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  • The PLU School of Nursing offers a Post Graduate Nurse Practitioner Certificate for two advanced practice specialty areas, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse

    Education The American Psychiatric Nurses Association The Family Nurse Practitioner specialty focuses on client-centered clinical practice, and prepares nurses to respond to the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s health care consumers, to manage direct care based on advanced assessment and diagnostic reasoning, to incorporate health promotion and disease prevention interventions into health care delivery, and to recognize their potential for professional growth, responsibility, and autonomy. Successful

    Graduate Admission
    Pacific Lutheran University 12180 Park Avenue South Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Administrative Services includes six departments. The Associate Vice President for Finance oversees the Business Office and the Payroll Office.

    Administrative Services Led by the Vice President and Chief Operating Office, Administrative Services includes five departments: Facilities Management Office of Financial Services (OFS) Human Resources Payroll Risk Services Quick Links Campus Conduct HotlinePrivacy & Hotline InformationMoreEndowmentMore

    Division of Administrative Services
    253-536-5047
    Hauge Administration 124 Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • The mission of the Division of Student Life is “to promote the holistic development of students and steward a dynamic campus community.

    promote the holistic development of students and steward a dynamic campus community. We engage students in purposeful experiential learning that challenges them to make a difference in the world as they care for themselves and others, and positively impact the diverse communities in which they live.” The Division of Student Life works with partners across campus to provide programs and services that advance the development and well-being of students. We care about the holistic development of students

    Student Life Office
    253-535-7137
    Anderson University Center Room 161 Tacoma, WA 98447
  • This website is just one aspect of PLU’s ongoing commitment to advocate with and for undocumented students at PLU.

    Care is a central component of the PLU mission “to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care–for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.” This vow to care, rooted deeply in our Lutheran heritage, requires action and an unequivocal commitment to fight for social justice. This page is just one aspect of PLU’s ongoing commitment to advocate with and for undocumented students at PLU. We recognize and value your presence here and hope that this

    Center for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability
    Anderson University Center Room 150 Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 13, 2016)- Kiana Norman ’17 wears a lot of hats. She’s a singer, an actress and a writer. She’s a student, a sister and a daughter. A future world traveler, online journalist and theater critic, if all goes according to plan. But…

    her first year at the university in 2014 that Norman made a breakthrough. A combination of her own research and talks with the campus doctor led to a bipolar diagnosis and the proper medication. She built a trusting relationship with a campus counselor and appreciated how consistent and comfortable the Counseling Center was, she said.   “I’m happy I know why I am the way I am,” she recalled feeling at the time. “Now, I can figure out the steps to take care of myself.” Fast-forward a couple years

  • The PLU Department of Social Work program is preparation for generalist social work practice with individuals, families, households, groups, communities, and organizations.

    Health: How the PLU community is demonstrating transformative care. Learn How! Congratulations, Dr. JoDee Keller, Claudia Miller, Chance LasDulce, and Rachel G. Wohrle! Read It Here! Social Work is a profession dedicated to helping people.In the Department of Social Work at PLU, we prepare you for a fulfilling career in community care for others, including children, youth, and families; working with marginalized and disenfranchised populations; addressing community behavioral health needs; and

    Heidi Brocious, BSW Program Chair
    Xavier Hall, Room 112 12180 Park Ave S Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
    Anissa Rogers, MSW Program Chair
    Xavier Hall, Room 144 12180 Park Ave S Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Winter 2017 Resolute: Explore global education here and away

    Resolute Online: Fall 2017 – RESOLUTE is Pacific Lutheran University's flagship magazine, published three times a year. Search Features Features Welcome Shaping Health Care Protectors Turned Perpetrators Summer of Science Emotional Labor Economics Students Expand Possibilities A Different Kind of Whale Watching Rigorous Project Inspires First-Year’s Path On Campus Discovery Discovery Attaway Lutes Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Training Goals Dear Fellow Alumni

  • PLU alumnus Scott Foss ’91 serves as a top paleontologist for the Department of the Interior.

    , he’s a senior paleontologist at the Department of the Interior. Foss serves as a policy adviser and resource director in Washington, D.C., 30 years after his dream began. “Working on the bureaucratic side we call ourselves ‘paleocrats’ because we’re actually interpreting the science for government,” Foss said. “Field research was what I always wanted to do, but a big part of what I do now is coordinate everything that goes on in the field.” Foss earned his research and resource management chops on

  • Ann Mooney ’03 grew up dreaming about working at National Geographic. Now, she is building a conservation program for the organization in Washington, D.C.

    of the PLU swim team — in the water. “My job consisted of what’s called toe-boating,” she said. “Snorkeling while being pulled behind a small boat looking for derelict fishing nets that have been snagged on the reef.” The Other WashingtonThis January, in the heat of a tense transition of power in the nation’s capital, a ResoLute writer and photographer witnessed some PLU graduates in action and documented a slice of their lives of leadership, care and inquiry. In 2006, Mooney moved south, to the

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 20, 2016)- It’s the season for awards, banquets, recognition and a whole lot of celebrating for Pacific Lutheran University students as they approach Commencement 2016. The ceremony will mark the culmination of several years of hard work, community involvement and the pursuit…

    inquiry, service, leadership and care along with them as they pursue new careers, volunteer opportunities and ventures abroad. Lutes will remain connected with the thread of community that was central to their time at PLU. Below, four of PLU’s roughly 700 Commencement participants (Jonathan Adams, Sarah Henderson, Todd Hoagland and Priya McBride) look back on their experiences on campus and share their hopes for the future as they embark on their post-graduate journeys.Commencement 2016Learn more