Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
As associate dean for undergraduate education, Kevin Mihata coordinates undergraduate policy and practice, advising, and curriculum across the four divisions of the College of Arts & Sciences, and coordinates between Arts & Sciences and other colleges and units across the University.
Mihata is also the founding director of C21, whose mission is to reimagine the liberal arts student journey through experiences as diverse as study abroad programs to Spain and Japan, a liberal arts hackathon, a four-week introduction to college exclusively for incoming first-year students, and a pre-professional externship partnership with Microsoft and Amazon. C21 also houses the College’s early career laboratory, gesture, which offers an intensive pre-professional bootcamp, workshops on professional and personal story, and an online video series, all focused on early career skills specific to CAS graduates.
Mihata has been at UW for more than 25 years, completing his Ph.D. in sociology before moving to the College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office. He has taught courses in social psychology, culture, research methods, and storytelling with data, and launched the Sociology Practicum program, placing sociology majors in applied projects with external partners, including nonprofit organizations and government agencies.