CONTENT 03 President’s Message 04 Rankings & Recognition 06 Computer Science 08 Center for Science and Innovation 10 Vi Hilbert Hall 12 Sustainability 14 Giving Back 16 Career Outcomes 17
Leaders Who Inspire
18 Center for Community Engagement 20 Marketing Research 22 STEM Education 23 College of Nursing 24 Athletics 26 Record Enrollment 27 University Governance
Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J. PRESIDENT
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his year is one of significant change and transformation at Seattle University. We are literally laying the foundation of the university’s future as we are set to break ground on the Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) in late spring. You can read more about the center in these pages and by visiting www.seattleu.edu/ science-innovation. Phase one of the CSI project, which is the biggest we have ever undertaken, encompasses the building of a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of campus with new labs, teaching spaces, maker spaces and more. It will open in fall 2021. The second phase involves the renovation and modernization of our existing science and engineering facilities, labs and classrooms. Together, the center will become a forward-looking hub of creativity, learning and knowledge that touches every undergraduate and many graduate students. This new center is where Jesuit education meets the future, giving our students a multitude of opportunities to advance in a world that is continually changing and technologically driven. What could be more important in shaping this future for the greater good than a rigorous and relevant academic experience rooted in enduring values, the humanities and liberal arts and a commitment to educating the whole person— mind, body and spirit. This is what we do.
Paramount to this is the growth and success of students. How we do it matters just as much as what we do. It starts with investing in a talented and accomplished community of faculty and staff deeply committed to our mission and to excellence in everything we do. “Excellence everywhere” is not just a mantra, it is our calling to serve students the best we can across all areas of campus. It is central to our comprehensive student success strategy. Over the course of the year, we will move forward to implement new initiatives as part of this more deeply integrated approach to ensuring every student from every background succeeds and feels a strong sense of belonging here at Seattle U. The Center for Science and Innovation and the student success strategy are critical elements that will shape the university’s emerging strategic framework for the next five years. The strategic planning process is underway and will clearly delineate our highest priorities and future focus. Taken together, these developments give us much to look forward to in the year ahead and much to be excited about as we chart the path forward into the next decade. We could not be more grateful for the position we are in today, the promise now before us of even greater things and, of course, everyone across our university community who makes all of this possible.
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RANKINGS & RECOGNITION TOP 15
LAW AND BUSINESS PROGRAMS Several School of Law and Albers School of Business & Economics programs are in the Top 15 in the U.S., including the Executive MBA (#11), accounting specialization (#14) and legal writing program (#1). Additionally, the law school’s clinical training program and parttime JD degree program rank in the Top 25. —U.S. News & World Report: Best Colleges 2019
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of SU graduates were employed or pursuing higher education, military or post-graduate service six months after graduation. —NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers)
95%* of Albers undergraduate seniors are placed in a job or career-related activity within six months of graduating. *63% of seniors participated in the survey
TOP INDUSTRIES FOR SU GRADS Business and Financial Services Education, Legal and Public Service Life Sciences and Health Media and Entertainment Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
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BEST CITY FOR RECENT COLLEGE GRADS
TOP 10 IN THE WEST FOR 18 YEARS
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A+ LOCATION
—U.S. News & World Report: Best Colleges 2019
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Seattle ranked #7 nationally for best college location.
The College of Nursing is among the top nursing schools in the country.
