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departments. She wants to work for her tribe in a cultural or language department. Hall said she decided to attend PLU because it was close to home, but has since come to love the friendly staff and professors here. She said she is thankful for the opportunity to have found her vocation. “I think many students don’t know that individualized majors exist,” she said, “but it’s a really cool option at PLU.” Read Previous PLU Names New Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Read Next Works by

stuffed in his pocket – a gift from his girlfriend who dropped him off at the Seattle airport.   “I remember thinking ‘please, pleeease, let someone be there for me,”” Kennedy said this year. There was a friendly face waving a sign. But Kennedy soon discovered the job he had flown almost 9,000 miles to do didn’t exist. This series of panic, calm, panic, calm, had been the normal state of affairs for Kennedy ever since he decided to leave his safe and secure job at REI in 2008. “I knew to be happy, to

Vision in Washington, D.C., during her internship over the summer. (Photo courtesy of Bozich) The peacebuilding award isn’t as well know as some others, Hansen said, but people shouldn’t overlook it. “It gives them the opportunity to do good work,” he said. Courtney Lee ’16 completed her internship with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in Washington, D.C., part of the U.S. State Department, in fall 2015. It was unpaid, so she needed to find a way to pay for housing, food and other

of Regents is responsible for managing the affairs of the university, including overseeing the financial affairs, establishing tuition and fees, and establishing scholarships and aid. That means, essentially, that even though Belton and other PLU officials develop initiatives and opportunities for financial innovation, the train doesn’t leave the station until the Regents are on board. “We’re incredibly fortunate to have Regents who care deeply about this institution and are willing to deep dive

but also wanting to be in touch with their roots.” "For a lot (of the women), it was a personal health choice. Both thinking about the strength of hair but also wanting to be in touch with their roots."- Tolu Taiwo After the first journal they submitted to didn’t accept the article, Hambrick and Taiwo spent time fine-tuning the content, orienting the paper more toward higher education and student affairs. They then submitted it to the Association for the Study of Higher Education and National

University of Maryland, where she teaches Media and International Affairs in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. I wouldn’t call it compassion fatigue, but more of a burnout, a distinction I feel confident making after all my research. But just like the caregivers we studied, we knew that our work wasn’t about us as individuals, but instead about doing something greater than ourselves. It was experiences, like that in Joplin and interviewing Bobby Senn, which helped remind us of our mission. My

and a community member.” Dela Cruz double majored in history and literature. She also studied away for a January Term in Manchester, England, and a semester in Oaxaca, Mexico. She said she hopes to go to graduate school in a few years to study student affairs. Eventually, she hopes to work at a university in academic advising or leadership, specifically to help students of color and first-generation students. She said he is always thinking about her one wild and precious life, thanks to her time

the “business” affairs of the university, literally thousands of transactions each week. So process matters, and this past year the division introduced online recruiting and hiring management practices, electronic bill paying and monthly pay stubs for all of us, new student account payment options, as well as conference and facilities management reforms — all in the effort to serve all of us with more effectively and with greater efficiency. Significant and highly visible improvements to our

episode five. When Esther worries aloud about the correspondence, Edward sharply chimes in that “Babington is preoccupied with his business affairs. I cannot believe it is anything more than that. It’s highly unlikely he would have been led astray.” Edward gives false comfort to Esther but then implicates an affair to plant yet another seed of doubt in her mind. Esther for her part contests by exclaiming “He’s not you, Edward!” and adds with a sort of foreboding foreknowing that “There’ll be a good

two statements stood out for me: “Destiny is just an excuse for bad management,” Foege said in deploring those who believe the world’s current state of affairs is simply the consequence of some natural order. And after celebrating those who share in the excitement and optimism reflected in the new push for global health and development progress, he added a precautionary: “We had better know where we are going.” Tom Paulson ’81 has been a science and medical reporter at the Seattle Post