in the Otto Miller Hall, during which one student was killed and two other students were injured. The suspect, who lived in Mountlake Terrace, Washington at the time, was not a student at the school and had no connection to the university. On November 16, 2016, the gunman was convicted in the shooting and sentenced to 112 years in prison.
== Academics ==
The university's academic programs are divided into one college and five schools:
College of Arts and Sciences
School of Business, Government, and Economics
School of Education
School of Health Sciences
School of Psychology, Family and Community
School of Theology
=== Honors program ===
SPU offers a four-year alternate series of general education classes for honors students called University Scholars, in which every student double-majors, earning a major in "Honors: Liberal Arts" as well as another major of their choice. Their Honors coursework involves classes centering the question "What does it mean to be human?", on cultural and social systems, ethics …
