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  • While the country was divided in joy and grief over Donald Trump being elected President, various U.S Congressional staff members wrote a handbook to encourage resistance to Trump’s political agenda, which sparked the creation of Indivisible, a grassroots and non-partisan political group dedicated to that…

    elected President. This, alongside her longstanding personal and scholarly commitments to social justice, motivated her to help found Indivisible Gig Harbor. The group, which has a Facebook page with more than 500 members, began as a meeting of like-minded people at a coffee shop. That initial group formed separate local organizations, one of which was Indivisible Gig Harbor. The group nominated co-chairs and began holding regular meetings at the Gig Harbor library. Indivisible Gig Harbor’s mission

  • High school choir and guitar teacher Alonso Brizuela ’14 was in Spokane at a national choral directors conference in mid-March of 2020. Just a day and half days into events, the conference shut down early—due to a mysterious new illness that had arrived in the…

    Amazon drivers, grocery-store workers and nurses. One student was one of 10 children in the family, with a truck-driving father stranded on the road. Another, the child of a nurse, had to live with grandparents for a while. If a child watched the day’s posted video, Zwang counted that as attendance—as did completing homework over the weekend with an essential-worker mom. Zwang addressed social-emotional needs, too, talking with kids about what the virus meant and that it was OK to be scared.In

  • By Dana Shreaves, Instructional Designer When students or instructors cannot meet in the same physical location, virtual class sessions are one alternative to consider. Virtual meetings are intended for live communication, but some software allows meeting facilitators to record and share videos after a session…

    How to Conduct a Virtual Class Session Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 5, 2020 March 5, 2020 By D

  • By Dana Shreaves, Instructional Designer When on-campus class sessions cannot be held as scheduled, online lessons provide an alternative method for teaching. Online lessons created in Sakai can provide faculty and students with access to all the major components of a course, including instructional content,…

    How to Create a Basic Online Lesson Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 6, 2020 March 6, 2020 By Dana

  • By Dana Shreaves, Instructional Designer When instructors want to communicate with students at a distance, one option is to create video or audio recordings. Many faculty dislike seeing or hearing themselves recorded. Others are intimidated by the process of creating recordings. However, recordings can be…

    Recording Instruction and Communications for Distance Learners Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 31

  • Dr. Andrea Munro didn’t design Chem 103: Food Chemistry in order to teach students how to cook — but everyone agrees it’s been a pretty tasty side effect. Munro, an associate professor of chemistry, intended the general education summer term course to appeal to students…

    253 PLU Bound Scholarship LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Marine Biology? November 15, 2024

  • PLU junior’s first production fields university’s first all-black cast Josh Wallace ’19 wanted to do something different for his directing debut with PLU Theatre. A creative who also dabbles in acting, music and art, the junior figured the time was right to take on a…

    Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Marine Biology? November 15, 2024

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 28, 2019) — For PLU students looking to venture off campus and explore, the university’s Outdoor Recreation program is a reliable portal to the Pacific Northwest’s endless natural bounty. A quick scribble through a disclaimer and you’re off on a weekend adventure…

    student should attempt to go on one of these trips at least once.” Read Previous Building Better Students: PLU’s 3-2 Engineering Program Read Next Giving Back Through Graphics LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Marine Biology? November 15, 2024

  • Bailey Hamilton is a senior nursing student at PLU. She is also a member of PLU’s swim team. Recently, she was a member of the winning four-member relay team at this year’s Northwest Conference Championships —one of which set a new PLU record for the…

    science major talks NASA internship, capstone project Read Next Musician turned math major is excited to teach in his community LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Marine Biology? November 15, 2024

  • A native of Yemen, Abdulghani Mosa ‘23 became connected with Palmer Scholars while a sophomore at Foss High School. Pacific Lutheran University and Palmer Scholars have announced they are expanding their partnership to better serve students of color in Pierce County. Mosa shares with us…

    Yakima area students find a home away from home Read Next Act Six scholar gained confidence to study abroad LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride Index: What does that mean? November 21, 2024 YouTube Short: A quick campus tour and Lute lingo with Zari Warden November 19, 2024 Major Minute Monday: Global Studies November 18, 2024 You Ask, We Answer: Do you have Marine Biology? November 15, 2024