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Intersections: Fall Edition Features PLU Faculty Members Posted by: hassonja / October 26, 2018 October 26, 2018 Cover art by Sheila Agee Intersections, Number 48, Fall 2018 Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education. It is published by the NECU, and has its

to know faculty scholarship as it happens on twitter and in the archives of Yale, and read about a student-faculty collaboration focused on ultrarunning and religion. You will read about the political work of some of our English faculty and their families, and you will learn from a conversation about teaching between two of our Language instructors.  Finally, you can read my update on our Classics program. A new aspect of Prism this year is that our students have taken a larger role in producing

recording for a CHEM 115 course, created by Chemistry Professor Adam Glass. Communication Recordings When teaching at a distance, recordings are also useful for communicating with students. Video and audio recordings contain visual and auditory communication cues, which can foster a more personal connection and reduce the feeling of distance. Recordings can be substituted for various text-based communications including emails and announcements. It is fine to mix text with audio or video if different

Finding a special place at PLU Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 21, 2010 April 21, 2010 By David Robbins It all started so simply, yet signs were there. In the spring and summer of 1969, I was looking for my first college teaching job as I completed my graduate music degree at the University of Michigan. Like so many seeking their first real job, I had cast a wide net, applying for any and all positions that vaguely aligned with my interests, training and abilities. One such position was at a

Barber ’02 said she was bit by the travel bug soon after she graduated, and found herself in Liberia teaching nursing at Cuttington University in Gbarnga. She came to a country that had been ravaged by 14 years of brutal civil war. Some of the soldiers of that war were 12-year old boys, she noted. “Imagine the destruction you can get when you give a 12-year-old boy a gun and rocket launcher, as well as drugging him to make sure he is loyal to you,” she said. The country suffers from 85 percent

April 1, 2010 Finding a special place at PLU By David Robbins It all started so simply, yet signs were there. In the spring and summer of 1969, I was looking for my first college teaching job as I completed my graduate music degree at the University of Michigan. Like so many seeking their first real job, I had cast a wide net, applying for any and all positions that vaguely aligned with my interests, training and abilities. One such position was at a small Lutheran university in the Pacific

that you learn more about people,” she said. The students won’t just be teaching at the conference. They also will gain valuable skills to apply to their student-journalism experiences. "We really want to stress how important this is for student media. It’s a big deal to have so many of us presenting at a national conference like this. If nationally we’re being recognized for our talent here at PLU, then there’s value in that and there’s worth in this department, and in this academic field

of dual-language students, a population that has been marginalized,” says Teah Bergstrom, director of partnerships and professional development in the PLU Department of Education.  “For students to be successful, the endorsement is a good opportunity for teachers to gain skills, whether they’re teaching in a fully bilingual classroom, or using their skills in a traditional classroom to help bilingual students.”  “The virtual format has allowed more opportunity,” Bergstrom says, as evidenced by

as a software engineer, working on an open source tool for managing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Amazon offered Gavidia a software engineering job weeks prior to commencement, and he plans to someday start his own software company. #LutesOpenDoors Jessa Delos Reyes ‘24 Teaching a Universal LanguageTeaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for music education major Jessa Delos Reyes ‘24. Reyes was a part of PLU’s Uukumwe Project, an educational partnership with

PLU faculty and staff, is steady at between 15 and 20 members. “It was amazing,” said Jennifer Wamboldt, emergency program manager. “We had people coming from all areas of campus with all sorts of backgrounds.” Having response preparation is vital, she said. “Basically we’re going to have to be first responders and in the case of a disaster, like an earthquake, we’re going to have be on our own for one or two hours or perhaps as much as a week,” said Duncan Foley, a PLU geosciences professor and