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  • beginning of each school year, please allow at least a week for student employment to activate the time sheet in Banner. Something is wrong with my student's job.If your student worker’s start date, job title, hourly rate, or any other information is incorrect, please email studentjobs@plu.edu and we’ll be happy to fix it. How can I give my student worker a raise?Please fill out the Status Change Form to let us know you intend to give a raise to a student in your office. Because of Washington’s high

  • Returning from Study AwayHome at lastStudy away can be a change-your-life experience – and it doesn’t end when you get on the plane to come back. Returning home can be both comforting and challenging. You’ll see contrasts between your experiences in another culture and your life in the U.S. Coming home is the beginning of the next step along your journey. "The W-Curve of Intercultural Sojourning" Photo by Brook McIntyre You may feel overwhelmed by the American lifestyle. You may question the

  • housing – you can always change later if needed! Email rlif@plu.edu if something comes up or if you have questions.Learning Community Application“I love living in STEM House because I’m surrounded by people who are driven and have similar goals and ambitions as I do. I also have access to resources related to STEM and intelligent environment, it’s where I’ve found my community at PLU!” – Savannah, member of the STEM House Learning Community Read Previous All the Steps Read Next Payment Agreement

  • housing – you can always change later if needed! Email rlif@plu.edu if something comes up or if you have questions.Learning Community Application“I love living in STEM House because I’m surrounded by people who are driven and have similar goals and ambitions as I do. I also have access to resources related to STEM and intelligent environment, it’s where I’ve found my community at PLU!” – Savannah, member of the STEM House Learning Community Read Previous All the Steps Read Next Payment Agreement

  • practice the tenets of their tradition. In the spirit of Lutheran higher education, Franco often tells the students he works with, “the more perspectives you know, the closer you are to the truth.” Franco says that this mindset—which lies at the core of everything PLU does—both helps students affirm their previously held beliefs, and challenges them to change their minds. No matter the outcome, PLU values students’ journeys. But those journeys only accelerate when the institution encourages a broad

  • response venue for public debates was both stimulating and novel yet deeply rooted in the relevant scholarship on debating, argumentation and blogging. He was eager to see the research continue. Our research changed from something confined to meetings and highlighter marks and tallies, but something discussed internationally. Session attendees provided positive feedback: we were onto something that could change the face and future of public debate. The spark hasn’t disappeared—it’s grown into a fire

  • change, to travel to another world, to appease a spirit, to tell a story or to deliver a message. Bwa Mask Learn about this mask by the Bwa peoples of Burkina Faso and Mali. More Bete Gre Mask Learn about this mask by the Bete people of Côte d’Ivoire. More Likomba Learn about this mask by the Makonde people of Northeast Mozambique and Southern Tanzania. More Mossi Mask Learn about this mask by the Mossi people of Burkina Faso. More Mende Sowei Mask Learn about this mask by the Mende people of Sierra

  • and fluidity. Flux, is also synonymous with change. The exhibition’s theme of ‘in flux’ is a way to band many different artists together. “The only commonality between us all is that we are ever growing, ever changing, especially in this time of our lives,” Henderson explains. “This show is not an ending, but a beginning—a continuum of thought and idea.” At the year-end exhibition, students do more than display the work; they’re in charge of hanging the show, advertising for it and sorting out

  • that the classroom can be “the most radical space of possibility,” in the words of bell hooks. Personally, students have inspired me to learn more about the colonization of Guåhan, soap operas in the Philippines, the history of “the bedroom” as a concept, LGBTQ+ populations in Taiwan, local news practices in the Pacific Northwest, and much, much more. Students at PLU power change in our community, and as a teacher, I want to facilitate more spaces and avenues of agency for them to do so. Also, PLU

  • collective practices of resistance and flourishing. The field of Critical Race Studies began with 1960s movements for social change, when student activists of color organized to demand new curricula in higher education that centered Black, Chicanx and Asian culture and history.   CRS understands the historical formation of racial groups as not naturally determined, nor politically or morally neutral. Societies assign meaning to different racial categories; these meanings shift over time and across space