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  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — Jessica Anderson ’07 is hunkering down at home in Montana with husband Chris, kids Bryer and Jase, and Jethro the dog while working for an EdTech company supporting educators across the country as they transition to distance learning. As…

    practices. However, where it’s different is that we’re now shifting our professional support for leaders, teachers and coaches to helping them get through this immediate shift.” We caught up Anderson, who was named Montana’s Teacher of the Year in 2016, to learn more about how educators, students and parents across the nation are doing during this unprecedented time and to learn more about the challenges they are facing (well beyond some schools simply being closed). PLU: Tell us about what you were

  • Just south of Denver, Colorado, tucked beneath the vast mountain range, lies Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance . Their vision soars high above the Rocky Mountains as they unite communities and ignite a passion for wildlife like never before, relentlessly working to deepen public understanding, resolve…

    subcutaneous fluids to a hawk for the first time! Delivering fluids just beneath the skin like this is a common method for treating dehydration and delivering medications. Please walk us through a typical day at your internship and how your role has evolved. BD: A typical day at my internship begins around 9 a.m. with me doing a walkthrough of the clinic, checking on the welfare of the patients. I then begin preparing and administering morning meals and meds for all of the patients. Around 11 a.m., all

  • Campaign ends, surpasses goal by $22 million A performance in the Studio Theater in Eastvold Hall, which was recently renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. By Greg Brewis The university’s most recent fundraising campaign was launched amid buoyant economic times, in…

    Margaret Greenwood ’74 Lisa (Miles ’84) and Tim ’84 Kittilsby Lisa Kind Korsmo ’87 and John Korsmo ’84 Knut Olson ’90 and Kim Morter Olson ’88 Carol Quigg ’58 Brad ’83 and Danielle ’85 Tilden Dale and Jolita Benson (both ’63) established two endowed chairs, the Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History and the Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education. The Bensons have also been major contributors to many campus projects and programs including endowed support for student

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 10, 2016)- Typically, summer allows college students to take advantage of free time that’s hard to come by during the academic year. But for many Lutes, summer is a time to work hard and continue their vocational endeavors. Students travel, work internships…

    and a community member.” Dela Cruz double majored in history and literature. She also studied away for a January Term in Manchester, England, and a semester in Oaxaca, Mexico. She said she hopes to go to graduate school in a few years to study student affairs. Eventually, she hopes to work at a university in academic advising or leadership, specifically to help students of color and first-generation students. She said he is always thinking about her one wild and precious life, thanks to her time

  • Following Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay about why nobody can seem to agree on what the 2022 adaptation of Persuasion is supposed to do , this essay explores another question: why do we all keep watching Austen film adaptations, even when we don’t like them? The…

    Prejudice, and it seems we haven’t stopped watching Austen since. There is a huge variety in what Austen adaptations look like, although each decade seems to hold onto a unique idea of Austen. Carrie Wittmer of Vulture offers a chronology of Austen adaptations, where she traces the themes explored in different eras. To Wittmer, the 2020s are bringing Austen back into the cinema, a comeback that is taking us away from the superheroes and romcoms of the 2010s. As Voyles demonstrates, the intense criticism

  • The PLU Theatre & Dance Department is lucky to have Amanda Sweger as a faculty member. Amanda has taught at PLU since fall 2012. She focuses on lighting and scenic design and has a professional practice outside the classroom. Continue reading to get to know…

    students do too. We’re able to give excellent theatre education without trapping or abandoning our students. Tell us a few fun experiences, professional or personal, that you’ve had since you began teaching at PLU. One of my students came to observe me while I was doing a lighting design at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. I loved hearing her perspective on the collaboration she witnessed. Recently I did lighting designs at Taproot Theatre Company and the Seattle Public Theatre and both times the

  • Commencement 2009 This year more than 650 students will make up the graduating Class of 2009 at PLU on May 24 at the Tacoma Dome. Here in their own words are a few insights from graduating students about their time at PLU and the next…

    is an important distinction because while students are away from the PLU campus we are required to be active and engaged in the communities that surround us in the world. As stewards of the world, armed with new knowledge about people, places and cultures, that information that we learn is brought in to the classroom as a great tool for discussion and collaborative learning. Taking classes in the liberal arts is a gift—we are required to expand our interdisciplinary knowledge. No PLU graduate

  • The PLU Theatre & Dance Department is lucky to have Amanda Sweger as a faculty member. Amanda has taught at PLU since fall 2012. She focuses on lighting and scenic design and has a professional practice outside the classroom. Continue reading to get to know…

    students do too. We’re able to give excellent theatre education without trapping or abandoning our students. Tell us a few fun experiences, professional or personal, that you’ve had since you began teaching at PLU. One of my students came to observe me while I was doing a lighting design at the Moore Theatre in Seattle. I loved hearing her perspective on the collaboration she witnessed. Recently I did lighting designs at Taproot Theatre Company and the Seattle Public Theatre and both times the

  • Learning perspectives About a dozen students silently sit in a semicircle around a Makah woman, as she shows them how to make a cedar bracelet. Students mimic her as she holds several foot-long strands of cedar bark strung out from her mouth to her hands.…

    understanding of how important it is to us to preserve our culture and we do that in many ways,” she said. Although the PLU program is helpful for outsiders, many of the Makah’s programs are geared toward teaching their own community. From the tangible, like basket weaving, to in-depth storytelling that teaches a lesson, is a lesson unto itself and expresses the rich heritage of the Makah people. That hope is what Huelsbeck tries to teach in the way of voice and authority. Every individual has a voice or an

  • TACOMA, Wash. (July 23, 2015)—During the Aug. 2-12 Rainier Writing Workshop, more than 100 students and faculty will gather at PLU to participate in classes, workshops, readings and other creatively immersive activities. The 10-day workshop, the annual summer residency of Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of…

    has received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in poetry and fiction and in 1978 was selected as a US/UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship to England. He has published two YA novels with Henry Holt, and his novel The Fall of Alice K was published in 2013. His newest book of short-shorts, Ordinary Sins: After Theophrastus, was published in 2014. Heynen lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Saturday, Aug. 8, 7:30 p.m. Kevin Goodan. Goodan’s first collection of poetry, In the Ghost-House Acquainted