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Academic and Student Affairs

Message from the Vice Provost – November 2024

Dear UW colleagues, I hope you have had a great start to autumn quarter. While autumn is a new start in many ways, you and your ASA colleagues have been hard at work getting ready and improving our services in ways both small and large. Please take a moment to check out our ASA highlights to learn more about this work. There are a few contributions I’d like to highlight here: FAFSA changes and a challenge met Last year, significant…

ASA Highlights

Academic Technologies (AT) Event Services platform Mazévo is now live. The Mazévo platform, recently adopted by Event Services, is used by growing numbers of campus venue operators and will provide a familiar interface for managing space requests. Mazévo will allow users to check availability, choose rooms, and modify reservations, providing more user engagement and visibility. Kane Hall classroom AV upgrades. Kane Hall’s AV upgrades were completed in September. A vital hub for classes and events, Kane Hall will benefit from the…

Message from the Vice Provost – May 2024

Dear colleagues, We’re rapidly approaching the end of the academic year, one in which we in Academic and Student Affairs have addressed significant challenges and achieved meaningful impact on behalf of UW students. This was the first year for our new provost, Tricia Serio, who has been learning about the breadth and depth of ASA’s work: Enrollment Management, centralized teaching and learning support, general assignment instructional spaces, academic policy implementation, and more. I would like to thank everyone who took…

ASA Highlights

Academic Technologies (AT) Savery Hall classroom updates: Academic Technologies recently renovated nine classrooms in Savery Hall, updating projection systems and new audio-visual systems. Work will continue throughout Spring Quarter to renovate the remaining classrooms. Upcoming updates to Kane Hall: Kane Hall will receive major technology upgrades this summer. Academic Technologies will install a new scalable AV system that utilizes the existing campus network to deliver video. The Systems Team has implemented a new Linux service offering: AT found a way…

ASA Highlights

Admissions The UW’s newest freshman class is the most diverse in the school’s history, and UW Bothell and UW Tacoma enrolled their largest incoming classes ever. Volunteer for 3rd Annual Admitted Student Day (ASD) this April 20, 2024. The UW will host about 7,000 excited, newly admitted Huskies and their families on campus. Save the date and volunteer to welcome future Huskies! International Student Services International Student Services (ISS) welcomed over 2,600 new, international students on F and J visas…

Message from the Vice Provost – December 2023

Dear colleagues, Welcome to the end of autumn quarter — a quarter that seemed to fly by as 7,006 freshman and 1,553 transfer students each launched their Husky Experience. The cadence on campus picked up as we celebrated the success of our football program and the release of the long-awaited movie “The Boys in the Boat.” Through it all, each of you in Academic and Student Affairs continued to work diligently to promote our students’ success. The updates below highlight…

Message from the Vice Provost – September 2023

This reminder is sent yearly to all UW instructors and academic personnel across the University of Washington. Dear colleagues, Each University of Washington student deserves an equal opportunity to succeed academically, and instructors and academic personnel play a crucial role in our students’ success. Disability is an aspect of diversity, and the University is committed to educating a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders. This message includes tips and new resources for making your classes…