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Anytime Counseling: Lute Telehealth Comes to PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / February 5, 2020 February 5, 2020 By Lora ShinnGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsSince 2014 there’s been a remarkable 35 percent increase in public university students receiving mental health treatment, according to an original survey conducted by The Associated Press in December 2019. However, few universities can keep up with demand — even with licensed counselors on hand. At some universities, it may take

safe. The same for visitors and anybody else coming into the healthcare system. There’s also a lot of coordination that takes place with external bodies: the Public Health Department, the Department of Health, the CDC and other agencies that are also mobilizing efforts around managing the COVID pandemic. So there’s a lot of work internally dealing with the situation at hand, but also a lot of coordination externally. PLU: Do you have a defined or special role in the management of the crisis

public.  Third and finally, the possibility of collaborating with Angela, without whose smarts and stamina none of this would have seen the light of day. I deeply cherish the friendship that has grown out of our intense collaboration. It has been the highlight of my scholarly career. Read Previous Heven Ambachew ’24 combines her passions and experiences to design major in innovation studies Read Next PLU welcomes new Chief Operating Officer and VP Shalita Myrick to campus COMMENTS*Note: All comments

into these big topics we’ve discussed?Of course. I’ll give you one book and one article. The book is “A Third University is Possible” by la paperson. It challenges us to imagine a radically different structure for higher education. The article is “Twisted at the Roots” by D-L Stewart. It explores why inequalities persist across higher education and first steps toward transformation. Both are really cool reads. Read Previous Big Questions, Complex Answers: Lorelei Juntunen ’97 drives public policy

POSTS Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford July 8, 2024 Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate February 28, 2023 Professor Maria Chavez selected for 2021-23 Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau July 2, 2021 Jeremy Knapp ’21 talks interning for a state senator in Olympia, passion for political science and future career April 2, 2020

courses in geology will not make a journalist-to-be fluent in climate change, and that simply pass-failing “Ethics and the Good Life” and “Social and Political Philosophy” cannot be the end-all-be-all of a web engineer’s code of ethics. But we also know that a high quality, liberal arts education has always been, and will always be, the foundation on which genuine expertise is built.I once heard an African-American artist from Chicago lament that far too many young people graduate from public high