!

Don’t forget to follow us on social media for more consistent updates on all things happening with GO-MAP, job announcements, and other fun things going on at UW: @uwgomap.

With October coming to a close, the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards is turning our attention to supporting students and alumni in applying for upcoming scholarships with deadlines this winter, as well as supporting applications for admission to majors, graduate school, summer research programs, and other similar kinds of programs that typically have deadlines falling November-January. Most of these applications will ask for resumes or CVs, personal statements, recommendation letters, and more so we have a schedule of workshops for students to get a head start! Please share with your students as applicable:

CV & Resumes for Scholarships, Fellowships and Admission Applications

Tuesday, October 29 | 4pm | MGH 171

Let us know you’re planning to attend

Getting Started with Scholarships

Friday, November 1 | 1:30pm | Allen Library Auditorium

Let us know you’re planning to attend

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COM495A Interorganizational Communication (Winter 2020, M/W 10:30am-12:20pm).

Course Overview: In today’s world organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors must interact well for the sake of their own organization and societal needs, but they face many challenges in doing so. Students in COM495A Interorganizational Communication will explore the dynamics of interorganizational communication in a discussion-based seminar centered in theory and praxis. Students will participate in facilitating discussions regarding theoretical frameworks and concepts drawn from multiple disciplines, applying them to real-world instances of interorganizational communication, and developing communication strategies for interorganizational interactions.

The centerpiece of the course will be a 5-week simulation in which each student takes a role in a mock multi-organization community task force, situated in a fictional mountain town, that negotiates the creation of a fire-fighting safety plan. Through this 5-phase simulation, students will apply knowledge gained from course readings, and develop skills in assessing other stakeholders’ needs and motives, building alliances, communicating constructively through disagreements, and negotiating multilateral agreements for the collective good.

Registration for COM495B is by add code only. To enroll, email Erika  Samson [samsonej@uw.edu] with your student number, telling her that you are a graduate student– and cc me [kfoot@uw.edu]. Erika will enroll the first five graduate students who contact her into the course.

Join us for an introduction to Boren and Critical Language Scholarships for study abroad. Scholarships like the Boren and CLS provide funding to U.S. citizen students at varying levels of proficiency to study languages considered to be “critical” to US interests. These sessions will provide an overview of the scholarships and insights on how to develop competitive applications.

Boren & CLS Information Session |Mary Gates Hall 171 & Online!| October 30| 4:00pm

Boren Awards Information Session (Boren only)

• November 18 | 4:30 pm | MGH 171 & Online
• November 21 | 4:30 pm | MGH 171 & Online
• December 4 | 4:00 pm | MGH 171 & Online

Boren Awards Highlights:

• Open to U.S. citizens
• Up to $20,000 for undergraduates who study language abroad during the academic year (semester or longer)
• Must be studying a language abroad (list of preferred languages here)
• Up to $8,000 for STEM students to study a language abroad during the summer.
• Up to $30,000 for graduate students who will study a language abroad.
• Selected students must commit to working for in the federal government for one year.

Critical Language Scholarship Highlights:

• Open to U.S. citizen undergraduates and graduates in every field.
• Fully funded intensive language and cultural immersion program (FREE)!
• Languages offered are: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.
• Program includes cultural activities, field trips, room & board, and travel.

My name is Shawna Upton and I’m the Recruitment Director with the Student PIRGs.

I’m reaching out to see if you can spread the word about our upcoming early application deadline on November 1st.

The Student PIRGs are hiring organizers to work on issues like protecting our environment, moving our country towards renewable energy and zero waste, and strengthening our democracy.

Our organizers work full-time to provide students the training, professional support and resources they need to move our country forward while gaining campaign skills and being trained by some of the top organizers in our country.

Students are often at the forefront of movements to build a better future for our country. Whether or not those students make real progress depends on whether they are organized, have the skills to be effective and a strategic plan to get things done. The Student PIRGs have been working for over 40 years to amplify the power of student activism, and help students tackle some of the country’s most pressing problems.

Here are just a few of the victories the Student PIRGs have worked to accomplish this year:

• We helped more than 30,000 young people register to vote, made over 1 million GOTV contacts, and protected students’ right to vote at the ballot box, which all contributed to an unprecedented increase in youth voter turnout in 2018.
• Our field team in California channeled the national energy around climate solutions into their SB100 campaign and pushed the largest state in the country to commit to 100% renewable energy.

In Connecticut, our students organized locally to ban plastic bags at the University of Connecticut and then advocated for and won a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags!

Questions? Email: jobs@studentpirgs.org

Where would you go if you had eight months to travel solo? Which two continents and six countries would you visit? What experiences would you seek out? How would you be transformed?

Each year a handful of lucky University of Washington students get to make those decisions as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime with the support of a Bonderman Fellowship. The 2020 application is open and you may be eligible to apply for this $23,000 fellowship that supports independent exploration and travel abroad.

Bonderman Fellows undertake international travel on their own for eight months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through solo travel fellows focus on exploration and discovery, learning about the world and themselves in it.  Each Fellowship carries a $23,000 award to be used only for extended solo international travel. Fellows may not conduct research, pursue an academic project, or participate in a formal program or organization.

Applications are due by 12:00 pm (noon) January 13, 2020. In person and online information session information can be seen here.

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Apply to be a Civic Saturday Fellow!