—2019 Niche Best Colleges in America
—College Factual (2019)
100% LEADING INSTITUTION FOR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION For 16 consecutive years, Seattle University has been recognized as one of the nation’s top schools for undergraduate education. SU also received call outs for “Best Western,” “Green College” and “Political Awareness” of its students. —The Princeton Review: The Best 384 Colleges (2019)
College of Education Master in Teaching graduates are teaching or subbing. —College of Education (2016, 2017)
TOP 5% HIGHEST-PAID GRADUATES Seattle U graduates are among the highest earners in the nation for liberal arts/sciences and humanities, computer science and information science and international business. —College Factual (2019) 2019 PRESIDENT’S REP ORT
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THE SCIENCE BEHIND LIN LI, PHD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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PROFESSOR’S RESEARCH FOCUSES ON INTERSECTION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Lin Li, PhD, assistant professor of Computer Science at the College of Science and Engineering, wants to create a world where computer-aided techniques will help provide more accurate and less invasive ways of diagnosing diseases, such as skin cancer, diabetic retinopathy and hyperglycemia/ hypoglycemia. The focus of her research, on medical-image analysis and computer-aided diagnosis using machine learning, has similarities with computer science, despite the pathological and biological differences in the three diseases. One project seeks to create a device that diagnoses melanoma skin cancer, without the invasive, costly and slower process of a biopsy and lab work. Li and her collaborators have developed a computer-aided spectroscopic system that photographs and analyzes the skin area for immediate diagnosis. Li is also developing an approach to detect retinopathy in diabetes patients. The approach contains image processing and analysis and a machine-learning component for automatically identifying early clinical signs of diabetic retinopathy. In another project to help diabetic patients, Li is developing an approach for automated prediction of blood glucose levels and detection of hyperglycemia/hypoglycemia with machine-
learning techniques. The approach can help regulate a patient’s glucose levels and alert for high or low readings. Ultimately, Li would like her research to lead to the development of automated diagnostic tools or apps. By publishing her initial findings, she hopes to attract physicians who will be interested in collaborating. Li received both her bachelor and master’s degrees in computer science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China. She earned her doctorate in computer science in 2012 from Clemson University where she began her research focus in medical imaging. Since joining Seattle University in 2014, Li has been teaching undergraduate and graduate students and computerscience certificate courses for people with bachelor’s degrees in non-computer fields. One or two of her students assist with her research almost each year. But research wasn’t what drew her to Seattle U. “Seattle U values the excellence in teaching and I enjoy teaching,” she says. “The second reason I came to SU is the mission of SU, which is consistent with my own belief. My scholarship also fits the department needs.”
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Having grown by 118 percent since 2013, the computer science program has outpaced the growth of all other academic programs in the past five years, according to Matthew Borda, assistant director of Institutional Research at Seattle U.
Undergraduate enrollment increased from 127 to 242 students from 2013–14 to this academic year, while graduate enrollment grew from 55 to 155 students in the same period, according to College of Science and Engineering Dean Michael Quinn.
Computer science is the only program to post double-digit gains in the past three years, with undergraduate programs averaging 13 percent increases annually and graduate programs growing at double that rate. 2019 PRESIDENT’S REP ORT
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A LOOK AT MAKER SPACES AND LABS Seattle University’s new Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) is being designed to enhance opportunities for “creative collisions” among STEM students and faculty members, with the ultimate aim of engaging every student on campus, says Lara Branigan, the university’s director of design and construction. Architectural plans are in the final stages for the three-building complex, which is scheduled to break ground in spring 2019. President Stephen Sundborg, S.J., challenged Branigan and the architectural design team to create a building that everyone on campus would use. Multi-use labs and creative maker spaces are two of the project’s features designed to bring this goal to life.
three floors; the idea is to schedule Core classes in the labs that will draw non-science majors through the building where they will observe STEM classes. “It’s a way of getting them exposed to more opportunities at Seattle University,” Branigan says. Another important feature is multi-level maker spaces—doit-yourself, hands-on spaces—to suit varying abilities and interests. Currently, the campus has one maker space geared toward electrical and computer engineering majors housed in the College of Science and Engineering. The CSI will include maker spaces open to students outside the STEM fields as well.
“We’ve come to the realization that we need to have a variety The center’s multi-investigator research labs, which support of maker spaces,” says Dean Michael Quinn. “Some will four to six faculty researchers and their students, encourage have a low barrier of entry so that every individual will feel cross-disciplinary collaboration in a way their single- comfortable walking into them. We’ll also have high-end investigator lab predecessor never could. In addition, the maker spaces that require more training and supervision. larger labs can function as classrooms. As a way of meeting The idea is to have activities that appeal to a wide range of Father Sundborg’s challenge of everyone using the building, students...” designers located biology and chemistry labs on the upper 08
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INDUSTRY LEADERS SUPPORT NEW CSI
AMAZON has committed $3 million to support the completion of Seattle University’s new Center for Science and Innovation, so that students may better prepare for responsible roles in the fields of science, mathematics, computer science and engineering and to inspire them to lifelong intellectual, professional and human growth. This investment in Seattle U reflects Amazon’s focus on ensuring that underrepresented minority students have a path to a STEM career.
