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entire curriculum for it and eventually taught it. It was that "not-TA-not-faculty/in-between" area that I was left to my own devices to teach in. But once I was a TA, I was like, “Oh, I like this! I like being the one to engage and go around the table and talk to people." I used to have a couch in this spot, and the couch has moved over the years and it was a great place for students to be in smaller settings before or after class. They'd sit and do work. But when I got rid of it, this big empty
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classes take field trips to local colleges and universities (“PLU is a phenomenal partner,” Leifsen said.) “We want them to be prepared to get into college but also to do well,” Leifsen said. “We tell them, ‘It’s great to get in, and it’s even better to finish.’” Nationally, Leifsen said, 98% of AVID students graduate from high school, and 95% get into college. Maybe not surprisingly, several have landed at PLU—including current student Alex Mattich ’16. She was raised to become the first in her
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. What for us is the prism? The literary imagination, spiritual quests through the ages, texts of the great philosophers, the power of language. Just as importantly, the humanities mold the critical eye, so that the flashes of brilliance, the paradoxes, the intellectual and aesthetic transformations, may be discerned and appreciated. Janet Rasmussen, Professor of Norwegian, served as Dean of Humanities from 1986-1991. Photo from University Archives, 1978. The “clear and wondrous vision” of humanistic
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May 2, 2012 Mary Lund Davis Student Investment Club board members Cameron Lamarche ’12, Kirk Swanson ’12, Phillip Magnussen ’13 and Arne-Morten Willumsen ’13 pose in front of the Wall Street Bull in New York City during the G.A.M.E. Conference. Lutes on Wall Street By Chris Albert This spring, five PLU students and one professor were checking into their hotel in New York City for the G.A.M.E (Global Asset Management Education) Forum, when it dawned on the students they were really here and this
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with many great ensembles. If we continue to do these sort of exciting events, it can only help bring PLU music to a larger audience in our country and the world.” Read Previous PLU’s Visiting Writer Series Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary Read Next Psychology Department’s Colloquium Series Brings Prominent Scholars to PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS
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actively voiced its policy hopes and concerns in unison with fellow members of the Independent Colleges of Washington (ICW). An association of 10 private, nonprofit liberal arts colleges in Washington, ICW led member institutions in a variety of lobbying efforts, sharing with legislators how effective ICW colleges are at educating students and the great bargain the institutions represent to the state. For much of the legislative session, SNG funding was in the crosshairs of lawmakers who sought
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another. “He’s such a good kid, with great manners,” she says. “She took a step away to raise me, and everything she does comes from a place of love and guidance,” he says. “Having my mother go to school at the same time is just a weirdly beautiful coincidence that works out for the best.” Read Previous Willie Stewart ’69 talks breaking barriers as Tacoma’s first black principal in 1970 Read Next Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree William Foege ‘57 returns to PLU for annual Rachel Carson lecture
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the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa to the civil rights movement in the United States; all these efforts began through the acts of ordinary people, he noted. Sometimes spectacular acts are called for, as in the story of Moses, but other times, great events begin with simple actions, such as a tired Rosa Parks deciding to stay “and refusing to move” on a bus. Tutu was the keynote speaker in the event that included performances by the PLUtonic and Hermonic a cappella groups, as well as songs
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Alumni Profile: What makes an American an American? Posted by: shortea / November 28, 2018 November 28, 2018 By Genny Boots '18PLU AlumThis is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined up after graduation, an activist philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all the “American” boxes.Except for one: actually being a legal citizen. Kim is one of the approximately 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
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Fourth annual Ruth Anderson Public Debate talks third-party vote Posted by: Todd / September 28, 2016 Image: The Ruth Anderson Public Debate at PLU on 10/8/2015 (Photo/John Struzenberg ’16) September 28, 2016 Students and experts debate October 4Members of the Pacific Lutheran University Speech and Debate team will partner with local policy experts on Oct. 4 to publicly debate the potential benefits and pitfalls of voting for a third party in the 2016 presidential election. Democratic
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