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generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. He also knew from an early age that he wanted to be a doctor. “Before my freshman year, I did a multicare nursing camp, and I was already working in a pharmacy, about to receive training to be a pharmacy technician,” Gavidia says. Gavidia knew he wanted to take a non-traditional path to medical school. “I

is assessment evaluation. I take all the things that I am learning this semester, and I get to apply it. It is making recommendations to make an impact. Why Study Sociology?Sociology provides students with distinctive ways of looking at the world in order to generate new ideas and assess the old. Coursework includes analysis of family and gender issues, race/ethnicity, social class, social problems and inequality. In addition, sociology provides training in a range of research techniques which

wonderful that private institutions like Harvard, Princeton and Yale have amazing libraries, but in order to get behind those walls you need to be affiliated with those universities,” he explains. “At NYPL, we spend millions of dollars a year the way that museums do, acquiring collections in order to make those collections available to everyone and anyone with a library card.”"I needed to protect libraries, but I had to feed the beast of the city. Once I was able to look at things through the lens of

diversity ends up in 10 years will be greatly influenced by the campus community’s understanding of diversity,” Johnson said. “I think that 2020 is going to play a large role, as well as who makes up our campus community.” Read Previous “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion” Read Next ‘Porgy and Bess’ 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 PLU move-in day 2024 September

of their particular turf, and the temptation to put all the blame on another group. “We have to stop blaming the other guy,” she said. While she was governor, Gregoire created the Puget Sound Partnership to try to cut through some of the red tape and interagency squabbles that were hindering its protection. Her goal, and the partnership’s, is still to make the Sound, all of the Sound, “swimmable, fishable and diggable” by 2020. “The challenge for us all in 2014 is to change our day-to-day

music, paired with a lot of nostalgia that spanned generations. More than 350 Choir of the West members, from the class of 1953 to the class of 2020, gathered Sunday afternoon to perform in a 90th anniversary celebration in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “You wouldn’t find that any other place besides PLU,” said Richard Nance, director of choral activities at PLU and conductor of Choir of the West since 2007. While onstage, Nance shared that the most “rewarding” part about this gathering was watching

that landed her in a communications role at ESD 113. It was memorable — but not necessarily in a good way.“I was so nervous,” she remembers. “My internet died during the Zoom interview.” She was prepared to just chalk it up to experience. But a short time later, she got the call every job seeker hopes for. “I started on my 24th birthday. It was a great birthday present,” Hall says. That was in 2020. She’s now a communications specialist at ESD 113, a Washington state agency that helps ensure that

healing in different ways, and all are linked by their foundation in the Christian religion. Professor Suzanne Crawford O’Brien at the 2020 Wang Symposium Looking at religion and healing from a comparative perspective, Crawford O’Brien’s course (RELI 230) invites students to consider how illness, healing, and wellness are understood and experienced in traditions outside of mainstream Christianity. This course explores how wellness has to do with the ability to maintain a working identity: a self that

construction: a month-long stint in January 2020, followed by a six-week stay in June/July 2020. These divied-up teaching and research projects are becoming more commonplace as the Fulbright Commission accommodates the increasing demands placed upon faculty members that make a full academic year abroad impossible. “I’m spending time and working in a country that is completely new to me — that’s been really exciting,” Call said. “I’m not really a world traveler. My work tends to be pretty focused in the

a vacuum, but rather complement the philosophical and programmatic goals of the coaches. My approach has been eclectic from the start. It represents a combination of knowledge and experiences gained from three primary sources: my own competitive background as an athlete, my tenure as an intercollegiate coach, and finally my education and training in sports psychology. Aside from field hockey, are you working with any other teams? The previous three Olympic Games have been with soccer (gold