Campaign Case for Support
Rendering of Lemieux Library addition
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.
A University Worthy of Your Support
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 2009" 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 has called the School of Law's legal writing program among 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.
- Student athletes have returned to Division I, the highest level of competition.
- Washington CEO magazine has recognized Seattle University as the "greenest green" campus in Washington, lauding the school for our earth-friendly practices.
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.