Diversity

 

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is strongly interested in recruiting, enrolling, retaining, and graduating students who are underrepresented in graduate education and who have unique and diverse backgrounds.  Applications for admission from students with diverse backgrounds and perspectives are encouraged and welcomed.  The Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship Program offers an exceptional opportunity to students with diverse backgrounds who are embarking upon graduate study at Washington University for the purpose of acquiring training appropriate to careers in college or university teaching.  There are 28 Chancellor’s Fellows currently in residence who are pursuing a degree in a variety of disciplines, including Anthropology, the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Science,  Education, English, History, Law, Political Science, Psychology, and Social Work.  The students receiving the Chancellor’s Fellowship interact several times a semester at both social and academic events.  Each year the Chancellor’s Fellows sponsor a university-wide conference with a nationally known scholar and panel discussion.  Past speakers include Angela Davis, Mae Jemison, Joycelyn Elders, Julian Bond, Michael Eric Dyson, and Lani Guinier. Over thirty alumni of the Chancellor’s Fellowship Graduate Program have graduated from Washington University.  To learn more about the Chancellor’s Fellowship, please visit the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship website at http://artsci.wustl.edu/~cgfp/.

 

Other resources for underrepresented and diverse graduate students include university-wide graduate student groups such as the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, the Korean Graduate Student Association, the Taiwanese Graduate Student Association, and UMANG (Indian Graduate Student Association).  More information about university-wide graduate student groups can be found at the following website:  http://www.gradlife.wustl.edu/groups/universitywide.html

 

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences sponsors a yearly reception to welcome new graduate and professional students with diverse backgrounds and to provide an opportunity to network with graduate and professional students, faculty, and staff.

Additionally, the University maintains a website with information concerning diversity throughout the Washington University community.  To access the website, please visit

http://diversity.wustl.edu. 

 

For more information about diversity and graduate student resources, please contact Associate Dean Sheri Notaro in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences via email at snotaro@wustl.edu or at 935-6821.