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Performance: PLU Music Chair Brian Galante on education during the coronavirus Read Next Keeton Heggerness looks to continue all-conference play for PLU soccer 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 POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning

vocational exploration, career development and employment outcomes. Read Previous Why a Lutheran University Is a Leader on Holocaust Education Read Next PLU launches Internship Fund to create equitable opportunities for students 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 POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU

like it is my “job.” I want to be able to get up every morning and say, “I am a musician, and that is what gives me life.” As long as I am happy and my music makes others happy, that’s all I care about. Read Previous Lute Powered: MultiCare Health System Read Next Sophia Barro ’22 is following her passion for faith, literacy and diversity into elementary education COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently

education or health insurance until he aged into Medicare.  I understand you have experience as a swimming student-athlete. How did you balance sports and school? At first, it was very challenging. I struggled with time management, balancing school work, swimming and socialization. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit during the spring quarter of my freshman year of college. I rushed home. I took this time to reevaluate and focus on my studies and worked on my time-management skills. When the pandemic was

my eyes. Well, it turns out they’re right. So, the most rewarding aspect has been the mentorship connections cultivated with professors. From what I hear from friends and the general public, I probably wouldn’t have the same opportunity elsewhere, at other schools. I’m thankful for those connections and the guidance that comes along with that. My Hispanic Studies major and two minors—in business and Holocaust and genocide studies— speaks to the global education PLU provides. I’m really happy with

in Tacoma. This experience is a major step toward completing a chaplain certification program through the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. We visited Professor Hammerstrom before a shift at St. Joe’s to discuss his experience.What originally piqued your interest in chaplaincy service? The values of the Buddhist tradition originally attracted me to it. I became aware of the intersection of Buddhist practice and chaplaincy about 25 years ago when I volunteered at a hospice. As a

he felt sitting in his first few classes.“Professors were encouraging students to expand our worldviews, take all sorts of different prospectives into account, and challenge what we previously held to be true,” he says. “I was into it from the start.” Wright has successfully embarked on a career at the nexus of the two driving interests with which he arrived at PLU. After graduating magnum cum laude six years ago, he’s worked for an education foundation and an environmental advocacy organization

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that came out of PLU. Angie: Mm-hmm. I remember how you-all came to us as a community of students who believed there was another possible way. You were thinking about how to actually create a path to that way… beautiful, beautiful…Diversity and Inclusion at PLUAs an institution of Lutheran higher education, Pacific Lutheran University understands that difference is intrinsic to all life, creativity, vision and innovation — the cornerstones of higher education. Diversity is vital to the vibrancy and

of assent according to a belief’s epistemic standing. But he suspects that there are also tendencies to make the strength of belief a function of the content of the belief rather than a function of its evidence. “I suspect,” he writes, “that one important [instance] is the tendency to hold fundamental religious beliefs rather strongly if one holds them at all. This tendency may itself be just a special case of a still more general tendency, that of holding one’s ‘life-orienting’ beliefs strongly