2023-24 Annual Report

2591 student served, over 73,500 hours served, with over 400 community organizations and schools in 2024. 

Community-engaged courses combines service in the community with structured preparation and reflection opportunities, and address concerns that are identified and articulated by the community.

From student participants:

Undergraduate Community Based Internships (UCBI) connects undergraduates with nonprofit and public sector organizations through a paid internship and mentoring program.

UCBI Participant quote:

The Minor in Leadership provides a formalized pathway for students to study and develop competencies for leadership in their professional and public lives.

Student Portfolios:

Lily Kasic: 

• Lily Kasic, Leadership Minor student, 2023-2024

The Husky Leadership Certificate (HLC) program is designed to facilitate student reflection on their leadership learning and development through mentorship and the creation of a leadership e-portfolio.

Student Portfolios: 

Remmy Ndegeah:

• Remmy Ndegeah, HLC participant 2023-2024

Lucia Piotraszewski:

• Lucia Piotraszewski, HLC participant 2023-2024

The UW NextGen Civic Leader Corps (NextGen) is a growing community of undergraduate students who are passionate about public service, community engagement and civic leadership. Through a combination of events, networking experiences and coursework, NextGen connects like-minded peers and aims to deepen a commitment to public service.

Democracy Dawgs is a coalition of students, staff, faculty, community members, and civic leaders who are working to increase student voting rates and build an even stronger culture of civic and democratic engagement at the University of Washington.

Did you know that the University of Washington has one of the highest voter participation rates of any college or university in the nation? Learn more.

The Riverways Guides program recruits Native and rural UW students to mentor and guide K-12 students from tribal communities and support partnerships between the UW and community colleges.

Telling our Stories is a year-long mentorship program that connects Native UW undergraduates with Neah Bay fifth graders, encouraging them to envision their futures.

Watch the Neah Bay Telling our Stories 2024 video here!

The Othello-UW Commons is a learning and collaboration space for faculty, staff, students and community partners that builds on the UW's long standing engagement with and commitment to the greater Southeast Seattle communities.

Click the photo above to view Othello-Commons 2022-2023 Impact Report!

Jumpstart recruits and trains UW students who provide language, social-emotional, and literacy programming in preschool classrooms that serve children and families from historically under-resourced communities and promote quality early learning for all children.

This year, Jumpstart hosted the Kinders to College event, inviting kindergarteners from Federal Way Public Schools to the University of Washington's Seattle Campus. Learn more about the successful event here. 

The CELE K-12 Tutors and Mentors program provide opportunities for UW students to mentor, tutor and support K-12 students through post-secondary planning and academic tutoring.

Read about the experience K-12 Mentors and Tutors had during their time:

America Reads engages UW students as tutors in Seattle elementary schools, helping address inequities in public education in Washington State.

What was the experience like?

Teacher quotes: 

•  "If [tutor] isn't already considering teaching as a profession, he would be a great one!"
• "Teachers are willing to adjust their schedule to have [tutor] in their classrooms!"

Dream Project's College and Career Readiness Assistants (CCRA) is a paid internship program where UW students support traditionally underserved students in navigating barriers to post-secondary education opportunities.

Learn about the CCRAs and their work: 

Testimonies:

Supervisor Shout-Outs:

• From Auburn Mountainview HS site supervisor about CCRA Arieanna:
  • "Arieanna [our CCRA] has been wonderful to work with. She helped with FAFSA applications, college applications, college and career events and lots of other things. I really appreciate having a CCRA from UW because the common application for UW is difficult for some kids and a UW student has already completed one and has knowledge about UW."
• From Assistant Director of Community & School Based Internships about Gradaute Staff Assistant Nathaly:
  • Our Graduate Staff Assistant Nathaly did a phenomenal job mentoring and supporting our cohort of 26 CCRAs this year!

Riverways' STEM engagement programs inspire the leadership, learning capacities, and interest in science & engineering among the youth of Washington State.

Riverway STEM Alternative Spring Break (ASB) programming is a grant funded equity partnership with the Northwest Earth & Space Science Pathways that fosters collective learning in robotics, rocket launching, biology and plants, geology, and drone programming. UW student mentors were assigned as ASB facilitators who inspired leadership, learning capacities, and interest in science & engineering among the youth of Washington State. Through the EDUC 401 seminar, ASB Mentors learned about culturally sustaining pedagogy, gender-responsive teaching, and universal design for learning. They then apply these frameworks and practices to their team's assigned lesson plan. This approach is based on our curriculum for the 2021 STEM ASB winter quarter seminar which was selected as a 2021 Prize Recipient for the UW Teaching & Learning Symposium.
In 2024, partner schools and organizations worked with 36 UW undergraduate mentors in 10 locations including Curlew School, Brewster Middle School, Toppenish Middle School, Yakama Nation Tribal School, Campbell Farm Afterschool Program, Forks Elementary, Quileute Tribal School, and Neah Bay schools.

Culture And Science Exchange (CASE): 

CASE-Yakama Poster for NESS... by CELE Center

Culture And Science Exchange (CASE) is a close partnership with the Yakama Nation. We intentionally provide STEM engagement opportunities to Indigenous students to counteract the minoritization we see in STEM fields. This year we collaborated to co-create culturally sustaining modules. 

STEM Alternative Spring Break (ASB):

STEM Alternative Spring Bre... by CELE Center

STEM Alternative Spring Break connects UW students with K-12 students in rural and tribal communities in Washington state through science and engineering outreach programming.

Literacy Arts Alternative Spring Break (LASB) engaged UW students to facilitate a literacy arts project with elementary, middle or high school students in rural and tribal communities in Washington during spring break.

Click on Creating Our Stores Together to view the 2024 LASB magainze!