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staff and community members, readings and reflections, develop an understanding of the meaning of service in another culture and deepen one's own ethic of meaningful service. (4) SOCW 350 : Social Policy II: Social Policy Analysis Students develop legislative policy practice and advocacy skills, and examine the impact of policy implementation, administration, and governmental structure on services to vulnerable populations. Critical thinking is used to analyze contemporary global and local policy in
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Disabilities and Applied Behavior Analysis from UW in 2009. She moved from the classroom into a specialist position in 2004 and coordinated the autism programs in Tacoma Public Schools for 7 years. She left in 2010 to join the University of Washington, Tacoma as a full time lecturer where she coordinated the Teacher Certification Program. She joined PLU in 2012 as an assistant professor. When she isn’t working, she is busy chasing after three children and working in the garden. Dr. Tucker works primarily
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, “global health activities” were responsible for creating nearly 44,000 jobs and generating $4.1 billion in “business activity” in the state. Let’s leave aside for the moment the question of whether we should even be trying to figure out how much money we can make by helping the world’s poorest. Let us just consider how this attempt to quantify global health in terms of the regional economy altered its meaning. The economic impacts were arrived at by virtue of incorporating into the analysis some
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Archives at PLU White’s analysis of historians and philosophers of the nineteenth century argues that their attempts to attain historical truth have been influenced by strategies of “emplotment” (structures of narrative), ideology (political beliefs), patterns of formal argument (founded upon various epistemological commitments), and styles of “tropic configuration” (different ways of giving order to our experience of the world at a preconceptual level). This intricate and difficult volume has
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Hometown: El Centro, CA Selected accomplishments: Graduation Honors (cum laude); Plant Genome Research Program summer research internship, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University; student worker, Quigg Greenhouse Post-graduation plans: Attending an interdisciplinary PhD program in plant science and data science at the University of Arizona’s School of Plant Sciences Emmanuel Gonzalez may be an accomplished young scientist on track for an impressive research career, but as a high school student, he
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international students, and more students of color… all supported by more equitable and accessible scholarships like Act Six and the 253 Scholarship. PLU is 5th in the nation of small schools to produce Peace Corps Volunteers thanks a lot to our Peace Corps Prep program. PLU is preparing its students for lives of multidisciplinary innovation with programs like Data Science and all of our interdisciplinary majors and minors. Lutes are active in this community, organizing events to Get Out the Vote, engage in
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development, I find myself returning to the theories and data that I encountered during that semester in Norway, as well as the lessons I learned about conducting field research. Though I’ve been moving around a lot over the past few years, I carry these memories, relationships and experiences with me wherever I go. Whether or not they shifted the course of my current trajectory is hard to determine, but they have all made my life richer, and I can’t wait to return to Norway – hopefully in the near future
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specific expressions of the Christian religion, universal and particular. Through analysis of primary and secondary source materials, students identify distinct Christian responses to physical, mental, and spiritual anguish as well as idiosyncrasies unique to social groups that identify as Christian. Students identify how historical context shapes Christian interpretations of health and well-being. (4) RELI 230 : Religion and Culture - RL, VW, GE Special topics course. Explores the interrelation and
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bring a rich, lively analysis to bear grounded in the trio’s own personal experiences and expertise. Other Episodes+ In the podcast’s third episode, Hambrick talks with noted Trinidadian author Earl Lovelace, PLU English professor Barbara Temple-Thurston and dCenter alum Shelondra Harris ’17 about the university’s Trinidad and Tobago exchange program. The conversation covers PLU’s 25-year history with the twin-island republic, Harris’ experiences when she took part in the program and the Diversity
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success. An advanced data system and a strong project management office insures transparency regarding that progress. All results are posted on the Tacoma Public School website. As Carla often says, “What gets measured gets done.” That strategic work has led to a growing number of unique partnerships, which have generated positive community support and results for the Tacoma school children. For example, a partnership with the Tacoma Housing Authority has provided housing vouchers for families of
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