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Karen Marquez ’22 aspires to help her community through her studies Karen Marquez ‘22 is a senior social work major with minors in Hispanic studies and criminal justice. Marquez is a heritage speaker of Spanish, and has a deep love for languages, culture, and diversity. She hopes to use her degree and the skills she is… June 22, 2022 AcademicsCommunityCurrent StudentsDiversityDiversity Justice SustainabilityHispanic StudiesInvolvementServiceSocial WorkStudent Life

Intersections: Lutheran Social Teaching and Economic Life Cover art by Sheila Mesick Intersections, Number 51, Spring 2020 Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and… March 27, 2020 faculty newsletterIntersections

: Scandinavian Welfare States: The Immigration Challenge Who: Dr. Grete Brochmann, Professor of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo Abstract: Scandinavian welfare states are historically high trust, homogeneous societies, with an equality based social security system, which takes care of their citizens from cradle to grave. These costly, rights granting systems are now challenged by large scale immigration. Universalistic welfare states like the Scandinavian grant basic rights of life support

less ‘direct,’ method of genocide of Jews – has not yet received the same attention. The Nazis prevented Jewish women from having sex or bearing children through legal, social, psychological and biological means, as well as by murder. In contrast, they promoted reproductive life and sexuality among so-called ‘Aryans’. Implementing measures to prevent birth is a core feature of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Doctors were integrally involved in the manipulation of

);Ph.D.) research specializes in examining the birth experiences of women in difficult religious, social, political and economic situations. These settings reveal challenging circumstances ranging from political and economic repression in Apartheid South Africa, and in the former Soviet Union, religiously inspired cruelty of female genital mutilation, and over-medicalization of birth in the technologically developed world. None of these, however, comes anywhere close to matching the horrors

PLU graduates have careers in the law, public service and civil service 350 graduates work in the performing or creative arts About 800 graduates work in advertising, marketing and communications More than 2,000 are employed in fields related to chemistry, biology, math, computer science and engineering ‘More than 1,000 alumni work in social services, nonprofit organizations and churches