College Success Foundation Finds New Permanent Home at University of Puget Sound

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Foundation relocates Tacoma regional office to North End campus

TACOMA, Wash. – College Success Foundation (CSF), a national nonprofit organization that helps students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds achieve their dream of a college education, recently relocated its Tacoma regional office to the campus of University of Puget Sound. The foundation hosted an open house event Aug. 25 for local principals and school officials, community leaders, and more, to show off the new space.

“We could not be happier to have the College Success Foundation as members of our campus community and to have the opportunity to support the vital work the foundation does to prepare students for college and walk beside them on their journeys to become transformational leaders,” said Puget Sound President Isiaah Crawford in his remarks at the event. “A college education, here at Puget Sound or wherever a student’s best-fit college may be, is the best possible preparation for the visionary leadership and service the world needs.”

President Isiaah Crawford at the podium during the College Success Foundation open house

President Isiaah Crawford officially welcomed the College Success Foundation to the Puget Sound community at an open house event on Aug. 25.

The foundation’s work with local students aligns with Puget Sound’s core values of centering student success and challenging young people to pursue their purpose and make an impact in their communities.

CSF staff members began moving into the new office space—a converted house located at 3223 N. 13th St.—earlier this spring, and have already begun meeting with local middle and high school students and planning events and activities for the fall. The house is conveniently located on the east side of campus, near the Student Diversity Center and Social Justice Center, with visitor parking available in the adjacent Wheelock Student Center parking lot.

President, University of Puget Sound

Isiaah Crawford

“A college education, here at Puget Sound or wherever a student’s best-fit college may be, is the best possible preparation for the visionary leadership and service the world needs.”

Puget Sound is proud to be an intellectual and civic asset for Tacoma and is deeply committed to helping remove the barriers that stand between local students and the pursuit of their dreams. Campus has been home to numerous College Success Foundation Scholars since the organization’s founding in 2000, including several who attended the open house. CSF Executive Director Senait Habte and CEO/President James Dorsey also spoke at the event.

Open House Photos

College Success Foundation group photo outside the CSF house on campus

College Success Foundation Executive Director Senait Habte

College Success Foundation CEO/President James Dorsey

The crowd at the College Success Foundation open house

College Success Foundation students and alumni

About College Success Foundation
College Success Foundation Scholars finish high school, directly enroll in college, and graduate from college at higher rates than other low-income students. To date, more than 11,600 CSF Scholars have graduated from colleges across the country. In addition to Tacoma, the foundation operates offices in Seattle, Spokane, Yakima, and in the Northwest-coastal region of Washington state, as well as in the District of Columbia, supporting its vision that a college education is attainable for all.

About University of Puget Sound
A nationally ranked residential liberal arts college in Tacoma, Wash., University of Puget Sound enrolls 1,800 undergraduate students from across the country and around the world, as well as 300 graduate students in education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and public health. A low student-faculty ratio provides Puget Sound students with personal attention from faculty members who have a strong commitment to teaching and offer 1,200 courses each year in more than 50 areas of study. Puget Sound graduates include Rhodes and Luce scholars, notables in the arts and culture, scholars and scientists, entrepreneurs and elected officials, and leaders in business and finance locally and throughout the world. A top producer of Fulbright scholars, Puget Sound is the only nationally ranked independent liberal arts college in Western Washington, and one of just five independent colleges in the Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious academic honor society.

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