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  • differing personalities, and manage my time while juggling multiple roles. The opportunity to participate in athletics while also furthering my education has only given me positive experiences that I will continue to be able to draw from throughout my life.  Bridget: Like many other students who partake in extracurricular activities, you very quickly learn time management. I think this is such an important skill to have and will transcend jobs, activities and phases of life. For me athletics provides an

  • understand that there are possibilities for them, such as higher education.  With support from Quigg funding, the program organizers can support the initial set-up and implementation of Lute Buddies. This includes food during recruitment events, gear, and discretionary funding for mentor use. This work will enable mentors and students to connect on a deeper level. Learn more: Parkland Literacy CenterPLUS 100 Learn more: PLUS 100Staff members Jes Takla, Joanna Royce-Davis and Jen Smith received the Quigg

  • place around the globe. This idea of migration as a global and international phenomenon was something I was conscious of based on the experiences I had working at Tacoma Community House with Immigration Services, taking HISP 423 Special Topics in Spanish Literature, going to volunteer workshops for organizations such as AID NW, and more. But it was not something I felt or had a deeper connection to. Program students at IMUMI during the joint presentation of IMUMI and Clínica de Acción Legal. Photo

  • ” trials in Australia, Canada and Great Britain, will speak at the Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education at PLU, held from March 4-6, 2015.) Sandy Deneau Dunham Sandy Deneau Dunham has worked as a reporter, a copy editor and an editor and team leader for The Phoenix Gazette , The (Tacoma) News Tribune and The Seattle Times , and as Communications Manager for Town Hall Seattle. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and has volunteered

  • Frequently Asked Questions from Students Applying to Study Away During the 2024-25 Academic Year (Pre-Decision)What may impact students’ ability to study away during the 2024-2025 academic year and beyond?Post-pandemic, study away remains an essential component of PLU’s global education focus, which advances the Wang Center’s mission of “educating to achieve a just, healthy, sustainable, and peaceful world, both locally and globally.” As we learn to live with COVID-19, there is less of a chance

  • six PLU faculty, staff and/or students and plan to view AND discuss one of Noujaim’s films listed below. Groups will receive a small basket of film-viewing goodies and an invitation to a special lunch and Q&A with the filmmaker on Feb. 19. Eligible films:  The Square (2013) will be screened in Karen Hille Phillips on Feb. 19 and is also available on reserve at Mortvedt Library and through Netflix. Solar Mamas (2012) is only available as an Instant Video from Amazon.com for $3.27. The Wang Center

  • Folk Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Paul Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks bell hooks Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope George Lipsitz The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Tressie McMillan Cottom Thick and Other Essays Charles W. Mills The Racial Contract Leigh Patel Decolonizing Education Research. From Ownership to

  • , owners of billboards across the country, to propose that they turn it into a pro bono public service campaign.  The success of the billboard campaign then inspired a graduate of the class of 2015, Nicole Jordan, to take the campaign to students at neighboring Keithley Middle School.  And once again, Clear Channel created special billboards featuring Keithley students tearing up their own words, such as “Stupid,” “Go back to your own country,” “Poor Ghetto Kids,” and “You’re such a girl.” In fact, the

  • class of 2023. Interested students should email pkempler@uoregon.edu with an unofficial transcript and resume to receive an application fee waiver. The early decision deadline is December 15th and the priority application deadline is February 15th. Read Previous COPE Health Scholars Program Read Next Center for the Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand REU LATEST POSTS ACS Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Respect (DEIR) Scholarship May 7, 2024 Environmental Lab Scientist in

  • Timeline 18001800Late 1800’sClover Creek became a prominent system in Parkland’s early neighborhoods, captivating locals, and providing adequate water supplies. “Even when we came here in 1925, it was an adequate swimming place for neighborhood children.” (Emma Ramstad). Many other Parkland settlers acknowledge the creek system as their main water supply.  19401940Early 1900’sParkland was considered to be bountiful in natural resources, becoming the perfect host for Pacific Lutheran University