EJI Resources

To foster a supportive, accessible and welcoming environment for all students, the Office of Equity and Justice (OEJ) provides faculty and staff with helpful tools to create an inclusive community, culture and curriculum

While we can’t remove the factors that are causing your stress, the University of Washington offers resources to help manage the added stress and anxiety as we approach the finale of this long, drawn out election season. Faculty and staff can find activities to help stay grounded and resilient, while managers can find guidance and resources to keep teams connected and supported

This guide is a starting point for students and faculty seeking to better understand issues related to racial justice and racism in America.

Mentoring is often linked with the philosophy of higher education, particularly at the graduate school level. Yet, how many of us know the difference between mentoring and advising? Sometimes an individual will agree to being a mentor without knowing what he or she is supposed to do. The purpose of this text is to guide you through the necessary steps to create effective mentoring relationships.

The Q Center facilitates and enhances a brave, affirming, liberatory and celebratory environment for students, faculty staff and alumni of all sexual and gender orientations, identities and expressions.

MyUW offers a compilation of important resources covering a variety of topics related to your life and education at UW.

Find accurate information on democracy and elections here.

UW Study Abroad envisions the UW as a global community where academic endeavors take place in a context larger than our campus.

UW Human Resources has compiled resources, trainings, policies, community groups and events for all UW employees.

SafeCampus provides virtual training and online resources to support violence prevention and response at UW. We believe that training is one vital component of creating a safe and supportive UW community.

A youth-driven organization that engages young people in politics, advocacy, and social justice issues in the Seattle area.

To counteract the social isolation and develop a sense of community, African American LGBTQ youth often form chosen or created families, with peers and older LGBTQ persons that mimic nuclear family structures, to cope with rejection at home and in their communities.

As anti-racist protests continue across the nation in response to the death of George Floyd, college and university leaders are asking themselves what role higher education can play in confronting racism and structural inequity in the United States.

Disability studies in education scholars have discussed the need to engage students, and certainly preservice teachers, in critical discussion of disability as a concept. To better understand what such critical discussion entails, Ashley Taylor examines the pedagogical implications of promoting an understanding of disability as a shared experience of being human.

Faculty mentorship can be one solution to addressing the participation and persistence gaps between underrepresented groups (URGs) and overrepresented group members in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying effective STEM faculty mentorship. The present study (a) investigates if faculty mentorship impacts STEM identity, attitudes, belonging, and self-efficacy; (b) compares students' perceptions of women versus men faculty mentorship support functions; and (c) uncovers the mentorship support mechanisms underlying impactful faculty mentorship.

While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature—how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of adversity. Moving beyond questions of resilience, labor for others, and coping, When Will the Joy Come? focuses on the journeys of over thirty Black women at various stages of their careers.

"Where We Stand: Class Matters" is a thought-provoking examination of class dynamics and social inequality in the United States.

Hosted by journalist and storyteller Glen Coulthard, this podcast explores the political, social, and cultural issues facing Indigenous peoples.

A data story by UW faculty and students about Seattle parking tickets published on Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society.

In this critical, qualitative study, we utilized Disability Critical Race Theory and revolutionary mothering to understand how Mothers of Color who have young children with disabilities made meaning of underlying constitutions of competence within schools, and how they conceptualized possibility for justice in early childhood.

The chapter illustrates that to understand race and how it operates requires an understanding of truth, morality, and in particular, ethics. It expresses that the effects of intergenerational achievement and wealth are vital constructs that will assist scholars of race in fundamental problem solving and thinking related to engineering positive change in schools.

A classic book on racial identity development and its impact on education.

In this survey study run on dscout, we asked design professionals living in the U.S. to share how their workplaces navigated the traumatic experiences of this past year.

Faculty value teaching over research, but the reward structure in academia favors research and publication.

Martha Nussbaum's capabilities approach emphasizes the importance of justice in promoting human well-being by enabling individuals to achieve a range of essential capabilities.