SPU学生群体的多样性已经达到36%.
西雅图太平洋公司125周年庆典在毕业典礼上开始
At Commencement 2016, 上海科技大学开始了125周年校庆, 这将持续到2016-17学年. Attendees viewed a “through the decades” slideshow highlighting key moments in SPU history. 此外，丹尼尔J. 马丁向毕业生和他们的家人介绍了庆祝活动.
SPU also launched a special 125th Anniversary website that features historical photos, 125th events, and other items related to the festivities.
On June 17–18, Seattle Pacific hosted the Pacific Northwest (Free Methodist) Conference Leadership Summit. This event presented a unique opportunity to honor the vital partnership between the PNWC and SPU.
On Friday, June 17, Free Methodist pastors and delegates around the Northwest joined with SPU officials in First Free Methodist Church for a worship celebration to commemorate the many ways that these two communities have supported and enriched each other for more than a century.
斯图尔特任命了SBGE的新院长
会计学教授罗斯·斯图尔特, 谁作为一名教师和学者为西雅图州立大学社区服务了30年, 开始了新的任命，担任院长 商业、政府和经济学院 on April 1. 斯图尔特在2015-16学年的大部分时间里担任临时院长.
招生成绩与多样性
Autumn Quarter saw 4,175 students enrolled at Seattle Pacific (3,202 of them undergraduates). Students hailed from across the country and as far away as South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil. Of the 60 majors offered, 五个最受欢迎的专业是心理学, nursing, business administration, political science, and physiology.
布朗成为CSFD的新主任
玛格丽特·布朗被任命为董事会的新董事 奖学金和教师发展中心 以及特别项目助理教务长，从6月1日开始. For the past 14 years, Brown has served Seattle Pacific as a professor in the Department of Psychology; for seven of those years she was the department chair.
院校认可重申
Through the hard work of Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Cindy Price (and her team), with an able assist from Senior Vice President for Planning and Administration Don Mortenson, 大学进行了第七年的评审访问. 有几个推荐和表彰, the University was reaffirmed for accreditation through NWCCU (Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities). This result is a reflection of the strong work around assessment done in schools and departments across campus.
SPU ranked No. 2 for “Best Value”
网易彩票下载排名第1. 在美国西部“最佳大学-最具价值”一项中排名第二 U.S. News & World Report’s 2016 college rankings. U.S. News states that the calculation takes into account an institution’s academic quality, as indicated by its 2016 U.S. News Best Colleges ranking, and the 2014–15 net cost of attendance for a student who received the average level of need-based financial aid. 节目质量越高，成本越低, the better the value, according to the magazine. 网易彩票下载也排名第一. 在该杂志的“最佳地区大学”类别中排名第17位, which included institutions from Texas to Alaska that provide a full range of undergraduate and master’s programs, 以及有限的博士课程.
Tangenberg被任命为SPFC的院长
Katy Tangenberg is the new dean for the School of Psychology, Family, and Community. She earned her PhD in social welfare from the University of Washington and comes to SPU from Azusa Pacific University, 她在那里担任一年级学生体验主任. 在她的终身教职中担任社会工作教授, Tangenberg also served as graduate department chair and program director — where she was responsible for developing APU’s master of social work program — and as associate dean of the School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences. 她有丰富的课程监督工作经验, assessment, grant writing, and student life and campus ministries offices on academic and co-curricular integration. Tangenberg于7月1日开始担任SPFC主任一职.
SPU被授予社区准备行政奖
On September 3, 2015, SPU became the first university and fifth overall recipient of King County’s annual Executive’s Award for Community Preparedness. King County Executive Dow Constantine presented the award to Seattle Pacific to honor the University’s years of emergency planning. “President Martin and his staff have worked for many years to build a campuswide culture of preparedness, 一个致力于这里每一个人的安全的人.” He praised the University’s “whole community” approach to preparing for emergencies, 说SPU的计划为该地区的其他国家提供了一个效仿的榜样. 斯坦福大学校长丹·马丁代表该校接受了这一奖项 安全与安保办公室 以及其他校园应急计划和响应小组.
新尼克森工作室:充满了音乐之声
Nickerson Studios, 以前是一家武术工作室和海洋设备公司的所在地, opened for Autumn Quarter, 设有SPU音乐项目的第一个校园表演空间. It holds a recording studio, a music tech lab, two small ensemble rooms, a vocal studio, and a drum studio, 还有教师办公室和一个小型排练场地. The new choral and recital space seats around 100 listeners for small-group performances, 房间里不显眼的24通道录音系统可以捕捉到每一个音符.
贝基·阿内特·吉列姆1980年总统慈善奖
Last fall, Becky Arnett Gilliam ’80 became the fifth recipient of SPU’s President’s Award for Philanthropy. 2014年，成功的投资者和领导者吉列姆承诺投资2美元.5 million — the University’s single largest current gift — to renovate Alexander Hall. “我无法想象这是一个更大的荣誉，”吉列姆说.
她把这归功于自己在网易彩票下载的教育和在宿舍的经历, 培养了她的基督教信仰和求知欲, for her successes.
新的工作发布和网络工具:SPULink
The University launched SPULink这是一个由网易彩票下载赞助的新的招聘和社交工具 职业和职业中心, the Office of Student Employment, the John Perkins Center, and the 校友及家长关系办公室. SPULink connects students and alumni with individuals and organizations to streamline a host of career and vocation services, resources, and opportunities.
CBTE推出基督教社会创业新项目
A “social entrepreneur” is an organization or a person whose main goal is to improve society, not bring in business profit. SPU’s 圣经和神学教育中心 has launched a program in Christian social entrepreneurship that aims to equip church and parachurch leaders with business and theological principles to pursue social good in an economically sustainable way. “We’re hoping to meet a need for those in the church who realize that the way we do church needs to change, and to give them a comprehensive vision for what a holistic approach to ‘business as mission’ might look like,项目主管马特·西格勒说. Students in SPU’s program spent two weeks on campus during the summer of 2016 learning business and theological principles. 当新的企业家回到他们的家乡时, SPU-affiliated mentors support them for a year while they develop business plans, 以传播基于信仰的社会变革为目标.
领袖们聚在一起讨论改变神学教育的方法
Scholars, pastors, and entrepreneurs came together at Seattle Pacific University in late October to brainstorm ways to transform theological education to appeal to today’s church. 通过演讲和小组讨论, invited attendees at the “Equipping Faithful Leaders” conference discussed ways theological education can renew churches and adjust to changing cultural dynamics. Kenda Creasy Dean, 联合卫理公会牧师和青年教授, church, 以及普林斯顿神学院的文化, 就千禧一代的精神需求发表主题演讲. The conference gathered about 75 professors and pastors from churches and schools in the Pacific Northwest and around the country.
浸没:由礼来基金会资助的青年门徒学院补助金
神学院收到了600美元的拨款,从礼来捐赠基金筹集了1000万来建立沉浸公司, 网易彩票下载青年门徒学院. This new intensive experience will bring high school students to campus and then reunite them for a follow-up retreat at Camp Casey. 沉浸帮助学生在他们作为基督徒的身份深入成长.
Students will experience components of identity formation through classroom instruction from theology faculty, 敬拜:敬拜和其他精神训练的实践, 现场情境应用的信仰，以当代现实世界的问题, 小型和大型团体社区建设, 以及太平洋西北部独有的娱乐机会. The grant covers four years.