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Learning Communities Posted by: shortea / May 13, 2020 May 13, 2020 What exactly is a Learning Community (LC)? Here's how to pick yours.Maybe you’ve already heard about the Learning Communities (LCs) at PLU, and maybe you haven’t, but the thing you need to know is that every student, whether you live on campus or commute, is part of a Learning Community, and you get to pick which you want to be a part of. LCs are a way for you to connect with community inside and outside of the classroom

Teaching with Sakai at PLU Posted by: bodewedl / August 22, 2018 August 22, 2018 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer The Office of the Provost’s Faculty Resources website has a new webpage dedicated to Teaching and Learning with Sakai. Here faculty can learn more about how Sakai is being used across campus. View Real PLU Sakai Sites Ever wondered how your colleagues are using Sakai in their courses? The Teaching and Learning with Sakai site allows PLU faculty and staff to enroll in Sakai

The Adaptation of Learning Posted by: dupontak / May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 By Levia Roskopf '21Creative Writing MajorIn March 2020 PLU shifted to online learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “How will classes work? Will there still be group projects? Will Capstone presentations still happen? How long will it be like this?”These are just some of the questions students and faculty alike were asking. The process of teaching changed in this time, professors have found themselves altering

April 25, 2011 Robert Lynam ’12 and Bridgette Cooper ’11 had a front-row view this year on how laws in Olympia are really made. (Photo by John Froschauer) Learning from the floor: PLU students head to Olympia, join the front lines of public policy. By Chris Albert Under the Capitol dome in Olympia, Wash., Robert Lynam’s office is pretty much a glorified closet. Remove the computer, phone and a tattered Seahawks poster, and it would be a closet. But if you ask Lynam ’12, he’d tell you there’s no

Teaching during a Global Pandemic Posted by: dupontak / May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 By Jacqueline Jackson '22English MajorProfessor Rings sits in the basement of his house in Downtown Tacoma explaining the difference between being online versus in the classroom during a global pandemic.The room is more dimly lit and quiet than a classroom, and the discussion feels homey. There was no hum of a projector or the fan of the computer or students rustling around in their backpacks or eating whatever it

Innovation and Resilience Posted by: halvormj / May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I took a deep dive on disruptive innovation with some faculty in the PLU School of Business, who are also mentors in our Innovation Studies program

Economics and Careers Posted by: halvormj / April 20, 2018 Image: Cameron Emerson April 20, 2018 Interested in a future job at a major tech company? Come and meet a Pacific Lutheran University graduate who successfully followed that career path. Cameron Emerson ’08 graduated from PLU with a degree in Economics. These days the Oregon native works out of Chicago as the Midwest manager of Google’s Cloud — and he’s returning to campus to talk about his career, share his experiences at one of the

September 5, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg0AIF4hW6o Learning to Brew By Chris Albert The summer after graduating, Ken Thoburn ’09 hung out at backyard BBQs, sipping on home brews he and his friends had made. Everyone kept saying, “Guys, you should start a brewery,” Thoburn recalled. That’s when the Chinese Studies major and some friends, who also had recently graduated from local colleges—and also had not planned on selling beer—took their backyard beverages to brand-new heights

Intersections: Learning Love of Neighbor Posted by: abryant / May 3, 2021 May 3, 2021 Cover art Good Samaritan by Dr. He Qi Intersections, Number 53, Spring 2021Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education. It is published by the NECU, and has its home in the

on justice, I’m fortunate to be at PLU, an institution with a strong commitment to social justice,” Levy says. “Other institutions wouldn’t support expert witness work for faculty. But PLU does.” At PLU, Levy teaches anthropology courses that explore how Latin America studies inform anthropological theory, the impact of free trade policies; the state from an ethnographic perspective; and how international migrants build lives in more than one nation-state. Many of his students go on into migrant