Huatong Sun Wins Advancement of Knowledge Award
The Conference on College Composition and Communication will recognize Dr. Huatong Sun's scholarly work Global Social Media Design.

Dr. Huatong Sun, associate professor of digital rhetoric and global design in UW Tacoma’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, has won the 2022 Advancement of Knowledge Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), a constituent organization of the National Council of Teachers of English.
The award recognizes scholarly work published in the previous two years “that most advances writing studies,” according to an NCTE news release.
Dr. Sun’s Global Social Media Design: Bridging Differences Across Cultures is a “timely study … [that] encourages an approach that moves forward the conversation on inclusion and diversity in writing studies and beyond, in a way that is creative, rigorous, and theoretically grounded.”
The book “demonstrates the biases of popular Western design approaches, questions the norms and design standards of Western epistemology and Western design paradigm, and presents [new] design heuristics.”
In the coming months, Dr. Sun will present her findings from the book via design workshops and conferences both in-person and virtual. In March, she will bring her workshop to CCCC. In April, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will host her at a computer-human interactions meeting. In May, she will be in Chicago with the Society for Technical Communication, and in June at the User Experience Professional Association in San Diego.
Unintended consequences of banning social media apps
Huatong Sun writes that despite efforts to wall off regional or national internets, social media companies will have to continue aggressively competing across borders if they are to grow.
UW Tacoma in the News
Secrets of Success: 2022
South Sound Business writers Madison Miller, Blake Peterson, John Stearns, Stephanie Quiroz, and Hailee Wickersham interview successful South Sound professionals to discover how they overcame personal challenges and obstacles to achieve success.
Economic and policy experts argue against repealing the capital gains tax
Nine economic and policy experts, including UW Tacoma's Katie Baird, Anna Lovasz and Tim Scharks, call on voters to reject I-1929, which would repeal the capital gains tax established by the legislature in 2021.
Inslee appoints Jon Scott to Snohomish County Superior Court
Jon Scott, '96, most recently served as a senior trial attorney with the Snohomish County Public Defender Association.