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  • Digital Exhibits University History Timeline Explore major events in PLU history with this interactive timeline. View Timeline Campus History Tour Explore the history of PLU’s campus on a 3D map with archival photographs and audio. View Exhibit A Queer History of PLU A Queer History of PLU follows the experiences of four queer PLU community members and three of their allies using archival materials and new interviews with the participants. View Exhibit JFK PLU-UPS Convocation President John F

  • We assist students and families in the financial aid process, including completing the FAFSA and WASFA applications, applying for federal and private alternative loans and understanding all the

    questions we are most frequently asked. If you have questions regarding class registration, your academic records or anything regarding university academic policies, please contact the Registrar’s Office or the Center for Student Success.  On-line access to many of these services, as well as your financial aid records are all available via your Banner Self-Service, 24/7.Our MissionStudent Financial Services seeks to provide comprehensive financial education, services and support for students, families

  • Tips and Resources for Parents and Caregivers of Students Sending your student off to college is an exciting time.  Many parents feel it is the culmination of years spent raising, educating and caring for their children.  However, it can also be a time of sadness and grief for parents.  You may be familiar with the popular term, ‘Empty Nest Syndrome’, which is not actually a clinical syndrome, but rather a common reaction to children transitioning out of the family home; it is characterized by

  • Tips and Resources for Parents and Caregivers of StudentsSending your student off to college is an exciting time.  Many parents feel it is the culmination of years spent raising, educating and caring for their children.  However, it can also be a time of sadness and grief for parents.  You may be familiar with the popular term, ‘Empty Nest Syndrome’, which is not actually a clinical syndrome, but rather a common reaction to children transitioning out of the family home; it is characterized by

  • Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University… July 31, 2019 Benson LectureEmpire of Cottoninnovation studiesSven Beckert

  • PLU’s International Student Services (ISS) is committed to providing programs and services to support the academic and personal development of international students.

    Welcome to ISS!International Student Services (ISS) is committed to providing programs and services to support the academic and personal development of international students. ISS staff works closely with other university offices and student leaders to provide comprehensive services to maximize educational and personal experiences of each international student. ISS represents PLU in working with the Student and Exchange Visitor Program administered by the United States Department of Homeland

    International Student Services
    253-535-7483
    International Student Center Harstad Hall, Suite 112 Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • The PLU Wild Hope Center for Vocation promotes and provides a range of opportunities to engage with, discern, and live out vocation.

    Your browser does not support the video tag. Throughout the seasons of the year, the Center helps students, staff, faculty, and alumni shape lives of meaning and purpose here in Parkland and throughout the world. At PLU, vocation means being called with others to promote human and ecological flourishing. PLU Wild Hope Bjug Day 2023Click Here to View the 2024 Essay Contest Winners! Click Here

    Wild Hope Center for Vocation
    Nesvig Alumni Center 518 South 123rd Street Tacoma, WA 98447
  • PLU alumnus Scott Foss ’91 serves as a top paleontologist for the Department of the Interior.

    , he’s a senior paleontologist at the Department of the Interior. Foss serves as a policy adviser and resource director in Washington, D.C., 30 years after his dream began. “Working on the bureaucratic side we call ourselves ‘paleocrats’ because we’re actually interpreting the science for government,” Foss said. “Field research was what I always wanted to do, but a big part of what I do now is coordinate everything that goes on in the field.” Foss earned his research and resource management chops on

  • When Hilde Bjørhovde returned to Norway, fresh out of PLU’s journalism program, her home nation had one television station.

    wasn’t long after, however, that the minister of culture greenlit efforts to launch commercial TV and radio, Bjørhovde recalled. “So, I was there at the right time,” she said, over lunch at an ornate cafe at Hotel Bristol in the heart of Oslo. Bjørhovde became the first news anchor on a newly minted, once weekly program. “It was just experimenting,” she said. “It was on a very small scale.” Now, decades later, Bjørhovde is a senior reporter at the center of a very different media landscape. She