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managed effectively, regardless of what is thrown at her.” Another colleague described her as “the glue that has kept the department moving forward successfully.” Beyond the department, Mathews has served on the Global Education Committee, Faculty Affairs Committee, Long-Range Planning Committee, the Human Participants Review Board, General Education Council, IHON Steering Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies Executive Committee, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies steering committee. She is the
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requirements, Tamara Williams and Joel Zylstra — directors of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education and the Center for Community Engagement and Service, respectively — found that some students were already completing the program just based off their majors. “It was global studies, environmental studies and Hispanic studies,” Zylstra said. “When there is overlap like that it’s kind of like ‘why not?’” Zylstra and Williams were approached by the Peace Corps in 2015, in an effort to reach
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$101,340 per year, and the field is expected to grow an astounding 32% between now and 2029.3. Benefits Manager“Compensation and benefits managers plan, develop, and oversee programs to pay employees.” On average, benefits managers make $127,530 per year. The projected growth for this field is 3%, which is about as fast as average. 4. Human Resource Manager“Human resources managers plan, coordinate, and direct the administrative functions of an organization.” HR managers earn a median, annual salary of
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Disruption and Continuity: PLU’s Division of Humanities in Spring, 2020 Posted by: hoskinsk / May 6, 2020 Image: Spring blooms on the fairly empty campus due to the corona virus pandemic Tuesday, April 21, 2020, at PLU. (Photo/John Froschauer) May 6, 2020 By Kevin J. O’BrienDean of the Division of HumanitiesThis school year concludes amidst global disruption. The COVID-19 pandemic changed nearly everyone’s life, and far too many of us are mourning losses in our families and friends, dealing
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his keynote presentation, titled “Facing Uncomfortable Truths,” Dr. Richard Lapchick, renowned human rights activist and pioneer for racial equality, will delve into his lived experience as a social justice advocate within sport settings. Lapchick will reflect on the past and shed light on the future of social justice work. He will impart insights on how students and the community can actively contribute to the ongoing fight for equity, inclusion, and improved access to sports. Lapchick, widely
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grandiose, Migration is quieter, with an emphasis on creating a space for reflection and contemplation. The works are still both big in content and size. The theme shows migrations big and small, local and global, life and death. The exhibit includes seven large scale works that range from large format paintings, video installation, to large scale installations both wall mounted and in the space made from a variety of materials. The piece called Flight Patterns addresses the migrations of both birds and
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gifts are critical to advancing the quality and distinctiveness of the university’s academic program: Endowments with a particular global emphasis in faculty development, curriculum development and expanding study-abroad opportunities; Support for student-faculty research opportunities that will enhance the educational experience of students and faculty working together one-on- one and in small groups to delve deeply into critical issues across the curriculum; Institutionalizing The Wild Hope
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Oppression.” Professor Henry T. (Hank) Greely will speak on “Human Biological Enhancement: Fears, Realities, and Significance.” Greely chairs the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics’s steering committee and directs the Center for Law and the Biosciences, and the Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society. Greely is also a professor of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine. Greely specializes in the ethical, legal, and social implications of new biomedical technologies, including genetics, assisted
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program. It works. Suddenly, my screen is awash with images. I’ve told my software to scrape Instagram for photos with the hashtag: #graffiti. It quickly populates with hundreds, thousands of images.I spend the next hour lost in a global photo album that I’m creating via my interaction with a few hundred lines of code. I’m creating the album, the album is creating itself. I’m having my first experience with what we now call “big data,” but it’s surprisingly human. People tagging walls. People
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am not a human calculator. When I took my first finance class, the professor told me I should do finance. I took a couple more advanced finance classes and went, “I want to do finance.”When did you add the double major in economics? I was taking economics courses for my business degree, and Dr. Priscilla St. Clair—huge shoutout to her—pushed me to think about how humans make choices. I thought that intersected with business, and I enjoyed looking at the intersectionality between data and
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