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  • Pacific Lutheran University was named a winner in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Taking Action: COVID-19 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Challenge. PLU received a $15,000 prize for its work in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.…

    Fort Lewis College in Colorado.The PLUS Year supports students affected by the pandemic by allowing them to delay some of their courses, labs, and experiential learning opportunities by providing them with up to two additional semesters of coursework tuition-free. The PLU Fixed Tuition Guarantee Program ensures tuition for the 2022-2023 incoming class of first-year and transfer students remains the same throughout their undergraduate years, eliminating the passage of the rising cost of tuition to

  • Play the University Golf Course this summer! By Steve Hansen Summer is always a great time to play the PLU University Golf Course. And this summer may be the best time of all – because it will also be the last. Around October 31, 2011,…

    available for practice and competition in soccer, football, and lacrosse. They will also serve club sports, intramurals, academic activity courses and outdoor recreation, including use by the Parkland community. Indeed, the closing of the course is just the first of many exciting new developments designed to meet the athletic and recreational needs of the PLU and Parkland community. But until then? Time to hit the links! Read Previous 13th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Read Next Flurry of work continues

  • Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) Are you interested in pursuing a career in medicine, dentistry, or public health?  If so, please consider applying to the SHPEP at the University of Washington. SHPEP is a free six–week academic enrichment program with a goal of increasing…

    the health professions. SHPEP at the UW has had a very long and successful track record of helping thousands of students enter and graduate from health professions school. Using a cohort approach, the program prepares students for academic success in their undergraduate and pre-professional studies by offering enrichment courses in biology, chemistry, biostatistics and population health. The program also focuses on the personal and professional development of participants by engaging them in

  • When Matthew Conover ’19 was a student at PLU, he recalls someone telling him there were two types of software engineers: the ones who chose to chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice. “I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said.…

    -computer science courses I took at PLU. Physics, for instance, is an amazing way to learn problem solving. I find myself using many of the soft skills from the humanities courses as I am regularly trying to persuade people of my position’s correctness or trying to better communicate the intricacies of my solutions. While at PLU, you had the opportunity to study away. How was that experience? I spent the fall term of my fourth year at King’s College London. I also spent J-Term my second year in

  • Exchange program enriches campus living and learning Six years ago, Candice Hughes ’08 realized that, despite her ambition, college just wasn’t in the cards. As consolation, the Trinidad and Tobago native dreamed of figuring out a way to go back to school part-time in a…

    for a semester of study on the Caribbean island nation, located just off the coast of Venezuela. In 2004, the program sought three Trinidadian students to study alongside PLU students in PLU-designed courses and at the University of the West Indies. “Our students were going down there, having a rich experience and gaining so much, but we weren’t really giving back to Trinidad,” explained English professor Barbara Temple-Thurston, founder and director of the program. “I thought it would be lovely

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 13, 2017)- “We made a magazine!” Taryn Collis exclaimed to a group of Pacific Lutheran University students and several inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. “It’s impressive,” continued Collis, an actor and educator with Seattle-based Freehold Theatre Lab Studio. “Everybody…

    to experience so as to ask big questions about power, supremacy, agency and collective liberation.” Samantha, an inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women, reads a copy of The Matrix during a meeting with PLU students on Friday, April 21, 2017. (Photo by John Froschauer) Smith has taught at WCCW for two years as part of the Freedom Education Project of Puget Sound, which offers high-level college courses for inmates. She teaches two courses at the jail: an introduction to gender studies

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March. 19, 2020) — Switching a campus-based curriculum to a distance-learning model mid-semester in the face of a pandemic is no easy feat. Luckily, PLU professor of music Gregory Youtz and his faculty peers have proved to be up for the challenge. Under…

    professor of music Gregory Youtz and his faculty peers have proved to be up for the challenge.Under the recommendations of public health professionals and the guidance of the governor’s office during the COVID-19 pandemic, PLU made the decision on March 7 to transition Spring semester courses from the traditional classroom setting to a remote learning format. We discussed with Youtz the impact that decision has had on his Class Composition MUSI 326 course, how he’s adapted his teachings to meet this new

  • Hard work pays off. Networking is key. Relationships are everything.  While this advice might sound cliché, people give it often, and for good reason. Just ask Pacific Lutheran University’s Keegan Dolan ’22.  Dolan, a double major in philosophy and economics , is in the midst…

    at whatever I do.”  Dolan said his PLU classroom experiences have helped him in his internship, too.  “Many of the basic concepts that we learn in our undergraduate economics classes are used in the work that we do at Analysis Group. In many ways, my experience at AG has bridged the gap between theory and practice; we consistently apply economic concepts to real-world problems,” Dolan said.  His philosophy courses also have come into play.  “All the reading and writing that I’ve done in my

  • When Matthew Conover ’19 was a student at PLU, he recalls someone telling him there were two types of software engineers: the ones who chose to chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice. “I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said.…

    couple of topics on my resume like “blockchain” and “machine learning” which have absolutely helped me. My capstone project, a blockchain game engine, put me in a really good position when Wiser started on event sourcing since it meant I had the most experience in the concept. It was not why they hired me, but it came in very handy. I also benefited from the non-computer science courses I took at PLU. Physics, for instance, is an amazing way to learn problem solving. I find myself using many of the

  • As you know, PLU went through a difficult process of prioritization this year, responding to lower enrollments and seeking to proactively budget for a sustainable future rather than wait until we reached emergency conditions. This led to hard conversations and hard choices, ultimately made by…

    complementary courses that integrate the study of the Ancient World into other programs. They redesigned the way they taught language to create an innovative and intensive approach that has students reading complicated and historically important texts in their first semester studying Greek and Latin.  They developed a course on digital literacies, teaching their majors how to combine the skills of careful reading, interpretation, and critical thinking with practical work in web design and communication