Giving

Your support helps educate and empower leaders for a more just and humane world.

Seattle University’s Jesuit-inspired education provides academic excellence with a commitment to educating the whole person, to professional formation and to serving our community and the world by addressing society’s most vital issues.

• Every gift of time, know-how, and financial support helps provide an increased level of excellence that supports students, faculty, research, core programs, and new College initiatives.
• Your participation encourages others to participate, which helps raise our profile and reputation in the community.
• Your investment inspires others to give.

Gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Fund for Excellence helped support projects like these:

• Anina Walas, Student Project: “Is the Character even Human?: A Cosplayer’s Concepts of Gender Attributes and Gender-play.”
  Katie Smith Student Project: “One Life Left: How to Reboot Games For Social Change.”
• Communication Chair Christopher A. Paul, Faculty Project: “Rethinking Meritocracy: How Rhetorical Analysis Helps Reshape Game Design.”
• Theology and Religious Studies Professor Jeanette Rodriguez and History major Lauren Ermacoff: “Haudenosaunee Woman’s Worldview.”
• Anthropology Professor Tanya Hayes and Environmental Studies major Sarah McHugh: Research in Ecuador, assessing the social and ecological impacts of forest conservation in the Andes.
• Criminal Justice Professor Stephen Rice and Criminal Justice major Farrah Fanara: Research analyzing final statements of Texas death row inmates.
• International Studies Professor Tom Taylor and International Studies major Gabrielle Porter: Research examining cross-cultural experiences expressed in journals written by European bicyclists traveling through Asia in the late nineteenth century.
• Saheed Adejumobi, Gary Perry, Rose Ernst, and Femi Taiwo: Launched Africa Day, bringing 6-12 grade students to campus to engage with current SU students around topics about foreign aid, community, and the importance of a changing narrative.