The Welcome Center

A Great Education Begins with a Great First Impression

The story: We’re seeing a surge of interest in Puget Sound from prospective families: more visitors, more applicants, more students arriving on campus excited about the Puget Sound experience. We want to seize this moment. We’ll build a Welcome Center for prospective families that is as warm and open and forward-looking as Puget Sound itself.

The impact: The new Welcome Center will be an inspiring point of entry for prospective families—a bold, lasting first impression. It will also serve as a contemporary, high-functioning home for our hard-working Office of Admission. Leadership gifts to support the Welcome Center are a hand outstretched to bright, independent-minded, community-oriented students from across the country and around the world.

Facts

• More than 5,000 students and their families visit campus every year
• Students who visit are six times more likely to enroll if admitted
• Situated at the intersection of North Alder and North 15th Streets
• Built with traditional campus materials: brick, stone, terra-cotta roof tile
• Features signature architectural touches: gabled forms, large windows with delicate
  mullion patterns
• Features a courtyard, a reception area anchored by a fireplace, and a glass-walled
  presentation room

Naming Opportunities

Named giving opportunities and floor plans are subject to change.

• Welcome Center: $4,000,000
• Entry Courtyard: $1,000,000
• Presentation Room: $1,000,000
• Reception Area: $500,000
• Vice President's Office: $100,000
• Director's Office: $75,000
• Conference Room*: $75,000
• Interview Rooms (5): $50,000 each
• Tour Rooms (3): $50,000 each
• Admission Offices (8): $50,000 each

* Conference room (not pictured) is located on the garden level.

"When I visited campus, a student walked up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'There's something you need to know. You have to come here. It's the best school ever.' And I thought, 'If this girl came up to me out of the blue and told me this, then there must be something truly special about this place.' And I couldn't wait to find out what it was."

Alexandria Van Voris '16, communication and media studies, and science, technology, and society; resident programming advisor; from Long Beach, California