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Katie Garro ‘11 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Gianni LaFaveInitially, Katie Garro ‘11 didn’t think much of Pacific Lutheran University.She viewed it as an opportunity to continue school with friends, but also to stay close to home. This perspective changed when she joined the Diversity Center as a Rieke Scholar. The Rieke Scholarship is a grant-based scholarship for PLU students that are dedicated to change and knowledge to society. With her time now committed to

year’s Alternative Spring Break trip. Students will have the opportunity to travel to the south and learn about social movements through the program titled American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This program is a civil rights tour designed to educate students about how the social movement began, what that meant for society and what it still means for society today. “It’s really an exploration of social change and how social change occurs,” said Amber Baillon, assistant director of

Vote! Women’s Center seeks community feedback on new name Posted by: marcom / February 20, 2016 February 20, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 22, 2016) - Since its founding in 1990, Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has empowered women and their allies to become advocates for gender equity and social justice. After 25 years, the Women's Center will change its name to fit its expanded, mission-based work.A name says a lot. Students, faculty and

market share. Assistant Professor of Management Brian Maeng led 13 undergraduate business majors on a comprehensive experience in South Korea. The group visited Samsung, Hyundai Motors, a K-Pop studio, and four other companies, toured the DMZ, attended lectures and artistic events, saw several temples and historical spots, and met with Korean business students. Assistant Professor of Marketing Sven Tuzovic, who took Petryk’s group to Germany, said he enjoys the experience, because of the camaraderie

together to experiment with sustainable environmental practices in a real, physical space. But the reDesign House is more than just a place to experiment with sustainable living practices. It is also an emblem of a holistic approach that blends environmental practices and social change with the disciplines of art and design. Lace Smith, Chrissy Cooley and JP Avila in the reDesign House. (Photo by John Froschauer) “The eventual goal is to have a space that is a learning laboratory,” Sustainability

New Critical Conscience.” The conference challenges participants to align concepts of education and justice in ways that call for conscience, critique and change—all concepts, in turn, that align precisely with PLU’s mission. PLU participants include: •    Ruth Bernstein, Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Management and Nonprofit Studies •    Callista Brown, Associate Professor of English •    Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment •    Emily Davidson, Assistant

working for the government would put him at the perfect crux of policy and action, with the power to institute real change. He landed a job as the El Salvador Desk Officer as a Presidential Management Fellow focusing on development policy in the region. Seventeen years later, nearly all of Carrato’s professional career has been with USAID’s Foreign Service. He has held positions in Colombia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Kenya where he has worked with teams grappling with issues of food insecurity

CDC. How this decision is determined can be found here. If determining factors increase, we will alert campus that indoor masking has become a requirement. (That eventuality would likely be short-term, lasting only until numbers drop again.) Care for suspected and positive cases: Based on current guidance from our partners at TPCHD, there has been no change to the required five days of isolation for a positive case, followed by five days of masking when around other people. Students who develop

supportive teachers, including Guerrero. For his Capstone project, Schwartz studied the sociology of religion. He realized the commonality of contemplative questions—what does it mean to be alive? Why are we here? Why do we believe the things we believe? “For me, as I learned more, I questioned more,” he says. “PLU helped me begin to understand questions that needed to be asked, which helps you ask better questions next time, and be OK when answers are messy or nonexistent.”From PLU to Planetary Change

March 6, 2012 PLU named a 2011 Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation The Arbor Day Foundation has named PLU a 2011 Tree Campus USA in honor of its commitment to effective community forestry management. This is the second year that PLU has been recognized. PLU achieved the designation by meeting the required five core standards for sustainable campus forestry: a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures for its campus tree program, an Arbor Day