We've compiled a number of great resources from across UW to make it easy for ChemE community members to increase inclusion and advance equity in their own work.
Please contact the DEI Committee if you have additional tools to recommend.
How can you learn more about diversity, equity, inclusion and start taking action to make a difference in your community?
Communications, Technology and Events
- The American Chemical Society has a very comprehensive and up to date style guide for inclusion. UW Brand also has resources and style guides for communicating with an equity lens, but they are less up to date and comprehensive.
- Calendar of Holidays and Religious Observances
- UW IT has an entire website dedicated to web accessibility.
- ACS Quick Guide for inclusive events
- UW's guide to Planning and Promoting Accessible Events
- Accommodation Event Notice
- UW IT Accessibility
- DO-IT Event & Technology Resources
- College of Engineering Outreach & Recruitment Toolkit for all outreach and youth involved events. (UW netid required)
Teaching, Learning and Student Services
- UW Teaching and Learning's Inclusive Teaching Toolkit includes:
- Teaching strategies
- Addressing microaggressions in the classroom
- Teaching first-generation students
- Teaching international and multilingual students
- Teaching students with disabilities
- Teaching student veterans; resources for instructors
- Do-IT's ACCESS Engineering Program includes a number of great resources regarding accessibility and disability while teaching engineering, including:
- 20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course
- Curricular Resources
- A Universal Design Toolkit
- Universal Design in Student Services
- UW IT Accessibility
- Working Together: TAs and Students with Disabilities
- Religious Accommodations Policy
- Designing Accessible Online Courses includes:
- Accessible Documents
- Accessible Videos
- 20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course
- 20 Tips for Making Online Learning Courses Accessible (Video)
- AccessDL – The Center on Accessible Distance Learning (AccessDL) at the UW shares guidance and engages stakeholders around making distance learning courses and programs accessible to students and instructors with disabilities.
- Science Magazine asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators (PIs) should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists - their answers have a lot of ideas for supporting inclusion in the lab environment.
- Resources from 5/16/22 Discussion regarding Universal Design for Learning:
Administration and Infrastructure
- Business Diversity Program – Connects companies owned by minorities, women and veterans, as well as businesses located in historically underutilized business regions and small disadvantaged businesses with procurement opportunities at the UW.
- DO-IT Accessibility Universal Design for Physical Spaces, including:
- DEI Rubric for staff departments
Advocacy & Funding
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Faculty Council on Race Equity and Justice – Holds responsibility for all matters of policy relating to the interests of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) faculty.
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Faculty Council on Gender, Equity and Justice – Holds responsibility for all matters of policy relating to the interests of gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Hiring and Admissions
- Staff diversity hiring toolkit – Serves as a resource for hiring managers to consult as they seek to increase their outreach efforts and build an inclusive applicant poll for staff positions. ChemE is also finalizing a ChemE-specific hiring toolkit that draws on diverse resources across the UW.
- Resources for managers and colleagues of transgender employees, including information about terms, transition planning, and more
- Handbook of best practices for faculty searches – Provides resources to help search committees to recruit diverse faculty members.
- Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action – Supports the university’s compliance with the law and spirit of equal opportunity and affirmative action as it relates to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam-era veteran or other protected veterans.
- Graduate School Toolkit for Holistic Admissions and Mentoring
- Managing for Accessibility
- Pay Equity
- Diversity blueprint – Guides diversity planning for academic and administrative units across the university and helps them develop goals and strategic priorities.
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Documents Relating to Initiative 200 (I-200) Voters in Washington state passed Initiative 200 (I-200) in 1998, prohibiting government entities such as the University of Washington from granting “preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.” Many of the policies that were drafted at the University of Washington following I-200 remain active, working policies for the UW today.
- Diversity at UW. University Week Special Supplement.
- Draft UW Interim I-200 Employment Policies
- Draft UW Interim I-200 Student Policies
- Evaluation of UW Diversity Outreach and Recruitment
- Maintaining Diversity at the University of Washington After Initiative 200
- Revised policy on financial aid meets I-200 and still makes room for diversity