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The Milgard School of Business is devoted to fostering a welcoming campus community that recognizes and celebrates social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and where all our students, staff, and faculty feel seen, heard, and supported. We define diversity broadly, as differences in social categories like race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, socio-economic status, nationality and citizenship, veteran and parental status, body size, ability, age, and experience. Such social differences are something we celebrate, because they are the foundation for a diversity of perspectives that enrich our classrooms, our professional lives, and our research.
You Are Welcome!
It Takes A Village - Rather than a person or a group, all of us have a role to play in advancing the important work of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We invite all members of the Milgard community to collaborate with us in bringing about lasting change. To share ideas or comments, participate and contribute, provide feedback, and ask questions, email: milgarddei@uw.edu
For additional resources, visit the Center for Equity and Inclusion at University of Washington, Tacoma.
Nondiscrimination: The University of Washington prohibits discrimination, harassment and sexual misconduct in any education program or activity that it operates. Individuals may report concerns, make complaints, or direct inquiries to the Civil Rights Compliance Office. More about our statement of nondiscrimination is located at: uw.edu/civilrights/policies-and-guidance/statement-of-nondiscrimination/
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International Students
The University of Washington offers programming, advising, and other other support services and resources for all its international students. For more information visit the following:
- ISSS International Student and Scholar Services, University of Washington, Tacoma for all international student support https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/oga/isss
- FIUTS supporting international undergraduate and graduate students https://www.fiuts.
org/
Registered Student Organizations - Find Your Community
RSOs help support a student's academic experience in incredible ways. We encourage students to get involved in a student club that aligns with their interests and passions.
Students can read about each organization via DUBNET and join using their UW email.
RSOs follow guidelines outlined by the Center for Student Involvement and can be accessed here: https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/involvement/new
Examples of active RSOs that support diversity include the following:
- Black Student Union
- Filipino-American Student Association
- Latinx Student Union
- Middle Eastern South Asian Association
- Multicultural Association
- Pacific Islander Student Alliance
- Pride Pack
- Royal Punjabi
- Somali Student Association
- The Sisterhood of Pi Nu Iota
- Vietnamese Student Association
Immigrant Student Resources
We are proud to be a university that wholeheartedly welcomes and supports students of all ethnicities and nationalities, regardless of documentation status. We invite you to explore the services, opportunities, and resources available to all students throughout the various stages of your Husky Experience. Programs such as Leadership Without Borders are committed to providing you with all the resources and guidance you need to prepare for college, have a successful UW experience, and be ready for your next steps beyond college. The Division of Student Affairs and the Office of Equity & Inclusion have partnered to collect all our available resources in one place.
First Gen Initiatives
- UW Tacoma is recognized as a First-Gen Forward Institution. Through our programs and services we seek to support first-generation students to successfully transition into college life and provide opportunities for the academic and personal success of all our first-gen students on campus.
- Signature Events: These events provide opportunities for students to connect with other First Gen students, staff, faculty, and alumni. The events foster campus engagement opportunities
and community building and validation. - First Generation Fellows Cohort: First Generation Fellows is a program that provides individualized support to students who identify as first in their family to graduate from college. The program is designed for first-generation sophomore and transfer students.
- Financial Wellness Cohort Program: The goal for this program is to promote economic justice by increasing access to financial wellness for first generation college students as well as students from minoritized backgrounds.
Community Engagement
Milgard Students Assisting Business
In 2020, Milgard School of Business launched its Students Assisting Business (SAB) program to create a win-win situation for small business owners. In this program, Milgard employs its students to pro bono assist local community businesses with adapting to market challenges. A high percentage of the program's impact helps close the equity gap in small businesses that are owned and/or directed by women and minorities. These projects range from marketing analyses to customer outreach to detailed plans on whether a business should be maintained, to social media, and even to loan program data collection and review, and even to loan program data collection and review.
Hear directly from students who participated in the program:
Milgard Women's Initiative
MWI's goal is to build and support thriving communities through our mentoring program and new programming development, and is housed within the Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility. The Milgard Women's Initiative is dedicated to supporting the success of women in leadership. All students who are interested in the program's goals, regardless of gender, are encouraged to apply.
MWI's mentoring program was created to benefit Milgard students by engaging the community of executives in the South Sound area as mentors. Through quality one-on-one mentoring and guided group conversations, mentees enhance their professional knowledge, entrepreneurial spirit, and leadership skills.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA)
VITA helps low-income families, individuals, and senior citizens get their Federal taxes completed through a partnership between the IRS, student volunteers, and professional oversight.
Meet our Director
Dr. Shalini Sarin Jain began her academic career at Milgard in 2014. In her cross-disciplinary research grounded in the Social Issues in Management domain, she explores how different contexts (regulatory environments, ownership structures), different stakeholders (employees, customers, third party observers), and different phenomena (#MeToo, Black Lives Matter, COVID 19) shape managerial choices and the implications of those choices for social and financial performance of firms. She has examined corporate social responsibility in India, gender representation and compensation parity in top management teams, preference for transparency, managerial traits that incentivize opportunistic behavior, consequences of corporate policies that trigger perceptions of procedural unfairness for customers, sexual misconduct, COVID-19, and how brands that transgress can transform. Ascribing to the belief that businesses cannot thrive in societies that fail, Dr. Jain is passionate about examining real-world, difficult, and applied problems in pursuit of her long-term goal of rendering social responsibility, ethics, and inclusion and belonging integral to the scholarship and practice of business. Dr. Jain is the first woman in any generation in her family to complete her post-graduate education. Prior to receiving her PhD in Public Policy and Management from Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle (2013), Dr. Jain worked in private, non-profit, and government organizations across two continents.
To support and further this necessary work, Dr. Jain will be working closely with the Milgard leadership, IBC Advisory Council, University of Washington Tacoma's Office of Equity and Inclusion to develop a strategic approach and launch key initiatives that will ensure steady progress and systemic change in our three focus areas of increasing student access, expanding faculty and staff leadership, and creating a culture of belonging.
