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. To honor Brian, his father, Paul, and mother Mary Bradshaw, started an endowed scholarship at PLU for ROTC cadets and veterans. An ROTC scholarship brought Brian to PLU, Mary said. He always believed that an education was the key to opportunity, she said.”PLU turned out to be a very good fit for him,” Mary said. “Especially in the ROTC program, he really connected with a  lot of folks there.” Brian was an active force at PLU, not only as an ROTC cadet, but as a photographer for the school

, a retired Hall of Fame baseball relief pitcher, Patricia Love Krise was mulling over her decision to always say “yes” to any new opportunities. Even as she saw the fastball come blurring toward her. Fingers nicked Krise with his throw, but even now, looking back at the incident 15 years later, Krise told a room of students in PLU’s MBA program she was glad she decided to go to baseball fantasy camp – a reward for winning a sales contest at  Infiniti – along with 89 guys. She was the only woman

will call me back.” Last spring, the three friends realized they were all going to be studying in Africa for the fall semester. McCracken had plans to travel to South Africa to study social and political transformation. Leu would be in Zanzibar, where she would study coastal ecology and work on a waste-management program. Markuson, who intends to go to medical school after graduation, would be in Botswana where he would work on community health issues. Africa is a big place. But they knew they had

volunteering with AmeriCorps’s local affiliate, Peace Community Center (PCC). Goble started with PCC in September 2011, and was there through mid-July 2012. Through his role as the elementary programs coordinator, Goble coordinated the center’s tutoring program and read with students at McCarver Elementary School. He was unsure of his plans after PCC, but he wanted to stay in the area. “I hope to stay in the Tacoma area,” Goble said. “I found myself in Tacoma. I became an adult in Tacoma. I have a strong

including Frank Kline, Dean of the School of Education and Kinesiology; Terry Miller, Dean of the School of Nursing; and Matt Smith, Dean of the Division of Natural Sciences.  In addition, President Thomas Krise and his wife, Patty, hosted a dinner in honor of the Namibians at Gonyea House. But it was Edwin Tjiramba’s powerful connection to PLU that made this global homecoming an uncommon treat. He first arrived at PLU in 1990 through an educational program initiated by the Lutheran Church in the newly

Baltimore thanks to Lutheran Volunteer Corps, a national volunteer service program that someone recommended to Markuson as a way to help him understand service and figure out the next step of his life. (PLU has seven alumni serving in this year’s Lutheran Volunteer Corps class—the third-largest group from any college or university.) In Baltimore, Markuson was connected to AIRS, a nonprofit organization that provides housing for low-income and homeless people and families living with or at risk of HIV

issues, including the instrumental role he played in securing federal funding for the Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program now located in the Morken Center. Dicks was a remarkable leader for our community and an advocate for the community at the federal level, securing federal funding for the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority and for its successors, including the Puget Sound Partnership. In 2001, he was instrumental in setting aside $12 billion for the Land and Water

PLU secures $1.4 million to treat state’s health care shortages Posted by: Kari Plog / August 10, 2017 August 10, 2017 By Rosemary PonnekantiContributing writer for Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 10, 2017)- Washington communities facing health care shortages are about to get a much-needed boost, thanks to Pacific Lutheran University. The Tacoma institution’s School of Nursing recently received a $1.4 million grant from the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW), a program of

experienced and celebrated Black History Month.Questions? To RSVP for an event OR to join the mailing list email us: bsu@plu.edu Read Previous MediaLab explores issues of diversity with premiere of documentary series, ‘A World of Difference’ Read Next New program, SaLUTE, matches veteran, ROTC students for dual mentorship opportunities COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST

to achieve this recognition required participation in an external review process known as QUIP (Quality Improvement Program for Education Abroad). QUIP is the only independent review system for education abroad and requires a multi-step process that begins with a self-study conducted by the applying institution and site visits by a Forum Peer Review Team to the PLU campus and to one of PLU’s Gateway programs abroad. It ends with a final determination by the members of the Forum Review Panel (FRP