The university received a generous $3 million gift from MICROSOFT as part of the comprehensive campaign. The gift demonstrates Microsoft’s passion for using technology in a way that improves our world, with $2.5 million toward the Center for Science and Innovation. The additional $500,000 will fund development of programming that explores the intersection of ethics and technology as it relates to AI, big data, facial recognition and more.
The M.J. MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST has committed $1.75 million to Seattle University toward completion of the center. This gift backs Murdock’s belief that the Center for Science and Innovation will provide a venue for the next generation of scientific researchers to flourish and thrive in their work. 2019 PRESIDENT’S REP ORT
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New Year, New Digs
STUDENTS SHARE SLICE OF LIFE INSIDE VI HILBERT HALL
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t’s new. It’s modern. It’s city living with stunning views. Vi Hilbert Hall—Seattle University’s newest residence hall—opened this past fall to house more than 300 upper-level and graduate students. Vi Hilbert Hall is named for a Northwest tribal woman who devoted her life to keeping alive the Lushootseed culture, language and stories.
Students moved into their rooms just “I was really surprised,” says Ariana Mafi, prior to the start of the academic year. ’20, snuggled into the window seat she created by scooting the apartment’s Dylan Fong, ’20, was nervous about leather couch under the living room moving into a new building, site unseen. window on the 10th floor. “I have a view So, he was relieved when the time of the Space Needle. I walked in and it came to move into his apartment. “It’s was the first thing I saw.” like when you watch an HGTV show,” he says. “I was happy with the way it The kitchen is equipped with a slim came out.” wooden table and two bar stools pressed against the wall, plus roomy As a quad his apartment has four cabinets above the sink and a twobedrooms, a common area and a burner stovetop. Each bedroom is kitchen and furnishings that included outfitted with a twin bed and a desk. a leather couch, chair and wooden coffee table. He shares the space with Snagging one of Vi Hilbert Hall’s three roommates. single apartments, Grayson Martello10
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Livingston, ’21, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window that makes his living room feel like it’s hovering in the sky above Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. “I had no idea the view would be this spectacular,” Martello-Livingston says. He liked the modern look and feel of the whole building. Best of all is the chance to live in an upper-classmen dorm. “I like being more integrated with campus and the community of SU,” he says.
VI HILBERT BY THE NUMBERS
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SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
A LEADER IN SUSTAINABILITY • • • Seattle University prides itself on its leading ways when it comes to sustainable practices and environmental justice. These efforts are longstanding and evident across campus, from LEED-certified buildings and pesticides-free urban gardens to a campus-wide plastic water bottle ban to a commitment to divest from fossil fuels within the next five years. It also extends to the classroom, with courses and programming around environmental justice and sustainability. It also extends to the classroom, with courses and programming around environmental justice and sustainability. 12
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Here’s a closer look at some of the key achievements and national awards recognizing the university’s leadership in sustainability. R AT I N G S
Gold rating on the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment Rating System (STARS) for 2018
#8 on Sierra’s Cool Schools List for 2018
A spot on The Princeton Review’s Green Ratings System Honor Roll for 2018
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BEST Award for Environmental Leadership, Resource Venture Best Large Business Program Award, Washington State Dept. of Ecology Recycler of the Year, Washington State Recycling Association Governor’s Award for Pollution Prevention and Sustainable Practices R E CYC L I N G P R O G R A M
Outstanding School, National Recycling Coalition Recycler of the Year Award, Washington State Recycling Association WasteWise Partner of the Year Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
COMPOST PROGRAM
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Recycling Institution of the Year, Washington State Recycling Association
Green Lights Award, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Sustainability Innovator Award, Sustainable Endowments Institute
Outstanding Achievement, City of Seattle
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“Steve and Tricia have chosen to live simply, sharing all they can with so many of us. Their generosity makes good things happen. Their combined wisdom and compassion truly lights up our world.” —Pat Twohy, S.J.
