🔔 Autumn 2025 Orientation RSVP Reminder and Updated Orientation Pre-Work🔔

Hello Autumn Incoming Full-time DAY students -

We are excited to have you join us soon. Please read carefully the following updates and reminders and, as always, please send questions to mswadvising@uw.edu.

Orientation Reminder to RSVP

As we've mentioned before, there are two DAY Orientations for you to attend and both are mandatory. We've noticed that not all students have registered to attend and we want to make sure these events are on your schedules:

Part 1: Virtual Orientation

Wednesday, Sept 3rd, 5-7pm (remote, mandatory, although will be recorded)

Part 2: In-person Mandatory Orientation

September 9th, 9:30-4pm

Please register for both orientations, if you have not yet done so - or let us know at mswadvising@uw.edu if you are not able to attend either.

Orientation Pre-Readings Updated

Please read the following before your in-person orientation:

Loretta Ross. (2021, Aug). Don’t Call People Out, Call Them In. ~14 minutes (video)
Ganti, A., Dotolo, D., Wilson, S., & Lindhorst, T. (No date) Ways to Hold our Work Together
Kanuha (2023) Journeying Toward Justice (Unpublished Notes )
**Okun, T. White Supremacy Culture: What is It & Characteristics. (divorcing) White Supremacy Culture. (updated*) – PDF of article, Illustration by Cynthia Sarver

**The original link pointed to a site that has since changed and now contains extra content that was not part of our assigned reading. The updated link is to a PDF that captures only what was intended. The embedded links in this PDF reflect the author’s choices. The MSW program is not assigning, endorsing, nor censoring the linked materials.

Feel like you missed some emails from us? All of them are posted on the UW-SSW Student Resources getting started canvas page.

See you soon!

Office of Student Services:

mswadvising@uw.edu

Office of Field Education:

sswfield@uw.edu