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Andy Foltz Associate Athletic Director for Facilities and Operations Phone: 253-535-8799 Email: foltzae@plu.edu Professional Biography Education M.Ed, University of Washington, 2009 B.S., Western Washington University, 2007 Biography Andy Foltz joined the PLU athletics staff in December of 2014 as the women’s rowing coach. Foltz was elevated to Assistant Athletic Director in 2018 in addition to his coaching duties before moving into a full-time admin role as the Assistant Athletic Director for
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Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and
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, Frøydis Ree Wekre at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. As a teacher, Danielle has taught private lessons on both horn and piano for over 26 years through UPS Community Music, Federal Way School of Music and through a private studio. She has spent over 22 years as Director of Music Ministry at various Lutheran churches where she plans music and leads the choirs (instrumental and vocal, all ages). Danielle is also adjunct faculty at Tacoma Community College where she has taught Music in the
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History and literature senior aspires to be a lifelong learner Kathryn Einan ’22 is a self-proclaimed “book nerd.” She is a triple major in Literature, History and Nordic Studies with a minor in Chinese. She has a deep love of learning and hopes to become a teacher one day. “There are so many interesting things… May 10, 2022 AcademicsCurrent StudentsEnglishHistoryLiterature
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corresponding question or set of questions to address in a 2,000 or more word essay. Selected bibliography: Barutciski, M. “Lessons from the Kosovo Refugee Crisis: Innovations in Protection and Burden-sharing. “Journal of Refugee Studies 14, no. 2 (2001). Betts, Alexander and Loescher, Gil. Refugees in International Relations. WileyBlackwell, 2011. Chimni, B.S. (2009) ‘The Birth of a ‘‘Discipline’’: From Refugee to Forced Migration Studies’. Journal of Refugee Studies 22(1): 11–29. Gottwald, Martin
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, generous, and humane work at PLU. Deeply committed to people, to the arts, and to social justice, Tom’s work centers on the relationships among beauty, connection, and care. “[B]eauty is good for us—by which I mean it makes us better people,” he writes. “Experiences of beauty seem to me the rare moments when we actually feel something like grace, moments when we can seem connected to other things and times and states of being.” Those moments of grace have sounded through all parts of Tom’s life—in
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September 1, 2009 9 a.m. – Assistant Principal Heinen’s office Tad Heinen ’96 spends plenty of his time disciplining students. That’s part of the job. Not the part he enjoys, but he sees himself as what troubled students need to get through another year. Although many students have heard his message over and over again, for many, it just hasn’t clicked yet.“We don’t want you to go down the wrong path,” he tells those students. In his office, Heinen tries to display pieces of his personality
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December 1, 2009 Listen “I keep my mind open to a number of possibilities when solving problems, and look in all directions for new ideas and consider the wisdom of multiple disciplines.”When Joyce Barr ’76 selected PLU because it offered the best financial aid package, she probably never figured it would lead to a career as a foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State, let alone a post as U.S. ambassador to Namibia. Currently, she is the executive director of East Asian and
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December 1, 2009 Volunteer “Dropping people off at the hospital and that being the end of my contact with them just wasn’t fulfilling. I wanted to know how they did.”Guy Jensen ’08 saw the chance to train as a volunteer emergency medical technician as an opportunity to serve his rural Northwest Idaho community, and get precious job skills to boot. He took classes at the state fire academy. He volunteered at a medical clinic that treats migrant workers. He was often first on the scene in an
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and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the President’s Office, Provost Office, Women’s & Gender Studies Program, History Department, Campus Ministry, Lutheran Studies, Languages & Literatures Department, Dean of Inclusive Excellence, Immanuel Presbyterian Church (North Tacoma), and Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church (Tacoma).Previous Knutson Lecture Scholars 2006 Martin E. Marty 2007 John Pahl 2008 Susan Ross 2009 John Dominic Crossan 2010 Mark Brocker 2011 Marcus J. Borg 2012 Robert N
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