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PLU and located in the Anderson University Center, the center provides free one-on-one and small group tutoring for K-12 students in the Franklin Pierce and Bethel School Districts. The success of the center was recently recognized by local leaders. The Pierce County Expanded Learning Opportunity Fund, a partnership between Pierce County and the Foundation for Tacoma Students, awarded a $49,250 grant to PLU to support the Parkland Literacy Center, roughly quintupling the organization’s modest
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PLU community and all who support and care for this special place. It’s a shared legacy and will serve the university for years to come.” Throughout it all, MaryAnn Anderson has been a vital part of the PLU presidency. She has served the university as external relations coordinator working on development strategies and managing the Gonyea Fellows Leadership Program. The Gonyea fellows is the group of students who assist in hosting over 100 events that bring over 3,000 guests each year to the
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challenges of maintaining watershed health in the face of ongoing population growth and urbanization. How do government agencies and community stakeholders collaborate with students in this work? Each semester, county researchers, planners and coordinators as well as local environmental stewards and activists help to lead a watershed tour for our students. Community groups — such as members of the watershed council and Forterra (a conservation group) — support us by providing access to sample sites
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commissioned for them. In 2012, The Lyric Brass released a CD “American Music for Brass Quintet” which includes works by Gwyneth Walker, Charles Ives, David Snow, and a new work written for the group by Sy Brandon. Read Previous Sacred concerts highlights faith and music Read Next Celebrated composer and PLU alumna Cindy McTee visits campus LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU
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new kind of story … of a remarkable group of women who dared to dream of new possibilities for themselves and their country. Director Fruchtman said, “By making Sweet Dreams, we wanted to cast a light on a visionary grassroots initiative. Both the drumming and ice-cream projects embody the idea that Rwandans need not only the means to survive, but also the means to live … ways to reconnect with joy, hope and previously unimagined possibilities. Both demonstrate the power of thinking outside the
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incredible new work, and count us among this great group of performing organizations,” Nance remarked. Ešenvalds will be in Tacoma for three days of rehearsal and performance. He will be a helpful guide in striking the right balance between choir and orchestra, giving advice on technical elements, and inspiring the students to their highest level of expression. The Nordic Light Symphony will form the second half of the concert. The University Symphony Orchestra will open the first half with a 22-minute
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should] remain curious and don’t be afraid to take risks and go into those places in our mind that make us uncomfortable.” She also said we all need to talk about issues surrounding the environment on a more regular basis. “Every day is Earth Day as far as I’m concerned,” said Finney. “Without it, we are dead. We still have a long way to go as humanity; as a group of people we need to take that aim to call attention to things that we should be paying attention to all along, every day.” PLU’s Earth
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will be among the center’s first group of students to formally partner with an off-campus client. Appropriately, this first client will be KPLU-FM 88.5, the local National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate owned by the university. KPLU has studios in Tacoma and Seattle. In addition to her duties this fall as LASR’s manager, Ash will work on a student team that will research how KPLU might expand its audiences on air and online. She also will work with two other student groups, one that will help produce
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,” Rystrom said. “I had heard about crew as a sport and wanted to try it.” Rystrom came out to practice wanting to have some fun, but has become more interested and committed to the team each year. “Being on the crew team means that you’re a much more close-knit group, because essentially you’re all just trying to follow one guy or girl and be as exactly with them as possible,” said Rystrom, who rows in the sixth seat for the men’s varsity eight boat. His job, along with the other seven rowers in his
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how many different ways that this can touch people economically.” Mulder attributes the success of the PLU course to the diverse group of students enrolled. “We have so many students coming from so many different disciplines and that’s a point of celebration for us,” he said. “Education, philosophy, environmental science and it’s a great chance to celebrate the diversity and thought that comes into the MBA program. And that’s who PLU is.” And Miller is pretty happy with the results. “At PLU, the
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