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best that people can give. The Foreign Service: Excitement & Enlightenment Since my graduation from PLU, I have spent most of my career working for the Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. It has been exciting, enlightening and at times enormously difficult but I have found it to be not only extremely satisfying but a lot of fun! The State Department is looking for intelligent, well educated, and highly motivated people like you to promote and protect American interests abroad. The U.S
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communities share an origin story. When PLU was established in a forest south of Tacoma 140 years ago, school employees and their families built many of the first houses and businesses in Parkland.As the decades passed, Pierce County’s population boomed, Tacoma’s urban footprint grew beyond the city’s borders, and Parkland transformed from a secluded, predominantly European-American neighborhood to a dense and richly diverse suburban community. PLU students have always been active in the Parkland
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Forces. My father had helped found the Army Community Service, which included many resources for combating racism and helping the Armed Forces become the first major American institution to desegregate.And my father, with my mother’s important help, founded the Defense Race Relations Institute to train professionals to deal with racism and bias. As a child, I remember protesters waving the Confederate flag and spitting invective at my parents and their coworkers. The murders in Charleston happened
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of Nursing is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the National League for Nursing (NLN). Washington State Approval The School of Nursing is approved by the Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. Accreditation The BSN program is accredited and approved by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org) and Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission. High School Preparation Applicants are
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which to work and live. I attribute much of this great spirit to our tradition and continuing commitment to the ideals of Lutheran higher education. As I like to say, Martin Luther—Professor Martin Luther—not only made Lutheran universities better, he made all universities better, even Catholic and public universities. In many ways, the superb American system of higher education—with its firm commitment to academic freedom, its rigorous questioning of all received opinions, and its belief in the
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APPLY Every year, PLU welcomes international undergraduate and graduate students from over 30 different countries. First Year UndergraduatesApplication information for international students who are coming directly from upper secondary school See InformationTransfer UndergraduatesApplication information for international students who are transferring from another college (including American community colleges and other four-year institutions) See InformationGraduate AdmissionApplication
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the Native American & Indigenous Studies Program by offering introductory level courses in Southern Lushootseed. In addition to counting towards majors and/or minors in these fields of study, our courses can fulfill General Education Requirements, such as the Cross Cultural Perspectives (C) requirement, the Literature requirement (LT), and in some cases, the Alternative Perspectives in Diversity requirement (A). If you intend to major or minor in one of our programs, the sooner your start, the
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Justice Economics English French & Francophone Studies Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies Global Studies Hispanic & Latino Studies History Holocaust & Genocide Studies Individualized Majors Languages and Literatures Master of Fine Arts Native American & Indigenous Studies Philosophy Political Science Publishing & Printing Arts Religion Sociology STEM Education Minor College of Natural Sciences Biology Chemistry Computer Science Dual Degree Engineering Earth Science Environmental Studies Geosciences
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University of Washington School of Law. He intends on using his undergraduate background in economics and geosciences to pursue a career in environmental law. Thomas Kim, 2015The PLU Economics department congratulates Thomas Kim (’15) on his graduation from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and will serve as the commencement speaker. Thomas E. Kim served as Chair of American Bar Association’s Law Student Division, representing the entire 120,000+ law students of America as the chief executive
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assessment faculty for the American Band College of Central Washington University. Dan also serves on the board of the Oregon Music Educators Association as the State Jazz Championship Chair. Dan received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the Berklee College of Music and his Master of Music from Sam Houston State University. He taught high school for eight years in Massachusetts before moving into higher education at Stonehill College and now at MHCC.Dan works as a pianist, organist, and
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