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your gut. And that’s the hope for the course — not just impressive karate moves (though you are welcome to join the Karate Club full time), but to give people basic defense skills and the confidence to use them.Learn self defense and martial arts The five-week self defense course continues through October every Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m. Email advocacy@plu.edu to learn more. The PLU Karate Club meets 7-8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday in the Columbia Center. Cost is $20 for students and $40 for
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students transition from college to careers. Shared experiences will create a supportive community space that will help students connect through study groups, social events and professional development opportunities. The research will measure students’ sense of belonging and the impact of program resources over time. Curricular engagement will include a transitions course, linked introductory courses and supplemental instruction. Students will learn skills such as resume writing, scientific
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graduate school. That faculty-student relationship is vital to empowering undergraduates by giving them replicable, real-world skills. “Something that’s exceptional about Waldow is that he has the utmost confidence in the students’ ability almost from the start,” said Hannah Hazel ‘20, who worked with him this past summer. “He lets us make decisions from the beginning … and he was always there to provide guidance when we felt lost. That gave us the opportunity to succeed, but more importantly it gave
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students, positions them as experts, and aims to empower them. The grant will also provide induction support to the scholars during their first year teaching, as a large percentage of teachers leave the profession in their first years. “We will ground our teacher preparation in culturally sustaining principles,” said Wendy Gardiner, PLU’s Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education and a co-collaborator of the grant proposal. “Doing so ensures our STEM teachers have the knowledge and skills to
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PLU Forges a New International Partnership for Continuing Education Posted by: Silong Chhun / August 20, 2021 August 20, 2021 Pacific Lutheran University is partnering with SkillUp Online, a private education company headquartered in Mumbai, India, with offices in North America (Bellevue, Washington) and Europe, to provide a range of affordable, online, continuing education technology and soft-business skills courses to local, national, and global communities.The initial launch of program
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Systemic Racism.” Simic-Muller explains the project will be geared toward equipping future math teachers with skills to understand and navigate race and institutional racism within their field. “One of the goals is to develop statistical literacy,” she says. “Another goal is to develop consciousness of these issues for future teachers with the hope that they will be able to deal with issues of race and racism and to use a curriculum that brings up some critical issues pertaining to race or other real
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, music composition theory and conducted the Concert Chorus. “The music department in those early days was small and my father brought his teaching skills to composition classes, choral conducting and other diverse classes,” Fritts said. Fritts founded the Paul Fritts & Co. Organ Builders in 1979, and says he has been dedicated to the design and construction of high-quality pipe organs ever since. His company was commissioned by former music professor David Dahl to develop the Lagerquist Hall organ
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, Puget Sound and PLU have been educating high-capacity and high-character leaders who have formed the backbone of the South Sound’s business, healthcare, and education sectors,” said Puget Sound Provost Laura Behling. “This partnership will help create new avenues for the next generation and ensure that our students have every opportunity to pursue meaningful postgraduate study and careers that will serve our community.” Puget Sound’s counseling program focuses on developing skills that are relevant
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diversity. She hopes to use her degree and the skills she is learning at PLU to help people in need.“I always knew I wanted to help people,” said Marquez about why she chose to study social work. She originally intended to be a French major at PLU, as she had taken French courses in high school. She found social work was a better fit after being introduced to the career field in a few classes. “I love community work and community outreach, and I have learned a lot about myself too.” Marquez currently
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plant biology at PLU Read Next Anni Lange ’00 uses skills learned at PLU as VP of marketing and communications for Sound Physicians COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and
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