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Study: Undergraduate Women Majoring in STEM More Frequently Face Sexual Assault Than Those Outside of STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the study, women in gender-balanced STEM fields (chemistry, math and biology) reported the most sexual violence, nearly three times more rapes than in non-gender-balanced STEM fields and more than in predominantly male STEM disciplines (engineering, physics and computer science). attempted rapes, the study found.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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Honoring Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage — past, present and future

UW Presidential Blog

From the Board of Deans and Chancellors to the Asian and Pacific Islander American Faculty and Staff Association to UW students, student organizations and leaders—we honor the tremendous impact our AA and NHPI communities have made across programs and disciplines.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.

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As I take my leave.

Dr. Missy Alexander

Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computer science, and criminal justice. I see it is a strategy for equity, for social mobility, for a thriving and inventive culture.

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As I take my leave.

Dr. Missy Alexander

Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computer science, and criminal justice. I see it is a strategy for equity, for social mobility, for a thriving and inventive culture.

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What is College for?

Dr. Missy Alexander

When you transition from faculty to administration, you tend to go to conferences focused on institutional questions – assessment, retention, general education, equity, and so on. It is not often that a dean or provost has the opportunity to attend a conference in their discipline, so it is wonderful treat when we do.