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teve and Tricia Trainer, ’02 MDiv, began their relationship with indigenous people of Pacific Northwest in 1992 when Sister Julie Codd, CSJ, then director of the Chief Seattle Club, asked Tricia if she would bring soup to the social services shelter for urban Native Americans. The shelter was dilapidated and cold with holes in the wood floor, which spurred the Trainers to want to improve the condition of the shelter. The result: They raised $6.5 million for a new club headquarters, which was designed by a Native American architect and opened in 2007.
The couple remains active with the Chief Seattle Club, in addition to assuming a new role supporting indigenous people at Seattle University. In 2017, Tricia co-founded SU’s Indigenous Peoples Institute (IPI) to encourage more Native students to attend the university by creating a welcoming
home away from home. Tricia and Steve both serve on IPI’s working group. Global philanthropy is another of their passions. Years ago, they began funding Seattle University’s Global Education Program with a five-year pledge. That led to the creation of the initial Regional Initiative based in Nicaragua. Today, Steve is a trustee who chairs the Campaign Task Force for Global Engagement, which is raising $9 million to expand opportunities in Central America, Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and China. “Steve and Tricia have chosen to live simply, sharing all they can with so many of us,” says Pat Twohy, S.J., who has worked closely with the Trainers over the years. “Their generosity makes good things happen. Their combined wisdom and compassion truly lights up our world.”
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY GALA The 35th annual Seattle University Gala raised more than $716,000 for student scholarships. Steve and Tricia Trainer, ’02, were the recipients of the 2018 St. Ignatius Medal, which was presented at the Gala and represents the university’s highest honor for service.
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A NE T WO R K O F O P P ORTUN ITIE S At the end of each day, McKenna Jay Mauliola Mau, ’19, hops a Metro bus from his summer internship on Seattle’s waterfront to his Capitol Hill apartment. The Hawaiian native has grown accustomed to his urban lifestyle, including the opportunities for networking with some of the world’s top companies. Looking back, Mau is glad he chose Seattle U over the rural university he was also considering his senior year of high school. Then a prospective business student, Mau was banking on Seattle’s international business hub offering more job prospects. In the summer of 2018 that decision began paying dividends for the accounting major, who secured an accounting internship with the Port of Seattle through a career fair hosted by Seattle U. The opportunity gave him professional experience and connected him with a mentor. Many of his skills that seem effortless now were foreign to him in his first two years of college. He says Seattle U and Albers speaker events, career fairs and placement counselors helped develop his professional aptitude. Networking once intimidated Mau until he learned how to pitch his experience in a few sentences. He made an effort to keep attending events and improve his skills. Says Mau, “I’ve seen a lot of changes in myself over the years.”
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OUR GRADUATE S WORK HERE The Boeing Company Expedia Group Seattle University Fred Hutchinson Cancer Amazon Research Center Microsoft Zillow Group Nordstrom Highline Public Schools Seattle Children’s King County University of Washington Swedish Medical Center Starbucks Seattle Public Schools *for 2017 16
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OUR STUDENTS Amazon Ernst & Young Microsoft Seattle City Light Expedia Morgan Stanley T-Mobile Harborview Medical Center
INTERN HERE McKinstry Deloitte Seattle Children’s Hospital Virginia Mason PACCAR Costco Wholesale The Boeing Company *for 2017
