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Training and Development UDRC Video: University Dispute Resolution Committee purpose, grievance policy overview and 10 things our university attorney wants you to know. The purpose of the online video is to help you understand the role of the University Dispute Resolution Committee and your responsibilities as a PLU faculty or staff member in a leadership role. The video will cover PLU’s policies on Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and

Zach Powers Director of Communications Full Profile 253-535-8410 zach.powers@plu.edu

Overview of the Critical Race Studies MinorIn 2016, The Collective, a PLU student organization created by students of color and their allies, distributed a list of institutional priorities for curricular transformation, including the call for a path of undergraduate study dedicated to race. Over the next five years, faculty, staff and students affiliated with GSRS worked to respond to this demand. In 2020, GSRS introduced our Minor in Critical Race Studies. The CRS Minor offers an

Intercultural Development Inventory® Is this program right for your organization? The Intercultural Development Inventory assesses intercultural competence—the capability to shift cultural perspective and appropriately adapt behavior to cultural differences and commonalities. Email the program manager to find out more The Intercultural Development Inventory is a 50-item questionnaire available online that can be completed in 15–20 minutes with complete confidentiality. PLU’s Qualified

Partnerships and Professional Development (PPD) is a department within the Department of Education focusing on professional development and continuing education for in-service teachers and administrators. Our mission, goals and participant outcomes are listed below.Mission:Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care— for other people, for their communities and for the Earth.Questions?Phone: 253-535-8790 Fax: 253-535

some aspect of Lutheran tradition; noted statements on formation of a sense of vocation, including vocation in teaching; analyses of students’ development of a sense of vocation; and one or more of the “big and pervasively provocative contemporary intellectual works” referred to in the third objective above. Moreover, participants will contribute exciting materials from their respective disciplines that have cross-disciplinary significance, and they will have the opportunity to share with each

Curricular Development GrantsLimited funds are available each year through the Wang Center for faculty who are planning to lead a short-term study away program for undergraduates. The purpose of this funding is to support prospective faculty leaders with their travel in order to explore possibilities for establishing new programs and to make appropriate contacts and arrangements, to enhance study away programming (particularly in underrepresented departments and majors), and finally, to enable

Chris Albert Director of Web Development Full Profile 253-535-8691 albertct@plu.edu

Mission StatementThe Department of Earth Science prepares students for a lifetime of scientific learning, informed citizenship, and earth stewardship through critical thinking and engagement in the scientific process. Earth Science is distinct in that we investigate the dynamic and complex earth across a wide range of time and geographic scales.Department GoalsThe Department of Earth Science strives to: Prepare students for lives as geoscience professionals, educators, and active citizens