Ana Mari Cauce announces her final year as UW's president

Published: Jun 11, 2024 Duration: 00:03:58 Category: Education

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As many of you know, I've been at this university for almost 40 years. This is where I grew up. This is my home. I came as an assistant professor, and for the last ten years it has been the honor of a lifetime to be able to serve this university, this state, as the president of this university. But I am now entering the last year of my second five year term. And I won't be re-upping, so next year will be my last year as president of this university. It has been the absolute honor of a lifetime and I am very much focused on making next year an amazing year. But it is important to make this transition a really good one. This should be a job that attracts absolutely fabulous people because this is such an amazing university. One of the things that has been so rewarding about being present at this university is watching and being part of making sure that our students, our faculty, our staff have such an enormous impact across the state. We really are the University ‘for’ Washington and for the world. The work that we do in terms of teaching, discovery, our research, our patient care is really just absolutely amazing. Some of you know that I'm a psychologist, and my work as a psychologist was a lot about how do we make sure that - and what are the barriers to low income kids, historically marginalized kids being able to have access to higher education because it changes their lives and it changes communities. One of the things that I really focused on in my presidency is how do we make sure that students across the state, regardless of their economic status have access to excellence and have the ability to get a world class education in Seattle, in Bothell, in Tacoma? I don't think that I'm telling you any secrets when I say that there are huge challenges in the world. Climate change, war, threats to our democracy and we need all the talent that is out there to be able to get the tools they need. We need to have a diversity of perspectives at the table. The university needs to be and is a place where those students can come and get the skills they need to make a difference in the world. We've already made some real progress in developing an impact ecosystem where the research work that our faculty does, the discovery that they do can more readily and more quickly translate into real action in our local communities and around the world. Right now, my focus is on continuing to do the work of this university. Working to make sure that this transition is smooth, and making sure that the university continues to be the university for Washington. This is not goodbye. This isn't even farewell or adieu. I am here. This will continue to be my home. And, no matter where I am, the University of Washington will always be in my heart and will always be what I am working for to make better.

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