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  • University Pastor | Campus Ministry | rudejl@plu.edu | 253-535-7465 | The Rev.

    years Jen served as an Outreach Minister with The Night Ministry in Chicago, where she provided pastoral care, crisis response and advocacy in an interfaith and multicultural setting for street-based young adults.   In 2007, Jen was extraordinary ordained at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Chicago and served there as Associate Pastor.  After policy change at the national level removed barriers for partnered LGBTQ clergy, Jen was received onto the ELCA roster in 2011.   Jen received her Masters of

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  • Associate Professor | School of Education | gardinwl@plu.edu | 253-535-8342 | Wendy Gardiner teaches literacy courses in the Education Department.

    . Tondreau, A., Gardiner, W., White, K., Hinman, T., Dussling, T., Stevens, E., Degener, S., Wilson, N. "(Be)coming critical teacher educators: Collaborative self-study across contexts. Self-Study in Teacher Education." Self-Study in Teacher Education 2022: 61-79. Gardiner, W. "Rehearsals in clinical placements: Scaffolding teacher candidates’ literacy instruction." The Teacher Educator 2019: 384-400. Gardiner, W. & Weisling, N. "Challenges and complexities of building a mentoring practice: Insights from

  • Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology | ceynarml@plu.edu | 253-535-7297 | “Remember that Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels” – attributed to Ann Richards I became interested in psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Northern Colorado.

    achieve this goal, I try to teach students to apply the material in their own lives and become good critical consumers of information. I believe that education is not something that can be handed to students during the course of their college careers. Education is an active process that requires commitment from both student and professor. Ultimately, students need to be responsible for their own learning and professors encourage and challenge them to grow.  It is important to me that my students to be

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  • Senior Gift Planner | Office of Advancement | loiland@plu.edu | 253-535-8421

    any area of the university that they care about, she works closely with the School of Business. Prior to joining PLU, Sue worked in the museum sector for more than 10 years, mainly as a fundraising generalist focused on everything from membership to major gifts. Prior to that, she spent 5 years at a Tacoma social service agency working with volunteers and raising funds for annual support.

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  • Instructional & Multimedia Technologist | Information & Technology Services | brockmjr@plu.edu | 253-535-7391 | JB is a proud, class of 2020 Lute, who started learning and loving art and technology as a toddler.

    and online resources for students, staff and faculty alike. Interests All animals, books (especially fantasy!), video games, graphic design, and all things self-care!

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  • Dean of Students / Associate Vice President for Wellbeing Services and Resources | Student Rights and Responsibilities | eva.frey@plu.edu | 253-535-7159 | Eva has enjoyed working at PLU for 20 years in the area of student activities, leadership, and diversity.

    University Dispute Resolution Committee Member. Coordinate the medical withdrawal process. Co-lead Student Care Network. Supervision of Student Rights and Responsibilities and Office of Accessibility and Accommodation. Representing the Division of Student Life on the Academic Performance and Integrity Committee. Provide direct student service to support student retention and success. Biography Eva has enjoyed working at PLU for 20 years in the area of student activities, leadership, and diversity. She

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  • Assistant Dean of Students / Title IX Coordinator | Wellbeing Services and Resources | childrjl@plu.edu | 253-535-7166 | Jennifer joined PLU in 2013 as the Lutes Women’s Basketball Head Coach.

    Withdrawal process Shared supervision of Care Network and OAA Assist the Dean of Students in University matters Professional Memberships/Organizations NASPA Biography Jennifer joined PLU in 2013 as the Lutes Women’s Basketball Head Coach. In 2020, Jennifer moved into athletic administration and served as the Assistant Athletic Director, as well as taking on the role of the University Title IX Coordinator. When Wellbeing Services and Resources was formed in 2023, Jennifer joined WSR staff in her current

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  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Biespiel is a contributing writer at The Rumpus, Partisan, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.  His books of essays include A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.  He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.  Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities.  He is a longtime faculty member in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland. Mentor.

    , serving both young and old, poetry is a guide to deliver us into a fresh engagement with our inner lives and with modernity. If we care about order and disorder, then poetry matters because it is the art of the utterance of beauty and the grotesque. If we care about the deepest aspirations of men and women across every community and culture, language and race, then poetry is always relevant because it is the art of the utterance of what we share in our innermost psyches. Since culture and society

  • Mental Health Counseling Intern | Counseling Services | rachel.steinberg@plu.edu | 253-535-7206 | Rachel is thrilled to join the PLU team as a Mental Health Counseling Intern and spend the ’24-’25 year working with the PLU community.

    , Life Skills Specialist, Admissions Director, 3LPlace, 2016- 2019 Augmentative and alternative communication techniques, organization for neurodiverse populations and executive function 'hacks', intermediate American Sign Language, music performance and teaching Biography Rachel is thrilled to join the PLU team as a Mental Health Counseling Intern and spend the ’24-’25 year working with the PLU community. As a clinician, she values self-discovery and acceptance (you are enough!), community care, and

  • Benson Chair, Emeritus | Department of History | carpw@plu.edu | E.

    , Literatures, and Politics.” Paper: “The Christian and the Atheist: Jean Paton and Madalyn Murray O’Hair and How the Stigma of Illegitimacy in the 1950s Radicalized their Lives”, The Claremont Colleges, CA (March 22–25, 2012) Selected Articles "The Sentimentalization of Adoption: A Critical Note On Viviana Zelizer’s Pricing the Priceless Child." Adoption & Culture Vol. 5, forthcoming. "The History of the Law of Adoption in the United States." Bibliography issue, Adoption & Culture Vol. 4, 2014: 32-42. "The