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Campuswire: An Online Discussion Tool for Engaging Course Communication Posted by: berlinma / July 16, 2020 July 16, 2020 The past few months have been a challenging time for education. PLU faculty had to quickly adapt their classrooms into an online environment and rethink how to deliver their pedagogy in entirely new ways. One of the biggest obstacles to online teaching and learning is student-to-student engagement and interaction. Instructors may wonder how they can replicate, or at least
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together on this commission and will also perform the work. University Wind Ensemble conductor, Dr. Edwin Powell, is well known in Tennessee, having taught conducting courses and music education methods at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was Assistant Director of Bands. “It’s exciting to return to Tennessee where I spent five years before I came to PLU,” Powell said. “I look forward to reconnecting with colleagues and many former students while I’m there, and of course, sharing the
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August 18, 2010 Contributions to Excellence By Steve Hansen Alumnae are a proud group of people. Instilled with a passion to give of themselves. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta is no exception. Kopta graduated from PLU in 1950 with the bachelor’s degree in education. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta. Later in her life, she returned to school to obtain her Master’s degree in vocal performance. Her passion was to share her love of singing and music by teaching voice lessons. She landed at PLU at the Department of
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which includes funding for scholarly research by professor and students, two Holocaust studies courses taught fall and spring semesters, J-term study away opportunities, the Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, support for the Raphael Lemkin Awards and Raphael Lemkin lecture, as well as a fall lecture. In 2012, support allowed for two summer scholars as well as two fall lectures. It is a point of pride that this program maintains a strong base of supporters as well as continues to gain
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,” said Larson, a graduate of Lincoln High School. “We have been to libraries reading to children, spending time with the elderly, as well as eating dinner with politicians.” The court is part of the Daffodil Festival, which has been a Pierce County tradition for more than eight decades. The festival’s mission is to better communities through leadership training and education opportunities, and its legendary parades travel through four communities each year. “It’s a huge honor to be the queen,” said
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month and beginning to look for jobs, I think its extremely important to understand how to value your education and experience,” Moran said. “Many students are chiefly concerned with finding a job and don’t realize that they do have some agency to negotiate their salary.” Catherine Swearingen, Executive Director of PLU’s Career Connections, said everyone can benefit from this workshop, so while the focus is on women, it is open to all students. “The AAUW workshop is a powerful learning tool that
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professors on research projects and in two undergraduate courses. In addition to providing financial support toward White’s education, the members of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence advisory board will make themselves available as professional mentors and White will also have the opportunity to mentor students pursuing degrees and careers in finance. “Throughout my undergrad and graduate years I haven’t really had anyone mentoring me, and that would have been really nice,” says
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Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Ordained June 4, 1981, Eaton served as assistant pastor of All Saints Lutheran Church in Worthington, Ohio; interim pastor of Good Hope Lutheran Church in Boardman, Ohio; and pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Ashtabula, Ohio. She was elected bishop of the ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod in 2006 and re-elected in May 2013. Eaton’s
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Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts Competition, and also earned the Rising Star Award in the Canada International Film Festival. Senior Producer Amanda Brasgalla ’15 is grateful for the recognition the film is receiving. “It’s an international competition, and we beat out a lot of big broadcasting schools,” Brasgalla said. “Every award we receive shows a huge appreciation of our work.” Waste Not was made entirely by students over more than a year. Brasgalla and Taylor Lunka
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Back the Night and other related events,” said Jacynda Woodman-Ross ’17, a Peer Education and Advocacy Intern for the Women’s Center and coordinator for the Sexuality Awareness & Personal Empowerment Team (SAPET), which hosts Take Back the Night. “It is a great way to start a dialogue about the importance of ending sexual assault, but it also makes a statement that we—as the PLU community—aren’t going to tolerate sexual assault on our campus.” PLU has held Take Back the Night for more than a decade
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