Centers and Institutes
Engage in issues you care about, collaborate across academic areas and develop skills that lead to a successful and meaningful career.
Working for a Better World
Seattle University centers and institutes advance justice and equality through forward-thinking initiatives and community-focused projects.
Explore how university centers can help you evolve as a leader and develop significant professional skills while making a real difference in Seattle.
Access to Justice Institute
The Access to Justice Institute at Seattle University School of Law is dedicated to advancing equity, fairness and access to legal services for all and serves as the law school’s social justice hub.
Center on Corporations, Law & Society
The Center on Corporations, Law & Society facilitates the study of the constantly evolving American and global economic system, the ongoing struggle for power between and among corporations, governments, individuals and society and the role of law in mediating and shaping the nature of our economic relations and institutions.
Center for Business Ethics
The mission of the Center for Business Ethics is to inspire people to build business cultures that respect and support persons, relationships, communities and ecosystems.
Center for Change in Transition Services
The Center for Change in Transition Services (CCTS) is a Washington State Needs Project funded annually with federal resources from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). The goal of CCTS is to improve post-school outcomes for students with disabilities in the state.
Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice
The Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice works to achieve a legal system where both historical and present-day racism, oppression, and marginalization no longer control outcomes or otherwise contribute to inequality. The Center educates future lawyers to be agents for social change and racial equality in all areas of the law, advocates for advancement of the law to achieve equal justice, and produces research to drive effective reform by revealing systems of oppression and exclusion.
Sundborg Center for Community Engagement
The Sundborg Center for Community Engagement serves as the main entry point for students, faculty and staff who want to serve and learn in the community.
Center for Digital Learning and Innovation
The Center for Digital Learning and Innovation helps faculty explore strategies for incorporating technology into online, hybrid and web-facilitated courses.
Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability
The Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability (CEJS) will inspire and prepare a generation of leaders to meet the unprecedented ethical challenge facing humankind in the early 21st century—forging a sustainable relationship between humankind and planet Earth and doing so in ways that foster justice within and between societies.
Center for Faculty Development
The Center for Faculty Development promotes the professional formation of all faculty through a scholarly and interdisciplinary approach to learning and teaching, research practice and professional development.
Center for Jesuit Education
The Center for Jesuit Education offers programs and services that foster an understanding of the Jesuit, Catholic mission of Seattle University.
Center for Indian Law and Policy
The Center for Indian Law and Policy serves as the home and focal point for Indian law programs, projects and activities at Seattle University. The center seeks to assist students, tribes and practitioners in areas of law unique to Indian country, to monitor developing areas of Indian law and policy and to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives practicing law.
Center for Leadership Formation
The Center for Leadership Formation (CLF) oversees all executive programs and provides innovative, world-class education to mid- to senior-level professionals with an emphasis on leadership, business expertise and a commitment to social responsibility.
Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement
The Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement highlights spiritual and religious insight and wisdom, inviting people to enact the change they wish to see in the world. This is done through ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, scholarly projects and free resources for community and classroom use.
Center for Social Transformation and Leadership
The Center for Social Transformation and Leadership (CSTL) is within the College of Education. A primary goal of CSTL is to create social impact by fostering peer and professional exchanges of ideas, engage in collaborative work and foster learning through shared experiences.
Roundglass India Center
Founded by School of Law Professor Sital Kalantry, the Roundglass India Center focuses on the study of contemporary India as well as the Indian American community. The Center’s mission is to educate communities on current issues impacting them and to conduct cutting edge research on India and Indian Americans, with the goal of advancing social, economic, and policy change in the United States and India.
Indigenous Peoples Institute
The Indigenous Peoples Institute supports Native student success at Seattle University and raises awareness about issues of importance to local and global Indigenous peoples.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center
Albers' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center builds and nourishes the entrepreneurial spirit. Entrepreneurship is more than a collection of courses. It's a philosophy, a mindset that inspires innovation, risk-taking and seizing opportunities in any form of business venture.
Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture
Seattle University's Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture creates opportunities to explore of the intersection of religion and culture, of faith and reason and of church and the world. The institute cultivates a culture of interdisciplinary, intercultural and interreligious dialogue rooted in Catholic intellectual and wisdom traditions.
International Student Center
The International Student Center is the home away from home for our diverse international campus population. The center is the main resource for creating a bridge between U.S. and international students.
The MOSAIC Center
The MOSAIC Center creates Meaningful Opportunity for Student Access, Inclusion and Community at Seattle University. The center plays a critical role in supporting intercultural learning and the development of students.