TOPICS—AND SPEAKERS—OF INTEREST This past year brought many notable and nationally known speakers to campus, sharing their insights and inspiration, from political powerhouses—and a 2020 presidential hopeful—to leaders in the arts and public policy. Here’s a sampling (clockwise from bottom left): John Kerry: The former Secretary of Gary Locke: Seattle U was visited by Julian Castro: Former Secretary of State shared pivotal moments in his life, former WA Governor Gary Locke, Housing and Urban Development and from his distinguished military service who has rich life of public service, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful to senator to presidential nominee, as having served as the former U.S. Julian Castro was a guest speaker at chronicled in his memoir, Every Day is Ambassador to China and as Secretary the 2018 Crosscut Festival. Extra. of Commerce from 2009-11 during the Obama administration. Sally Jewell: A recognized leader in Mayor Jenny Durkan: Seattle’s mayor sustainability, Sally Jewell—the former was a panelist for a Town Hall event on Annie Leibovitz: The legendary photo- CEO of REI and Secretary of the poverty and prosperity in the greater grapher, whose portrait work has graced Interior in the Obama administration— Seattle area. countless magazine covers and more, was the undergraduate commencement shared some of her shots of famous faces. speaker in 2018. 2019 PRESIDENT’S REP ORT
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elebrating 15 years, Seattle University’s Center for It is the kind of revolutionary work President Stephen Community Engagement (CCE) began with a bold move. Sundborg, S.J., envisioned when he plucked Koth from One year after its founding in 2004, the center teamed up Stanford University to launch the center. Service-learning with the university’s Center for Jesuit Education to host a courses now exceed 200 a year and the center collaborates Tent City on the university’s tennis courts. The move broke with 158 community partners. ground in several ways, among them making Seattle U the nation’s first university to host a homeless encampment. “The Center for Community Engagement fully embodies Equally significant was the care and openness to learning the Jesuit mission of Seattle University of putting one’s that flowed between students and Tent City residents. education to work on behalf of others,” Father Sundborg says. “As president, I take my hat off to Kent who has been “It was a phenomenal way for the center to get started,” says the visionary leader and champion of this center all these CCE Executive Director Kent Koth. years.”
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The center hosts Tent City 3, the first university to host a homeless encampment on campus.
CCE partnered with the Shinnyo-en Foundation to offer a paid fellowship to a recent undergrad to serve with a local community partner.
Seattle University exceeds 200 servicelearning courses per year.
The Seattle University Youth Initiative launches.
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To more cohesively implement the Youth Initiative, the Children’s Literacy Project, which had been housed in the College of Education, merges with CCE. The Children’s Literacy Project works with local elementary and middle schools to foster academic support.
S CCE marked a new era when it launched the Seattle University Youth Initiative (SUYI) in 2011. Nationally recognized, SUYI mobilizes the university’s knowledge and resources in an ambitious, long-term campus-community investment in three neighborhoods surrounding SU’s campus. Each year 1,500 SU students plus faculty from every college and school participate in projects that include programming in elementary, middle and high schools. As with New York City’s Harlem Children’s Zone, which inspired SUYI, the Youth Initiative convenes community partners whose missions focus on stable housing, access
to health care, safe neighborhoods and living-wage jobs to ensure low-income youth have a pathway of support to graduation. For years, colleges and universities have been eager to replicate Seattle University’s model. To support these efforts, the Annie E. Casey Foundation funds a national network called the Place-Based Justice Network. In addition, Koth and SU Associate Professor Erica Yamamura co-authored the book, Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education, released in 2018.
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Seattle University is selected to work with Yesler Terrace as the education partner on the multi-year Choice Neighborhood Grant through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Yesler Community Collaborative begins, a convening of local organizations to preserve neighborhood character and culture. “Serve Local” is launched, placing more than 300 students annually via student employment, service-learning and volunteer positions.
The center is awarded President Obama’s National Award for Community Service.
Place-Based Summer Institute is held at Seattle U to share best practices for hyper-local strategies for community engagement.
Center deepens its focus on anti-racism and releases the statement, “Living and Leading as an AntiRacist Organization.”
Jumpstart, a year-long cohort of 40 college students working intensely within early learning classrooms, reaches 100,000 service hours in 10 years of operating within the Center for Community Engagement.
