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  • Organized gatherings are an opportunity for students to give collective voice to issues and concerns that matter to them.

    , we share goals and responsibilities of: Holding the integrity and well-being of every person in our community. Ensuring the safety and well-being of the campus and our neighbors. Supporting student gatherings and preserving student access to the rights of assembly, speech, and expression. Listening attentively and responding empathetically to calls for action, focusing on fostering community care and opportunities for improvement. Providing avenues for constructive dialogue and problem-solving

  • Ron Gerhardstein joins PLU music education faculty after extensive career As a music educator for the past 18 years, Ron Gerhardstein has taught instrumental and vocal music in both public and private settings in Washington, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Now, as a new PLU faculty…

    teaching and as a mentor, he also gets to collaborate with students in the ensemble he directs, the University Concert Band. “We’re really trying to grow and develop the Concert Band. To make it a feeder group to the wind ensemble, which is our ultimate goal,” Gerhardstein says. “The group is doing really great, and I’m really proud of their efforts and improvement.” The band serves as an important resource for student teachers. Every semester Gerhardstein has a student helper who works with the band

  • Playing in the mud Outfitted in waders and armed with oranges, shallow plastic trays and pH testing kits, faculty members and alumni trudged into Clover Creek. Under the watchful guidance of environmental studies faculty, the group was learning to collect field data about the creek,…

    environmental studies program and faculty with an interest in environmental issues. The workshop was funded through a $90,000 grant the environmental studies program received in December from Wiancko Charitable Foundation. The money is also funding three student-faculty research teams this summer and several mini-grants. At the workshop, participants examined the course, looking at its strengths and areas for improvement. The discussion served as a catalyst to scrutinize the entire interdisciplinary

  • Professor Emeritus | Department of Social Work | kellerjg@plu.edu | JoDee Keller is Professor of Social Work at Pacific Lutheran University.

    of a housing development, in Kalliola, S., Kettunen, P., Eskelinen, O. Kosonen, K., Rostila, I. & Leander, A. (eds)." Improvement by evaluation: Peer reviewed full papers of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation for Practice “Evaluation as a Tool for Research, Learning and Making Things Better 2012: 41-49, ISBN: 978-951-44-8859-7. Keller, J. "Book review: ‘Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States' by Jan Willem Duyvendak." Housing, Theory and

  • Poster 1 Poster 2 Poster 3 Poster 4 [Exhibit has closed.] Mortvedt Library is hosting a new popup exhibition from the National Archives ,  Rightfully Hers, “commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19 th Amendment. Rightfully Hers explores the history of the…

    access list of the articles, see https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/women-suffrage-100. Here is an article from the New York Times, Meet the Brave but Overlooked Women of Color Who Fought for the Vote. For a full range of Times articles, see PLU Library’s New York Times database (ePass required). Read Previous Improvement Updates to Online Library and Archives Services Read Next On Exhibit: Black Authors Writing about Racism LATEST POSTS Black History Month: Black Art Matters Exhibit January 31, 2023

  • **The EPA letter of encouragement awarded to all students who have projects in the areas of environmental sciences and environmental engineering.

    Grow Tomatoes in Bellarmine's Greenhouse Earth & Environmental ScienceHonorable MentionBrett Kelley12BellarmineThe Effects of Plastic Straws and Their Alternatives on Water Quality and Aquatic Environments Environmental Engineering1stHenry Jacobson & Luke Jouflas12BellarmineStudy Comparison: Avalanche Snow Probes Versus Conventional Snow Pit in Determining Avalanche Danger Robotics & Intelligent Machines1stJordan Janakievski12BellarminePhytoplankton Detection Using Machine Learning and a Mobile

  • The teacher PEAB meets a minimum of three times per year. The PEAB provides feedback and direction on curricular decisions, reviews program assessment data, and shares insights about the directions

    University Tammy Larsen (2016-2022) Tacoma School District Beth Rigoulot (2015-2022) Tacoma School District Kathleen Schwartze (2016-2022) Clover Park School District Bryan Zagar (2016-2022) Franklin Pierce School District Erin Rounds (2021-2022) Graham-Kapowsin High School Jan Weiss – PLUProgram DataThe program continually reviews data and feedback about candidate experiences in the program as well as the quality and impact the teachers we produce.  This information is compiled annually in an assessment

  • Dive deeper into PLU’s summer undergraduate research program! Students Rebecca Smith ’24 and Aidan Hopson ’24 spent ten weeks collaborating with chemistry professor Andrea Munro to study colloidal nanocrystals, particles so small they are nearly invisible. #LutesEmbraceComplexity To learn more about chemistry projects, classes and…

    /chemistry. Read Previous Two PLU students spend the summer reading the stars Read Next PLU receives top accolades for quality, affordability and student experience COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning

  • by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer Blogs have greatly contributed to the explosion of content created and shared on the internet. I, myself, couldn’t count the number of hours I’ve spent reading blogs about everything from recipes to research. There are many academic applications for blogs. Blogs allow…

    . Students want to know you are reading what they are writing. If students are regularly blogging all semester, have them submit their top 3 blog posts to be officially graded at the end of the term. If you have a high volume of posts to manage, try “randomly” grading just a few posts each week, while quickly skimming the un-graded posts. Be sure to make students aware of this grading procedure. Try using a holistic rubric to quickly provide feedback on the quality of student posts. An example is

  • by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer A new semester is about to begin and that means it is time to update your course syllabi (or syllabuses, if you prefer).  There isn’t one specific syllabus format endorsed at Pacific Lutheran University, so I have created an outline…

    the document as new ideas arise.  For more syllabus advice, the Provost’s website includes document with PLU policy information for course syllabi. I also encourage you attend the workshop Take Your Course from Good to Great with a Quality Check where we continue to explore elements of high quality courses.  The Chronicle of Higher Education also has a wonderful two-part article on creating a “learning syllabus” for your course. Have a wonderful semester! Originally posted 9/4/2014 in PLU’s