Company Profile
University of Washington Tacoma
Company Overview
UW Tacoma is a four-year urban university offering undergraduate, graduate, and Ed.D. degrees in the heart of Tacoma's downtown museum district. UW Tacoma offers a small-campus environment while providing complete access to the computing and information resources of the University of Washington, one of the world's leading research universities. The fast-growing campus anchors a thriving neighborhood, offering state-of-the-art technology in its restored historic buildings.
Within the next ten years, UW Tacoma will become a more comprehensive institution that will respond with distinction to the needs of the region, state, nation and the world. UW Tacoma will achieve distinctiveness as an urban campus of the University of Washington through its commitment to three principles:
Access to an exceptional university education;
An interdisciplinary approach to knowledge and discovery in the 21st century;
A strong and mutually supportive relationship between the campus and its surrounding communities.
As the campus grows, UW Tacoma will strengthen its learning culture, research, institutional structures, and academic and co-curricular programs necessary to embody these three commitments and to uphold the standards of excellence, shared governance and academic freedom that are hallmarks of the University of Washington. It will also develop and implement assessment plans that serve as measurable benchmarks for institutional progress.
The core values of the institution — excellence, community, diversity and innovation — will shape the specific goals and methods UW Tacoma chooses to address these commitments and build its distinction as a campus.
More details on its mission and values: http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/chancellor/mission-values-vision