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  • When we first catch up with environmental advocate Andrew Schwartz ‘07, he’s preparing for a massive road trip with his wife, Emily, and 8-month-old daughter, Maja. They’re headed east to visit Emily’s family in Illinois. But the 36-year-old Schwartz’s life has also been a journey,…

    Justice at PLU teaches students to understand the social and structural context of our human experience. Our classes highlight how inequalities in American Society impact individual opportunities, such as access to housing, bail, healthcare, or legal representation. Our programs in sociology and criminal justice provide unique opportunities for independent research, faculty mentorship, and career exploration.Work with Meaning As the director of sustainability and global affairs at CEE, Schwartz runs

  • In 1997, Brian Bannon was a PLU senior. An exemplary student, he wrote for The Mast, and was a double major researching social justice through the lens of queer rights movements. One afternoon, Bannon found himself in the office of history professor Beth Kraig, discussing…

    exactly excite him. Kraig, an American history scholar, explained how libraries have been on the forefront of social justice and play a key role in providing access to knowledge that belongs to everyone. Kraig shared how, especially early in U.S. history, private libraries represented wealth and power and exclusion, preventing most Americans from accessing valuable sources of knowledge and information. The innovation of public libraries, she said, was foundational to the democratization of education

  • Dr. Charles Bergman begins his phased retirement in Summer 2015 after thirty-eight unusually interesting and accomplished years at PLU.

    – Environmental Literature, English Renaissance Literature, American Environmental Writing, etc.  He was the founding director of the Writing Center and directed the First-Year Experience Program of the core curriculum.  In 2004-2006, at a particularly delicate period of core curriculum revision, he served as Chair of the University Faculty. We await Dr. Bergman’s next book (provisional title:  Parrot, Speak) to marvel once more at the fertile imagination, empathy, and finesse he brings to discerning what’s

  • LUTE Welcome Week - New Student Orientation is an exciting series of experiences designed to welcome new students to PLU’s vibrant community and allow you to get connected, to be involved and to

    this start of the school year meet and greet.Monday, 9/16/243:00PM-4:30PMAUC 133 Native American & Alaska Native Meet & Greet Welcome to the start of the 2024-2025 academic year! PLU’s Native American & Alaska Native students, faculty, staff, and alumni are invited to connect at this start of the school year meet and greet.Tuesday, 9/17/243:30PM-4:30PMKreidler Lounge Featured Speaker: Dr. Jason Kilmer REQUIRED for all new Lutes! “Beer Goggles” to Blackouts, “the Munchies” to Memory Effects: The

  • By the time she earned the university’s highest degree, she left with more than a shiny new title. The nurse practitioner for Providence Medical Group at Hawks Prairie Internal Medicine in Lacey,

    accepted for publication in The American Journal of Family Therapy. Ward’s original research was published in 2010. He said one fundamental role of a therapist is to build hope, or a client’s belief and feeling that a goal is attainable. The key is moving the client from a place of despair to a place of hope through sustained therapy sessions, he said. Read More About Ward's ResearchMFA New Writer In-ResidenceRigoberto González joined the MFA program in 2017 as an inaugural Stan Rubin Distinguished

  • Capstone Title: “Leaving it Open”

    : The novels Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal address female duties through characters living in restrictive marital structures and how they work to fight against societal norms to protect and gain their agency. Soniah Kamal’s Lady and Alys Binat are retellings of Lydia and Elizabeth Bennett that show us how Austen’s concerns in the 19th century are still alive and well in 21st-century Pakistani American culture. I examine the behavior of Lady and Alys around

  • Barr reflects on her PLU education, work overseas Career diplomat Joyce Barr ’76 spoke to the Class of 2008 and their families during Spring Commencement on May 25 at the Tacoma Dome. The following is the text of her speech: Chair Gomulkiewicz, President Anderson, Provost…

    best that people can give. The Foreign Service: Excitement & Enlightenment Since my graduation from PLU, I have spent most of my career working for the Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. It has been exciting, enlightening and at times enormously difficult but I have found it to be not only extremely satisfying but a lot of fun! The State Department is looking for intelligent, well educated, and highly motivated people like you to promote and protect American interests abroad. The U.S

  • PLU President Allan Belton is a morning person. He’s frequently among the first employees to arrive at the Hauge Administration Building, but not before his morning cup of joe. His favorite coffee stand is on South Tacoma Way, the seven-mile arterial that is the economic…

    communities share an origin story. When PLU was established in a forest south of Tacoma 140 years ago, school employees and their families built many of the first houses and businesses in Parkland.As the decades passed, Pierce County’s population boomed, Tacoma’s urban footprint grew beyond the city’s borders, and Parkland transformed from a secluded, predominantly European-American neighborhood to a dense and richly diverse suburban community. PLU students have always been active in the Parkland

  • President’s Remarks Good morning!  I’m delighted to welcome you all to the 2015 University Convocation!

    Forces.  My father had helped found the Army Community Service, which included many resources for combating racism and helping the Armed Forces become the first major American institution to desegregate.And my father, with my mother’s important help, founded the Defense Race Relations Institute to train professionals to deal with racism and bias.  As a child, I remember protesters waving the Confederate flag and spitting invective at my parents and their coworkers. The murders in Charleston happened

  • The traditional undergraduate program is designed for students who do not hold licensure in practical or registered nursing. The L.P.N. to B.S.N.

    of Nursing is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the National League for Nursing (NLN). Washington State Approval The School of Nursing is approved by the Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. Accreditation The BSN program is accredited and approved by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org) and Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. High School Preparation Applicants are