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you great success at PLU, and I look forward to hearing how your stories will unfold with us. *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous Students of Color at PLU: Belonging and Persistence Read Next ‘What’s a Lute?’ — Go Lutes Edition LATEST POSTS President Krise’s open letter of support for Muslim community January 30, 2017 An Open Letter on Access for All Students January 20, 2017 LISTEN Forum December 6, 2016 What election season reminds us about higher education December 2, 2016

. A Mary-meme cannot encapsulate all of this information and context. Due to its sparse text and image pairing, it is not structured to be educational but it can start a critical conversation. Mia McKenna-Bruce’s Mary succeeds overall in the way she disguises the childlike as childish, thereby giving audiences opportunities for reflection on their social environments if they engage. Another exceedingly quotable Mary with the last name Wollstonecraft advocated for education as an antidote to

took an interest in these neglected diseases. In the mid-to-late 1990s, Bill Gates, at the time the richest man in the world, his wife Melinda and his father Bill Gates Sr. were looking for something to do with all that extra money. The Gates family had looked into supporting various philanthropic efforts in education, libraries and, on the global scale, population issues. But ultimately it was the simple vaccine – or more accurately, the lack of childhood immunizations across much of the world

interest, I am struck by the general lack of concern for animals in universities. It seems to me that nonhuman animals have not fared well in American higher education. Photo taken during a J-term course in Uruguay in 2014 by Mariann Funkhouser (‘16) When I refer to academic animals, I am not referring directly to animal experimentation in universities, though this is a related issue. Rather, I refer to the ways academics are likely to conceptualize nonhuman animals—the animals we construct, the animal