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The success of the Wild Hope Center for Vocation was established, in good measure, through the lives of the faculty mentors who engage their students with questions of meaning and purpose—in the
identify as LGBTQ, and those who represent a broad range of religious and ethnic backgrounds; and a video that highlights the gifts of Lutheran education for a student body, staff, and faculty no longer largely Nordic and Lutheran.Let us help you create...In addition to the activities described above, the Wild Hope Center for Vocation is available to assist you in planning a workshop or event relating to vocation. Some of its recent activities include: a workshop series for those working in the
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Speakers: Michael Artime, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science Lizz Barton, Associate Director for Training, Licensed Psychologist Eric Jacobsen, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church
Speaker: Jenny Odell, Writer and Artist Introduction: Rona Kaufman, Professor of English, PLU Location: Chris Knutzen Hall, Anderson University Center Friday, March 88:45 - 10:30 a.m. | Blue Zones Purpose Planning WorkshopThe Blue Zones Project Purpose Workshop is a two-hour event led by a certified facilitator that helps individuals find clarity of purpose. It is designed to assist in the discovery or rediscovery of an individual’s gifts, values, and passions. This workshop aims to help participants
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PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.
A Will to Lead: Sue Loiland and Jennie Griek ’02 join PLU’s planned giving team While not new to PLU, Sue Loiland (parent of a 2012 graduate) and Jennie Griek have recently joined the planned giving team, bringing with them extensive experience in major gifts. Planned giving allows donors to make impactful contributions through their estate plans or financial strategies,… September 3, 2024 ResoLute
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Originally Published in 2014 Sometimes being sick isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, what it means to be sick —or to be healthy for that matter— might surprise us. As the growing field of Religion and Healing shows, our understanding of what…
Expanding the Mind in German Studies LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022
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The 2019-2020 academic year marks the 15th anniversary of the Visiting Writers Series, the English department’s annual program bringing writers from various backgrounds to Pacific Lutheran University. Most visits consist of an afternoon conversation called “The Writer’s Story” and an evening reading followed by question…
learn from the writers and the questions students ask them at these events.” After fifteen years, the Series continues to create a space for the PLU and Parkland communities to experience wonderful expressions of art and gain valuable lessons from incredible writers and teachers. Environmental Ethics at Holden VillageParkland Literacy Center Read Previous Greetings from the Dean 2020 Read Next Waist-Deep in Mud: Engaging with Tradition through a J-Term Course in Honolulu LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts
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Originally Published in 2014 When I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa, the classicist and writer Anne Carson came to campus to give a reading and a colloquium. During the colloquium, she was asked how she navigated among the wild variety of…
the Pandemic Read Next Being a Scholar-Teacher and a Teacher-Scholar LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022
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On a January morning, sixteen PLU students stepped waist deep into the flooded, muddy field of the loʻi, a traditional taro patch, to take part in a practice that once sustained the Hawaiʻian people. Elle Sina Sørensen, a senior majoring in anthropology and global studies…
of Captain Cook and western colonizers, the once prevalent cultivation of kalo dwindled dangerously while Native Hawaiʻians were killed by Western diseases and their land was stolen and repurposed. Sharing Passion through ScholarshipEnvironmental Ethics at Holden Village Read Previous Revisiting the Visiting Writer Series: the 15th Anniversary Edition Read Next Environmental Ethics at Holden Village LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in
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Friends of 88.5 FM and Pacific Lutheran University reach agreement for the sale of KPLU Contributions of $7 million from 18,000 donors preserve KPLU as an independent, community-licensed public radio station Tacoma, WA — Pacific Lutheran University and Friends of 88.5 FM, a nonprofit community…
, to allow the Friends of 88.5 FM six months to raise a matching offer and enter into a definitive agreement on substantially the same terms as the UW agreement. An unprecedented “Save KPLU” fundraising effort among the station’s listeners resulted in more than 24,000 donations from over 18,000 donors contributing to the $7 million goal, which was reached on May 26, 2016. Additional contributions since that date have helped build a reserve fund to cover operations when the license assignment is
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Bill Gates Sr. urges students to ‘Show up’ Bill Gates Sr., the father of Bill Gates of Microsoft fame, told a packed audience in Lagerquist Hall Tuesday night that the number one quality students can cultivate is “to be concerned.“Not necessarily about everything, but be…
Gates Foundation, and serves as the advocate for the foundation’s key issues, which includes education and world health, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention. Tuesday night, Gates spoke on campus about his new book, “Showing up for Life, Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime.” In small vignettes, Gates discusses lessons learned growing up in Bremerton, Wash., serving in WWII, getting his law degree, marrying, raising a family, and now of course, being father to one of the most
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Pacific Lutheran University’s Wild Hope Center for Vocation is pleased to announce it has been awarded a two-year, $49,612 NETVUE program development grant from the Council for Independent Colleges. Wild Hope was established in 2003, to support students and faculty as they explore life’s big…
community? Vocation is one of the special gifts that PLU offers because it connects us to our Lutheran roots and helps us all think broadly and holistically about the purposes of our work and commitments to others and the environment. Some faculty have already built vocation into their teaching and mentoring, and the institute will provide a way for us to share the good work that is already being done and to deepen it further. Right now, some students have the opportunity to seriously engage with
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