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citizen of the world. Ramstad Hall, also on the square, houses counseling and testing. At first, you will be reluctant to spend any time here, but once you have cried for an hour during the tragic and beautiful experience of giving a voice to your deepest thoughts and beliefs, with the walls around you painted a calm sea green and the rain pouring down outside, you will come to know it as a place of comfort, of support, and of discovery. We’re walking on the side of Eastvold on a sort of “backroad” on

Administration (MBA) program, a highlight is the required (and included) 10-day International Experience. Mulder describes it as “an opportunity to use the world as a classroom and meet with industry executives to learn about business best practices all over the world.” In the past decade alone, business students have traveled to places like Chile, South Korea, Singapore and China. In the years ahead, faculty members are planning learning programs in Peru and Germany. As this tradition of global learning

at PLU is a rigorous program with opportunities for specialization in an area of interest. It is characterized by a strong performance component, relevant coursework, and time practicing teaching skills in area K-12 schools. Classes are small and are taught by full-time faculty. PLU’s music education faculty members all have significant experience in K-12 schools.Biology at PLU Studying biology teaches you how to think and how to observe your world. To learn biology is more than just learning

. I would also say that many of us are thinking about how to keep the special character of a residential liberal arts college community as vibrant as possible.  In my own experience, there’s a tipping point around 4,000 or so above which the community changes character and feels a little more city-like and less intimate. *Note: All comments are moderated PLU must focus on value and try to find a way to deliver and maintain value rather than trying to cut the cost of operations.I would argue that

academic year. It’s distinctive to PLU and characteristic of our collaborative, generous, and spirited culture. That culture is a product of all of the diversity of talents in this room. It takes a wide variety of skills, abilities, outlooks, and world views to create the PLU experience for our students. Everyone in this room is a key player—the facilities and grounds keeping teams are the Department of First Impressions and they help us all have a magnificent and beautiful campus on which to work; our

rehearsal and then sang for the evensong service.  What a unique experience!  We were able to rehearse more and have the chapel to ourselves following the evensong, which was even more of a treat, had dinner and then boarded the bus and headed off to London! × London, England June 4thToday was the first day in London.  It gives us a free day to see what the city has to offer, and everyone has a chance to venture off and see what they want to see.  We get to use the Tube (subway system), and sights

in as-yet unrealized glosses of familiar, even beloved, texts. All stories, all narratives, all novels—no matter how elongated and stretched or brief and compressed—wrap up. But the ending of the novel is not coterminous with an ending full stop—the narrative points to a future it does not fully bring into view—we never see Anne in her glory at being a sailor’s wife or watch her experience quick alarm. In the end, Fleabag and Anne Elliot—whether on page or screen—do the same thing as all

, and the topic of high school band has always given me motivation,” Horn said. “I thought analyzing that subculture through qualitative interviews with the kids would be cool.” In addition to his studies, Horn seized multiple opportunities to study away during his time at PLU. He participated in an alternative spring break program, traveling to Nicaragua to help build a water well. “(It) was a really powerful experience in itself, seeing a new culture,” he said of the trip. "Maybe the most

, Allen suggested that Huertas journal about his coming out story. He laughs while explaining that when he came out to his friends and family as a teenager they all had already assumed and loved him no less or no more. “I’m very lucky that that was my experience, but it’s boring,” Huertas says. When he began writing about it in his journal, he wanted to spice it up. He thought about the comic book superheroes he loved: X-Men, Spiderman and the Ninja Turtles. He wrote a story about a queer protagonist

becomes your family and your familiar place. Soon it will all be about the hard work and great fun of living the PLU experience. One day you wake up and you REALLY feel it: “I’m a Lute.” I think that day came for me this morning! And, looking at you now, I KNOW that feeling lasts a lifetime. President Thomas W. Krise gives his inaugural address. (Photo by John Froschauer) And so our celebration today is two-fold. We celebrate the beginning of a new era for PLU as we open its 123rd year. And we