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. PLU provided an environment that allowed me to acknowledge and embrace the challenges of college. The school is small and its foundation lies in the Lutheran tradition––thus there is a culture of care for the individuals and the community. If you were only here you would have surely come to visit. The classes are not overcrowded, so you get one-on-one attention with your professors. Everyone knows you by name and truly shows concern for your progress. The number of things I have been able to get

know our mission statement well: “To educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care, for others, for their communities, and for the earth.” It was formally accepted by our Board of Regents when the PLU 2010 long-range planning report was adopted. In that same document we set out our pathways to academic distinction in global education, purposeful learning and lives of service, and the close interaction between students and faculty. What a gift this collective vision

research, as the speaker for Pacific Lutheran University’s 41st Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, part of PLU’s Spring Spotlight Series, “… and Justice for All?” Jacobs’ presentation at PLU will recount both the trauma and resilience of indigenous women and families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the Indian Child Welfare Act in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies and redress in Australia and Canada. “I first became

service and care. DACA recipients play a vital role locally, regionally and nationally — innovating, serving and improving the world around them in the face of immense uncertainty. What they can be certain of is our continued support, compassion and commitment to their success.   We will do all in our power to provide an inclusive and respectful environment for all community members. Consistent with our mission and our stated values, we commit to the following: PLU will not voluntarily enter into

now, in the face of an international health crisis? Plog: Health care workers and first responders are on the front lines of treating patients. Grocery stores and food suppliers are on the front lines of feeding people. And journalists are on the front lines of making sure everyone is informed about what it all means and how it’s all working. Especially because we are isolated in our homes, media are vital resources. And radio is the original medium in times of crisis — wartimes or otherwise

drive every day to the office to be a part of the department,” she said. “The fund also helped with gas money to drive to work in person with children and their parents.”  The scholarship is an extension of the Student Ambassador Program, an initiative devised in 2019 by an innovation studies class led by PLU professor Mike Halvorson. The challenge from Halvorson was simple. Find something on campus you care about and improve it.  This simple assignment grew into a partnership of students, donors

ski resort, serving in hospice care, and as a backup medic before starting medical school at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine in July.While visiting PLU before his medical school journey, Dean of Natural Sciences Ann Auman introduced him to the Dr. George and Emma T. Torrison Scholarship, for which he became one of three national recipients. The endowed scholarship, managed by the Foundation of the ELCA, recognizes Banken’s passion for medicine, ELCA affiliation, and Lutheran

is certain about one thing. “Care is a personal value. I love that it is a value of PLU, and I’ve been honored to be a part of the care Stupski Foundation shows our communities.” “Whatever work I ultimately do next, it will be centered on caring for people.” Read Previous PLU move-in day 2024 Read Next Neighbors Helping Neighbors COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST

role of languages in liberating our past, enabling our present, and reshaping our future, had a profound effect upon how he insisted languages should be taught at a university. Luther valued languages for their present and future use in our practical business and in the pursuit of what we call, in the PLU mission statement, “service and care” in the world. But his ideas of vocation gave this language study a particularly Lutheran twist: language study was not about being enabled to transform the