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PLU signs partnership MoU with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center Posted by: Silong Chhun / June 7, 2021 Image: Sheryl Ochayon, an attorney and educator who directs Yad Vashem’s “Echoes and Reflections: Teaching the Holocaust, Inspiring the Classroom” program, speaking at PLU’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education in 2019. June 7, 2021 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & CommunicationsLeaders from Pacific Lutheran University and Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance
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apart from other universities. In the words of Samuel Torvend ’73, “it puts into clearer relief the distinctiveness of Lutheran education in the competitive market.” After a short pause, Torvend added, “After all, the distinctive part of PLU is its middle name.” With this chair, PLU reached yet another level of distinction by which it sets itself apart from other universities. In the words of Samuel Torvend ’73, “it puts into clearer relief the distinctiveness of Lutheran education in the
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Director for the University of Namibia. The PLU campus visit for the Namibian delegation was arranged by the Wang Center for Global Education at PLU. The dignitaries joining Tjiramba included the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Namibia, Dr. Lazarus Hangula; Dr. Kenneth Mantengu, Director of External Relations for the University of Namibia; and Dr. Alfons Wabahe Mosimane, Head of the Life Sciences Division at the University of Namibia. The Namibian delegation met with several PLU representatives
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rather a historic event that brought visitors in that day. It was the first of many COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled to take place at PLU.The event was co-hosted by PLU, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, MultiCare Health System, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, and volunteers included PLU nursing students, faculty and staff. The goal was to vaccinate as many people as possible from communities facing access and equity barriers to healthcare. “This is one of the few opportunities
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internships, outside financial support needed to be secured. Fortunately, assistance came from longtime donors Dave and Kendra Uhler ’99 and Jim Fredricksen ’78, who each helped fund the program and care deeply about equity, access and innovation. “Many internships still come with extra expenses like travel or housing to take full advantage of the programs. It is our hope that the internship scholarship funds can help make these types of experiences more approachable and affordable to students,” Dave
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year really motivated both students and faculty, and we were able to bring that motivation into the classroom through applied projects. Faculty were able to bring these issues into discussions of literature, history, philosophy, ethics, and environmental equity. How have faculty, staff and students responded to that challenge? I’m continually amazed at how my colleagues pivoted so quickly to online classrooms, how they spent the entire summer learning very different kinds of pedagogies and
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the ratings. Given the un-nuanced proposals coming out of the US Dept of Ed so far, it looks like the proposals will do great harm to colleges that try to provide access to low income students, or have programs in areas like social work, education, social entrepreneurship, and counseling that tend not to lead to high-paying jobs. College is not just a job skills factory. The fact that this proposed ranking system is opposed by presidents and faculty members from the full range of colleges–from
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Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester discontinued Posted by: hassonja / December 13, 2017 Image: Downtown Tacoma for TIES study away program on Monday, June 6, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) December 13, 2017 TIES Program Update from Joel Zylstra (Director, Center for Community Engagement and Service) The Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester (TIES) program has been discontinued indefinitely. TIES served as one expression of PLU’s long-term commitments to linking global education with our
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tuition costs. To put these findings in perspective, consider that investing in stocks has yielded an annual return of 7% and investing in bonds an annual return of 3% since 1950. Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education reviewed another study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which also concludes emphatically that the lifetime value of a bachelor’s degree is at an all time high. The researchers estimated that it now takes an average of 10 years to recoup the cost of a college education
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first city in the country to host an in-person event to promote the “Hate Won’t Win” campaign just a few weeks ago. So once again, I was reminded that issues of racial equity are all around us. I started out these remarks by quoting our PLU mission statement. I like to point out that the word “care” is an unusual one in a university mission statement, and we emphasize it unusually strongly by repeating “care for other people, care for their communities, and care for the earth.” This triple
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