Resources for Faculty and Staff
To read about these and more programs sponsored by GO-MAP, please visit our programming page.
For best practices in recruiting and retaining graduate students of color, please visit the recruitment page for links to web resources, national organizations, and UW-related resources.
Graduate Students of Color "Getting Connected Reception and Orientation"
Incoming minority graduate students, current minority graduate students and faculty are invited to GO-MAP’s "Getting Connected" New Minority Graduate Student Orientation and Fall Reception. "Getting Connected" supplements departmental orientations and is an opportunity for incoming minority graduate students to meet current minority graduate students, staff and faculty from other departments, and get information about how to survive graduate school. While this event is geared toward minority and underrepresented students, it is open to all graduate students. "Getting Connected" typically takes place the third week of October.
Prospective Student Days 2010: April 1-2
Admitted students have the opportunity to get a jumpstart on networking with faculty and students, familiarize themselves with the campus, get a sense of the overall UW community, and with greater Seattle. On the first day of the event, GO-MAP hosts a breakfast and later on in the day, a welcome reception for all visiting students, and on the second day of the event, a luncheon. The admitted prospective students spend most of visit in their departments visiting with faculty and other graduate students. We hope that Prospective Student Days will further assist students in the final stages of their decision-making process and aid in building a graduate student and faculty campus culture conscious of bridging differences.
GO-MAP would like to assist departments in bringing students to campus whom they feel will contribute to the diversity of their department, but who could not otherwise afford to visit. GO-MAP travel funding is limited; however, once you have identified potential candidates, please contact us for more information about applying for these funds (206-543-9016 or gomap at u.washington.edu).
Information about Prospective Student Days will be available in January. To visit the Prospective Student Days page, please click here.
Nominating Students for a GO-MAP Diversity Fellowship
GO-MAP encourages the nomination of students who have achieved academic merit despite significant social, economic, or educational challenges in their pursuit of higher education, such as students who are first-generation to attend college or graduate school, or students whose educational training has not exposed them to a wide array of resources.
Graduate programs are notified of various funding opportunities through GO-MAP, and are encouraged to establish internal guidelines for identifying and nominating potential award recipients. Calls for diversity fellowship nominations usually go out at the beginning of January; nomination usually are due to the GO-MAP office by the mid-February. For more information about nominating a student for a GO-MAP diversity fellowship and for current year's deadlines, email gomap at u.washington.edu, or visit the funding page.
Graduate Opportunity Program Award (GOP RA)
Departments are invited to apply for the Graduate Opportunity Program (GOP) award, a merit-based research assistantship designed to increase the quality of education and research at the University of Washington. Since the quality of graduate programs depends to a great extent upon intellectually talented, highly motivated, and well prepared students from diverse backgrounds, departmental awards will be made on a competitive basis to graduate units seeking assistance in developing a diverse community of scholars and/or scholarship and research that explores and supports cultural diversity.
Departments selected may award GOP funding to recruit students who have achieved academic merit despite significant obstacles in their pursuit of higher education, students who are the first generation to attend college or graduate school, or students whose educational training has not exposed them to a wide array of resources. Award recipients must be citizens, immigrants, or permanent residents of the US, and must be in the first year of graduate study at the UW.
Applications for the GOP usually go out in January, with a submission deadline of mid-February. For more information about the GOP application process, current year's deadline, etc., For more information about nominating a student for a GO-MAP diversity fellowship and for current year's deadlines, email gomap at u.washington.edu, or visit the funding page.
Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
G-1 Communications, Suite 034 | Box 353770 | Seattle, Washington 98195
Phone: 206.543.9016 | Email: gomap at u.washington.edu