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MARKETING RESEARCH THE THINKING BEHIND
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ssociate Professor of Marketing Mathew The study found a link between more specific, Isaac, PhD, is doing his part to advance the concrete language (e.g., “near,” “shipping,” marketing field through research that uncovers “fast”) in searches and a readiness to purchase. the psychology behind consumer behaviors and By contrast, more general, abstract language purchasing decisions. Since joining the Albers (e.g., “reviews,” “best,” “information”) in searches School of Business and Economics in 2011, Isaac indicated that consumers were further away has co-authored multiple research articles that from making a purchase decision. Isaac and his help explain consumer decision-making and co-authors recommended that marketers deploy provide marketing insights to companies. different strategies for serving content and advertisements based on where consumers were “We don’t always make a rational decision,” Isaac in their search process. says. “What are the biases we might be guilty of? That’s really interesting to me.” “Companies now have such specific data on each customer and can do a better job of tailoring Leading scientific journals have featured Isaac’s content that meets each customer’s unique work, as have Time, Forbes, The Wall Street needs,” Isaac says. “Ultimately, that is the goal of Journal, The Atlantic and Fast Company. His marketing.” study of masculine versus feminine branding of eco-friendly products landed him a guest spot on A researcher-at-heart, Isaac weaves “highNew Zealand’s National Public Radio. level findings” from his studies through the undergraduate and MBA courses he teaches. Isaac’s research is cutting-edge. He helped to develop the Digital Satisfaction Index™ that “I like that educating our students [at SU] is not an corporations worldwide now use to gauge afterthought. I use a lot of project-based learning consumer attitudes and perceptions of their in the classroom. So, even though we’re not a online marketing experience. research institution, we truly are balanced in a way a lot of universities are not,” says Isaac. In a project for Microsoft in which he collaborated with Northwestern University and marketing Isaac also values Seattle U’s emphasis on ethics, agency Performics (a subsidiary of Publicis Media), given that sensitive, personal information is often Isaac helped develop a way to evaluate how close in the hands of marketers today. “Companies consumers were to making a purchase based on have access to all this information about the the keywords they entered into Microsoft’s Bing consumer and need to take care to use it wisely search engine. but appropriately.” 20
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“I like that educating our students [at SU] is not an afterthought. I use a lot of project-based learning in the classroom. So, even though we’re not a research institution, we truly are balanced in a way a lot of universities are not.” —Mathew Isaac, PhD
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ransfer student Angela FloresMarcus, ’19, quickly blossomed at Seattle University under the guidance of female professors in the College of Science and Engineering. Having shied away from college immediately after high school “because there were not a lot of women professors and especially women of color,” she is now on her way to becoming a leader and a role model for girls of color in the STEM fields.
“There’s so much to learn from women and especially women of color in tech,” says Flores-Marcus, an Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) major, “(and) so much to gain from their support “SU allowed me to have a in the industry. I wanted to learn from professors that looked like me.” ANGELA FLORES-MARCUS, ‘19
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me to have a voice and to get comfortable with my diversity of ideas. That’s the foundation of becoming a leader.” —Angela Flores-Marcus, ‘19
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As one of several universities FloresMarcus considered when transferring from a community college, SU was the “right fit” because of the way professors helped her navigate the transition.
identifying and pursuing potential funding sources. Flores-Marcus received the Google Women Techmakers scholarship, which supports tuition and connects her to an international network of women in tech.
Flores-Marcus also received the university’s Alfie Scholarship, which helps offset tuition for transfer students. The “Alfies,” as she calls the other scholarship recipients, became an instant community. In addition, Flores-Marcus participated in a number of campus organizations. Following a professor’s suggestion, she joined the Society of Hispanic Engineers. With that group she volunteered at a middle school where she encouraged girls of color to pursue math and consider engineering. One day, she envisions pursuing her doctorate and teaching. Regardless of where her career takes her, FloresMarcus says Seattle U has taught her how to be a leader in whatever role she takes on.
Associate Professor Agnieszka Miguel, PhD, who chairs the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, prepared Flores-Marcus for “the “SU allowed me to have a chair at shift in course work and helped set the table and allowed me to have a the stage for what to expect” in a voice and to get comfortable with my university setting, she says. Several diversity of ideas. That’s the foundation professors also assisted Flores-Marcus, of becoming a leader.” a first-generation college student, in
THE GIFTS OF GIVING *for FY2018
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT PROVIDED TO CAMPUS PRIORITIES VIA SU ENDOWMENT
COLLEGE OF NURSING ONE OF THE BEST IN THE U.S. Seattle University’s nursing program is the best in Washington and one of the top schools in the U.S., according to College Factual’s 2019 rankings. College Factual looked at nine colleges in Washington and 519 nationally. It ranked Seattle U #1 among Washington colleges—up from #2 last year—and #16 nationally, placing it in the top five percent of all programs. The university improved 10 spots from the previous year’s national rankings.
