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-time nurse or K-12 educator.“Our nursing and education programs are deeply rooted in PLU’s history,” said PLU President Allan Belton. “For more than a hundred years, we have been training and preparing thoughtful and highly skilled nurses and educators to serve their communities. To show our thanks, we pledge to do everything in our power to make higher education possible for the dependents of teachers and nurses.”With this promise, PLU will cover at least half of the student’s tuition —$23,408 for
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business, arts, education and nonprofit leaders to share their ideas on a wide spectrum of topics including health care, leadership, human nature and violence against women. The annual event will be held April 22 at 7 p.m. at Pacific Lutheran University’s Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.Now in its fifth year, TEDxTacoma provides a platform for the exchange of creative and often paradigm-challenging ideas about how thoughtful, action-oriented individuals can contribute to positively
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. “It’s great work!” she said. “I maintain and manage the Tacoma Housing Authority’s social media, and I help with website updates. I’ve even been able to do some in-person work taking photos of local small business owners.”Kang aims to help make THA’s online presence feel accessible and approachable. “I’m really enjoying sharing the things I’ve learned at PLU with my coworkers, and online,” she said. “I think it’s important that we remember who our content is for and avoid using complex government or
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little cesspool in which the mind of man likes to wallow” (Francis Ponge). Philosophical critiques of history’s pretensions have been fewer in number, perhaps because the desire for a usable past is so powerful, and because the uselessness of an unknowable past is so plain. Did not Polybius write in the preface to his universal history that “the knowledge of the past events is the sovereign corrective of human nature”? If this is wrong, should we not feel as helpless as a victim of severe memory loss
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accomplishments there, Krise was the founder and first director of the Air Force Humanities Institute at the academy. Thomas Krise enjoys some Caribbean steel drum music and ice cream and strawberries at PLU’s summer Strawberry Festival. Coincidentally, Krise went to high school in the Caribbean and is an expert in early Caribbean and American, 17th century literature. Given this eclectic and wide-ranging background, it should not be surprising how vast, and expansive, his interests are. Both he and Patty
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examine the personal and big-picture capacity to withstand and overcome the stress and devastation related to trauma. “There is building interest in understanding the conditions that make it possible for individuals, communities, organizations, institutions and organisms to overcome adversity,” said Tamara Williams, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Executive Director of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. “While varied, the events and programs that will be featured as part of
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Lutes at the Legislature: PLU students and alumni contribute at every level of the legislative process Posted by: Zach Powers / March 4, 2016 Image: PLU students and legislative interns Savannah Turner ’16 and Kacie Masten ’17 outside the Washington State Capitol in Olympia. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 4, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 3, 2016)— About 25 miles south of Pacific Lutheran University, lawmakers in Olympia are in the midst of the
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. Of course, it rained the entire time. One of the tents leaked. But Reidel, a Spanish, visual arts and global studies major, loved it.“I liked the texture and feel of the rock,” Reidel said of another trip to the Peshastin Pinnacles in central Washington state. “And the view from the top was great. You feel so accomplished after you get to the top.”Reidel said in her time at PLU, she hasn’t come across a class where she loved..every..minute..of…it like this one. “This class teaches you that with
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within the natural frame of the liberal arts education—a part of learning to be a vital member of the community in service to the world and others. Why do you think these needs are becoming more important? Personal and collective trauma. A need to reconnect with our bodies, with our selves and with each other in a safe space with people who “Get me“ to help make the next step in regrounding, and reconnecting with the strengths and skills to move forward into meaningful living in the unfolding new
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Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press. Much of her other published works appear in academic journals including Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, and Theology and Literature. Read Previous Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it Read Next Emma Stafki ’24 recognized for capstone documentary “Echos of the Sound” COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might
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