We are excited to announce that applications are open for the 2020 Civic Saturday Fellowship. If you believe that a strong democracy depends on strong citizens, that a moral and ethical framework is a foundational part of strong civic life, and feel called to bring your community together then you should apply!

The Civic Saturday Fellowship is a nine-month program that begins with Civic Seminary, a three-day training in Seattle that fellows attend with a cohort of other motivated community leaders from around the country. In the following months, fellows will plan and hold three Civic Saturdays in their community.

Want to know more about this program? Read this New York Times profile from Independence Day.

Learn More and Apply

By now, all UW students, staff, and faculty should have received an invitation to participate in a system wide UW Climate Survey. The purpose of the survey, according to President Cauce, is “to make our University a more equitable working and learning environment that allows everyone to reach their full potential.”

Some of us at the SSW have already completed the online survey, which takes about 15-20 minutes and covers a range of questions about inclusion and diversity on campus, sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, and other topics. The survey items were informed in part by 42 focus groups of UW faculty, staff and students that were held in April.

Some of the questions prompt participants to provide a fair amount of personal information (for example, gender/gender identity, political party affiliation, race/ethnicity, political views).   Rickey Hall, UW Vice President for Minority Affairs & Diversity, explains why this information is being sought:  “… This information, optional in the structure of the survey, is critical to the assessment of campus climate because the identities individuals hold factor heavily into matters of inclusion, exclusion, and sense of belonging or lack thereof. Any campus’ climate is at its core an amalgamation of intersubjective experiences, so to understand it requires that we develop an informed understanding of what shapes the experience of each of us.”

UW leadership has strong confidence in the safeguards and processes in place to collect, store, analyze, and ultimately use these data. All responses will be securely stored on a non-UW, off-site server hosted by Rankin and Associates, the survey company selected by the university for this project. Rankin and Associates has a strong reputation for securing and safeguarding survey data, and has co-designed over 190 similar climate surveys with other U.S. colleges and universities.

Given the sensitive nature of some survey questions, we want to remind you that your participation is optional and confidential. You may skip any questions on the survey (including demographic and background information).  Private, supportive follow-up upon request, and all UW employees should feel free to complete the survey during working hours.

But given the importance of the goals of the survey and the important data it will yield, we also want to encourage you to complete the UW Climate Survey.  The School will have access to our own aggregate data (no personal identifiers), for our own planning purposes.

As a school community, we are strongly committed to sustaining and growing a positive, equitable, diverse and inclusive climate here at the School. Through a tool such as the UW Climate Survey, we will have confidential information from our own students, staff, and faculty to guide our efforts for social justice in the School community.

For updated background information about the climate survey, check this linkhttps://www.washington.edu/uwclimatesurvey/faq/

The survey will close on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 at 11:59 pm PST

If you have any questions about the climate survey, feel free to contact Kalei Kanuha at kanuha@uw.edu.

The Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Committee (HSSLA) has an opening for a student representative from the School of Social Work.

This committee provides guidance and support for interprofessional community engagement projects like the Health Sciences Mobile Health Outreach Van, the Common Book Series, the Seattle King County Clinic Listening Project, etc.  Members work closely with CHSIE (Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education).

Please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to learn more about the world of interprofessional service learning and advocacy!  See below for information on how to apply.  Questions, contact Leonora Clarke, clarkel@uw.edu.

Applications are due November 1st!

Meetings take place on the second Thursday of each month from 11:30am -12:30pm.

Student responsibilities:

• Attend at least 80% of the meetings (during the academic year).  Conference capabilities are available for each meeting. Flexibility will be granted for students whose schedules conflict with the meeting time.
• Act as a communication liaison with students in your school by providing updates on interprofessional community engagement opportunities.
• Provide updates at HSSLA meetings on school specific upcoming events.
• There are also opportunities to serve on a HSSLA working group such as the Common Book or the HS Mobile Health Van subcommittee.

Benefits of serving as a HSSLA student representative:

• Make your voice heard in policy development around service learning. Impact the ability for you and your classmates (and future classmates) to participate in community-based activities and projects.
• Build relationships with UW faculty members committed to ethical community engagement practices.
• Gain valuable skills related to community engagement, program development and implementation of service experiences.

Students will be selected for a one-year term.  To apply, send the following information to Leonora Clarke, clarkel@uw.edu.

• Name
• Year
• A brief statement about why you would like to serve on the committee.

Students will be notified on November 8th and invited to the November 14th HSSLA meeting.

I am Venkatesh, the organizer for a disability studies graduate students cluster and I invite graduate students with disabilities, or graduate students who work with people with disabilities to the first 2019-2020 disability studies graduate students cluster meeting on Nov 1, 5:30-7:30PM in the Bill and Melinda Gates center for Computer Science and Engineering. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP by sending an email to vpotluri@cs.washington.edu with:

• Who is coming. (Please feel free to bring a friend along and RSVP for them here)
• Any dietary restrictions.
• Any access accommodations.
• Anything else we need to be aware of.

Previous events have given a space for students with disabilities to share experiences, provide and seek advice, and form a connection with students with disabilities across UW. Personally, as a new transplant to the US, and as an international graduate student with disability, I found great value in the presence of this community in 2018-2019. For the first meeting, I seek your help in shaping our meetings to make this cluster just as meaningful for you.

If you are new to UW, welcome! I look forward to getting to know you. If you have been in previous iterations of this cluster, I look forward to meeting you again.

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