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WISHA/DOSH requires employers to perform an exposure determination to identify workers who have occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials. Occupational exposure means “reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious material that may result from the performance of an employee’s duties.” At PLU, those employed in the following departments will often have a higher risk of exposure to bloodborne

. Applications for the 2026 Undergraduate Course Proposal are now closed.Applications for the 2026 Graduate Course Proposal are now closed. J-Term 2026 Course Proposal Deadline: October 15, 2024 The application for J-Term 2027 Course Proposals will open in early August 2025 To begin drafting your course proposal in advance, please reference the following application materials: Short-Term Study Away Course Proposal Guidelines & Policies Undergraduate Study Away Course Proposal Questions Graduate Study Away

Deadline: December 16, 2024 The PLU Presidential Scholarships recognize academic, co-curricular and leadership achievement in the incoming first-year class. The eligibility requirements for this competitive scholarship are a 3.8+ GPA (weighted) OR 1310+ SAT score OR 28+ ACT score. To be considered for the scholarship, students must submit their PLU application materials by December 1, 2024 and their Presidential Scholarships supplemental application by December 16, 2024. PLU does not require

on General Education Review and Revision, which led a two-year process considering changes to the Core Curriculum. That committee’s final report is archived here, along with key materials from their process. Mellon Conversation on General Education 2015 During Spring 2014, PLU was invited to apply for a $100,000 Mellon Grant to fund inquiry around the development of a revised core curriculum. This grant was awarded, and beginning in Fall 2014, the faculty, under the guidance of the General

notion of writing as “cleaning up,” rhetoric and composition posits that writing is itself a process of inquiry.  Writing begins with engagement, be it wonder, dismay, concern, fury, elation—or (seemingly) simple curiosity, a “What if?” or a “How so?”  Inquiry is the heart of writing, its generative force. When a writer tackles a condition or circumstance she deems both significant and unresolved, she has the opportunity to use writing to construct questions, engage knowledge, and wrestle with issues

educate our military to conduct warfare in a moral and humane way? What is the relationship between the military and civilian cultures? This book is unique in that it focuses largely on the “boots on the ground” questions of how to conduct war and how to prepare our military personnel educationally to conduct wars. By contrast, many books in this field start with the more theoretical question of whether and when the resort to force, that is, the decision to go to war is moral and just.  It is not that

, in part: “… you have the breadth and depth of knowledge around preventing sexual violence on campuses that we need represented in the Think Tank. … Recognizing that public health cannot prevent sexual violence by itself, Think Tank participants will represent public health departments, sexual violence coalitions, researchers, law enforcement, and college and university staff and administrators.” As part of Not Alone: The First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual

gender, without consent. Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse Non-Consensual Sexual Intercourse is any sexual intercourse (anal, oral, or vaginal), however slight, with any object, by a person upon another regardless of gender, without consent. Relationship ViolenceDating Violence and/or Domestic Violence Sexual AssaultAny type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs by force or without consent of the recipient of the unwanted sexual activity. Falling under the definition of sexual assault is sexual

his students grow. He isn’t saying goodbye to art, though. Cornwall is leaving campus to return to his art studio and pick up the projects he’s never had the time to do. In the past 25 years, Cornwall collaborated with artists around the world to produce limited edition fine art and studio prints. He’s recognized internationally for developing Stones Crayons, a line of lithographic drawing materials. He is also a member of the Mid America Print Council and the Southern Graphics Conference