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six years of full-time faculty service (excluding years of leave). Tenured part-time faculty are eligible after completion of a minimum period of six years of faculty service. The eligibility period begins with the year of one’s most recent appointment to the faculty or with the year following one’s last sabbatical. Excess years of service preceding last sabbatical cannot be applied toward eligibility for a later sabbatical when it is the faculty member who elects to defer sabbatical. However, in

that there is some back and forth about whether people who default on their loans are punished too harshly. Beyond her findings, Christensen learned a lot about independent study while pursuing her topic. Travis helped her fine-tune the research question and encouraged Christensen to pursue the national conference presentation. “I applied the day before the deadline,” she said. After learning several months later that she was accepted to present in Memphis, she joked that she “kind of forgot about

and is approved for Washington PFML, pay during the Leave period would be a combination of (1) Washington PFML benefits from ESD, and (2) leave benefit payments from PLU. If a faculty member does not apply for Washington PFML benefits or such benefits are denied, the faculty member will receive only the leave benefit payments from PLU they would have received had they applied for or been accepted for Washington PFML benefits. Benefit payments from PLU will be paid to the faculty member during

. And she loved it. “That’s when I decided I wanted to go back,” she said. After that, she studied business for a year in France, including a semester taking classes taught in French. “I guess it gave me the taste for doing more of it,” she said of studying all over. “It gave me the opportunity to experience it firsthand.” Fodstad’s love for her international experiences extends to the four years spent at PLU. She’s enamored with her alma mater and the lessons she learned there. “PLU core values are