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  • students, positions them as experts, and aims to empower them. The grant will also provide induction support to the scholars during their first year teaching, as a large percentage of teachers leave the profession in their first years.  “We will ground our teacher preparation in culturally sustaining principles,” said Wendy Gardiner, PLU’s Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education and a co-collaborator of the grant proposal. “Doing so ensures our STEM teachers have the knowledge and skills to

  • Anders Ramstad, a professor of chemistry from 1925 to 1961. A new wing was added in 1959, and a major renovation designed by Michael Fogde and Ted A. Werner was undertaken in 1985. That same year saw the end of Ramstad Hall’s use for science work, which moved to the newly completed Rieke Science Center. In the years since Ramstad Hall has been home to nursing, psychology, and various student services offices. The Carol Sheffels Quigg Greenhouse is named in honor Carol Sheffels Quigg, a generous donor

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  • Department includes teaching graduate courses, supervising students’ clinical work in the onsite Couple and Family Therapy Center (CFTC), and overseeing students’ transitions to offsite internship sites. Elisabeth is passionate about training students to be clinicians. Because therapy is based on a confidential relationship between clinician and client, most clinicians are never observed or given direct feedback once they graduate. Elisabeth believes one of the best ways to both learn and practice

  • gain skills to understand costs, quality, and access to services across healthcare settings and involving insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, managed care programs and more.COURSESBMBA 560: Healthcare Enterprises Surveys policy and operational issues facing managers in the rapidly changing healthcare environment. Explores challenges of managing in healthcare settings, including hospitals, medical practice organizations, long-term care facilities and clinics. Discusses health care related

  • these systems at their source.One way that we strive to do this work every day at PLU is by helping to ensure that all students have access to a purposeful, transformative education.  PLU’s mission—to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care, for others, for their communities, and for the earth—is hardwired in Lutheran higher education’s core belief that study in the liberal arts is a liberating experience, freeing the learner from ignorance and a life focused

  • PLU students visit Oaxaca, Mexico, to learn about health care January Term (J-Term for short), PLU’s month-long term between fall and spring semester, is when many of our students take advantage of our incredible study away options in multiple places around the world. Planned and coordinated by professors and PLU’s study away center, J-Term study… January 17, 2024 AcademicsGlobal EducationHispanic StudiesInvolvementNursingReformerSeekerStudy Abroad

  • sector, such as in the insurance or banking industries. The mathematics faculty at PLU is committed to quality teaching and to providing a first-class education. Mathematics classes at PLU are kept small so that the faculty are able to know and interact with individual students. The Department of Mathematics actively encourages interaction among students, in the belief that a cooperative learning environment helps one achieve one’s maximum potential. Each B.S. and B.A. major completes a year-long

  • with a private environmental science lab. He took the job and found that he loved his new field. “I spend a lot of time running or hiking and fishing outdoors, and it’s cool to be out there,” he says. Environmental science tied Chontofalsky’s passion for science and nature in a new way. “People look at Wapato Lake and wonder, ‘Why is this water so clear?'” he says, and now Chontofalsky can explain the chemistry of water treatment and the lake clean-up process. “It’s just been a cool experience,” he

  • cadets. She is a decorated combat veteran of Desert Storm, the conflict in the Balkans and Operation Iraqi Freedom — a seasoned officer who talked with the authority of experience. “What I learned from her about being a leader, taking care of people,” Calata said, “that’s something I’ve always kept.” As he shifted gears from nursing, Calata turned to political science. Through those studies he met Professor Ann Kelleher. She had a reputation as a tough instructor and, like Boice, had real-world