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English professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, received the nonfiction prize for their translation of the eighteenth-century text “Work on Women” by Louise Dupin (also known as Madame Dupin). Wilkin teaches in multiple academic programs at PLU, including French & Francophone Studies, Global Studies, the International Honors program, and the First Year Experience Program. She is the author of Women, Imagination, and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France (Ashgate 2008) and of many
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, and witness the growth themselves, she says. “To do that, we needed teachers endorsed.” While most newly graduated teachers gained the endorsement as part of their graduate program, many teachers who’d been in the profession for 10 to 30 years didn’t have the endorsement. And teachers with an English Language Learners (ELL) endorsement are in high demand, as communities become more culturally and linguistically diverse. Pacific Lutheran University’s course teaches how to apply research-based
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) have check-in lunches with the department chair and another professor and we are all constantly sharing resources with each other.”Carli also continued to intern at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (MJH), listening to and annotating Holocaust testimonies and making shorter clips from them for the Museum’s future use. She took many interesting courses at the CUNY Graduate Center and one at Columbia University (through the interuniversity doctoral consortium program). She says, “a couple of my favorites
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” in a panel moderated by University Pastor Jen Rude on Thursday, March 5 at 3:45 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. What is Lutheran Community Services Northwest and can you share a bit about your program, in particular? Lutheran Community Services Northwest is a regional organization that serves vulnerable children, families, refugees and others throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. My program, in particular, is working on refugee resettlement. We help refugees secure housing and work with
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Study away returns to PLU Posted by: vcraker / March 2, 2022 Image: Lutes from the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean course in Greece (Photo by professor Antonios Finitsis) March 2, 2022 After a hiatus last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 65 undergraduate and 22 graduate students from Pacific Lutheran University were able to participate in January term study away trips this year. The program took PLU students all over the world, with courses designed and taught by PLU professors offered
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. The Global Scholar Grants program will help the university meet and exceed that goal. “This will have a profound and significant impact on our study away program,” President Loren J. Anderson said in announcing the scholarship fund last Thursday night. PLU made history in 2006 by becoming the first United States university to have students and faculty studying on all seven continents simultaneously – including an exploration of the natural history, environment and conservation of the Antarctic
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Confronting Mental Health: How the PLU community is demonstrating transformative care Posted by: nicolacs / February 11, 2022 February 11, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsWalk across campus and you can see the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic everywhere. Masks on faces, signs reminding you to wash your hands, restrictions on classrooms and more. But the pandemic hasn’t just caused physical changes, but also unexpected mental challenges. And that is harder to identify and
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that I wanted to also balance my pursuit of engineering with a liberal arts background.” So, Anderson chose Pacific Lutheran University. “This balance between liberal arts and STEM classes is what drew me to decide to do engineering at PLU,” she said. Learn more Dual-Degree Engineering Program Department of Physics Harold P. Brown FellowshipsAnd her hard work in PLU’s dual-degree engineering program has paid off. She recently earned a competitive, full-tuition fellowship from Washington University
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cohort of nursing students with a gerontologic focus each year • Recruit three nursing faculty members with expertise in gerotonologic nursing • Provide faculty development to improve instruction and clinical work • Expand clinical placements and experiences in gero-nursing throughout pre-licensure curriculum • Implement and/or strengthen the American Association of Colleges of Nursing gero-competencies throughout the region Led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Northwest Health
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their campus community and the community at-large.” Tree Campus USA, a national program launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation, honors colleges and university and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conversation. Tree Campus USA is supported by a generous grant from Toyota. During 2011, the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota helped campuses throughout the country plant 30,000 trees, and Tree Campus USA colleges and universities have invested
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