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  • Pacific Lutheran University hires new Vice President of Marketing and Communications to promote the university’s vision of service, sustainability and leadership. Donna Gibbs, a marketing and communications leader for over 20 years , will become the new Vice President of Marketing at Pacific Lutheran University.…

    participated in managing key enterprise accounts including Adobe and Gateway Computer. Gibbs has also served as vice president of corporate communications at Nike, where she was chief communications strategist and spokesperson on a wide range of issues including regulatory concerns, production sourcing and labor practices, mergers and acquisitions and financial performance during one of Nike’s most rapid periods of global expansion. Prior to Nike, Gibbs was director of public relations at Mattel, Inc

  • In Times Challenging and Uncertain: Plans Change – Values and Mission Endure By President Loren J. Anderson Welcome to our 2009 University Fall Conference. This morning we gather and prepare to launch the 120th year in the life of Pacific Lutheran University. We do so with…

    and Hong residence halls might be improved. There are other similar opportunities for us in the realm of both public and private grants for everything from student faculty research and creative projects to targeted capital projects to new initiatives in environmental sustainability. I salute all of you who are now involved in preparing over $12 million dollars in grant proposals. Goal #4: Long-Range Focus Our fourth goal is to maintain a long-range focus, even while dealing with immediate and

  • Life Under Drones is the first of its kind: a gathering of leaders in scholarly, military, artistic, and technology industries to assess the influence of drones on contemporary life. Taking place September 18-19, 2019, Life Under Drones will feature keynotes presentations, panels, art installations, workshops,…

    across the U.S. and beyond create drone parks specifically for the recreational use of drones, and as drones become an increasingly popular gift idea, evoking the rhetorical framing of “drones as toys.” On the other hand, its use in the military and intelligence communities for both ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and targeted strikes engenders a number of responses ranging from enthusiasm to outrage to ethical unease in both the military community and the general public. However

  • October is LGBTQIA+ History Month. While we encourage engaging with these topics year-round, October is a special time to reflect on the history of LGBTQIA+ movements, moments, and iconic figures. In this exhibit, the Center for DJS, in collaboration with the PLU Library, is choosing…

    Stream LGBT Studies films October 2022 Gender and Sexuality Week activities calendar Authors featured in the exhibit: “adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the

  • Student writes of her student-faculty research experience Kaitlyn Hall is a senior  Communication and Spanish major.   We study the past and the present to inform the future. Student-faculty research offers one of the university’s most valuable opportunities for collaboration and innovation, bringing together academics of…

    trip to a debate tournament as anything more than an extra-credit opportunity until I was there, crammed in a small classroom while we cheered for our team completing at finals. Five months later, I began to a position working for the debate team as a public relations specialist. October came, and a spark of inspiration appeared at the Ruth Anderson Public Debate. We wondered: Can technology improve the quality of deliberation over local issues? It can, and it does. Eckstein and I began considering

  • Pacific Lutheran University and President Allan Belton are excited to announce Mike Snyder as the new Director of Athletics and Recreation, following a national search. “I’m thrilled to welcome Mike to the Lute family,” said Belton. “He brings proven experience and an exciting vision for…

    for the opportunity at PLU. I look forward to collaborating with the other institutional leaders with their diverse backgrounds and experiences to advance the mission of PLU athletics and the institution as a whole.” Snyder earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Bowling Green State University and a master’s degree in public administration from Southeast Missouri State. In joining PLU, Snyder succeeds interim Director of Athletics Jen Thomas, who led the department during the 2020–2021

  • Chamber of Commerce CEO, Union Strategist to Team with PLU Students for Minimum Wage Debate On Thursday, October 8, 2015, members of the Pacific Lutheran University Speech and Debate team will partner with local policy experts to publicly debate the potential benefits and pitfalls of…

    in a timely policy discussion — an opportunity that Eckstein believes is a rarity in local and national civics. “Honestly, how often do you see college students given (public) space to advocate or doubt a position?” asks Eckstein. “Students are too often relegated to the margins of the public sphere, as if they do not have something productive to add to the public discussion. We think that students have unique perspectives that enrich public debate.” Debate Format The debate will occur in three

  • CCES welcomes Kristin Menson as new Director In late August, PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES) welcomed Kristen Menson as its new Director. Kristin comes to PLU from Louisiana State University (LSU) where she was the Program Manager in the Center for Community…

    Volunteer Administration from the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration. She serves as a Reviewer for the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Rocketkidz Foundation and the Youth Volunteer Corps. She has been an active volunteer in her community through the Junior League, Girls on the Run, animal rescue organizations, the endurance sport community, and more. Please join the Office of the Provost in welcoming Kristin to the PLU

  • You may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But Visiting Instructor of Chinese Xi Zhu is a true embodiment of this idea. You may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But…

    . The ancient text contains three-hundred-and-five poems of unknown authorship. Professor Zhu notes, “at that stage in China, the idea of authorship or the idea that someone possessed ownership over a specific poem did not exist.” While this seems quite foreign to a world driven by ownership and copyrights, in pre-modern China, poetry was public domain and for public use. Xi Zhu was born in Ningbo, China, and earned his undergraduate degree in Shanghai. After graduating, he came to the United States

  • Senior Elana Tracy ‘21 has mixed feelings now that her studies at Pacific Lutheran University are coming to an end. On the one hand, PLU allowed her to discover a passion for global studies while studying abroad in Great Britain; but on the other, she…

    through dialogue facilitator and participant training, take courses on peace and conflict studies, and engage with a cohort of 11 scholars from other universities.” Tracy was recently accepted into masters programs at the University of Washington and Columbia University. She chose UW where she will pursue a Master of Public Administration degree with an emphasis on environmental policy. She also hopes to get involved in research conducted by the UW Climate Impacts Group. “I didn’t realize how much I