Celebration to inaugurate South Sound Hybrid Hub Partnership
Join us to celebrate a partnership between Seattle U Law and UW Tacoma to broaden access to legal education and services in the South Sound.
Event time
Monday, March 11, 2024 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Program begins at 5:30 p.m.
Event location
University of Washington Tacoma
William W. Philip Hall
1918 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma
Please RSVP via Eventbrite
About the South Sound Hybrid Hub
UW Tacoma is the founding principal partner of Seattle U Law’s new South Sound Hybrid Hub. This hybrid initiative will provide significant in-person and virtual programming, counseling, networking, employment, and experiential learning opportunities and resources for both UW Tacoma undergraduates and students in Seattle U Law’s pathbreaking Flex JD hybrid-online degree program.
“We are excited to inaugurate this collaboration between Seattle University Law School and UW Tacoma. Our law school has deep roots in Tacoma and the South Puget Sound. This new initiative will provide an excellent opportunity to strengthen that relationship,” said Seattle University President Eduardo Peñalver, who is also a professor of law.
Seattle U Law launched the hybrid-online Flex JD program in 2021 to make it possible for aspiring lawyers who live in areas without convenient access to a law school, and who may have families and jobs that keep them in place, to earn law degrees and to stay in their home communities as attorneys providing much needed legal services. Currently, one-quarter of all Flex JD students hail from the South Sound region, in part because Tacoma is one of the largest communities in the nation without a law school.
Through a hybrid format, students can earn a law degree by completing most coursework online, with just a few in-person, weekend class sessions each year on Seattle University’s campus. The South Sound Hybrid Hub will host Flex JD activities for the benefit of students not only located in the South Sound but also elsewhere.
Seattle U Law also is rolling out Hybrid Hubs in Anchorage, Alaska, and in the Yakima Valley to improve access to legal education across the Northwest. Each Hybrid Hub will have a founding principal partner institution that will connect with other participating universities in the area to create the greatest impact.
Read the full announcement here