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Waters Begin: The Traditional Nisqually History of Mount Rainier. This year’s conference is the culmination of a collaborative effort planned in partnership with tribal leaders and elders, faculty from PLU’s Department of Education and the Native American and Indigenous Studies program, and the PLU Center for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability. Additional partnerships include members of PLU’s Indigenous Community Advisory Network and the ELCA’s Southwestern Washington Synod Native American Work

, welcome!Are you at the point where you think that a history major is the right path for you? Maybe your interest in the past started well before you joined the PLU community, but your studies here have confirmed it. Perhaps you did not have much enthusiasm for historical learning before you took a class here but suddenly realized that “just memorizing things” is NOT the way we engage history at PLU. Whatever your reasons are, we know they are good! You want to declare a major. Start on the smooth path

feel like we are a tight-knit community. How has being such a “hyper minority” in your field impacted your experience as a student, graduate student and now as a university faculty member? It has had a major impact and still continues to have one. You are pretty much constantly fighting against stereotype threat and wanting to be valued for what you do and not necessarily what you look like. It definitely has impacted the focus on my work in a way, because I was raised with a certain set of values

the trend doesn’t continue. “We would love to be all things to all people,” Belton said. “But to continue to be sustainable we have to make these decisions.” Belton says members of the PLU community can take solace in the “truly unique” emphasis on faculty governance as these tough decisions are evaluated. It would be “completely unacceptable” for administrators such as himself to dictate cuts to faculty members when they don’t fully understand the nuanced intricacies of students’ needs across

. Outside of lectures and textbooks, Brian’s the go-to guy as the president of DECA Club, a reliable resident assistant, and he even found time to intern at Russell Investments. We sat down with this busy senior to learn more about his PLU academic journey. What sets PLU apart from other universities? I think PLU is unique because the professors really care about you. I thought I was this weird Chinese immigrant coming here from Oregon, but I found a great, flourishing Asian community here that I can

Connection Jackson’s parents, Amy and Eric, met while attending PLU, and PLU was one of the first to recruit Jackson for the basketball team. “When I visited, I liked the feeling of a Division III school and saw the people on the team were a good community. I knew that even if I stopped playing, I’d want to stay at PLU,” Jackson says. He thought his sister Sydney, two years younger, might want to attend the University of Washington or a larger school. But he ribbed her, saying, “I bet you’ll want to come

classes I took when I was in junior high, and so the inspiration of having great teachers made me want to be one, so that’s the goal. What moment at that age made you passionate about teaching? Just the little things — the community I experienced there was great, and it was my first step toward freedom being able to pick my own classes. The teachers I had really worked on connecting with students and making the school a safe space where students could express themselves, find friendships and make

to develop a music business degree. “Through my involvement with LASR — the on-campus student media radio station — I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education,” Lindhartsen said. He credits his advisor, music professor Greg Youtz, a songwriting and production course, and putting on concerts through LASR for helping him realize the individualized major would be the best way to gain the experience needed for this type of work

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