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first, but it’s well worth it. You’ll get to connect with an alum who is not only smart and experienced and interested in the same things that you are, but who is also very devoted to your success and well-being,” Dolan said. Deal hopes more alumni will make themselves available and that the university’s mentoring programs grow — opening more doors for students like Dolan who deserve a shot.  “Your cost to mentor is a time investment, and it comes with high reward,” Deal said.Ready to make a

such a great fit for PLU and its creative blend of the liberal arts, professional studies, and community-oriented programs. At PLU, innovation is a direct outgrowth of our mission. Read more stories from the innovation-themed issue of ResoLute Magazine. Read Previous PLU basketball legend Van Beek ‘bled black and gold’ Read Next A Universal Language: Cassio Vianna shares a passion he discovered in Brazil with students at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for

doing with Taproot? I got offered the teaching internship, and what I’m doing for that is helping Taproot’s resident teaching artists run their summer camp programs. I’m basically a camp counselor, but it’s a little more fun because I’m teaching something I’m really passionate about. A lot of the kids I’ve had so far want to be there, and they want to do theatre, and they want to have fun and play and use their imaginations. It’s really fun to see. The other aspect of the internship is that I teach

brings her principles to work at state education agency Read Next PLU academic programs restructured into four distinct colleges 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

-health science undergraduate program into PNWU’s MAMS and DO programs. Recently, the two universities recognized this trend and created this partnership to ensure this path continues to serve students – and benefit communities throughout Washington. Did the PNWU MAMS program also support your transition to medical school? It did! For example, faculty members and program alumni help MAMS students throughout the process by reading application essays and helping with interview prep. The medical school

English professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received the nonfiction prize for their translation of the eighteenth-century text “Work on Women” by Louise Dupin (also known as Madame Dupin). Wilkin teaches in multiple academic programs at PLU, including French & Francophone Studies, Global Studies, the International Honors program, and the First Year Experience Program. She is the author of Women, Imagination, and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France (Ashgate 2008) and of many

lot. The study away program was one of the main things that drew me to PLU. I studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico and completed an internship at a rural development organization that was working in conflict resolution and on programs empowering women in rural communities. Speaking of internships, your resume is jam-packed with them. Is there a first internship that stands out to you as representing the beginning of your professional journey? It wasn’t exactly an internship, but actually a really cool

aspirations in their general education courses, faculty members say, that’s when they more readily embrace new ideas and foreign concepts. Even with a complimentary and dynamic assortment of general education courses, a truly integrated education is not complete without thoughtfully designed programs that require students to engage with the sorts of civic dilemmas they are studying in the classroom. Students who participate in civic engagement benefit from increased emotional intelligence and

service and pro-bono work.  “I was kind of surprised when I got it just because it’s kind of a rare occurrence. A scholarship, especially to law school, is pretty difficult to obtain,” Sullivan said. “I’m still coming to terms with that, I’m like ‘wow I’m going to school for free.’” Sullivan plans to take the pro-bono pledge at Seattle U Law, promising more than 100 hours of pro-bono work over the course of her time at the school. Although Sullivan knows the work is difficult, she’s excited to get

which the intellectual historian Leonard Krieger, in his recent book Time’s Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New (1989), speaks of a contemporary “crisis” of faith in the notion of historical truth. He writes: The most potent contemporary influence on the discipline of history . . . is the challenge to the very substance of the historical approach to life that has been mounted by antithetical agents of the general culture. What is new and especially lethal in the current rejection of history