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support of critical thinking and reasoned insight. As such, library resources are chosen for their suitability and applicability to the study of academic subjects taught at PLU, for comprehensive programs such as FYEP, or in support of the academic research mission more broadly.Library collection development is guided by an ideal of comprehensive disciplinary coverage.Insofar as it is feasible in accordance with the previous guidelines and available funding, the library strives to build a
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track and new baseball bleachers. A lead gift for a synthetic baseball infield was provided by Regent Lisa (Miles ’84) and Tim Kittilsby ’84. Operating Support and Special Projects The “Engage the World” campaign also provided support for the university’s annual operating budget and for special projects. Each year $2.3 million in contributions to the annual fund went directly to support immediate needs on campus. That support is critical to providing Q Club scholarships to students in need, and
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leave loaded with this desire and urgency and bewilderment. All at once. Because you’ve now just been inundated with really great poetry, with really great thoughts on poetry, with a cohort that is writing really great poetry, and now you get to go home and figure out where you fit in all of that.” The remainder of the MFA work happens between the students and “intentionally attentive” faculty mentors, as Barot describes them. Each month, students work on assigned readings and write critical papers
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the challenges and ironies of teaching humanities in the current climate of higher education, I persist in my profligate hope. Teaching humanities matters. I continue to profess a discipline that many of my students presume to be useless, establish and hold them to standards of excellence, and persistently encourage critical and original thinking. In so doing I point students toward the gap between their Flatland and a possible journey of intensification into particularity that is the heart and
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patients in areas facing health care shortages. Tracy Pitt — associate director of advising, admission and student support in the School of Nursing — said that by the end of the 27-month program, each individual has completed more than 1,000 clinical hours. Seavor said the community-based experience graduate students gain increases their confidence and makes for a smoother transition from theory to practice after graduation. “That’s building the lifelong learning process,” Seavor said. “We couldn’t do
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Temple University, Philadelphia and is a specialist in military ethics, just war theory, philosophy of law and applied ethics. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA and teaches courses in military ethics, warfare, business ethics, social and political philosophy and history of philosophy. Recent publications include: When Less is not More: Expanding the Combatant/Non-Combatant Distinction; With Fear and Trembling: A Qualified Defense of Non
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critical musical skills, develops part independence, improves listening abilities and exposes you to important repertoire.Concert AttendancePlease familiarize yourself with the concert attendance requirements in your music student handbook. A list of all concerts can be found online through the music homepage. Attend concerts early and often to enrich your musical appreciation and education and to avoid any last minute emergencies. Music is an art the happens in a certain time and place for your
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. Kitchen, who passed away in 2014, was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU. She authored four essay collections: The Circus Train; Half in Shade: Family, Photography, Fate; Distance and Direction; and Only the Dance. She also wrote a novel, The House on Eccles Road, winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World. She also edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The
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contenido , the content, the students discussed: Tradiciones indígenas ; indigenous traditions. Eventos — ella como testigo ; events as Menchú witnessed them. Descripciones de la violencia ; descriptions of the violence. Historias personales de la concientizacíon ; personal stories of how she developed a critical consciousness (or in millennial speak, they joked, how Menchú “got woke”). And, fittingly, género literario del testimonio ; literary genre of testimony, which privileges memories and
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faculty members helps students become entrenched in their studies. Through student-faculty research, students incorporate their own experiences with academia in a way that Lewis says improves critical thinking, writing and understanding of students’ subjects of interest. Cynthia Waite '20 Waite’s project, a study of faculty-student mentoring, caught the spirit of the day. Psychology Professor Wendelyn Shore, an expert on the topic, was Waite’s mentor, and was intrigued to hear Waite characterized
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