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students following a strong recommendation from the university’s Admission and Retention of Students (ARTS) Committee.These new procedures allow prospective students to choose whether to provide standardized testing scores as part of the application process, and will be put into effect in time for the incoming Fall 2019 class.“Going test optional means PLU is taking a giant step toward leveling the playing field for applicants, living our mission by working to ensure that a college education is

interdependent with the well-being of those around them and also with their environment. How have you approached your recent efforts to help retention at PLU?I think of retention work as harm reduction. It’s thinking about how I can create, co-create, or positively influence policy changes and new efforts that will mitigate harm, particularly for kids of color. We’ve got to do less harm. Especially to Black, Latinx and other groups for whom PLU — and higher education across the country — was not designed

fiscal sustainability and resource optimization. Though it wasn’t lost on him that tropes from the banking world had seemingly followed him to PLU. “In higher education, there was a lot of ‘We’ve always done it that way,’ ‘It will take too long,’ and ‘That’s not feasible’ ” he remembers. “We had to stop thinking that way. We needed to start thinking in the innovative ways we challenge our students to think in —  to ask big, challenging questions and listen for unexpected answers.”OCTOBER 2017: PLU

Colleges.“PLU has long been recognized as a leader in defining the work of sustainability in higher education,” said PLU Sustainability Lead Nick Lorax. “It is our privilege and our challenge to discern how we translate our leadership into action on campus and beyond.” Tree Campus USA is a national program created in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. PLU achieved this

resolution carried into effect. Here are a few of our arguments in favor of restoring the state’s support for needy students being educated at the state’s private colleges: – The 10 private colleges in Washington enroll nearly 40,000 students (roughly equal to UW-Seattle). – These colleges confer 20 percent of the degrees granted in Washington. – Students at these colleges receive only 2 percent of the state’s higher-education budget. – Our 10 colleges collectively have the capacity to grow by 20 percent

global education, student research, embracing lives of service and fostering PLU’s Lutheran Heritage. “Working together the campus community has realized so many important dreams,” Anderson said. “All of us together have sharpened and focused our mission as a Lutheran university. Together we have achieved our goals to cultivate academic excellence, to enhance our global perspective, to build an engaged community and to nurture life as vocation in the fullest sense. “Our community has turned these

the general practice of higher education institutions in the U.S., especially private universities, which routinely announce three to five percent tuition increases each spring. “On average, students at private universities in the Puget Sound region are paying $5,391 (12.9%) more in their senior year than they did in their first year,” explained PLU President Allan Belton. “One of the problems with this model is that when tuition creeps up by three or four percent each year, a student’s annual

particularly welcome and encouraged to apply.  Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or permanent residents. The REU program is intended to provide an introductory research experience to undergraduate students considering graduate education and a career in research. Applicants should address how this experience might facilitate their pursuit of these goals in their application. Travel costs to/from Bozeman, $1,000 for meals, and residence hall lodging will be provided. REU students will also receive a $6,000

diversity and other backgrounds.”   She also relishes the Lutheran higher education commitment to service. “That’s one thing I am passionate about,” she said. And her definition of service has changed over the last four years. She’s realized it’s not so much what she gives, but the give and take Laura Rudquist ’12 found a new home and her vocation at PLU. (Photo by John Froschauer) that occurs when she’s involved in a cause she cares about. It’s about “the interaction and working together to solve

coral reefs at War in the Pacific National Historical Park, community-based education and outreach at Everglades National Park, and surveying pollinator abundance at Yosemite National Park. Visit the website to get the full list of 2022 opportunities! Informational Webinar: Friday, December 10th at 4:00 PM Eastern Are you interested in becoming a SIP Fellow? Do you want to know more about what it is like to work in a National Park? Join us for a webinar featuring two 2021 SIP Fellows, as they