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to obtain the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation, which has become the most respected and recognized investment credential in the world. Entry into the CFA Institute University Recognition Program signals to potential students, employers, and the marketplace that Pacific Lutheran University curriculum is closely tied to professional practice and is well-suited to preparing students to sit for the CFA examinations. Through participation in this program, Pacific Lutheran University is
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A Semester in GranadaWhen I came to PLU as a first-year in the Fall of 2012, I already knew that I wanted to study away. I took Spanish classes for all four years of my high school career, and planned to take at least a year more in college. I did not want to lose the language skills that I had acquired, so I planned to study in Spain. When I learned that one of PLU’s Featured Programs was located in Granada, Spain, I realized that this was the perfect program for me. I am a Hispanic Studies
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Keynote SpeakerDr. Marc Dollinger, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies at San Francisco State UniversityI’m Marc Dollinger and I get to teach, write, and give lots of public talks as a member of the Jewish Studies faculty at San Francisco State University. Thanks to the Goldman Family (think Levi Strauss), I hold an endowed research chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility, gifting me a platform to talk about my passion for Jewish social justice. I believe it’s a
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, Random House, Crown, Disney, Chronicle Books, Starbucks and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Lace M. Smith, executive director of content development Lace is responsible for curating adaptive and sharable content on PLU social media. Starting in PLU’s Student Involvement and Leadership in 2005, Lace has a rooted background in connecting technology, marketing and communications with the concepts of student development. Lace has been a facilitator for the Student Social Justice
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Compatible are Liberty and Equality in Structuring a Health Care System? Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (June 2003) Careers for Philosophy MajorsPhilosophy majors work in a wide range of careers. Some have gone on to become philosophy professors themselves. Others have been successful in seminary; in medical, dental or law school; in graduate programs in social justice or environmental studies; and even as a technical writer for Microsoft! Philosophy faculty regularly teach courses in the First-Year
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volunteers below. More will be added in the coming weeks as messages are shared for you on the PLU Alumni and Friends social media channels. For more support, remember that you can also contact the Student Care Network for yourself or on behalf of another student. Katie, Alumna (2010) & EmployeeThe amazing faculty and staff who truly cared about me as a person really made PLU feel like my home. I was also a student employee, and when a staff position opened up right before I graduated, I realized I had
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their experiences working in student media at PLU. Miranda and Morin will present together on incorporating digital media in a newsroom’s online presence to maximize audience interactions, both on social media and on the news site itself. “We’re presenting on how to properly pair visual media with your online presence,” Morin said. “We’re going to talk about what worked for us, and what hasn’t worked for us, and how we’ve overcome our issues, and how you need to know your audience to do all of that
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budget. “It’s a vote of confidence that will allow us to support more young people in our community,” says Bridget Yaden, PLC co-director and PLU professor of Hispanic and Latino studies. “It will make an immediate impact.” When it opened in 2019, PLC offered tutoring for reading, writing, and language acquisition. Center leaders quickly recognized that more was needed. “We challenge the notion that literacy is just reading and writing,” says Scott Rogers, PLC co-director and PLU associate
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school abroad, and found a fantastic program in Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In the course of my studies there, I participated in a one-semester exchange program in Bogotá, Colombia before again returning to Tacoma to conduct field research for my thesis on public transportation in the Puget Sound region. Most recently, I moved to Managua, Nicaragua, where my husband works with the Luxembourgish foreign service
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University” established in East Campus in April; Women’s Studies minor passed by faculty that same monthDiversity Center History Diversity Center History Although the physical space of the dCenter was created in 2001, the story of diversity and social justice at PLU and its various incarnations is one spanning over 30 years. Since the 1970s, PLU has had personnel and financial resources dedicated to advancing issues of diversity and over the years, PLU has addressed social justice issues in a variety of
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