![Aerial view of Tacoma with UW Tacoma campus](/sites/default/files/2022-07/uwtnews-2019welcomestory-featureimage01.jpg)
Welcome to UW Tacoma
September 24, 2019
It's the start of the 2019 academic year. Students and faculty are back on campus. Pac Ave is busy again! See what it's like to kick off the new year.
Convocation
![2019 Convocation - crowds of students on UW Tacoma campus](https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/sites/default/files/2022-07/uwtnews-2019welcomestory-storyimage001.jpg)
Move-in Day 2019
![Court 17 parking garage with cars and students pushing carts](https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/sites/default/files/2022-07/uwtnews-2019welcomestory-storyimage01.jpg)
![UW Tacoma students and parents in a Court 17 suite](https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/sites/default/files/2022-07/uwtnews-2019welcomestory-storyimage02.jpg)
New suitemates Sam and Brandi and their parents share a moment of confusion and levity as they get settled into Court 17. The building opened in 2006, developed for UW Tacoma by Lorig & Associates as a public/private partnership. In 2016, the campus purchased the entire building outright, and about 300 students now make their homes in the complex.
New Student Orientation
![UW Tacoma new student orientation 2019](https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/sites/default/files/2022-07/uwtnews-2019welcomestory-storyimage03.jpg)
Tacoma Reads
![Tommy Orange reads from his book "There There" at UW Tacoma](https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/sites/default/files/2022-07/uwtnews-2019welcomestory-storyimage04.jpg)
New Faculty
![New faculty at UW Tacoma, 2019](https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/sites/default/files/2022-07/uwtnews-2019welcomestory-storyimage05.jpg)
Written by John Burkhardt
Photos by Ryan Moriarty
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