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through the Civil Rights movement and attended lunch counter sit-ins. “Before, they just walked down the street to their polling place, and now they have to walk three miles or get a ride just to vote,” Campbell-Harris says. Campbell-Harris’s father’s family is from the South, and clients appreciate that a member of the Voting Rights Project legal team has a connection with the region. When not on the road, Campbell-Harris performs research, writes and attends meetings with partner organizations and

, research and other resources was challenging.    Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. The chronic disorder, which is characterized by unpredictable and unprovoked seizures, doesn’t frequently lead to death. Still, it can cause other health problems — and public perception and treatment of people with epilepsy often create bigger problems than the actual seizures. "I am from a strong link of three. From a chain that continues to grow

initiatives to support and empower low-income, first-generation, undocumented, immigrant, refugee, LGBTQIA and veteran students. For Zeno, the sector may be higher education development, but the mission is equitably and justly transforming systems with care to meet the needs of everyone involved. You have a long track record of building large-scale coalitions, initiatives and public-private partnerships at public research universities. What did you find intriguing about a small Lutheran university in

care about every student and about each of you, they work hard, they are wise and they are very generous. Pause and reflect on the 40,000 PLU graduates who work and serve around the world and who, as our market research indicated again last year, overwhelmingly both respect and love this place. Pause and reflect on the fact that last year alone some 10,000 donors invested in the work you do: Yes, my friends and colleagues, we have been tasked to do important work. It is work grounded in our

to the creatures they study so intimately. The jaguar we fitted with the radio collar will disappear in the biological studies produced from the research. With the data from several collared jaguars, a statistical composite of the jaguar in the area—the jaguar as species—will be constructed. Important information, to be sure. Yet as one researcher told me, studying another tropical species, the composite portrait describes the creature as type, “a platonic animal,” to use her words. Because it

the university, as well as experiential learning, like studying abroad or internships or even applied research,” Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, interim dean of interdisciplinary programs, said. “Some students opt for this because they have a dream job in mind — one that doesn’t fit in a more traditional major.” Every year, one to three PLU students graduate with an individualized major that they designed. Lindhartsen says he found the entire process fairly straightforward as his advisors were always on

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together to explore the theme of Re-forming, as we celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation and honor the core tenets of Lutheran higher education – critical questioning, freedom for expression, foundation in the liberal arts, learning and research within community, intrinsic value of educating the whole person, discerning one’s vocation in the world, and service to the advancement of life, health, and wholeness. Read Previous PLU places in English and Spanish Worlds at Mark O. Hatfield

assess student learning outcomes. A balance between rigorous and realistic expectations must be established, especially when distance learning is planned on short notice. Academic Integrity Research studies on academic integrity usually indicate that cheating online is no more prevalent than cheating in traditional courses. Nevertheless, it is important for instructors to emphasize policies and expectations for academic integrity. Such information should be posted in your syllabus as well as in the

footprints. There was just one problem— the project had not yet begun.  Since video is made up of moving images, the idea is to actually show something happening, but what could the team do when all we had to work with was an idea? We discussed a few well known advertisements, such as the UPS Whiteboard Campaign, “The Story of Stuff,” and “The History of Education” by Lightspeed Systems (see below). After doing this research, our first thought was to use simple animations generated in a motion graphics