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Stories From The Place of Sports in The University, 3rd Edition

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) 1 H5P Activities English

Author(s): Students of the Place of Sports In the University

Editor(s): Jennifer Lee Hoffman

Subject(s): Moral and social purpose of education, Higher education, tertiary education, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Sports teams and clubs, Multidiscipline sports, Winter sports / activities, eSports / Professional video gaming

Publisher: University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2024-06-15

Last updated: 2025-11-17

What is the place of sports at a university? From the 2024 media frenzy over women's college basketball to our own University of Washington football team playing in a National Championship, student contributors examined the impact of these highly visible sports on a campus. Just as importantly, are stories that reveal the impact in so many other sports opportunities a campus offers. Cover Photo Credit: Lauren Ray

Climate, Justice and Energy Solutions

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Dargan M. W. Frierson

Subject(s): Climate change, Climatology and climate modelling, The environment, Pollution and threats to the environment, Social impact of environmental issues, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage

Last updated: 2025-11-10

Our Voices: A Guide to Citing Personal Experience and Interviews in Research

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Emily Willard, Emma Macdonald-Scott, Jake Lally

Subject(s): Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy, Research methods / methodology, Social pedagogy, Higher education, tertiary education

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publisher: UW PressBooks

Publication date: 2023-05-15

Last updated: 2025-11-07

Our hope is that this guide to citing personal experience and interviews meets our goal of supporting students to produce their own knowledge, as well as honoring the academic value of their lived experience and the experiences of their families and communities. Through the use of a set of guidelines we created for students to cite personal experience and interviews, we found students self-reported increase in engagement and success in academic assignments. We propose this set of guidelines are an important practical tool for critical, feminist, and anti-racist pedagogy, as well as a method for teaching ethical research.

Financial Strategy for Public Managers

CC BY (Attribution) English (United States)

Author(s): Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe

Subject(s): Public finance accounting

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publication date: 2023-09-15

Last updated: 2025-11-06

Financial Strategy for Public Managers is a new generation textbook for financial management in the public sector. It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial concepts and analytical tools that today’s effective public servants need to know. It starts “at the beginning” and assumes no prior knowledge or experience in financial management. Throughout the text, Kioko and Marlowe emphasize how financial information can and should inform every aspect of public sector strategy, from routine procurement decisions to budget preparation to program design to major new policy initiatives. They draw upon dozens of real-world examples, cases, and applied problems to bring that relationship between information and strategy to life. Unlike other public financial management texts, the authors also integrate foundational principles across the government, non-profit, and “hybrid/for-benefit” sectors. Coverage includes basic principles of accounting and financial reporting, preparing and analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, and the process and politics of budget preparation. The text also includes several large case studies appropriate for class discussion and/or graded assignments.

Climate Science for the Classroom

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Program on Climate Change Community

Editor(s): Miriam Bertram, Surabhi Biyani, Isaac Olson, Elise Herzfeld

Subject(s): Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy, Climate change

Institution(s): University of Washington

Last updated: 2025-11-05

Modules, games and labs focused on teaching climate change. Developed by graduate students and faculty associated with the UW Program on Climate Change, a cross departmental collaboration to research, teach and communicate climate science. Updated regularly.

Climate Justice in Your Classroom

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Affiliates of the UW Program on Climate Change

Editor(s): Isaac Olson, Madeline Brooks, Miriam A. Bertram

Subject(s): Educational: Environmental science, Climate change, Social impact of environmental issues, Social discrimination and social justice, Higher education, tertiary education

Institution(s): University of Washington, North Seattle College

Last updated: 2025-11-05

With the increased effect of anthropogenic climate change, the impact of environmental issues on human societies has never been more essential to understand. With science-backed research showcasing that human activities are actively worsening the effect of many environmental issues including severe temperatures, natural disasters, and biodiversity loss, there is severe need for all, whether we are scientists, activists, educators, or policy-makers, to take action. However, the global nature of both our society and the dangers we are facing necessitates careful consideration in analyzing and combatting environmental issues in a modern world. To properly adapt to and mitigate these issues, which may directly target specific communities or affect societies across the globe, not only do we need a proper grasp of environmental and climate science, but we need to ensure that solutions are mindful of the communities and ecosystems that are affected. We must not be content with climate and environmental solutions that fail to consider diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility as key tenets. In short, justice must be at the heart of our climate and environmental work going forward.

