Campaign Case for Support
In 1891, Seattle University made a pact with this city and region: We would educate students to think critically, prove themselves in real-world settings and take to heart the Jesuit commitment to become honorable citizens of competence and character. In turn and in time, our graduates would make a meaningful difference in their communities as they came to share their talent, their experience and their dedication to the greater good.
More than 60,000 Seattle University graduates have contributed to that grand tradition. They are college presidents, state Supreme Court justices, CEOs of multinational corporations, professional Hall of Fame athletes and senior U.S. diplomats. They govern states, command armies, climb mountains and design giant jet planes. They nurse the sick, teach the young, serve the poor and raise thriving, healthy families.
The Time Is Now
Seattle University today is strong, accomplished and increasingly recognized for the outstanding education it offers and the positive influence it brings to corporate offices and boardrooms, science labs and courtrooms, churches and classrooms, and myriad other settings.
- U.S. News & World Report's "Best Colleges 2008" ranks Seattle University among the top 10 universities in the West that offer a full range of masters and undergraduate programs.
- We are a university of scholars. In recent years, Seattle University has graduated two Rhodes Scholars, six Truman Scholars, four Fulbright Scholars, two Muskie Fellows, a Mellon Fellow and a Goldwater Excellence in Education scholar.
- The Princeton Review gives Seattle University its highest ranking in all four rating categories, and has in recent years ranked our faculty in its top five in the country.
- The American Bar Association calls the Law School's legal writing program the finest in the nation.
- Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine ranks the Albers Executive Leadership Program among the country's top 10 training programs in corporate responsibility. Seattle University is the only college or university in the Northwest named in the rankings.
- The school's Board of Trustees voted unanimously last spring to return Seattle University intercollegiate athletic programs to Division I status.
- Students are selecting Seattle University for undergraduate, graduate, and legal education in record numbers. Total enrollment for the 2007-08 academic year stood at 7,529 when classes commenced last fall—an increase of more than 4 percent over the previous year.
Help Shape Our Future
Today, you can become a partner in our historic campaign. Its goals are the most important and challenging we have ever undertaken. Success will bring sweeping improvements to the quality of our academic program and provide for more students than ever before the benefits of a Seattle University education.
Your investment in our campaign will pay dividends far into the future, because the students you help today will become graduates poised to give back much more than they have received. In the process, they will make an enormous difference in the life of our city, our region and our world in ways we can only begin to imagine.