Founded in 1935, the College of Nursing offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice and several post-doctoral clinical certificate programs. Academics embrace the Jesuit tradition of developing the whole person and focus on the connections between the practical, academic, spiritual and humane needs of learners.
College Factual ranks 350 college major programs offered by 2,500 four-year colleges and universities. Its ranking methodology includes examining average salaries of graduates, accreditation and educational quality, among other factors.
“The excellence of our nursing programs reflects the students who select us and the faculty who cherish the work of educating and inspiring leaders to transform health care for a just and humane world,” said College of Nursing Dean and Professor Kristen M. Swanson, RN, PhD, FAAN. Using 2013 PayScale survey data, College Factual also noted that Seattle U nursing graduates will make above-average early-career earnings of $63,203 and above-average midcareer earnings of $77,021.
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REDHAW STUDENT-ATHLETES HONORED FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS
For the fifth consecutive year and the sixth time in the last seven years, Seattle University has posted an institutional Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 95%, according to figures released by the NCAA. Twenty-nine student-athletes earned 2018 Fall Academic All-Western Athletic Conference honors. Women’s soccer led among the five Redhawk teams with nine honorees. Additionally, the men’s and women’s swimming teams were named to the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team for Fall 2018.
SOCCER PLAYERS
STEPHANIE SPIEKERMAN, ‘18
Seattle University is well known for the success of its soccer programs, which have produced WAC and national championships as well as top players drafted to go pro. Men’s soccer players Sergio Rivas, ’19, and Nathan Aune, ’19, were snapped up by the San Jose Earthquakes during the Major League Soccer SuperDraft earlier this year. Below are more players, from both men’s and women’s soccer, who are now making it in the world of professional soccer.
Kyle Bjornethun—Toronto FC (United Soccer League) Miguel Gonzalez—Oklahoma City FC (United Soccer League) Nick Prasad—SpVgg Bayreuth (Germany) 24
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Alex Roldan—Seattle Sounders (Major League Soccer) Stephanie Spiekerman—(AS Harima Albion/Japan)
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Under the leadership of second-year coach Jim Hayford, men’s basketball is building a championship-caliber program with statement wins against two Pac-12 teams: Washington State and Cal. Despite an unusual number of injuries to key players this season, the Redhawks look to be healthy and make a run during the WAC tourney in March. TERRELL BROWN, ‘20
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WAC CHAMPS On Nov. 4, 2018, the Redhawks won their fourth Western Athletic Conference title since 2013. Despite falling to #1-ranked Stanford in the NCAA tournament, the Redhawks’ season ended with a ninth-straight winning campaign.
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t’s official. Seattle University has set a new record with its largest-ever incoming class of undergraduates this academic year.
SU’s strong enrollment of transfer students is significant, says Melore Nielsen, dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Admissions.
The 2018 freshman class of 1,083 “I’m thrilled with the transfer numbers students is the largest in history for because most colleges have seen the university, far exceeding the declines in transfer students with university’s target of 1,000 students, both domestic and international and reflects a 13 percent increase enrollments down at many community over last year’s freshman class. The colleges,” she says. 431 transfer students was also above the targeted goals, bringing the total One third of new transfers are incoming class to 1,514. international students largely coming from Seattle-area community colleges, “Speaking for myself and the entire says Nielsen. Foreign-born students university administration, we are make up three percent of the 2018 grateful that so many students are freshman class. choosing Seattle U’s distinctive Jesuit education in the heart of a one of the The previous record for freshman most dynamic and forward-thinking enrollment at Seattle U was 1,055 cities in the world,” says Provost students in fall 2010. Shane P. Martin. “We welcome them with great enthusiasm to our vibrant Total enrollment at Seattle U this campus and the majestic Puget academic year is 7,291 undergraduate, Sound.” graduate and law students.
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2019 PRESIDENT’S REP ORT
S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y B O A R D S 2018-19
B OA R D O F T R U ST E E S Nicole W. Piasecki, Chair
Patrick J. Callans
Steven P. Knight
Pete J. Rose
David W. Burcham, Vice Chair
Peter W. Chiarelli
Thomas M. Lucas, S.J.
