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What’s in our room? With Jess Mason ’24 Posted by: mhines / March 11, 2024 March 11, 2024 Join Portland native, Jess Mason for a tour of their room in Hong Hall. Hong Global Hall is for local, national, and international students. Located in the middle of upper campus, it is home to a unique living/learning community consisting of six language and global engagement houses: Chinese, French, Global Studies, Indigenous Languages, Spanish, and the International Honors program.Check out Hong Hall

What’s in our room? With Jess Mason ’24 Posted by: vcraker / April 13, 2023 April 13, 2023 Portland native, Jess Mason gives a tour of their room in Hong Hall. Hong Global Hall is for local, national, and international students. Located in the middle of upper campus, it is home to a unique living/learning community consisting of six language and global engagement houses: Chinese, French, Global Studies, Indigenous Languages, Spanish, and the International Honors program. CLICK HERE to learn

an instructional coach for the Toppenish SD, working with teachers to improve their instructional practices.   In class, she learned how to plan lessons to address differing language abilities based on student data and various strategies for students learning English.  “I wanted to be able to support my staff and students,” Pettijohn says. “The course provided many practical strategies that could be immediately applied to benefit ELL students.”  For example, Pettijohn worked with other coaches to

Introduction Posted by: alex.reed / May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 By Kevin J. O’Brien, Dean of HumanitiesSpring, 2022This issue marks an important transition for the Division of Humanities. As of this summer, the Humanities programs —English, Languages & Literatures, the Language Resource Center, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the Parkland Literacy Center, Philosophy, and Religion— will merge with others to form a new College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social

shorter January Term and summer programs. A diverse array of international and domestic options await, with internships, research, language immersion and cultural exploration as foundational elements that vary from program to program. “Study away in and of itself is a huge confidence booster for most students at a time of personal growth, independence, maturity,” Grover said. “It really put students out of the classroom, changes their perspective on the topic that they’re learning just by being

paired with a sharp sense of humor, which she conveys both in conversations and her writing.” In addition to her love of literature and history, Einan loves learning languages. She began studying German in high school. In order to complete PLU’s language requirement, Einan decided to try learning Norwegian. “My dad’s family came from Norway, so there is a family history that I wanted to honor,” Einan says. Einan enjoyed her Norwegian classes and chose to move forward with a third major in Nordic

learning Sámi language and culture in Sápmi,” Gjelde-Bennett said. There’s a personal stake for Gjelde-Bennett in this line of study — she has Sámi heritage and wishes to reclaim her cultural roots. Gjelde-Bennett has completed research in four different countries over the past few years on indigenous rights efforts in Scandinavia. “During my past research on indigenous rights in Sápmi, I was limited by the small number of scholarly sources in English and unable to access local media and academic

professor of English. As a result, the center also offers help with math and STEM literacy, financial literacy and more.   PLC offers help for those learning Spanish and support for English language learners across backgrounds and experiences—with free evening English language classes for adults at various skill levels. The center’s free tutoring also includes test prep, long a domain of for-profit businesses requiring parental discretionary funds. For example, tutors help high-school students prepare

September 17, 2008 Exchange program enriches campus living and learning Six years ago, Candice Hughes ’08 realized that, despite her ambition, college just wasn’t in the cards. As consolation, the Trinidad and Tobago native dreamed of figuring out a way to go back to school part-time in a few years. Her opportunity emerged just two years later with the advent of a unique exchange program, forged between PLU and the Trinidadian government. For more than a decade, PLU has been sending students

April 25, 2011 Fred L. Tobiason,Reed Ojala-Barbour and President Loren J. Anderson at the dedication of the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center in April. (Photo by John Froschauer) Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center dedicated By Kari Plog ’11 With a single snip of a blackberry vine, students and staff made a mark for sustainability on the PLU campus last week. Monday, April 18, saw one of the first sunny days of 2011, and with that came the dedication of the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor