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invitation to speak to Chris Browning’s class about the Holocaust. Despite some initial skepticism, Kurt Mayer audited the class — thus kindling a relationship that culminated in a decade of service as a Board of Regents member, the blossoming of the university’s Holocaust studies program and the establishment of the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies. The Mayers, along with the Powell and Heller families and many others were the foundational members in promoting Holocaust Studies at PLU. Over

also how we study away that makes PLU distinctive. Indeed, the overarching goal of PLU’s global education program is to increase the understanding of interconnectedness and the dynamic relationship that exists among our local communities, our state and our world. Our faculty has deep partnerships and connections with the communities, and these make PLU’s Study Away experience richer and more diverse. And that connectedness echoes through the entire Study Away experience, whether students study

and pick up an athletics T-shirt. Another strategy is the creation of an ASPLU Senate seat for student-athletes. The senator will be a strong advocate for athletics within student government while also building stronger connections between athletics and the general student population. The athletics department regularly sends representatives to NCAA-sponsored leadership conferences. There, student-athletes from around the country gather for several days to learn leadership styles and deal with real

consumption by 5 percent. Pflueger reduced its per-resident consumption by 17.3 percent. This means Tingelstad will go head-to-head with Pflueger in April. Even with the loss, Sipe said the real goal is building on this tournament’s momentum for the coming years. “We are working to focus on building good habits for living in a dorm and living sustainably,” Sipe said. That’s really what this whole thing is about, Rodrigues added. The two have already seen some students change their practices by making sure

Froschauer) Case and 10 PLU other students, comprising of four teams, spent four days at Morken researching, testing and writing models to solve one of two problems in this year’s MCM which took place between Feb. 10 through 14. The contest tests undergraduate students ability to apply their mathematic skills to solving real-life scenarios. One was building a model to maximize vertical air in a snowboard halfpipe. The other involved line-of-sight transmission and reception of a VHF radio spectrum, with

—one each in the Anderson University Center, the Mortvedt Library, the Hauge Administration Building and the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, and four in Olson Auditorium. These devices act as “call for help” boxes as well as speakers to announce emergency messages inside the buildings. With the exception of the four in Olson, each device also is wired to an external speaker that now allows campus officials to send messages to students, staff and guests outdoors. PLU hopes to

diversity-focused corporate social responsibility programs for Washington industry titans like Costco, Safeco Insurance, Nordstrom, and Boeing. Those programs led to numerous scholarship, internship, and hiring initiatives, and $141 million invested in building an inclusive economy. More recently, he served as the chief philanthropy officer for university scholarships and student programs at University of California, Berkeley, working with partners across the world to build financial resources and

examine the personal and big-picture capacity to withstand and overcome the stress and devastation related to trauma. “There is building interest in understanding the conditions that make it possible for individuals, communities, organizations, institutions and organisms to overcome adversity,” said Tamara Williams, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Executive Director of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. “While varied, the events and programs that will be featured as part of

normal. One size fits all is not going to work. We are collectively building a new future that requires fully alive humans who are connected to themselves, one another, and who carry hope.  What are students saying they need from PLU? PLU students are a microcosm of the communities from which they came, reflecting the varieties of strengths, pains, health, struggles, and desires of their communities. They are looking for a place of belonging where they matter and their voice matters—in a real

appreciated the opportunity to provide leadership coaching. “I really enjoyed working with Lionel,” Gannon says. “Building him up, helping him see all the positives, helping him realize what he wanted for his building and what his next steps were.” The collective N/a'an ku sê and Uukumwe team outside N/a'an ku sê Primary School after a week of professional development, goal setting, and collaboration. Beyond pedagogy: from Tacoma to Namibia, a partnership reframing teacher development practicesRead moreAt