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November 1, 2010 Consolidating our strengths and addressing new challenges PLU President Loren J. Anderson greets students during opening convocation. He believes the next few years will be critical as PLU plans for its future. By Loren J. Anderson – PLU President The public announcement last month of the university’s new fund-raising effort, “Engage the World: The Campaign for PLU,” sets out one of two critical initiatives that the campus community will be undertaking over the next two years
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such a highly-regarded institution and to help shape the next generation of people committed to lives of service, leadership and care for others.” Donna Gibbs is the new Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Gibbs most recently served as managing director, and helped establish the west coast operations, of Bluetext, a Washington, D.C.-based digital marketing and strategic communications firm that counts among its clients Google, Adobe, Cisco and Intel. Before joining Bluetext, Gibbs
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discussed and debated many of its central topics and I tried out arguments in class.In Pets, People, and Pragmatism, I thanked the students in a particular Writing 101 class that focused on the topic of pets. In this class we read books presenting an array of views of pets and discussed the various positions. I presented a draft of one chapter of my book to the class. At first I did not tell them it was my book and had them do peer reviews of the chapter just as they regularly did with each other’s work
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, for instance, four classes of nearly 50 students studying graphic design, research methods, public relations/advertising and media studies are working together on a series of real-world projects, all focused on one specific community partner. To some extent, activities of the new Center are patterned after PLU’s highly successful MediaLab program. Robert Marshall Wells, associate professor of Communication and faculty adviser to MediaLab since its inception, has been appointed director of the new
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PLU Physics Professor Writes and Illustrates Children’s Book Posted by: Zach Powers / October 13, 2015 Image: Associate Professor of Physics Katrina Hay at the physics demos at PLU on Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) October 13, 2015 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—When Katrina Hay was a child, her grandparents gave her a poster that depicted the structure of the universe and compared the sizes and shapes of its
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It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On Campus Discovery Research Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Profiles Homecoming 2015 Twin Cities ‘Waste Not’ Seattle Connections Easter Egg Hunt Night at the Rainiers Alumni Events Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Special Edition: “… and justice for all?” Featured / April 16, 2014 PLU Puts Its Own Face on National Campaign By Taylor Lunka ’15 Student Writer T he national It’s On Us campaign, launched by President
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was my admiration for how Icelanders view the earth and how those values affect their conservation efforts. When there is a deeply rooted connection to your land and its history, there is a stronger motivation and passion for protecting it at all costs, and that was so cool to experience firsthand.What an amazing takeaway! How has this internship informed your future?AS: This internship has offered me incredible experience for what I want to do. The way I describe my niche is environmental
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was my admiration for how Icelanders view the earth and how those values affect their conservation efforts. When there is a deeply rooted connection to your land and its history, there is a stronger motivation and passion for protecting it at all costs, and that was so cool to experience firsthand. What an amazing takeaway! How has this internship informed your future? AS: This internship has offered me incredible experience for what I want to do. The way I describe my niche is environmental
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students are learning how their role as tutors extend the classroom for teachers, build academic confidence of children, and support the district’s education achievement goals. This is more than community service. This is community impact through PLU. Part of the work you’re facilitating at PLU is the development of the plans and strategies necessary to adopt a “collective impact” model of resource development. Can you briefly explain that model? No one organization is going to meet its mission by
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dedicated to that spirit and conviction present in all makers, who work with their hands and expand their minds to use their passions in practical and innovative ways. Their products, both tangible and conceptual, are the outcome of a fruitful liberal arts education grounded in the values of Lutheran higher education. Our students in the Publishing and Printing Arts and Art & Design programs epitomize those values. They learn to collaborate, engaging others with their printed matter. By its nature, the
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