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  • PLU’s mission to support the education of our students and larger community on issues of diversity and justice are intimately connected to the study of the tragedy of the Holocaust.

    2024 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education: “Sephardic Jewish Voices and Experiences in the Holocaust” November 6-8, 2024 Thanks to the generosity of donors this event is free and open to the public. The Experience of Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust At least 160,000 Sephardic Jews perished in the Holocaust, yet their stories are not well-known by many. Through the use of archival sources, interviews with survivors, and family histories, what emerges is a picture of shared tragedy

    Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference
    12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Speaker: Dr. Pilar Hernández-Wolf, Ph.D. Date: November 17th, 2017 Time: 10:00am-1:00pm Location: Chirs Knutsen East Room in the Anderson University Center (AUC) Offer 3 CE Credits Free for PLU

    Continuing Education OpportunityThe Professional Helper’s Resilience: How Does Vicarious Resilience Strengthen Therapists And Other Helpers? Speaker: Dr. Pilar Hernández-Wolf, Ph.D. Date: November 17th, 2017 Time: 10:00am-1:00pm Location: Chirs Knutsen East Room in the Anderson University Center (AUC) Offer 3 CE Credits Free for PLU students or Alumni, $45 for Professionals. Please join us for a continuing education opportunity hosted by the PLU Marriage and Family Therapy program. This

  • Following PLU’s annual University Conference kick-off, our faculty members attended a number of breakout sessions, one of which was led by Teresa Ciabattari, chair of Women’s and Gender Studies and associate professor of Sociology. Here, Dr. Ciabattari helps us understand what we can do to…

    an integral part of a community. Encouraging student belonging means doing more than welcoming students as guests to an existing community; it means creating a culture that sees the needs of all students as equally important and creating educational conditions that support the success of all students. Belonging is important in higher education because it is directly related to student persistence. Researchers have found that the strongest predictors of persistence are students’: • level of

  • Thursday, September 25, 2014 Justice in Society: Lutheran Sources of Social Change PLU 2020 underscored the ancient mandate to act with justice and resist evil, but what “justice” might actually

    minorities, and the land itself have been deprived of freedom and justice. Martin Luther, the progenitor of Lutheran higher education, argued that God’s justice is a life-giving justice for all persons regardless of gender, race or ethnicity, social or economic status – a justice that should suffuse human relationships and the education of future leaders in society. Indeed, he was among the first of his generation to protest business, banking, and religious practices that favored the wealthy few and

  • TACOMA, Wash. (April 6, 2015)—Last year, Pacific Lutheran University’s undergraduate Education program achieved a 100-percent hiring rate, while the graduate program saw 90 percent of its students hired. On March 17, 18 school districts from around the state and 10 non-district organizations came to the…

    Education Career Fair Brings Major Employers to Campus—and Results in Immediate Jobs Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 6, 2015 Image: Students and employers connect at the Education Career Fair at PLU on March 18. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 6, 2015 By Taylor Lunka ’15PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (April 6, 2015)—Last year, Pacific Lutheran University’s undergraduate Education program achieved a 100-percent hiring rate, while the graduate program saw 90 percent of its

  • The PLU School of Business is a community of engaged faculty, staff, and administrators who provide an excellent business education in a student-centered learning environment grounded in the liberal

    MissionThe PLU School of Business is a community of engaged faculty, staff, and administrators who provide an excellent business education in a student-centered learning environment grounded in the liberal arts that inspires students to: LEARN for life, LIVE purposefully, LEAD responsibly, and CARE for others. Code of EthicsSchool of Business faculty and staff are committed to professional behavior that: Exemplifies high standards of academic and personal integrity in all interactions with

  • Computer Science Education Week news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Celebrate Computer Education Week By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org… December 5, 2018 Benson LectureCode.orgComputer Science Education WeekHour of CodeInnovation StudiesMichael Halvorson

  • Computer Science Education Week news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Celebrate Computer Science Education Week By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org… December 5, 2018 Alice SteinglassBrad SmithCode.orgComputer Science Education WeekHour of CodeMelinda GatesMichael HalvorsonMicrosoftPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science

  • Associate Provost for Continuing Education Email: foy@plu.edu Phone: 253-535-7231 Office Location: Mortved Library

    Dr. Geoffrey FoyAssociate Provost for Continuing Education Email: foy@plu.edu Phone: 253-535-7231 Office Location: Mortved Library Angenette Pickett CallProgram Manager for Continuing Education Email: apc@plu.edu Phone: 253-535-7063 Office Location: Mortved Library Heather JacobsonAsst Director of International Student Services Email: hjacobson@plu.edu Phone: 253-535-7122 Office Location: International Student Center, Harstad Hall Dr. Mikel EdwardsInstructor and Company Visits Coordinator Email

  •               As one of the annual priorities for the 2023-24 academic year, President’s Council seeks to align available resources in order to in to invest in individual and community well-being. The critical first step was to collect perspectives from faculty and staff in a survey. As a reminder, this...

    Well-being results (2024)       The Wellbeing Improvement Survey for Higher Education Settings (WISHES) was administered to all PLU students for the first time in September 2023. This survey “provides colleges and universities with timely and actionable data to adapt and improve institutional norms, structures, and processes, to enable all students to thrive and flourish.”  2,737 invitations were sent out to all of our undergraduate and graduate students. We received 342 responses, or about 12.5