David Sabey
Kathleen Aikenhead
Brenda Christensen
Michael C. McCarthy, S.J.
Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J. (Ex Officio)
Rodney A. Bench
Joseph M. Gaffney
Killian Noe
Ezra Teshome
Maureen Benoliel
Valerie Gorder
Kevin F. O’Brien, S.J.
Stevens U. Trainer
Jeanne Berwick
Robert B. Grimm, S.J.
Jason J. Oliver
Ruth A. Tressel
Maureen Brotherton
Russell S. Hagen
William A. Owens
John H. Vassall, II
Robert H. Blais
Drew Herdener
Charles (Chuck) H. Porter
Eric J. Watson, S.J.
Ann Blume
Donald J Horowitz
Robert A. Ratliffe
Jeffrey J. Wright
Mark G. Bosco, S.J.
Patrick F. Kennedy
Scott Redman B OA R D O F R E G E N T S
Joseph P. Zavaglia, ‘71, Chair
Michael G. Daniels, ‘70
Hon. Anita Crawford-Willis, ‘82, ‘86,
Ernie Dunston
Vice Chair
Amber Larkin, ‘19 (Chair, Graduate Student Council)
Charlie Quigg, ‘02 John Ruffo, ‘65, ‘71
Janet M. Dwyer, ‘70
Stacy Lill
Ryan P. Sawyer, ‘94
R. Miller Adams, ‘73, ‘87
William F. Eisiminger, ‘67, ‘73
Don Luby, ‘65
Brian Sollom, ‘97
Dave Anderson, S.J. (Ex Officio)
David V. Foley, ‘63
Karen Lynn Maher, ‘00 (President,
Paul A. Stoot
Hugh Bangasser, ‘68
Michelle Akiyama Galvin, ‘98
Marie Booker, ‘90
Azrael Howell, ‘19 (Student Body
Patricia C. Buchsel, ‘74
President)
Alumni Board of Governors)
Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J. (Ex Officio)
John McDowall, ‘92
Starr Tavenner, ‘71
Daniel McKay
Vince Volpe
Christopher G. Canlas, ‘01
O. David Jackson, ‘09, ‘18
Richard E. Mitchell, J.D.
Mary Hermann Welch, ‘69, ‘76
Salah Dandan
Jonelle M.C. Johnson
Nathan Nguyen, ‘02
Kathleen R. Wright
James P. Jorgensen, ‘65
Marilyn Price
Richard Wood, ‘99
A LU M N I B OA R D O F G OV E R N O R S Karen Lynn Maher, ‘00, President
Jim Dykeman, ‘61
Megan Lemieux Bell, ‘95
John Ruffo, ‘65, ‘71
Anne-Marie LaPorte, ‘96, Vice President
Rolita Ezeonu, ‘06
Anett Meinzinger, ‘99
Mikel Sagoian, ‘07, ‘12
Jonathan Brown, ’92, ‘94
Thomas Garrett, ‘13
Richard Moore, ‘09
Mike Stewart, ‘75
Rachael Belvin, ‘16
Tony Goodwillie, ‘04
Dave Paul, ‘90
John Vincent, ‘09
Adam Brenneman, ‘17
Mary Gorjance, ‘80
Jarrett Payne, ‘05
D.J. Weidner, ‘07
Shasti Conrad, ‘08
Nicole Hardie, ’98
Kuba Poraj-Kuczewski, ’01
Ann Yoo, ’98
Megan Cycyota, ‘07
Matt Iseri, ‘05
Marilyn Richards, ‘79
A D M I N I S T R AT I O N Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., President
Natasha Martin, JD, Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion
Shane P. Martin, Provost
Scott McClellan, Vice President, Communications
Tim Leary, Executive Vice President
Anne Moran, Executive Assistant to the President
Connie Kanter, CFO/Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Affairs Michelle Clements, Associate Vice President, Human Resources Marilyn Crone, Vice President, Enrollment Services Bob Dullea, Vice President, University Planning & Vice Provost
Mary Petersen, Vice President & University Counsel Michael Podlin, Vice President, University Advancement Alvin Sturdivant, Vice President, Student Development Chris Van Liew, Vice President & Chief Information Officer
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