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characterizes too many contemporary visions of higher education. When education is conceived in terms of the instrumental reason of a market-driven world, students become consumers, acquiring discrete packets of knowledge or skills. Education is reduced to training. Higher education becomes a Flatland where costs are conceived in terms of time, inconvenience, and money, but where the student as person —because in a two-dimensional world there are no persons— remains untouched. Ironically, the same kind of

virtual services with Lute Telehealth in early 2020. The program helps PLU meet its diversity, equity and inclusion priorities by ensuring students have access to providers–mental health and health–who share their identities and by ensuring that mental health resources are available to students at any time whether they are on campus or in another location. “Part of bringing on telehealth was to create necessary flexibility in staffing,” said Joanna Royce-Davis, PLU’s Vice President for Student Life

prospect to advocate for one’s mental health and seek out help when you need it.”Striving for transformative care Mental health care has long been a topic of importance at PLU, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. PLU was one of the first universities to adopt telehealth and virtual services with Lute Telehealth in early 2020. The program helps PLU meet its diversity, equity and inclusion priorities by ensuring students have access to providers–mental health and health–who share their identities and by

PLU’s professors are actively involved in research and writing, their first priority is you. #5 PLU is a leader on sustainability issues When PLU received an A- on the influential 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, we wanted an A. However, considering it was the highest grade in the nation – the same as Stanford, Harvard and Yale – we can live with it. PLU has made a commitment to be carbon-neutral by 2020. Each year, PLU recycles up to 70 percent of our waste, and dining services composts

idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she found herself in Guinea, West Africa working as a public health educator.She was more than a year into her service when rumblings began that there was a deadly virus, COVID-19, making its way around the globe. But in Guinea, Chell had only heard of one confirmed case. Initial communication from the Peace Corps was that volunteers could choose to stay or return home and exit the program. Chell welcomed the news

identities were just the beginning of the ideas she explored in her work.” – from Napikoski, Linda. “Gloria Anzaldua.” ThoughtCo, Dec. 5, 2020, thoughtco.com/gloria-anzaldua-3529033 Featured Here: Borderlands: La Frontera the New Mestiza “James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a writer and civil rights activist who is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels and plays that center on race, politics, and sexuality. Baldwin’s works helped to raise public awareness of racial and sexual oppression. His honest

problems in addition to thinking in humanistic and artistic ways. PLU is at its heart and in its origin a liberal arts college. Beginning with the Master of Arts in Education in 1951, PLU began to offer professional and graduate degree programs that built on the foundation of the liberal arts education and provided more specialized or applied education and training. This is the position that PLU is in now.  We have approximately 92 percent of our students in the undergraduate program and 8 percent in

hours before I take the Washington State Marriage and Family Therapy Licensure test. Then, I want to complete a total of five years of therapy and take classes to become an AAMFT supervisor for the state of Washington. My hope it to end up supervising therapist-in-training while conducting a private practice. My reason for choosing a career path in marriage and family therapy is that if I can end my day knowing I improved the quality of life for a person, I know I am fulfilling my personal passion

conferences and educational presentations, including classes, trainings and workshops, along with annual training of ministers, which focuses on one aspect of climate change such as food or water. “Faith engenders purpose and conviction regardless of faith identity, and imbues action with meaning,” he says. CEE participants may be Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Catholic, or indigenous faith leaders, all driven by purpose to provide love, care, and hope in the world, he observes.There are some differences in how

strategy in everything from The Office (2001-2003), Modern Family (2009-2020), and Fleabag (2016-2019), to name just a few examples. In Persuasion this narration serves several purposes. First, it acts as a guide for viewers who may not have read the novel, or who are less familiar with the plot. For instance, Anne’s narration also acts as a replacement for Austen’s free indirect style of narration that is inaccessible in the medium of the film. However, the breaking of the fourth wall in Persuasion is