RECOGNITION FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TACOMA RECOGNIZES AND CELEBRATES COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH A VARIETY OF AWARDS AND OBSERVANCES. MANY FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS ON THIS CAMPUS ARE ENGAGED IN EXCITING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ACTIVITIES, AND RECOGNIZING THEIR WORK IS A PRIORITY.
GIFT OF SERVICE AWARD This award honors a graduating senior who exemplifies UW Tacoma’s ideal of service combined with learning. The student will have an opportunity to give to the community through philanthropy and the award enables the awardee to select an approved non-religious charity to receive a $1,000 gift. In addition to this gift of philanthropy, funded ANDRE JIMENEZ
by an anonymous donor, the awardee will receive a
Law & Policy Spring 2022
matching award of $1,000 funded by the Office of Community Partnerships. Click to learn more about the Gift of Service Award.
DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RECOGNITION
Recipients of this recognition represent many and diverse activities,
Created in 2013, this annual award recognizes the important and
rooted in multiple disciplinary spaces. They exemplify how we
innovative community-engaged and community-based work
can build partnerships that last across time and space, produce
by UW Tacoma faculty and staff. Beginning in 2021, a separate
positive spaces of dialogue, deploy academic knowledge that helps
staff category was added to recognize staff who demonstrate
improve social conditions, and remain humble in understanding
outstanding community-engagement work. Such work is based on
the importance of co-learning. This is the spirit that guides
an ethic of mutual benefit in which both the community partner
our collective work and makes it possible for us to identify and
and/or public and the university, its faculty, and/or its students
recognize the outstanding examples of community engagement of
benefit in ways that are not possible without the partnership. This
our faculty and staff.
work may be focused on teaching and learning, research, policy, citizenship building, creative work, or community building.
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FACULTY
FACULTY
STAFF
STAFF
SHARON LAING
ANAID YERENA
JIMMY MCCARTY
ROSEANN MARTINEZ
School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership
School of Urban Studies
Center of Equity & Inclusion
Student Advocacy and Support
OFFICE OF COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS | 2021–2022 ANNUAL REPORT
