The University of Washington Student Regent application for the 2024-25 academic year is now open. 3 to 5 students’ names will be forwarded to the WA governor’s office; the Student Regent will receive a tuition waiver for the academic year.
Students of all UW programs and campuses who intend to be enrolled from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025 may apply.
Student Regent Role Description:
The Board of Regents consists of eleven citizens appointed by the Governor. The Regents, in whom authority rests as a collective body, and not as individuals, govern the University of Washington, and select and evaluate its President. The administration of the University is delegated, with certain exceptions, to the University President and the faculty, of which the President is a member. As guardians of the public trust, and as a body, the Regents set institutional missions, establish policies, and ensure the financial stability and academic quality of the University. Since 1998 the tenth seat on the Board has been filled by a student, chosen by the Governor from among three to five students nominated by a committee made up of student leaders across all three UW campuses.
The Student Regent is not a student representative, a function filled by representatives of the various student governments to the Board, but an independent guardian of the public trust responsible to the citizens of the State of Washington. The Student Regent brings the perspective of students past, present, and future to difficult decisions that may involve balancing the interests of current and future students, faculty and staff. By custom, the Student Regent helps to plan agendas of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee; helps to ensure the integration of all campuses of the University by regularly convening student leaders to discuss issues before the Board and issues of particular and 2024 – 2025 UW Student Regent Application 2 common concern to students on the different campuses; and, each year, is invited to present a student-focused information item to the Board in May or June. In compensation for their time and service, the Student Regent receives a scholarship for tuition costs during their regency.
Duties performed as Regent are reimbursed at the applicable per diem rate, in accordance with Board policy. The time commitment required of the Student Regent is considerable. They may, but need not necessarily, accept additional UW employment, in any case not to exceed 100 percent time, as their schedule and coursework permit, but must decline any tuition or fee waiver associated with that employment. Please feel free to contact the ASUWB President, Puneet Birk (asuwbprs@uw.edu) with any questions or concerns about the application process. Additionally, the current Student Regent, Jay Cunningham, may be reached at stureg@uw.edu for questions about the position.
Past Student Regents
2024 - Cunningham: Ph.D., Human Centered Design and Engineering
2023 - Lee: J.D., School of Law
2022 - Berisha: Biochemistry, Bothell
2021 - Pogosian: Politics, Philosophy, and Economy, Tacoma
2020 - Saurez: International Studies, Seattle
2019 - Zhou: CSE, Seattle
Student Regent Application (Due at 11:59 on Monday, April 15): https://forms.office.com/r/2ZAR5jcGE4
GPSS Website for Student Regent Links: https://depts.washington.edu/gpss/student-regent-application/
Questions about the Process: Puneet Birk, ASUWB President, asuwbprs@uw.edu