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care – for other people, for their communities and for the Earth.  The values that have shaped this university – and this region – are vitally present in PLU today.  I hope you will reflect on these values in the months ahead and incorporate their principles into your learning—and your actions.   I’d like to delve a bit deeper into what we mean by “care for other people and for their communities.”  I expect that all of you have left a community of love and support.  But you will come to realize

—including critical thinking, writing, communication, mathematics, and technology—at more advanced levels of aptitude. Through civic engagement, knowledge and insight no longer exist in the life of the mind; they become coalesced in mindful and caring community involvement. By conjoining the academic knowledge and skills necessary to address community needs, students deepen and extend their learning. Additionally, individuals who are active volunteers have 27 percent higher odds of finding a job than

experience or language for those things, so the experience was revolutionary,” he says. “PLU is a great place to ask questions.” In Schwartz’s senior year, he faced new challenges and became deeply familiar with physical and emotional pain after herniating discs in his lower back. Bedridden for a month, the healing process was slow. He started spring quarter later than others, and at times, he’d have to lay down in class in the back row. Depressed and struggling, he managed with the assistance of

, families with language barriers, people with disabilities, and many others — face more obstacles and need more assistance navigating systems. “While we have some permanent supportive housing, we don’t have enough of it or the resources to both build and provide services,” Lloyd says. “Affordable housing should not be a luxury that some members of our society are able to obtain while others cannot and are forced to live in unsafe conditions or spaces that are uninhabitable. Everyone deserves to have a

wanted a “small school” experience. College should be about the education; and I don’t think state schools would have provided me the same value. After visiting state schools, I felt like I would be treated as a number rather than a student. One visit to PLU’s campus made me realize that I would have the attention and learning experience that would allow me to excel. On top of that, I quickly learned that PLU has an excellent business program that is competitive with other universities. My PLU

possesses and appropriates her image, dominates the expression of her form, and not only receives her love, but attempts to take her fortune. His last name “Lockhart” is also synonymous with “lock heart”, as if he could chain love or love’s pretense. The implications of Charles, as a white man, capturing Georgiana, a Black woman, by making her into a kind of property is unnerving. A viewer may accept Charles’s language as romantic in a patriarchal society where “ownership” and “possession” are

campus for both his passion for student learning and also his knack for teaching design principles to all students, including those lucky enough to be Design majors in the B.F.A. program. Avila’s influence on PLU’s Innovation Studies program is significant. Because of his guidance, all students working toward the Innovation Studies minor must develop essential skills in either Communications or Design, in addition to the essential coursework that they take in business, economics, history, and ethics

incorporating a strong experiential learning component. The master’s in marketing analytics makes experts in the field who can leverage data-driven models to achieve deeper understanding of consumer behavior, solve marketing decision challenges and ultimately drive growth for both profit and non-profit organizations.  “I work in Digital Strategy and Marketing Analytics for Metabolic Research Center. It’s a weight loss company that focuses on a long-term lifestyle change. I support and maintain our national

January in China, however, conflicted with an equally important part of her life. Klauder is a member of the PLU swimming team. And she’s no ordinary swimmer – she qualified for the championship finals in five individual events during her first three years at PLU. Swimmer Jessie Klauder seeks the balance between the personal expectations of being a student and the personal and team expectations of being an athlete. While Klauder dove into her studies at the University of Chengdu, learning how to

in Tacoma, where students of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, more than 80 percent of the district’s teachers are white. Egenes has her students at Lincoln explore historical issues in education through an equity lens. Some of the topics they’ve researched include the history of Native American schools, the link between historic neighborhood redlining and school segregation, bilingual education and more. She asks her students to assess their own learning styles and ask