The Department of Landscape Architecture recognizes the value that diverse perspectives brings to professional education and scholarly endeavor. Accordingly, we are committed to recruitment and retention of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff from diverse groups that broaden perspectives and lived experiences in our department and profession.
Department‘s Commitment to Social Justice, Equity and Outreach
We have identified the following strengths in the department and recognize that we should build on these assets as we improve our efforts to increase the diversity of our applicant pool and to improve the retention of current students, faculty and staff.
- Faculty research and teaching addresses a broad range of issues relevant to the needs and concerns of underprivileged and/or underrepresented communities.
- Outreach to K–12 is already a strong part of our studio curriculum and the subject of research of several faculty members thus expanding the community that understands what landscape architects do and what the profession offers.
- Faculty members lecture and serve as guest reviewers in programs around the world offering opportunities to reach out to potential applicants from multiple and diverse places, cultures and backgrounds
- Our faculty is a diverse body of scholars, practitioners and teachers comprised of tenure-track and teaching track academics as well as adjunct and affiliated faculty members and lecturers that come from practice.
- Community service-learning is a major component of our BLA and MLA curricula. Through service-learning studios, students and faculty work with less resourced communities where they interact with community members including parents and youths and engage in cross-cultural learning.
- Studios and courses are offered that focus on social equity in local communities thus bringing all students into discussions of social, economic and environmental justice and equity.
- To learn more, reach out our department at landarchinfo@uw.edu
Resources at UW
Information on the College of Built Environments Equity, Diversity + Inclusion .
Resources at UW can be found at www.washington.edu/diversity.