RECOGNITION FOR COMMUNITY

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.

ANDRE JIMENEZ Law & Policy Spring 2022 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 by an anonymous donor, the awardee will receive a matching award of $1,000 funded by the Office of Community Partnerships.

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DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RECOGNITION Created in 2013, this annual award recognizes the important and innovative community-engaged and community-based work by UW Tacoma faculty and staff. Beginning in 2021, a separate staff category was added to recognize staff who demonstrate outstanding community-engagement work. Such work is based on an ethic of mutual benefit in which both the community partner and/or public and the university, its faculty, and/or its students benefit in ways that are not possible without the partnership. This work may be focused on teaching and learning, research, policy, citizenship building, creative work, or community building. Recipients of this recognition represent many and diverse activities, rooted in multiple disciplinary spaces. They exemplify how we can build partnerships that last across time and space, produce positive spaces of dialogue, deploy academic knowledge that helps improve social conditions, and remain humble in understanding the importance of co-learning. This is the spirit that guides our collective work and makes it possible for us to identify and recognize the outstanding examples of community engagement of our faculty and staff.

FACULTY

SHARON LAING School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership FACULTY

ANAID YERENA School of Urban Studies STAFF

JIMMY MCCARTY Center of Equity & Inclusion STAFF

ROSEANN MARTINEZ Student Advocacy and Support

WASHINGTON CAMPUS COMPACT STUDENT CIVIC LEADERS AWARDS

GOVERNOR’S AND CHANCELLOR’S CIVIC LEADERS AWARD CHANCELLOR’S STUDENT CIVIC LEADER AWARD

CHANCELLOR’S & GOVERNOR’S AWARD As a Washington Campus Compact member institution, UW Tacoma annually recognizes and awards two of our student civic leaders who are addressing critical issues on their campuses and in their communities through service and social entrepreneurship. Students are nominated by faculty, staff, administrators, community partners, or can self-nominate for consideration by their institution’s president. Both graduate and undergraduate students are eligible for nomination.

ANDRE HENDERSON BA Social Work (Spring 2022) ANDRE JIMENEZ BA Law & Policy (Spring 2022)

CHANCELLOR’S AWARD RECIPIENTS RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING: Access to a learning community with other student civic leaders across Washington and Idaho Training events and webinars prior to the awards ceremony that focus on best practices for civil discourse and civic education Invitation to the awards ceremony where they will be recognized Automatic consideration and eligibility for the Governor’s Student Civic Leader Award