Winter Quarter Welcome Days

Open House-Urban Studies:

• Please visit the Urban Studies program office for cookies, smiles, and answers to your questions!

Open House-Social Work:

• All Social Welfare and Criminal Justice majors are invited to stop by the office for some light refreshments.

Open House-Global Honors:

• The Global Honors Program will host a drop-in open house for new students during Welcome Days. Come learn about the GH Program from current students, faculty, and staff. Light refreshments will be served.

Open House-Diversity Resource Center:

• The Diversity Resource Center invites you to join us for our Open House. Stop in and explore the new center and discover the multitude of educational enrichment opportunities that are available to you.

Winter Quarter Involvement Fair

• Come explore numerous resources, offices, departments, and student clubs and organizations at UW Tacoma!

EMBRACE: Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness & Cultural Enrichment

• E.M.B.R.A.C.E. (Educating Myself for Better Racial & Cultural Enrichment)-Engage in interactive learning as we delve into complex topics about a wide variety of equity, diversity, and social justice issues

Open House-Urban Studies:

• Please visit the Urban Studies program office for cookies, smiles, and answers to your questions!

Open House-Social Work:

• All Social Welfare and Criminal Justice majors are invited to stop by the office for some light refreshments.

Open House-Global Honors:

• The Global Honors Program will host a drop-in open house for new students during Welcome Days. Come learn about the GH Program from current students, faculty, and staff. Light refreshments will be served.

EMBRACE: Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness & Cultural Enrichment

• E.M.B.R.A.C.E. (Educating Myself for Better Racial & Cultural Enrichment)-Engage in interactive learning as we delve into complex topics about a wide variety of equity, diversity, and social justice issues.

Student Activities Board-UWT Bingo!

• Welcome to all new and returning students! Come join the Student Activities Board in a fun game of BINGO! Win cool prizes and learn more about what SAB is up to this Winter Quarter!

Spanish Conversation Hour

• Immerse yourself in the Spanish language. Join students and staff, from beginners to native speakers, in leisure conversations about everyday life.

Open House-Urban Studies:

• Please visit the Urban Studies program office for cookies, smiles, and answers to your questions!

Open House-Social Work:

• All Social Welfare and Criminal Justice majors are invited to stop by the office for some light refreshments.

Open House-Global Honors:

• The Global Honors Program will host a drop-in open house for new students during Welcome Days. Come learn about the GH Program from current students, faculty, and staff. Light refreshments will be served.

Northwest Harvest Volunteer Event

• Join the Asian Pacific Islander Student Union (APISU) and Volunteer Services as we sort and package food for distribution to the hungry in our community. Northwest Harvest provides 1.6 million meals per month through its services, with support from volunteers like you! (Transportation to the event will be provided)

International Student Orientation

• Full-day orientation for incoming International students to cover visa information, meet and hear tips from current UWT international students, connect with programs and campus resources to promote success in the international student transition to UW Tacoma.

Open House-Urban Studies:

• Please visit the Urban Studies program office for cookies, smiles, and answers to your questions!

3rd Annual Social Work Legislative Advocacy Event

• Phi Alpha Honor Society and the UW Tacoma Social Work Program welcome nationally recognized grassroots advocacy expert Nancy Amidei. Members from many local and national human rights coalition will be there to provide additional information on how to get involved in advocacy

Student Activities Board-Game Night:

• College students want to have fun too!! Come play a variety of board games, Wii games, X-Box Connect, Billiards tournament, and cards!

Teaching and Learning Center-Effective Note Taking:

• Workshops in note-taking, reading, time management and test taking are offered each quarter by TLC Writing staff.

Open House-Global Honors:

• The Global Honors Program will host a drop-in open house for new students during Welcome Days. Come learn about the GH Program from current students, faculty, and staff. Light refreshments will be served.

Diversity Dialogue-A Life Worth Living:

• Nick Rogen, Graduate Social Work student and author, dialogs about his first book, A Life Worth Living. Join in the conversation as Nick shares the many challenging life experiences that lead him to write this book.

Teaching and Learning Center-Effective Note Taking:

• Workshops in note-taking, reading, time management and test taking are offered each quarter by TLC Writing staff.

Wrongful Convictions in Washington State Community Engagement Forum

• Since 2008, four people who were convicted of major crimes and incarcerated in Washington state prisons have been exonerated and released. UW Tacoma presents a forum to discuss these cases and the factors that contribute to wrongful convictions.

Open House-Global Honors:

• The Global Honors Program will host a drop-in open house for new students during Welcome Days. Come learn about the GH Program from current students, faculty, and staff. Light refreshments will be served.

Brown Bag Discussion: Challenging Stereotypes and Assumptions

• Jessica Pettitt, Social Justice Educator: Come learn how to identify default decision-making processes with regards to logical, relational, creative, and emotional connection. Understand how to recognize and challenge stereotypes or assumptions people hold about others.

Spanish Conversation Hour

• Immerse yourself in the Spanish language. Join students and staff, from beginners to native speakers, in leisure conversations about everyday life.

Be The Change You Want To Be

• Jessica Pettitt, Social Justice Educator: Come and learn more about understanding the difference between Diversity and Social Justice, remove excuses that stand in one's way from doing social justice work and get motivated and inspired to become participants in your own change.

Open House-Global Honors:

• The Global Honors Program will host a drop-in open house for new students during Welcome Days. Come learn about the GH Program from current students, faculty, and staff. Light refreshments will be served.

Student Activities Board-Movie Night:

• Come hang out with other UW Tacoma students and watch MONSTER HOUSE where three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.

Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast

• This year's Unity Breakfast features community recognition awards, local performing artists and a new essay scholarship for current and potential students. The keynote speaker will be Kevin Gover, Director of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian.