We are so thrilled to welcome you to the Evans School community! After you accept your offer, complete payment of the Enrollment Confirmation Deposit and then begin completing each of the onboarding steps overviewed on this page. Questions? Please contact evansuw@uw.edu.

You can find the Leading Public Innovation program schedule on this page in the section titled “Innovation Partnerships, Program Schedule, Tuition and Fees”.

For course time schedules, please visit the UW Time Professional & Continuing Education Time Schedule page.

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You will receive important messages from your course professors, the Evans School and various UW offices via UW email. Be sure you check your UW email messages regularly so that you do not miss important information.

You have two basic options for email—forward UW email to a personal email inbox, or use a UW email service. For more information on setting up your email, please visit the UW IT Student Quick-Start Guide.

If you have questions about your first Leading Public Innovation course, please contact our Student Services team at evansuw@uw.edu.

The in-person course meetings will take place in Parrington Hall on the UW Seattle campus. Occasionally, buildings and room numbers change. For the most up-to-date information, refer to the detail provided in your Canvas course site. You will have access to your Canvas course site after you have completed registration and the professor has published the Canvas course site.

Online course meetings take place on the Zoom platform. The Zoom link will be provided to you directly by your course instructor. For more details, check your Canvas course site. You will have access to your Canvas course site after you have completed registration and after the course instructor has published the course site.

For more information about campus parking lots and how to pay for campus parking, please visit the campus transportation services page.

For public transportation options, please visit the transit page.

Canvas is the course learning platform used by UW. Your courses will each have a Canvas site that you will use to access assignment instructions, submit completed assignments, contribute to group discussions, track course grades, and more.

You will have access to your Canvas course site after you have completed registration and after the course instructor has published the course site.

New to Canvas? Interested in learning more and getting help? Please visit the UW IT Canvas support page.

If a student’s employer is directly paying all or part of their UW tuition, this is called a third-party payment. If a student pays tuition and then gets reimbursed by their employer, this is not considered a third-party payment. For support with third-party payments, students should work directly with the Professional & Continuing Education (PCE) office. To contact PCE, and for support with graduate certificate payment options, please visit their payment options page.

The U-PASS is the transportation benefit integrated with your UW Husky Card. To learn more about the many U-PASS benefits, including how and where to use it on regional public transportation, please visit the U-PASS page.

All students who pay the Service & Activities Fee (SAF) are automatically members of the Universal Student U-PASS program. A mandatory quarterly fee appears on tuition statements. Oversight of this program is through a student advisory board appointed by the ASUW and GPSS.

To maintain your U-PASS activation between quarters, you must be registered for classes nine days prior to the next quarter start. Otherwise, your U-PASS will be deactivated and will be reactivated for transit 12 to 24 hours after you register again. For specific payment and activation dates, see the academic calendar.

Withdrawing from classes will deactivate your U-PASS. If it is on or before the 7th calendar day of the quarter, you will receive a full refund of the fee. A 50 percent refund is available until the 30th calendar day of the quarter. No refund is available if you withdraw on or after the 31st day.

Yes! As a matriculated UW graduate certificate student, you have access to UW Rec and UW Libraries:

To learn more about UW Recreation benefits, visit the UW Rec Membership page.

To learn more about utilizing UW Library services, please visit the UW Libraries page.

Yes! UW IT provides an overview of software available at low or no cost for students.

For more information, please visit this UW IT page.

For a general overview of all UW IT student support, please review their Student Quick-Start Guide.

If you are considering dropping or withdrawing we encourage you to reach out to Evans Student Services (evansuw@uw.edu) for guidance. Please also be aware of the academic calendar for dropping or withdrawing: Each quarter, UW and the UWPCE determine the dates by which students can drop or withdraw from a course. By certain points in the quarter, it is no longer possible to drop a course or to withdraw from a course or program and still receive a tuition refund. If you have questions or concerns about dropping or withdrawing, please be aware of these quarterly dates. You can view the dates in the UW academic calendar and in the UWPCE page. You can also reach out to Evans Student Services to discuss your options: evansuw@uw.edu