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  • Presidential Commission for Innovation and Change update – The Presidential Commission for Innovatio https://www.plu.edu/innovation-change/2019/10/14/update-oct-14/

    community our President envisions, our commission’s goal is to develop ideas and priorities that position PLU for long-term financial health to deliver our mission. These are commitments that will guide our process and work: Be authentic to Pacific Lutheran University’s history, culture, and mission. Honor Pacific Lutheran University’s governance systems and processes. Use a broadly inclusive process that embraces Pacific Lutheran University’s collective wisdom, creativity, and experience. Develop

  • Cover Story ‹ Resolute Online: Winter 2016 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2016/what-was-it-like/

    of quota. Shelondra Harris ’17: Black Student Union formed (again) in order to unite black students and other ethnicities through organization of events that emphasize the history, culture, existence and influence of such individuals. BSU is a space for my race. What were/are some of the club’s challenges? Bruce Driver ’78: Trying to have the meetings and consistently have people come to the meetings. Rodreshia Dunbar ’01: I don’t think we had challenges in the beginning. There was so much

  • 2017 Dean’s Award for Excellence Recipients Announced – Acclaim 2017-18 https://www.plu.edu/acclaim/2017-18/01/18/soac-deans-award/

    events and developing strategies to raise visibility. Shelondra Harris: BA in Communication Shelondra has been the driving force to reinvigorate PLU’s Black Student Union. She has led a group of current students to realize the positive benefits of this powerful student organization at a pivotal time in our nation’s history. Shelondra, who served as President of this organization, brought it back to life by bringing her unparalleled skills of strategic communication into play. She designed and

  • Class of 1973 Class Gift https://www.plu.edu/homecoming/class-gift/

    Center for Vocation. In honor of our 50th reunion, we invite you to join us as classmates to invest in the futures and vocational discernment of all those who come through PLU. As a member of the Class of 1973, you understand the seriousness of purpose and desire to live a life of deeper meaning and contribution. We graduated from PLU during a highly conflicted time in U.S. history. Within this context, we made decisions about our future career paths, many of us feeling called to make an impact on

  • Notes on Design-Centered Innovation at Pacific Lutheran University https://www.plu.edu/innovation-studies/news/notes-on-design-centered-innovation-at-pacific-lutheran-university/

    campus for both his passion for student learning and also his knack for teaching design principles to all students, including those lucky enough to be Design majors in the B.F.A. program. Avila’s influence on PLU’s Innovation Studies program is significant. Because of his guidance, all students working toward the Innovation Studies minor must develop essential skills in either Communications or Design, in addition to the essential coursework that they take in business, economics, history, and ethics

  • Citing Sources https://www.plu.edu/library/research/research-resources/citing-sources/

    arguments being made.Chicago (used by History, Religion, Social Sciences, etc.)Chicago Manual of Style: RR Z253.U69 2017 (Located by the library help desk.) Chicago Style Resources: CMOS: Author-Date: Sample Citations CMOS: Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations Published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago style comes in two varieties: Notes and Bibliography: This variation is used in fields like history, religion, and arts. Unlike MLA or APA, this variation does not use in-text citations

  • Our Changing Face https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2009/12/01/our-changing-face/

    , as the old joke goes, the extent of diversity on campus, was Swedes, Danes and Norwegians. But as the university began to grow, both in student population and in recognition, the make-up of the student population began to change. A lot of this has to do with PLU’s history. PLU always had an international focus inasmuch as it was very connected to Norway. By the late ’70s, things were beginning to fundamentally change – PLU was becoming more globally focused. By the early ’80s, according to Phil

  • Survivor accounts paint picture, provide lessons https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2010/03/22/survivor-accounts-paint-picture-provide-lessons/

    degrees of separation from one person. “You know a lot more people than you think, and can impact,” Waller said. The Third Annual Holocaust Conference was kicked off Thursday night by an examination of the slave labor camps the Germans set up around Poland and Germany to power their war machine. Prof. Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and a former PLU professor who taught in the university’s history department for 25

  • Composing for the cannery: of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/04/01/composing-for-the-cannery-of-boxcars-rhinos-and-grapes/

    , a sublime conclusion to a sometimes meditative, oftentimes unsteady, and always worthwhile leave of absence. Profile Areas of expertise Classical music composition Classical music history and theory World music traditions (Chinese, Irish, and Trinidadian in particular) Chinese history and culture Educational study tours in China Education D.M.A, University of Michigan M.M., University of Michigan B.A. and B.M., University of Washington Returning to the states with the beginning of Youtz’ exotic

  • Music professor Gina Gillie discussed her new composition and short film https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2022/11/21/gina-gillie/

    musical medium you’re interested in? I’ve always loved film scores. My favorite composer of all time is John Williams. I really do like the idea of film scoring, and I’ve taught a couple of classes on the history of the subject. This project was unique in that I wrote the music before the film ever came to be. It was a reverse process, but just because I made it that way. Dr. Gina Gillie is a Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches horn, composition, aural skills, music