academic programs and professorships, a fitness complex, an arts center, and the $56 million Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, completed in fall 2010.
In 2024, Seattle real estate developer Richard Hedreen donated his $300 million art collection to the university in honor of his late wife, alumna Betty Hedreen, marking one of the largest single gifts to a university ever made.
In December 2024, the university announced that it would acquire Cornish College of the Arts.. This transaction became official in 2025 with the establishment of Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University, which became SU's seventh college.
== Campus ==
Seattle University occupies two campuses covering about 55 acres. The main campus is located in the city's First Hill neighborhood, east of downtown Seattle and immediately adjacent to the Capitol Hill neighborhood and is known as the First Hill Campus. The second campus, located about 1.5 miles west of the First Hill Campus, is the South Lake Union campus and is …
