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  • Summer Internships: Economics Posted by: vcraker / September 7, 2022 September 7, 2022 Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do after graduation. But when he took a microeconomics class, he says it all clicked, and he knew what he wanted to study. Through The Alumni & Student Connections

  • February 5, 2013 Economics of golf By Jesse Major ’15 An unconventional approach to economics that allows students to shoot lasers and travel PGA tour destinations was taught this J-Term by Mark Reiman, associate professor of economics. This class, The Economics of Golf, was inspired by a book called Golfonomics – not Reiman’s golfing skills In The Economics of Golf, students met with owners of golf courses in Tacoma, Monterey, Palm Desert and Phoenix, as well as officials of the PGA tour to

  • Course Development Stipends For new or existing courses in the Innovation Studies Minor With the generous support of donors to the Innovation Studies program, the INOV Steering Committee invites all PLU faculty to submit a proposal for a stipend to support the development of a new or existing course in the Innovation Studies minor. Options include teaching a current course (such as Innovation, Ethics, and Society or Innovation Seminar), or developing a new course that can serve as a Principles

  • 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

  • Faculty Development WebinarsWe have created a set of modules designed to help you learn about ways to support, sustain, and enrich you as a faculty member. Whether PLU is a new place for you or if you are seeking ways to better support your work as a faculty member, we hope these modules provide you with some strategies to help you think about, successfully fulfill, and grow in your roles of teaching, scholarship and service. While these modules are designed to be available to all faculty at

  • regular review. Among its objectives are consistency in sustaining the library collection over time, adaptability to changes in content, format, and financial support, and transparency in communicating to the university how collection development decisions are made.ScopeThe library collection constitutes physical materials, including but not limited to books and physical media, realia, and other resources, and also electronic materials held in our collection via outright ownership or access license

  • 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