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Sunshine Private School’s All Girl Marimba Band and the PLU Percussion Ensemble. Once back at PLU, she created a multimedia exhibit featuring music and video from the marimba band and local batik art masks. Later that year, in October, the Percussion Ensemble played some of the Sunshine marimba band’s songs at its fall concert. When PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education told her about the Fulbright program in 2021, Larios saw the grant as a way to finish what she started — both with her research and

April 25, 2008 AAUP president discusses faculty leadership Campus Voice spoke with Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, prior to his campus address in April. The interview has been edited for length. Campus Voice: What is the role of the president of the American Association of University Professors? Cary Nelson: First of all it is to be a spokesperson for the organization. I’d been writing about higher education policies for about 20 years before I

emphasizes, above all, listening and dialogue. – Carmiña Palerm Carmiña Palerm’s is an assistant professor of Spanish at PLU. PART TWO Pacific Lutheran University encourages its students to become global citizens, priding itself on offering a global education with programs on all seven continents. In its most honorable presentation, this international perspective inspires students to think beyond themselves as Americans, to look at how the American way of life impacts other cultures and countries. In its

. Students hear and learn from their teachers, but hearing the message of how important education is coming from a young adult is priceless, Mondragon said.”Some students right away get it, others it’s going to take a lot of time and failures to get there,” he said. Many students from Keithley walk through the PLU campus everyday, Bullock said. In many instances PLU students may not see those middle school students with a positive light, she said. But by connecting with the school there can be a positive

. Students hear and learn from their teachers, but hearing the message of how important education is coming from a young adult is priceless, Mondragon said.”Some students right away get it, others it’s going to take a lot of time and failures to get there,” he said. Many students from Keithley walk through the PLU campus everyday, Bullock said. In many instances PLU students may not see those middle school students with a positive light, she said. But by connecting with the school there can be a positive

hard to know when somebody is missing class, or sleeping through exams, or struggling in ways Mitchell doesn’t see. Beginning this academic year, PLU launched the Student Care Network, a system that’s giving Mitchell more information about her residents who may need extra care. The Student Care Network, or SCN, is an online case-management system designed to connect students to resources, help them navigate higher education and increase care for Lutes across campus. The system uses care forms

Lutheran University history professor and the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, says. “It’s filthy, violent, degrading, and the worst of humanity.” Yet Griech-Polelle says the study and discussion of these atrocities are crucial to stopping them in the future.PLU was the first university in the Pacific Northwest to offer a minor in Holocaust and genocide studies, beginning in 2014. It also hosts the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. For many PLU students, exploration and

clinic, and middle school health education center. She also used this time to learn about Mexican culture, food, values, beliefs, and herbal and traditional medicine. “Sometimes people have no water or seem to have little, but they’re so grateful for life,” she says. “It was a very humbling experience.” After graduation, Surla is going to work at MultiCare Good Samaritan Emergency in Parkland. She will also be working part-time at the Pierce County jail. In these roles, she plans to enhance her hands

applies to articles of faith that are secular as well as sacred, and to those which are others’ as well as our own. Without this ability we remain, like Jacob Marley, shackled to a version of the past and doomed to drag its chains into our future, pausing here and there to shake them angrily at others and at the world around us.These two orientations for language study, one future-present and the other past-present, are both crucial and distinctive in Lutheran Higher Education. And you can see them at

them.While the idea of approaching a faculty member for some one-on-one time can be intimidating, the benefits of forming those relationships make it worth getting outside your comfort zone. Pacific Lutheran University’s professors know students may feel uncomfortable about dropping by their offices, so many of them go out of their way to make those spaces as welcoming as possible to help put those students at ease. Jan Lewis, an education professor and the associate provost for undergrad programs, has a