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program during the summer of 1999 during a sabbatical leave, and Lindsey in the summer of 2006. During the apprenticeship program we learned how to care for captive chimpanzees and assisted with ongoing research projects. Now we continue to volunteer at the Chimposiums held at CHCI. These are educational programs that inform the public about the sign language studies this particular family of chimpanzees has been involved in as well as providing information about the plight of free-living chimpanzees

. The CFA Institute Research Challenge is a global competition in which groups of students worldwide select a small-to-midcap public company like Fischer Communications or Zillow, research it, and present their findings in a 10-page Initiation of Coverage Report. This year at the regional competition in Seattle held on February 1 – among seven universities – the PLU’s team of five students had 10 minutes to present their report to a panel of industry leaders, and then answer a 10-minute Q-and-A

the University’s request for review with respect to both issues.  On February 10, 2014, the Board issued a notice and invitation to file briefs in this case to the parties as well as the general public.  The board decision can be found here. Background on PLU Contingent Faculty Unlike many universities where part-time faculty members do most of the teaching, at PLU the vast majority of student credit hours are taught by tenure-line faculty and full-time contingents with full benefits.  In recent

troubling nature of Indigenous child removal and the resilient spirits of those … who have worked steadfastly for the well-being of Indigenous children for decades.” Event details What: Dr. Margaret Jacobs: A Generation Removed. The 41st Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture. When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. Where: Anderson University Center-Regency Room, PLU campus. Admission: Free and open to the public. More information: https://www.plu.edu/history/walter-c-schnackenberg-endowment/ About

chance to honor them and educate the public.”Minidoka PilgrimageVisit the Minidoka Pilgrimage website to learn more about the annual tradition.The event serves to raise awareness around the history of the fairgrounds in connection with Japanese internment during the war. The names are part of an exhibit to be hosted at the fair’s museum, and a pre-cursor to a permanent marker on the fairgrounds that will feature the same collection of names. “That’s a huge thing to be able to call attention to

that I realized I’d been learning about Venn diagrams.” To make math more accessible for students and the general public, she explores the relationships between math and art, and math and pop culture. She even co-edited a book about the latter with her mother, Elizabeth Sklar: “Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media.“ Last year, she taught a PLU general education math course on math in popular culture. Students were introduced to

us to that outcome, and that is really our focus. What about your personality, skill set, or just the way you like to work makes you a good fit for this sector and your current position? To start, I have a strong passion for business. What is unique about the ports and the Seaport Alliance is that although we are public enterprises, we have a strong focus on business activities – different from a city or county government. That emphasis is attractive to me. I really enjoy working with our

forced to take a deeper, nuanced view of humanity. Nothing embodies this truth more than the family who lived down the path from my apartment in Arjun Negar, one of New Delhi’s numerous poor, densely packed communities. It is a fairly typical Delhi neighborhood. The narrow, dirt roads bustle with motorcycle and foot traffic about 20 hours a day and you can find just about anything you need at its countless little family-run shops. This family would have me over for chai whenever I was willing to stop

instrumental reason permeates many defenses of disciplines as communities of practitioners of procedures for producing new knowledge. Such conceptions of higher education are deadly for our students, for faculties, and for our civilization.In discounting what the liberal arts value most —humane persons— such visions ignore the fundamental human drama involved in learning. To ask students to learn anything is to ask them, in another of Robert Kegan’s images, to “leave home,” and to do so not once but

Lutheran University. Over the year, the school has faced many challenges. The school has a high mobility rate, which means many students move from and to the school during the year. The causes of such a rate vary from having to move because of the inability to afford housing or the need to find work. Sophia Stover  reviews a student’s work at James Sales Elementary. Moreover, 100 percent of the students receive free and reduced lunch. The school also provides breakfast for many of the students at the K