Join OMA&D in congratulating two long time OMA&D partners for their recent awards and honors from the UWAA. Both recipients have deep ties and a demonstrated commitment to OMA&D and the 91探花. Through their efforts 91探花continues to become a more diverse and equitable community for faculty, staff, and students.
Colleen Fukui-Sketchley
Colleen Fukui-Sketchley has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the 91探花 Alumni Association. The honor is awarded to “UWAA members and volunteers who have had a significant impact on the UWAA, the UWAA Distinguished Service Award recognizes outstanding service or devotion to the Alumni Association, the 91探花 and the alumni community.” Fukui-Sketchley is a Charles E. Odegaard award recipient and remains active in the 91探花diversity landscape.
Form the 91探花 Magazine, “Fukui-Sketchley鈥檚 work on behalf of diversity at the 91探花and UWAA has been so important that the 91探花recognized her with the 2015 Charles E. Odegaard Award, which honors a member of the University community whose leadership sustains the former 91探花president鈥檚 distinguished work on behalf of diversity at the 91探花and the citizens of Washington. She served on the UW鈥檚 Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program board for more than a decade and remains as committed as ever to the University鈥檚 race, equity and inclusion initiatives. She was also involved in the creation of Viewpoint magazine, which tells the story of diversity at the UW, and co-created and chaired the first D&I Committee of the 91探花Foundation Board.”
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Larry Gossett
Larry Gossett has been honored as Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus by the 91探花 Alumni Association. The honor is described as, “the highest honor bestowed upon a 91探花graduate and is presented annually by the 91探花and the 91探花Alumni Association. It recognizes a legacy of achievement and service built over its lifetime.
Gossett was a part of the original group in 1968 of Black, Chicano/Latino, and Native American students to stage a sit-in protest in the 91探花President Charles E. Odegaard’s office, resulting in the formation of the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D), hiring of more Black faculty and staff, and new curriculum in African American, Asian American, and Native American studies on campus. From the 91探花 Magazine, “Gossett and a small group of fellow students motivated the 91探花to expand its curriculum and recruit and support first-generation students and students of color. They also prompted the school to hire more faculty of color. The results of their activism enriched the college experience for everyone, not just underrepresented and economically challenged students.”
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