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  • LUTES ANSWER: How can innovation help meet the challenges of the moment? Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 How can innovation help meet the challenges of the moment?  “Embracing innovation ensures we have a pipeline of ideas focused on improving our future as we manage the current complexities in our lives today. We must be eager to engage students, communities and colleagues in discussions about new ways of thinking and solving problems. Innovation, combined with an agile

  • Presidential Commission for Innovation and Change update Presidential Commission for Innovation and Change update https://www.plu.edu/innovation-change/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 brisketr brisketr https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c3c162cf18d0aeb2bed050701e5f9b0e?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019 Dear Colleagues: We write to update you on the initial work of the Presidential Commission for Innovation and Change (the Commission). As stated in

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 4, 2016)- For the first time in the event’s five-year history, TEDxTacoma will be hosted at Pacific Lutheran University on April 22. For the event’s host, Adam Utley, the new location signifies a homecoming of sorts, as the the improv performer and…

    improv is what it does for the human brain.  There’s exciting new research about what’s called the Default Mode Network (DMN): it’s the home of creativity, and flow, innovation and breakthrough insight. Improv strengthens the DMN. It activates empathy, self-value, and the synthesis of ideas. Improvisational relationships — where each relationship participant is equal and unique — are healthy, productive, synergistic relationships. And so, businesses thrive when the minds that make them up are improv

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 26, 2016)- Joel Zylstra said Pacific Lutheran University’s partnership with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity began with a cup of coffee at 208 Garfield four years ago. Zylstra, director of Center for Community Engagement & Service (CCES), said his perception of Habitat…

    . The Woods became the subject of an Environmental Advocacy class project for which students traveled to the Woods and wrote collaborative group projects based on the development. The project encouraged students to examine the development from multiple perspectives, including design and the social formation of community. “There’s been an educational aspect there, which led to some AmeriCorps engagement through that,” Stockstad said. “Some of our AmeriCorps members that have worked at Habitat have

  • To catch Josh Wallace, you’ll have to call him — and he’ll probably be on the move when you do so. The busy MBA student is juggling school classes, his job as a marketing intern… and a starring role in The Fern Shakespeare Company’s “Othello,”…

    Lutheran University MBA Program is founded on the cornerstones of leadership, creative innovation, global awareness and ethical responsibility.Art + Business As an MBA student, Wallace hopes to bridge gaps between artists and business, and help foster community fine arts appreciation, by combining marketing savvy with arts knowledge.   “The arts and entertainment connect the world on a larger level,” he says.  He enrolled in PLU’s MBA program because he understood some aspects of an acting career

  • Pacific Lutheran University alumna Jessica Anderson ’07 is passionate about education, geosciences and technology, and has combined all three to become an award-winning educator.

    , #MTedchat has taken an active role in bridging the gap between teachers, administrators and elected officials in our state. It’s a discussion open to all stakeholders. The chats revolve around popular education topics, including student engagement, innovation in education and assessment. We’ve also held social media chats about Montana’s legislative education bills and chats through the Office of Public Instruction about resources and supports they provide Montana teachers. Finally, how do you remember

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 12, 2016)- Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., says Pacific Lutheran University already exhibits academic excellence in a variety of ways: rich global education, robust student-faculty research, world-class faculty members and, of course, eager students who are ready to change the world. But Brown…

    expanding research opportunities. She hopes to launch a research symposium in the spring that showcases the close, collaborative work being done by Lutes. She also wants to increase the opportunities campus-wide so more students can benefit from the opportunities. “It’s a big goal, but it’s doable,” Brown said, “because so much of the work is happening already.” Student-faculty research provides students the opportunity to get to know professors on a different level, Brown said. It also provides in

  • Online Learning at Pacific Lutheran University. Online and blended programs for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students extend the university’s mission beyond campus borders,

    Online Learning at Pacific Lutheran UniversityPacific Lutheran University has a strong history of providing students with an exceptional learning experience. Yet across the world, higher education is enveloped in transformation, with technology innovation increasingly influencing the process of teaching and learning. As PLU moves into the future, it is possible to embrace the new while remaining grounded in the University’s history and values.Online and blended programs for undergraduate

  • Microsoft news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Celebrate Computer Science Education Week By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science

  • Apple II news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    How Innovative was the Apple II? By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing,