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Team All-Conference selection and a consensus All-American as a senior in 2003. Carlson led the nation in forced fumbles as a senior, earning NWC Defensive Player of the Year and NCAA West Region Defensive Player of the Year honors. Carlson closed his career second on the all-time sacks list with 36 and was the PLU Male Athlete of the Year as a senior. Carlson helped the Lutes win 28 games on the gridiron, earning a conference title in 2001 and making two trips to the NCAA Tournament. Chad Barnett

contribution. All across the United States – in classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and campus communities – international students make significant contributions to the quality of American academic life. Therefore, international education has become a proud U.S. tradition in colleges and universities through out our country. NAFSA is an organization of individuals worldwide advancing international education and exchange. NAFSA serves its members, their institutions and organizations, and others engaged

Jane Wong Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC This event is open to the campus community for in-person, socially distanced attendance. Jane Wong is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James Books, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). Her poems and essays can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, and Ecotone. A

2017. Her many honors include a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. She teaches

-length collection, Night Angler (BOA Editions), appears in Spring 2019. Davis’s honors include the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. He has recent work published or forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, and Ploughshares. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis serves as the

Vermont College of the Fine Arts, and is an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at the Breadloaf Writers Conference and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. In addition to teaching in The Rainier Writing Workshop, Jennifer teaches in the IAIA MFA Creative Writing Program and currently

of choral music published by Morningstar Music Publishers. Cherwien is a founding member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians and has served in its leadership in a variety of capacities, including as National President. He is a member of the American Choral Director’s Association, American Guild of Organists, Chorus America, and Choristers Guild. NLCA BioCherwien holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ performance and the Master of Arts degree in Theory and Composition from

2020-2021 PLU by the numbers Enrollment total: 2,907 12.5% graduate students 64.5% female, 34.7% male, 0.1% other gender expression, 0.7% not reported 33.3% of undergraduates live in residence halls, 66.7% live off campus/commute (undergraduate only) 1.7% are international, representing 17 countries 41% are students of color Asian: 10.7% Black or African American: 4.3% Hispanic: 13% Native American or Alaska Native: 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 1.3% Multiracial: 10.6% Not reported

Jake Taylor Jake learning some Tzotzil from children in Chiapas, Mexico PLU Class of 2009/2010 Spanish and Global Studies Double Major Studied away in Oaxaca, Mexico; Wang Grant in Ecuador Completed Peace Corps in Panama Now working on Masters in Latin American Studies in the Netherlands I’m currently enrolled in a MA Latin American studies program with public policy emphasis at Leiden University here in the Netherlands. It’s the only program in Europe outside of Spain offered entirely in

Course Descriptions POLS 151 : American Government - ES A survey of the constitutional foundations of the American political system and of institutions, processes, and practices relating to participation, decision-making, and public policy in American national government. (4) POLS 231 : Current International Issues - ES, GE A survey course in international relations with emphasis on current events. (4) POLS 251 : Introduction to Political Science This course is designed for political science