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rare event. Krise returned to teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy. There he began lobbying for a Humanities Institute, spending a year convincing skeptical military brass that humanities and the liberal arts were critical to shaping our nation’s leaders. “It’s really short-sighted to focus on turning out technically trained engineers, when in fact, as an officer you’re never going to be a practicing engineer,” he said. After a year of pushing and politicking, he won – and the Air Force
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HAZARD COMMUNICATION ANDTHE GLOBAL HARMONIZING SYSTEMPLU EMPLOYEE TRAINING PROGRAMPROGRAM INTRODUCTIONRecent changes in OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard brought the regulation in line with international standards through the creation of the Global Harmonizing System (GHS). Implementing the Global Harmonizing System, helps ensure quality and consistency in the classification and labeling of all chemicals; improving an employee’s ability to quickly understand critical safety information. This
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? Associate Professor of French, Rebecca Wilkin, sent a few emails and Facebook chats to find out. Signe Johnson (Class of 2011; Major: French; Minor: Printing & Publishing Arts) teaches junior high school math in North Central Iowa, not far from where she grew up. She adores her students and finds teaching exhausting but incredibly rewarding. “PLU helped me establish a strong foundation in critical thought,” she reflects. “Above all, I feel empowered to ask questions as I continue learning and to help
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Wang Center Photo Contest Winners 2023 Exhibit Posted by: Holly Senn / April 4, 2023 April 4, 2023 During the 2022-2023 academic year, 237 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. We are excited that students were able to travel more widely in the world following the
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focus of my time at PLU. The most important memories I’ve made here center on the relationships I’ve built with professors, and the times when I’ve been challenged to dig deeper into the material and to think in completely different ways. The experiences I cherish most are those when I’ve sat in the classroom, listening to a lecture, and that theory I’ve been studying so hard to really understand finally makes sense, all the pieces finally fit together. Professors like Dr. Huelsbeck, Dr. Eric Nelson
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the debris went through entrainment and tractional contact with the bed, likely through a subglacial fluvial system. Evidence of a large moulin and surface crevasses back up the theory of origin for the proglacial zone by being an avenue from which debris that has fallen onto the glacier can make its way into the entrainment process and on to the terminus of the glacier. A very large and complex proglacial stream system suggests a powerful subglacial fluvial environment capable of eroding the bed
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.” Hofrenning was born in Colombia and adopted by parents in Northfield, Minnesota. He said he gravitated toward Hispanic studies as a way to study his native culture. His religion minor is a nod to his mother’s career as a Lutheran pastor. The latter, he believes, can act as a force for progressive action. “I just think religion is a really important part of my theory of social change,” he said. “I had to understand the theology of different religions and how they play out in terms of liberating people
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eleventh president of the school.Loren J. Anderson, 1992-2012 Loren J. Anderson was born on July 6, 1945 and was raised in Rugby, North Dakota. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Concordia College and a master’s degree in rhetoric and public address from Michigan State University in East Lansing. He also earned a doctorate in communication theory and research from the University of Michigan in Ann Harbor. Loren Anderson became president of Pacific Lutheran University in 1992
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priority enhancements to academic facilities and equipment, and we have continued to perform critical physical plant maintenance. ● In spite of a difficult economic environment, our fund-raising successes continued. There were more than 10,000 donors to the university last year, that’s more than any time in our history. Progress on our $100 million “Engage the World” campaign was slow in the early months of last year, but a flurry of major gifts over the past six months moved the campaign past the
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process of teaching and learning that may be critical both to learning and to ensuring that the classroom environment is equitable for all students. I am studying the role of what instructors say in the classroom that is not related to content but may impact student motivation, resistance, and buy-in to course activities and concepts. Through this qualitative research project I am developing a rubric for Instructor Talk that can be used to assess the quantity and types of Instructor Talk present in
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