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Speakers https://www.plu.edu/free-at-last-2016/speakers/

university’s efforts to become a more diverse, socially just, and sustainable living, learning, and working community. In addition her work at PLU, Ms. Hambrick is pursuing a doctorate in Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University in southern California. Her research interests include the impact of social justice education on students, faculty, and staff. Angie Hambrick Joanna Royce-DavisJoanna Royce-Davis is the Vice President for Student Life at PLU. In addition to advanced studies in Student Affairs

Kara Atkinson ’23, transfer history major and former military linguist, on her PLU experience https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/kara-atkinson/

with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies, Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education developed at PLU through her collaborative research with professors, her tenure as president of Phi Alpha Theta (PLU’s history honors society), and her work as PLU’s Vet Corps Navigator. What led you down the path of becoming an Arabic linguist? Out of the jobs available to me as a woman in the military in 2014, becoming a linguist was one of the things that I was most

Strategic Planning https://www.plu.edu/strategic-planning/

innovative approaches to financial-aid strategies and program offerings, PLU will achieve admissions goals, student academic quality and a demographic profile reflective of the community we serve. We will continue to offer general education curriculum that is at once rigorous, adaptive, grounded in the liberal arts and reflective of the tenets of Lutheran higher education. Graduate and continuing education We will achieve enrollment growth within graduate and continuing education through increased

Arts and technology center would bring new opportunities to Parkland https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2017/02/28/pierce-center/

opportunity to learn more about PCAT and discuss the center with PCAT board members. The center also plans to offer a range of adult education and professional certification courses in demand in Pierce County’s smaller cities and suburban communities that are in need of an additional influx of professionally trained workers. “The population growth outside of Tacoma opens up business opportunities that will require skilled workers,” said Mark Martinez, a PCAT board member and executive secretary of the

Government scientist shares passion for empowering women and minorities https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/09/07/government-scientist-shares-passion-for-empowering-women-and-minorities/

September 7, 2012 Government scientist shares passion for empowering women and minorities By Katie Scaff ’13 The science world needs more women, particularly in academic and research institutions, said government scientist Debra Rolison. “They’re too white — and too male,” said Rolison. “There’s a statistical imbalance between women and men.” She argued for change in her field before students and professors at a seminar in Morken on PLU’s campus Friday afternoon. Scientist Debra Rolison spoke

Faculty Activity Reporting (eFAR and Annual Self-Assessment Statement) https://www.plu.edu/provost/documents/faculty-activity-reporting-efar-and-self-assessment-essay/

Strategic Plan for Blended and Online Education (2022-2025) (pdf) view download

Commemoration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer https://www.plu.edu/lutheran-studies/commemoration-dietrich-bonhoeffer/

, with the celebration of the Holy Communion at 12:30 in the Ness [Tower] Chapel (Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts), Dr. Samuel Torvend, University Chair in Lutheran Studies, presiding and preaching. Lecture at 1:45. Dr. Mark Brocker, Bonhoeffer scholar and Lecturer in Theological Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (Berkeley), will speak at 1:45 on “Bonhoeffer’s Appeal for Ethical Humility.” Dr. Brocker writes: “Bonhoeffer’s involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate

2021 Capstones https://www.plu.edu/gender-sexuality-race/2021-capstones/

systemic oppression, specifically in the health care system. I am passionate about the intersections of identity and its impact on how we each experience the world. I am so thankful for the opportunity to pursue higher education and my tribe of professors, friends, and most importantly, my family, who supported me throughout this chapter! Thadeus Smith “The Rhetorical Effect of Identity-Based Arguments: Kritikal Debate in High School Competition” Abstract: In this study, I examine the rhetorical effect

Born and raised in the Philippines, Maria Surla ’23 is now a PLU grad and a nurse at MultiCare Good https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/06/09/maria-surla-nursing-graduate/

clinic, and middle school health education center. She also used this time to learn about Mexican culture, food, values, beliefs, and herbal and traditional medicine. “Sometimes people have no water or seem to have little, but they’re so grateful for life,” she says. “It was a very humbling experience.” After graduation, Surla is going to work at MultiCare Good Samaritan Emergency in Parkland. She will also be working part-time at the Pierce County jail. In these roles, she plans to enhance her hands

Zylstra to lead Center for Community Engagement and Service https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/06/28/zylstra-to-lead-center-for-community-engagement-and-service/

coordinate mentoring projects by PLU students. PLU students from an education class dealing with multicultural issues in the classroom will be going out to the schools. In turn, “fifth graders will be coming to PLU for a day, and hopefully it will put them on the trajectory of thinking about college,” he said. Eventually, Zylstra would like to see PLU known as much for its involvement in the local community as it is now known for its nationally recognized study-away programs. And the way he sees it