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colleges, is making $240,000 available to Yakima area students to attend PLU. The deadline to apply for free is December 1. “As someone who grew up in the Yakima Valley, I know firsthand that community is full of young people who are passionate about learning, justice, and equity, and who are eager to make a positive difference,” said PLU President Allan Belton, himself a first-generation college student. “The expansion of the Act Six Scholarship to that region represents an invaluable financial and
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analytics, creative corporate brand development, and digital and social marketing.“Moving the program online allows students outside of the PLU commute range to benefit from world-class faculty who seek to prepare our MSMA students for rewarding careers in a rapidly growing professional field,” Mark Mulder, dean of the School of Business. “So whether a student lives in Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, or Bozeman, Montana, the online program allows us to offer a unique learning opportunity.” This is the
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a lack of trees, so increasing greenery in underserved areas is a social justice issue.” The students have been working with the Tree Foundation for the past year, learning how tree coverage in urban areas can combat climate change. “Our generation is tasked with the mending of the earth in many different ways due to climate change,” psychology major Todorov said. “Our only power is knowledge and understanding of our local communities, because only at that level can we make dents in the
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Undergraduate Programs at PLU The Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs are designed for students who are not licensed nurses. We offer a traditional BSN located at PLU’s main campus in Tacoma, and the Accelerated BSN program in Lynnwood for students with a minimum of 60 non-nursing college credits . You will find a learning environment where students work with outstanding faculty and staff to gain knowledge and skills, share professional experiences with expert clinical preceptors, and
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. Accolades Diversity Advocate Award (PLU Diversity Center), 2004 Winner, American Society for Engineering Education Best Research Presentation Competition, NASA Langley Research Center, 2001 PLU Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Teaching Award, 2000 Cornell University Clark Teaching Award, 1992 Department of Education Fellowship, 1992-1994 History paper published in the Harvard College Forum (The Academic Review), Volume 5, 1989 Professional Memberships/Organizations American Physical Society
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undergraduate GPA, GPA in the 10 required prerequisite courses, and GPA in the last 60 credits taken. PNWU-SOT will also waive the $50 application fee for these PLU applicants.Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT)Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences DPT program’s curriculum emphasizes a rural-focused curriculum consisting of didactics, labs, simulated experiential learning, full-time clinical experiences, community-based service-learning projects, and a culminating capstone project. Students have an
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program. Students learned about the editorial process from both sides, as Ligon compared the experience of having his work edited, with serving as editor for others’ fiction. Since there are few recent textbooks about editing, Ligon’s visit offered a unique learning experience. For Introduction to Writing Poetry and Fiction, also in Spring 2016, my students read Arisa White’s poetry collection Hurrah’s Nest (Virtual Arts Collective, 2012). We spoke with Arisa White from her writer’s studio in Oakland
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students to become Licensed Independent Clinical Social Workers for careers related to physical and behavioral health. With a comprehensive curriculum, experiential learning opportunities and a diverse range of specializations, the program shapes compassionate leaders who are well-versed in the complexities of social work. The demand for social workers, especially those with master’s-level qualifications, is on the rise, especially in health and behavioral healthcare settings, where they serve
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interdisciplinary perspective. This academic year, students in two upper-division German courses have had particularly focused opportunities to engage the German humanities tradition. For example, in the first of the program’s two-part cultural history sequence (German 411), students spent fall semester learning about literature, art, architecture, philosophy, and religion from the earliest records of German civilization (first century C.E.) through the Baroque period (17th century). Students read and re
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award-winning MediaLab (such as the Emmy-nominated “Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers”), mapping and preserving records of the genocide of indigenous people in Guatemala, and studying the spiritual lives of ultra marathon runners. In each of these cases, PLU professors teach through their scholarship and creative work. Assisting a professor with research is “learning by doing” at its finest. Student-faculty research at PLU also refers to the projects students initiate themselves
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