Yet, facilitating just solutions cannot be done while the institutions that teach the next generation fail to highlight climate and environmental justice in their teachings. Without a natural and focused inclusion of DEIA values in environmental courses in higher education, there is reduced capacity for students who wish to engage to garner an understanding of what just solutions look like and how to implement them. This book seeks to remedy that gap.

Throughout this book, we synthesize the current efforts towards including climate, environmental justice, and civic engagement in courses taught at the University of Washington – Seattle. These examples range from specific lessons on environmental injustice to course-long integration of climate justice values, and include course details, lesson plans, and other resources provided by course instructors in an easy-to-access format. The chapters in this book each constitute a real method of integrating climate and environmental justice into a course, and thus provide a bounty of instruction for increasing the inclusion of justice in course material for instructors across any discipline. Lessons will be regularly added to the book as they are implemented and adapted. The existence of this book marks not only the history of environmental justice in courses at the UW, but also the emphasis on the topic of justice that the college is placing in the current day, as well as serving as a guide or model for instructors to use as more courses begin to fully integrate justice into their curriculum. Through this work, we can be more reliably assured that the people we are training to practice civic engagement and climate and environmental action can not just protect the planet, but preserve the life of the people, communities, and ecosystems who depend on it.

This book has been created with support from the University of Washington Program on Climate Change, the UW Program on the Environment, and the University of Washington College of the Environment, especially from material created at our annual Climate and Environmental Justice Faculty Institute.

Telling Our Stories

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives) English

Author(s): TCOM 347: Television Criticism

Subject(s): Cultural and media studies

Publisher: University of Washington Tacoma and University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2019-12-13

Last updated: 2025-11-03

The Telling Our Stories project is designed so students work in teams to document and produce short digital stories highlighting the experiences of other UW-Tacoma students with regards to one or various aspects of their identity, whether related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, disability, place of origin, etc. The goal is to understand how student’s identity, and overall way of seeing the world, affect their college experience, whether in the classroom or on other spaces across campus.

Through this course, students have engaged in conversation about their own social identities and their positionality in relationship to the people they are interviewing. The project employs different elements of pre-production, production and post-production, skills the students have begun to learn through this class. In addition to the videos, students have also developed this online platform where the work can be viewed and made accessible to the public.

Fundamentals of Climate Change

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Dargan M. W. Frierson

Subject(s): Climate change, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Meteorology and climatology, Climatology and climate modelling

Last updated: 2025-11-02

Applied Multivariate Statistics in R

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Jonathan D. Bakker

Subject(s): Probability and statistics, Maths for scientists, Applied ecology, Probability and statistics

Institution(s): University of Washington

Publisher: University of Washington

Publication date: 2024-01-03

Last updated: 2025-11-01

Applied multivariate statistics, with an emphasis on worked examples from ecology. Used as the textbook for SEFS 502 (Analytical Techniques for Community Ecology) at the University of Washington.

Critical Filipinx American Histories and their Artifacts

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Rick Bonus and UW AAS 360 2019 Students

Publisher: University of Washington Libraries

Publication date: 2020-04-27

Last updated: 2025-10-31

The contents of this online book were created by Prof. Rick Bonus and his students as a final project for a course on “Critical Filipinx American Histories” in the Fall quarter of 2019 at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. In collaboration with the UW Libraries, the UW Burke Museum, and the UW Department of American Ethnic Studies, this book explores and reflects on the relationships between Filipinx American histories and selected artifacts at the Burke Museum. It is a class project that was made possible by the Allen Open Textbook Grant.