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  • PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service welcomes new Director Posted by: hassonja / September 6, 2018 September 6, 2018 CCES welcomes Kristin Menson as new DirectorIn late August, PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES) welcomed Kristen Menson as its new Director. Kristin comes to PLU from Louisiana State University (LSU) where she was the Program Manager in the Center for Community Engagement, Learning, and Leadership. Her work at LSU centered around supporting

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    MSMR Students En Route to Safer Roads PLU’s MSMR Candidates are doing great things! Following last semester’s project with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, MSMR Candidate, Jessica Wagner, was invited to be a panelist at the 2018 Traffic Safety Conference! Shelly Baldwin, Legislative Liaison and Media Relations Manager at the Washington Traffic Safety… April 30, 2018 2018 Cohort

  • April 29, 2011 ‘Be the Spark’ ignites, unites PLU community By Barbara Clements In a decades-old video shown in the UC this week, Archbishop Desmond Tutu – the keynote speaker at the May 13 “Be the Spark” event – listened carefully as speaker after speaker came before him, telling of beatings and murders that marked apartheid in South Africa. MaryAnn Anderson, chair of the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation board, says “We are now calling Parkland ‘Sparkland.'” Beside her at the podium is

  • December 7, 2012 PLU grad continues to give back to his community and greater Tacoma area By Igor Strupinskiy ’14 President of Korsmo Construction, John Korsmo ’84 is building more than just academic halls. His company, founded by his father, John Korsmo Sr., is focused on sustaining community, both at PLU and in the greater Tacoma area. “We want to be of help where we can,” Korsmo said. John Korsmo (far right) with Martin J. Neeb and their wives, Lisa Korsmo and Barbara Neeb, in front of the

  • Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., succeeds Steven P. Starkovich, Ph.D., as PLU’s chief academic officer TACOMA, WASH. (May 9, 2016) – Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., will join Pacific Lutheran University as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Aug. 1, 2016. Brown comes to…

    Council on Education (ACE) Fellow at Pomona College from 2004-05. Earlier in her career, Brown served as the Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Irvine, where she oversaw the development of the university’s new jazz program and final completion of a new Music and Media building in 1999. Also at UC Irvine, she served as faculty assistant to the executive vice chancellor and provost, where she functioned as dean of the eight interdisciplinary

  • This non-academic division of the university facilitates community, extends learning beyond the classroom, and enhances the quality of campus life.

    Welcome to Hospitality Services and Campus Restaurants where it is our purpose and sincere pleasure to serve the Pacific Lutheran University community and its visitors. The entire division supports the PLU mission by providing various essential support services to the campus community. This is a non-academic division of the university that facilitates the creation of community, extends learning beyond the classroom and enhances the quality of campus life. We are comprised of multiple internal

    Current Hours
    Monday: 7:00am–5:00pm
    Tuesday: 7:00am–5:00pm
    Wednesday: 7:00am–5:00pm
    Thursday: 7:00am–5:00pm
    Friday: 7:00am–5:00pm
    Saturday: Closed
    Sunday: Closed
    Hospitality Services
    253-536-5076
    Anderson University Center Suite 280 Tacoma, WA 98447
    Campus Restaurants
    Anderson University Center Suite 280 Tacoma, WA 98447
  • Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but the subject remains neglected or marginalized in K-12 education. Can more be done to improve student access to this important way of thinking? Please join Alice Steinglass of Code.org  on October 9, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran…

    Supported by a generous endowment from the Benson Family, the Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History is designed to bring leading experts in the fields of history, business, and economics to campus to address the PLU community. Jolita and Dale Benson at a recent Benson Lecture. Along with the business and economic history curriculum, the lecture is designed to encourage the study of business organizations, entrepreneurs, workers, products, and consumers, as well as the economic forces

  • Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but the subject remains neglected or marginalized in K-12 education. Can more be done to improve student access to this important way of thinking? Please join Alice Steinglass of Code.org  on October 9, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran…

    Supported by a generous endowment from the Benson Family, the Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History is designed to bring leading experts in the fields of history, business, and economics to campus to address the PLU community. Jolita and Dale Benson at a recent Benson Lecture. Along with the business and economic history curriculum, the lecture is designed to encourage the study of business organizations, entrepreneurs, workers, products, and consumers, as well as the economic forces

  • Community Learning Through Endowed LecturesEach year, the Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture is arranged by the Scandinavian Area Studies program.  This endowed lecture series, made possible by generous donations by descendants of PLU’s first president and friends of the Harstad family, offers the campus and local community a diverse range of topics intended to further our understanding of Scandinavian culture and society.  Topics in recent years have included migrant literature of Norway, the

  • March 19, 2009 Teaching by Practicing By the time the class of about 20 students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at PLU graduate, they will have provided 10,000 hours of community service.“Everyone that we see here is from this community,” said Renee Johnson, a second-year MFT student. By community, she means the greater Parkland, Tacoma and East Pierce County area. It’s a welcomed and much-needed service provided by PLU and its master’s level students. And it also provides real life