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from PLU. The bus is a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports young people in engaging in local and state politics. I spent that summer campaigning, canvassing, and registering folks to vote. It was awesome. From there, I spent a year in AmeriCorps through a Tacoma-based program called Urban Leaders in Training. I also worked with Graduate Tacoma on a lot of cool projects, including translating a lot of their materials into Spanish. Then, after a couple of years in Oakland, California working in

environmental catastrophes. Rep. Derek Kilmer speaking to PLU students in a politics and government class.× Similarly, if we are to have internet software developers who understand the principles of information privacy and access, it follows that our computer engineering students would benefit from courses in philosophy, and the increased empathy and understanding that comes from engaging low-income communities that lack access to high-speed internet services. Of course we know that two or three 200-level

psychology with minors in politics and government as well as religion. The MSMA program relates to my undergraduate studies because we delve deep into psychographics and geodemographics, which leads to a more comprehensive view of the human experience.  The MSMA program gives students invaluable experience working with a variety of companies, as well as making sure that students form connections with professionals in the industry. [After just six months in the program], I [had] already done consulting

December 1, 2008 Americans Abroad By Steve Hansen When Jennifer Henrichsen came to PLU, she had every intention of majoring in biology and psychology, and then moving on to medical school. Ambitious – and admirable – plans. But halfway into her sophomore year, she had something of an epiphany: Med school was more of her mom’s dream than her own. Jenn Henrichsen ’07 found a passion for world politics and journalism. So she decided to switch directions. Radical directions. “One of PLU’s strengths

. Derek Kilmer’s campaign for Congress in 2012. That was my first big internship where it was connected to what I was studying at PLU and I felt like “oh okay, this is one thing I could see myself doing after this.” What was your first job after you graduated? I did the Washington Bus summer fellowship right after I graduated from PLU. The bus is a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports young people in engaging in local and state politics. I spent that summer campaigning, canvassing, and registering

inauguration and featuring behind-the-scenes access and tours of iconic institutions such as the United States Congress and The Washington Post. The result of the November election, however, threatened the course’s agenda. “A lot of students were asking if they could go on the trip, but skip inauguration,” recalled  Kaitlyn Sill, associate professor of politics and government. “And while the answer was yes, we really wanted to encourage them to keep an open mind.” Sill co-taught the course, titled

no “animal studies program” in any American university. In fact, the phrase “animal studies” does not even exist except as I am here using it informally. Even making the comparison between animals and historically oppressed people is much more likely to offend the people involved than ennoble the cause of animals. This even though many feminists, like Carol J. Adams in The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Continuum 1990), have argued animals and women have both been

through a typical 12-hour day, Parnell said his goals are Alaska’s economy, families, and focusing on things like a responsible budget and anti-domestic violence legislation. Although he’d never put “being governor” on his to do list – he was considering a congressional run when Palin told him she was resigning – politics has always been part of his life. His father, Pat Parnell, was an Alaskan lawmaker in the 1980s who started his political career as a Democrat, then switched to the Republican party

said. When he returned from Chengdu, he was hooked. China was “like studying a puzzle,” Ford says. And a puzzle that drew him in with its people, its art, history and politics. His intellectual curiosity simply wouldn’t let him put the topic or the place, aside.  He  future was going to be linked to international studies; he just couldn’t wait to get back. He did manage to go back in 2011 to study ethnic minorities in China. It was Professor Adam Cathcart, who happened to be in China at the same

reason. [2] PLU students at work in 2012 Since Plato, the Beautiful, the True, and the Good—these words and the ideals they express—have been significant in humanistic study. Aristotle, Plato’s student, added searching logical analysis in the Politics, Ethics, and Poetics. In the medieval trivium of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, words reigned supreme. But these three are far from trivial! Out of the love of words, Erasmus produced the first printed Greek New Testament (1516). Based upon the