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leaders, they will also serve on the Provost’s academic council.While retaining many current school, departmental and program formats, colleges may evaluate and perhaps modify their internal operations to best serve students and support faculty.Academic ProgramsBrowse PLU’s academic programs by college, level and type.“With the four newly designed colleges and their subdivisions, we will continue our purposeful integration of liberal arts, professional studies, and civic engagement with contributions

despite the fact that he was dealing with so many grave medical issues.” The three-year MFA program includes four summer residencies in which students spend 10 days on campus. The rest of the year is spent working with individual mentors. Drews’ concentration was nonfiction writing, and his work focuses a lot on his life and struggles with cancer. His current project — an essay about his life — is on pause due to his fundraising campaign for the clinical trial. Still, he uses Facebook posts as an

to where the workers live, and the wage can’t necessarily be compared to those in the United States. Most fair trade operations are co-ops or groups of artisans, where decisions are made democratically and everyone has a stake in the business. The co-op sets their product’s retail price, and portions of the proceeds go directly to the farmers or artisans and are reinvested in the community. “It’s a community endeavor,” Giguere said. Typical supply chains include a producer, buyer, distributor and

current students “become part of this family before (his) very eyes.” The concert began with the current Choir of the West and was followed by five alumni choirs, divided into eras designated by conductor. The grand finale gathered every member onstage to sing the group’s classic numbers, “O Day Full of Grace” and “Beautiful Savior,” both arranged by F. Melius Christiansen. Valerie Seeley, business operations manager at PLU, shared on Facebook that hearing choir members sing together was the “most

professions they are interested in pursuing after graduation. From January 21 to 24, 40 students visited PLU alumni at businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies across the Seattle/Tacoma region.“Alumni job shadow experiences can have really wonderful benefits for students,” said Jessica Pagel, who serves as director of operations and virtual engagement in PLU’s Office of Alumni and Student Connections. “Experiences like this help them build professional connections, learn about

of Terri Card ’83, COO of outpatient operations for MultiCare Behavioral Health.Sign up for LuteLinkDriving powerful connections between PLU alumni and students. Create your account in less than 2-minutes and instantly connect with your community. Read Previous PLU Launching Accelerated Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Read Next Musician turned math major is excited about teaching in his community COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad

, community-based, locally-owned health system in the state of Washington. Hundreds of PLU alumni serve in critical roles throughout MultiCare Health System — the vast majority of them as nurses. For this “Lute Powered” feature, we featured three PLU alumni who serve behind the scenes. Leading with careTerri Card ’83 doesn’t just care about people. She cares about caring for people when they need it most. Card is the chief operating officer of outpatient operations for MultiCare Behavioral Health, but

environmentally friendly innovations.” Sheri Tonn, PLU’s vice president for finance and operations, said she was not surprised by PLU’s high ranking and very pleased with the outcome. “We are very, very pleased to attain this mark, and want to keep the caliber of sustainability to a high level on campus,” she said. She credited the work of the PLU community for the high rating, as well as an initial sustainability water grant by the Russell Family Foundation in 2001. Christine Cooley, PLU’s newly-hired

, known as “alfombras.” Created by the families or businesses who reside street-side, these carpets fill the street and are created by taking sawdust and dye made of palm plants, pine needles and produce. In 2005,  Sheri Tonn, vice president for finance and operations, and university ministers,  Rev. Nancy Conner and Rev. Dennis Sepper, led the first trip to Guatemala, excited to volunteer their time at Common Hope and experience some of the world’s largest Holy Week festivities in Antigua. This year

fresh for the next pour. “I think it’s a great concept,” McGinnis said. “It makes better wine more accessible too.” PLU took over operations of the coffee shop this year, opening the doors to the café this August and adding beer and wine this November.  All of the wine and beer are from Washington and Oregon vintners and brew houses, including drinks from five wineries owned and operated by PLU alumni. Under PLU’s alcohol policy, alcohol is only allowed to be served at the Faculty House, Gonyea