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  • the entering class, secures your housing assignment (if living on-campus), and allows you to request your class registration appointment and complete other enrollment steps. Once you have submitted your enrollment deposit, we’ll send you an email that includes a link to apply for housing, as well as important next steps in your PLU enrollment process. The last day to pay your enrollment deposit for fall semester is Thursday, August 1, 2024.  For a spring semester start it is Friday, January 5

  • The mission of the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University is to enrich understanding of Nordic and Nordic-American cultures in support of PLU’s educational mission and in

    Welcome to the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU!The mission of the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University is to enrich understanding of Nordic and Nordic-American cultures in support of PLU’s educational mission and in recognition of PLU’s Nordic heritage. The Center is located in the Anderson University Center at Pacific Lutheran University, in Tacoma Washington. We are open Tuesdays and Wednesdays 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. during the academic year

    Center Open Hours
    Monday: Closed
    Tuesday: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Wednesday: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Thursday: Closed
    Friday: Closed
    Saturday: Closed
    Sunday: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    Office Hours
    Monday: By appointment
    Tuesday: By appointment
    Wednesday: By appointment
    Thursday: By appointment
    Friday: By appointment
    Saturday: N/A
    Sunday: N/A
    Scandinavian Cultural Center
    Anderson University Center, Room #100 Tacoma, WA 98447
  • TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 14,2015)—Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Partnerships and Professional Development has joined with the Tacoma Principals Association for a program that will allow Tacoma Public Schools principals to complete their Administrator Professional Certifications through PLU. All Washington principals and program administrators are required…

    values its relationship with the educational service districts and school districts in seeking to address this need.” The Tacoma School District is the third-largest in Washington, representing principals who lead roughly 30,000 K-12 students. Read Previous PLU Earns Multiple, Major National Honors Read Next Hispanic Heritage Month at PLU: A New Student Group and Annual Lecture, and More COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled

  • students in the classroom, not just me, but they discuss with each other.”  Professor Rings feels that during full class discussions on Zoom, the students are talking to him rather than to each other, whereas in breakout rooms they talk to each other more. Mike Rings, Resident Assistant Professor of Philosophy Furthermore, instead of meeting with classes multiple times a week as he would in person, Professor Rings decided that meeting with classes over Zoom once a week was best. However, being on Zoom

  • Associate Professor Claudia Berguson says PLU’s link to Norway informs the values carried through its mission.

    examples of Norwegian values and present-day discussions and debates that remind us of the value of a foundation, an identity, an openness to bridging a past and present. Today in our PLU community, we explore the ways in which underrepresented peoples of Norway, such as the Sámi indigenous group and people migrating to Norway from around the world, are part of contemporary Norwegian society. We put our inspiration for Norwegian peacebuilding to work in the larger Tacoma community, through the vibrant

  • 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

  • are only now being recognized. Through presentations by professionals, authors, academics and hands-on practitioners, the symposium is designed to stimulate serious thinking on a single global challenge. If one is at all in doubt about this being a different world, consider that there are now 193 counties following a labyrinth of political systems and economic models, and a global population that now exceeds 7 billion. Just as the symposium reaches out to challenge the assumptions and

  • mind, then metaphor is an accelerant and poets are arsonists.” Whether a writer intends this fire to provide warmth or to burn something down, my goal as a teacher and mentor is to provide them with the tools necessary to stoke that flame. Meeting students’ writing on its terms and through the lens of their own individual poetic canons, rather than a monolithic notion of craft, I hope to draw out the best and bravest versions of their work. I encourage writers to court failure in their writing

  • Peace Builder Award. After viewing that BBC program, the spotlight came perhaps sooner that Cheek expected. He won a gold and silver medal for speed skating events in the 500- and 1,000- meters, to add to his bronze medal he won during the Salt Lake City Olympic Games in 2002. This was his time to make an impact for this cause. “The power of leverage goes by very quickly,” he said last Thursday. So as Cheek stood before the microphones, with all the reporters expecting the usual speech of thanking

  • Multi-talented senior and composer TJ Wheeler ’22 views music as his vocation Posted by: vcraker / June 22, 2022 June 22, 2022 TJ Wheeler ’22 is a music composition major at Pacific Lutheran University. This semester, he was a valuable member of six music ensembles, including Choir of the West, Opera, Steel Band, Percussion Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and the PLU Ringers handbell choir. We talked with Wheeler about his experiences at and before PLU, and how he became such a talented musician.How