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and personal support resources. According to Kris Plaehn, the center’s Executive Director, that was an intentional part of the Center’s design process. “It’s flexible space — we want students to see where the support (systems) are,” Plaehn said. “(We wanted) to build open space that students can configure however they want to. You can make an appointment with a research librarian, the writing center, a language tutor, any sort of academic assistance tutor, an academic advisor or reserve one of
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narrates an unnamed protagonist’s callous development towards a career in business (selling water bottles), describing the shifting place of Asia in the global capitalist economy. The novel is told entirely in the second person voice, and it emulates the language of self-help guides, thus parodically identifying the connection between reading and self-betterment. Most importantly, it’s highly readable. The novel would contribute to PLU’s mission of global education and would also help students become
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initiatives and opportunities to prospective students and their families. × “I’m passionate about working here because we value serving our regional community… (Our) commitment to provide an excellent education to local students who might not have imagined they would be able to attend a high-quality private university.” – Melody Ferguson, Associate Dean of Admission“The college admission and financial aid process already can seem almost like a foreign language to a lot of families,” she says. “Things like
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support dated within 12 months. English translation is required if the documents are not issued in English.Immigration Matters Check your I-20/ DS-2019 Check to make sure your I-20/ DS-2019 accurately reflects your first, middle, and last names and date of birth. If you find any error, please notify Graduate Admissions at gradadmission@plu.edu. Get your Student Visa Make an appointment with the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in your country and complete the application for your student visa interview. For
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employees and roughly 100 on-call workers. Her business specializes in full- service events, providing clients everything from rentals, music, flowers, linens and quality Northwest-inspired food prepared with local ingredients. “We’re basically a one-stop shop,” Halvorsen said. “We focus on everything for an event to come together.” (Video by Rustin Dwyer, PLU) Halvorsen worked in the food industry before and after studying public relations and English at PLU. She tried for a long time to break into the
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craftsperson can use a sense of humor. A sense of perspective helps, too. Maybe that’s why Thiel’s career has outlasted several of the newspapers that published him. Making things better is a way of focusing on what can be done, here and now. “Life intervenes in ways that can thwart any aspiration, through no fault of your own,” he says. As an undergraduate, Thiel didn’t have any grand plans. “I just knew I really enjoyed the English language, and how journalism let me deploy it,” he says. His course of
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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
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the many benefits of my years at PLU, certainly my times studying abroad stand out as some of the greatest. I spent my entire sophomore year studying German language and culture in Freiburg, Germany. It was during that year that I first encountered significant works of Western Art, both in Germany and across Europe. This was, of course, a profound and formative experience, and one that nudged me- shoved me?!- in the direction I now travel. I credit PLU and professor emeritus Rodney Swenson with
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information, including headlines, historical prices, and some of our own daily predictions. Through our predictions, we want to give investors all the data and information to form their own opinions on stocks to the best of their abilities. Our predictions are generated using XGBoost with Sentiment Analysis which is a machine learning framework that works with opinion mining which uses a gradient boosting library that’s highly efficient and flexible along with a natural language processing technique
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Executive Summary PLU 2020: Affirming Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability Based on a Report from the Ad Hoc Committee for DJS Spring 2014 Recommendations for Common Language Around Integrating the Imperatives of Diversity, Social Justice, and SustainabilityDiversity, Social Justice, and Sustainability are not separate concerns, but instead interrelated ones, no one of which can be addressed without addressing the others. For what, exactly, is ‘social justice,’ and how can one begin to arrive
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