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Founders of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, Peter and Grace WangThe Wang Center opened in 2002 thanks to the vision of donors Peter (’60) and Grace Wang. With their endowment gift, the Wangs have emphasized the role education can play in building a more peaceful world and recognized an opportunity to further PLU’s ability to prepare students for lives of leadership and service in an interconnected world. Both are first-generation Americans. Peter Wang graduated from

, GE RELI 247 Christian Theology - RL, VW, GE RELI 257 Christian Theology - RL, VW, GE RELI 330 Hebrew Bible Studies - RL, IT RELI 331 New Testament Studies - RL, IT RELI 342 City of Gods: Ordinary Life and Religion in Late Antiquity - RL, VW RELI 361 Church History Studies - RL, IT RELI 362 Luther and His Legacy - RL, VW RELI 364 Theological Studies - RL, VW RELI 365 Climate Justice - RL, VW RELI 366 Race, Gender, and Christianity - RL, VW, GE RELI 367 Major Religious Thinkers, Texts, and Genres

Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education“Africa and the Holocaust”ScheduleFree and Open to the Public - Registration RequiredAll Times Posted are Pacific Standard (PST)Wednesday, October 25thThursday, October 26thFriday, October 27thWednesday, October 25th7:00 p.m. – Opening Keynote Address: “Sub-Saharan Africans and the Holocaust”, AUC Regency RoomDr. Edward Kissi, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South

Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education“Africa and the Holocaust”SpeakersFree and Open to the Public - Registration RequiredWednesday, October 25Edward KissiRobert P. EricksenEdward KissiKeynote Opening Address: “Sub-Saharan Africans and the Holocaust” Who: Dr. Edward Kissi, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida Bio: Dr. Edward Kissi is associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the

Partnership news about Act Six and Seed TeachersOn April 30, 2024, Degrees of Change, the parent organization of Act Six and the Seed Teachers program, announced that this year’s incoming class of Act Six scholars will be the final cohort. This decision comes as the higher education landscape faces challenges, including financial strains, enrollment declines, and program reductions, which have also significantly impacted Degrees of Change and partnering institutions. In 2008, PLU welcomed its

September 30th’s class.Class Readings: John of Ephesus Cyprian of Carthage Reflection questions: Cyprian writes, ‘And further, beloved brethren, what is it, what a great thing is it, how pertinent, how necessary, that pestilence and plague which seems horrible and deadly, searches out the righteousness of each one.’ His thesis is that an individual’s unique response to pain and suffering, disease and death is a test of faithfulness to one’s ideology and an indication of one’s character, and this is an