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theories, research, and policies related to the study of K-12 educational leadership: ethics and social justice, inquiry, policy, and leadership development. The program also includes two job-embedded applied projects focused on program evaluation and instructional leadership and equity impacts in P-12 schools and districts.The Ed.D program at PLU adopts a cohort model with a blended, low-residency program design. Courses will be delivered online and will require on-campus attendance once a month on

moments later, when the sun rises above Harstad Hall, the symbols of the Christian faith and our Lutheran heritage seem to burst out as if they were in 3-D. Throughout the years, hundreds, if not thousands, of Lutes have had their breath taken away by the window’s brilliant beauty. With its Rose Window, Tower Chapel is like no other place on campus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4rp15b0Pco But it’s not just the Rose Window that makes Tower Chapel such a special place. Whenever the subject of

students’ interests in pursuing a career in writing. Barot described several other ways that DJS has been integrated into the Series, one being a focus on bringing writers who are thinking and writing about contemporary issues. “Once these people are on campus,” Barot explains, “they walk, and talk, and celebrate these values…They are writing about social justice issues, or they’re writing stories that touch upon those issues.” The visiting writers are invited to campus not just as visiting artists

at the plan put forth by Democratic nominee Barack Obama and Republican nominee John McCain. And he isn’t necessarily going to favor one plan over another. “It is not a simple, direct moral war and it’s very complex and nuanced underneath,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily break along liberal and conservative lines.” And it’s not a new topic. This KPLU report, looking at the health care issue, notes that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to include a universal health care program in his Social Security

unfriendly competitors,” said Gregory Youtz, professor of music and a Chinese Studies faculty member. There’s a desire to be a good neighbor, he said.  Bell will speak about “Reviving Tradition in China: Towards a Progressive and Humane Confucian Ethics.” Bell will speak at PLU from 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 18 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center in the UC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBB6hT3hU0&feature=player_embedded The program is part of the Chinese Studies Program’s lecture series. The last

May 3, 2013 PLU welcomed into CFA Institute University Recognition Program Pacific Lutheran University has become the latest university to be welcomed into the CFA Institute University Recognition Program. The Master of Science in Finance (MSF) has been acknowledged as incorporating at least 70 percent of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK) and placing emphasis on the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice within the program. This program positions students well

environmental studies is relevant, geosciences contributes a lot of my knowledge on the subject, especially the use of natural resources, and religion informs so much of our political and social discourse that it really adds to my understanding and ability to talk about the subject to different people. I’m not entirely sure what’s next for me. This summer I’ll be attending a geological field school to get experience and round out my education. Tell us more about your latest religion capstone. My religion

silence of the rest of us, the silence of the rest of us who consider ourselves the good guys.” A communication professor at the University of Massachusetts, Jhally is one of the world’s leading scholars on the role advertising and popular culture play in the processes of social control and identity construction. At his talk, he said gender identity does not occur naturally; instead it’s learned from images in the media, from peers and family members, and people simply act out the culturally-accepted

Nursia Sustainability was necessary in order for these monastic communities to survive. But it also informed Benedictine spiritual practice: “The monks or the nuns would labor in the fields or in building or in fishing —where they sparked many innovations— and in prayer together. So those two: prayer —conversation with God— and labor in what they considered God’s creation went together: a prayer book in one hand and a hoe in the other. What we see in these communities is a form of Christian socialism

iconography on Aug. 14 at 5 p.m. in the gallery. She’ll discuss iconography as the “painting” of theology and explore its key artistic influences, figures and themes, as well as how icons are employed in Orthodox Christianity. Sievers’ work continues the centuries-old tradition of the Christian icon, a form with deep roots in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian churches. Icons are the word of God in images, she explained. When “writing an icon,” iconographers must follow the canon of iconography