{"id":1,"date":"2015-08-13T01:33:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-04-29T23:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T23:39:22","slug":"hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/2015\/08\/13\/hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the UW Q Faculty, Staff &#038; Allies Affinity Group Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Vision<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The University of Washington Queer (Q) Faculty, Staff, and Allies Affinity Group is an association whose vision is to foster a campus climate where all faculty and staff are valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Mission<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Our mission is to ensure the inclusion and success of Q faculty, staff and allies through recruitment, retention and training opportunities. This group seeks to promote the following goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase education and dialogue on issues affecting the Q community<\/li>\n<li>Honor the cultural diversity of Q faculty, staff, and allies<\/li>\n<li>Support leadership and career advancement among Q faculty, staff, and allies<\/li>\n<li>Advocate for issues in higher education that affect Q faculty, staff, and allies<\/li>\n<li>Assist in the recruitment and retention of Q faculty, staff, and allies<\/li>\n<li>Provide opportunities for social networking<\/li>\n<li>Foster an exchange of ideas<\/li>\n<li>Help provide LGBTQ+ Resources to the Q community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #333399;\">UW Sponsorship<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The Q Faculty, Staff, and Allies Affinity Group is jointly sponsored by the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/omad\/\">Office of Minority Affairs &amp; Diversity<\/a>.\u00a0 We are one of several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/staffdiv\/\">Affinity Groups within the UW<\/a> whose mission is to advance the University of Washington\u2019s commitment to diversity by being a vehicle to build community and to improve recruitment and retention of diverse talent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Affinity%20Groups'%20Website\">The Affinity Groups\u2019 Website<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/staffdiv\/\">http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/diversity\/staffdiv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>For campus-wide LGBTQ support, including for students, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.uw.edu\/qcenter\/\">Q Center.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/QFSABanner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-127 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/QFSABanner-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"qfsabanner\" width=\"567\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/QFSABanner-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/QFSABanner-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/QFSABanner-1024x509.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/QFSABanner.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vision The University of Washington Queer (Q) Faculty, Staff, and Allies Affinity Group is an association whose vision is to foster a campus climate where all faculty and staff are valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Mission Our mission is to ensure the inclusion and success of Q faculty, staff and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/2015\/08\/13\/hello\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to the UW Q Faculty, Staff &#038; Allies Affinity Group Website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qfsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}