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  • students’ working relationship with faculty members helps students become entrenched in their studies. Through student-faculty research, students incorporate their own experiences with academia in a way that Lewis says improves critical thinking, writing and understanding of students’ subjects of interest. Cynthia Waite '20 Waite’s project, a study of faculty-student mentoring, caught the spirit of the day. Psychology Professor Wendelyn Shore, an expert on the topic, was Waite’s mentor, and was

  • required of majors. Discussion of common readings and a major research and writing project with public presentation around the student's area of interest. Does not fulfill the Religion GenEd requirement and does not count toward the minor. (4)

  • Reappraising the Rift Between Faith and Reason: Could Science Help Us Think About Religion? Posted by: alex.reed / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Keith J. CooperOriginally published in 1991Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t have meant them if he had. They are simply a misquotation.  In

  • , 2015 I was told that PLU [is] really concerned about students’ academic progress and I can learn a lot here. PLU has an Engineering 3-2 program, which is a really good opportunity for international student, because if I can study both [on the] West Coast and East Coast, I will have a better understanding about the U.S. society. Xiabing YangBusiness, 2010 Dear Mr. Wang & Future Lutes, I am writing this to let you folks know I am doing extremely well at PLU. Here are some ideas and personal

  • decision in writing to the president of the university, the faculty secretary, and the party or parties responsible for referral of the case. The chair of the Governance Committee shall serve on the Conciliation Committee in accordance with the Bylaws, Article VI, Section 1.B. To make a written report to the faculty at least once a year. The chair of the committee shall file a record of the committee’s activities in duplicate reports—one with the faculty secretary and one with the president of the

  • meaning of lives that, to perpetrators and many observers, appeared meaningless. Logic is meant to coerce. Logical images of the universe preclude any possible critique of their contents, at least when done right. Max Horkheimer, himself a Jewish academic who fled the Nazi Germany, writing soon after the Second World War and the genocide of Jewish Europeans pointed out as much: “the philosophical systems of objective reason [of the modern world] implied the conviction of an all-embracing or

  • meaning of lives that, to perpetrators and many observers, appeared meaningless. Logic is meant to coerce. Logical images of the universe preclude any possible critique of their contents, at least when done right. Max Horkheimer, himself a Jewish academic who fled the Nazi Germany, writing soon after the Second World War and the genocide of Jewish Europeans pointed out as much: “the philosophical systems of objective reason [of the modern world] implied the conviction of an all-embracing or

  • Saxifrage: Emily Fisher, Eleora Hughes, and Abbie Hughes. We discuss the journal’s history, a brief history of literary journals at universities, the importance of a writing community at the university level, and the types of submissions that Saxifrage accepts. Elijah Noel W. PaezEnvironmental StudiesBird Watching Goes Both Ways: Developing Critical Animal Pedagogy and Multispecies Worlding in Birding Practice Faculty Mentor: Nicole Juliano, Center for Diversity, Justice & Sustainability "Flourishing

  • in lecture in context of communication theory. In this course, I was able to view it from the context of English critical theory; engaging more with the philosophical and historical lens of feminist and queer perspectives than I had previously. As we read and discussed these in the course, I was also writing analyses of television episodes and entire films. This puts me into the context of communication (Media Studies). I was able to use the theory that I was learning from reading to draw my own

  • of students across the campus, and helping to ensure that PLU graduates will continue to compete with great success. So I was not surprised, but very, very happy this past Sunday evening, to receive  Director of Assessment, Karen McConnell’s first report on the results of the Collegiate Learning Assessment.  Last year 153 colleges and universities, including PLU, asked both first year and senior students to complete this exam that evaluates writing, critical thinking, problem solving and