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  • without regard to rank or position, demonstrating professionalism, courtesy, honesty, and care in the performance of their duties. Employees may not engage in any activities on the job that would place in danger the safety of others, nor may employees bring onto university premises or carry in university vehicles any items that could create a potentially hazardous or offensive work environment. (Also see policy on Possession of Weapons.) Employees may not engage in coarse or obscene language nor

  • earned a language arts endorsement through the program. He teaches five class periods a day at Sylvester Middle School, where he was paired with a mentor and completed his internship during his time in ARC. Wade said he secured the full-time job before he even finished the program, something many of the peers in his cohort were able to do, as well. “It allowed me to hit the ground running,” he said of ARC. “I was able to jump right in and make it happen.” Wade said teaching at Sylvester has its

  • -generation college experience with PLU peers Overnight hosts for first-generation prospective students Visits to local high schools by first-generation Lutes, to share stories about the college experience Field trips to campus resources such as the library STRENGTHS OF FIRST-GENS How first-gens thrive For those learning to navigate the language and culture of college, there are five things every current and incoming first-in-the-family student should know. View Cristina Flores ’19 “It’s a different kind

  • On Exhibit: 2020 “Interrupted” Wang Center Photo Contest Winners Posted by: Holly Senn / March 15, 2021 March 15, 2021 PLU Wang Center for Global Education’s 2020 “Interrupted” Photo Contest Winners During the 2019-2020 academic year, 350 PLU undergraduate students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their

  • super helpful Google Doc with information about what each score means for course placement, as well as answers to the most common questions we get about Math Placement. I'm interested in taking a language course - what is the Language Placement Guide?Three programs–Chinese, French & Francophone Studies, and Hispanic & Latino Studies–offer introductory and intermediate-level courses in Chinese, French, and Spanish, as well upper division literature, film, and cultural studies courses. We also support

  • Association of University Women, sponsored by Pantene to implement the My Language My Choice: Gender Edition Campaign at PLU and Keithley Middle School as well as bringing poet-activists collective DARKMATTER to PLU. “I was only able to implement and manage this program with a diverse team, mentors and supervisors. Shout out to Angie Hambrick, Lace Smith and Jen Smith—without each of you this wouldn’t be possible. These experiences have shaped me to be a stronger, more loving, vulnerable and passionate

  • lived in Sudan, Kenya and Uganda combined.” David still speaks the language of his Dinka tribe, but has forgotten many words and “elements of conversation,” he says. He worries that America’s influence on him, and his struggles with his native language, will lead family members to question his identity. My family members are going to be disappointed in me if they feel as though I’ve forgotten my values and what it means to be a Dinka and to be from our part of the world. That’s when I will be hurt

  • with you, as I think the message is very relevant to the challenges we face as a community and as a country. Some of you may have seen billboards on the highways or posters on campus bulletin boards in the past year that reference the “My Language, My Choice” campaign, which started in PLU’s Diversity Center as a way to call attention to words and expressions that are hurtful to other people.  It started with a poster campaign featuring pictures of students—many of them student-athletes—holding

  • for granted or aren’t aware of it. But it is an incredible gift for which we should be grateful and which we should seek to use on behalf of a world in desperate need of it. Remember that the Lutheran Reformation began in a university. Martin Luther was a teacher committed to making sure people could read and write and study the Scriptures in their own language so that they could learn for themselves about the same steadfast and loving God that Solomon prayed to.  That commitment to critical study

  • interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024