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  • Cover Story ‹ Resolute Online: Winter 2016 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2016/what-was-it-like/

    marginalized groups on campus, my experience as a black individual is not celebrated or appreciated by the university on an institutional level. This is evident by the lack of black faculty members, programs and courses on African-American studies and the overall student demographic makeup. Why was/is the group needed? Bruce Driver ’78: BANTU was a chance for the black students to get together and to get to know each other. There weren’t that many black students on campus, more if you counted those who

  • New History Course Examines Innovation and Ethics https://www.plu.edu/history/news/new-history-course-examines-innovation-and-ethics/

    New History Course Examines Innovation and Ethics Posted by: halvormj / September 7, 2018 September 7, 2018 By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19.  This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new history class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program. Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one. It lays a framework for the study of innovation and creativity, and also provides a common experience

  • Tikkun Olam https://www.plu.edu/tikkun-2015/

    Thursday, September 24, 2015 Tikkun Olam: The Legacy and Future of Jewish – Christian RelationsFifth Annual Lutheran Studies Conference at PLU – Thursday, September 24, 2015 The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the execution of German and other European Lutherans who resisted the National Socialist regime. Such an anniversary invites the university and larger community to consider a relationship marked by polemic, persecution, tolerance

    Dr. Samuel Torvend, University Chair in Lutheran Studies
    torvensa@plu.edu

  • PLU Student Selected for Prestigious National Council https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2014/10/19/plu-student-selected-for-prestigious-national-council/

    exceptional leadership. Members will actively participate in women’s advocacy, sharpen their leadership skills, play key roles as peer leaders at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL) and launch projects at their schools related to equal pay and other feminist issues. “Being a member of this important group leads to great things, from meeting trailblazers to gaining valuable experience,” said AAUW Vice President of Campus Leadership Programs Kate Farrar. “We look forward to

  • Student Activities and Resource Fee (SARF) https://www.plu.edu/student-life/student-activities-and-resource-fee-sarf/

    paper at the academic Queer History Conference Current Available Balance: $147,261.19 2020-2021 Total Fees Collected: $95,940 Funds Allocated: A total of $5,301 was allocated to nine different student organizations and academic programs for pandemic Commencement celebrations End of Year Available Balance: $118,379 2019-2020 Total Fees Collected: $102,740 Funds Allocated: Decision was made to fund $75,000 for Rieke Lobby Renovation End of Year Available Balance: $27,740 Funding Request Process

  • Alexa and Innovation Research at Amazon https://www.plu.edu/business-economic-history-program/news/alexa-and-innovation-research-at-amazon/

    opportunity to hear from alumni who work for one of the Northwest’s most innovative companies. As Director of Innovation Studies here at PLU, I highly recommend that students take the opportunity to visit Amazon and expand what you know about the company. For one thing, you’ll get a chance to learn about the skills that employers most want from college graduates—a set of proficiencies that we place at the center of our Innovation Studies program. So how much do you know about Amazon? For one thing, Amazon

  • Support for Jewish and Muslim students https://www.plu.edu/diversity-justice-sustainability/support-for-jewish-and-muslim-students/

    Genocide Studies Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture Annual Raphael Lemkin Lecture Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars and Lemkin Essay contest Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies The Department of Religion Courses throughout history, political science, english, social work, and more. Campus LifePLU is committed to creating inclusive living communities that foster a sense of belonging and comfort for all students. Residential Life at PLU

  • KINS Health and Fitness Education with Cert https://www.plu.edu/my-academic-pathway/documents/kins-health-and-fitness-education-with-cert/

    Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies Program (pdf) view download

  • HGST Minor https://www.plu.edu/hgst/minor/

    The Holocaust and Genocide Studies MinorThe Holocaust and Genocide Studies program is strongly grounded in PLU’s forty-year dedication to Holocaust Studies and the University’s educational commitment to helping its students develop as global citizens, future leaders, and whole, richly informed persons. As the University’s statement on General Education notes, PLU offers an education not only in values, but in valuing, and asserts strongly that “life gains meaning when dedicated to a good larger

  • Devrin Hoefer ’14 ‹ Resolute Online: Fall 2014 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2014/devrin-hoefer-14/

    !’ But to LGBT people, it can mean a word that they now own. Queer has many different meanings to different people, and I didn’t know that. I never would use those words. I just was surprised—it was cultural shock hearing someone call themselves queer, like calling myself the N-word.” I’d see my poster on professors’ doors and thought I was pretty cool. I should have signed them.” As a Rieke Scholar—selected to reaffirm PLU’s commitment to inclusiveness and diversity— Hoefer was a regular volunteer