History
2005 - UW student, Alula Asfaw, founded UWDP after seeing a lack of diversity on campus. He brainstormed ideas with interested friends of how to work towards solving this issue and came up with a near-peer mentorship model.
2006 - First cohort of mentors @ Renton, Foster, Chief Sealth; 30 UW student mentors paired with 100 mentees
2008 - UWDP gets university support including staffing and office space in MGH 274; becomes a UW course through the COE
2009 - UWDP gets its 1st AmeriCorps member, Stephen Sanoja
2010 - UWDP receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant: $1 million grant to expand to 3 schools: Kent Meridian, Federal Way, Auburn
2012 - UWDP receives $1.4 million to create and implement CCRA program through the Federal Race to The Top (RTTT) grant
2016 - RTTT grant phases out and CCRAs become stipend interns
2017 - Participating school districts agree to cost share model to sustain the CCRA program; scope of DP expands to include more postsecondary pathways; new mission statement with a racial equity focus
2018 - UWDP secures $1 million gift; HSLs become stipend internship roles as do lecture leads; UWDP moves to EXPD
2019 - UWDP joins the Community Engagement & Leadership Education (CELE) Center
2022 - UWDP utilizes work-study awards for hourly paid CCRA intern positions
- Programs
- Program Contacts
- CELE Fellowships
- CELE K-12 Tutor and Mentor
- Community-Engaged Courses (formerly service-learning)
- Next Gen Civic Leader Corps
- Leadership Minor
- Dream Project
- Schools We Serve
- History
- Honors American South
- Work-Study Tutors (America Reads)
- Husky Leadership Certificate
- Internship GEN ST 350 Course
- Jumpstart
- Othello-UW Commons
- Riverways Education Partnerships
- Undergraduate Community Based Internships (UCBI)