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WORKSHOP: Race, Power, and Social Impact Within Nonprofit Organizations

University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St , Tacoma , WA

Social impact organizations often unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism, which undercuts their purpose and impact and contributes to organizational dysfunction. This course addresses the drivers of institutional racism in nonprofit organizations, the blind spots that allow those drivers to persist, and provides tools to advance equity and societal impact in those organizations. This course focuses on > Continue Reading

$299

2019 Urban Studies Forum

University of Washington Tacoma, William Philip Hall 1918 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA, United States

“Learning From Other Cities,” the theme for the 2019 Urban Studies Forum, is a chance to take best practices used elsewhere and create our own local adaptations. This year's forum includes leadership, planners and researchers from four cities. Bristol, U.K. (Inclusive governance) Leeds, U.K. (child-centered city) New York, NY (coalition building and community development) Long > Continue Reading

Free

2019 Summer Soiree

University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St , Tacoma , WA

Join UW Tacoma for an evening of live music and great food and help support our students through Emergency Aid.

$200

Paint the Park Purple

Cheney Stadium 2502 S. Tyler St., Tacoma, WA

If you bleed purple and gold, you won’t want to miss out on the 11th anniversary of Paint the Park Purple. Cheney Stadium will be transformed with special Husky purple uniforms, t-shirt giveaways, a visit from Hendrix the Husky and more. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit student scholarships for UW Tacoma students. Family activities > Continue Reading

$35

Scholarly Selections Each One a Story: Mature Women Returners in the University with Margaret Lundberg, Ph.D.

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

Scholarly Selections is a series of informal talks organized by the University of Washington Tacoma and held at the Washington State History Museum on Free Third Thursdays during the academic year. Hear from UWT professors, graduate students, and researchers about the interesting topics they’re exploring. At our November Scholarly Selections, hear from Dr. Margaret Lundberg > Continue Reading

Free

Scholarly Selections: Keeping the Lights On – Seattle’s Underground Hip Hop Movement

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

Seattle had a vibrant underground hip hop movement in the 1980s and 1990s, but not until the mid-2000s would it fully capture the attention of mainstream culture. Join UWT student Alex Zerbe to examine the twenty-year gap between Seattle’s two nationally recognized hip hop stars, Sir Mix-A-Lot (Anthony Ray) and Macklemore (Ben Haggerty). Learn how > Continue Reading

Free

Scholarly Selections Elegies, Obits, and Honoring Life in Writing: A Creative Exploration of Love with Sarah Chavez, Ph.D

Washington State History Museum 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma

While loss and change potentially initiate painful grieving, artists and writers across time have used writing to remember and contextualize life and experience to bring forward the goodness that preceded a loss and/or that which is to come. Western culture has historically encouraged a forgetting or rewriting of the past, but as ancestral and community-focused > Continue Reading

Free

The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead End Work

Milgard School of Buisness 1950 S, C Street, Tacoma

The Milgard School of Business management faculty and the Milgard Women’s Initiative are hosting a visiting scholar on May 23, 2023. You are invited to hear her public talk about her research, which was published in an award-winning book, “The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work.”  This promises to be a dynamic > Continue Reading