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understand the curricula and pedagogical requirements of their courses, attempts should be made to accommodate a department or school’s proposed schedule to the greatest degree possible. However, experience reveals that inevitably not all requests can be accommodated due to limitations of the physical facilities, overall student needs, equity across departments or schools in the workloads of faculty, and the need for coordination between them. Common recommendations for managing the extremely complex
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gender equity focused living experience for approximately 100 residents and is home to the Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity Learning Community. All facilities are gender-inclusive, including bathrooms and showers, however the Learning Community is catered to women, nonbinary, and gender-fluid identifying individuals living there. Men-identifying students and guests may use the bathrooms located on the first floor designated for guests. Lower Campus Pflueger Hall residents enjoy Pflueger’s
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students a lot of flexibility for the remainder of their education, because we actually need a total of 128 credits to graduate with a bachelor’s degree. When I realized this, I started to consider a double major or a set of minors to round out my education. But what to pick? What I settled on is an interesting new program called Innovation Studies, which is an interdisciplinary minor requiring 20 credits of coursework (or five classes). When combined with my History degree, I think I’ve found a great
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. Mikhiela Sherrod, the director of US domestic programs for hunger relief organization Oxfam America, was both the conference’s keynote speaker and the moderator for Beeson’s panel. The panel on female empowerment in organizations brought Beeson together with students who compared modern women’s cooperatives and researched girls’ education in Kenya. “It was rewarding to be part of this conference,” Beeson says. “I had the opportunity for my research to be acknowledged on this scale.” Beeson’s research
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of Chinese Buddhism. He’s a quintessential teacher, beloved by students for leading engaging discussions, his imaginative project assignments, and planning field trips to nearby temples. It’s hard to imagine Hammerstrom in his element anywhere other than the front of a PLU classroom. That is, up until this year. Inspired by his Buddhist faith, Hammerstrom has gone from lecturer to listener. He took a sabbatical from PLU to complete a one-year residency as a chaplain at St. Joseph Medical Center
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ResearchThe Fred L. and Dorothy A. Tobiason Endowment for Faculty/Student Environmental ResearchThe Fred L. and Dorothy A. Tobiason Endowment for Faculty/Student Environmental Research was established with a gift from Alice T. Tobiason to honor Fred L. and Dorothy A. Tobiason for their long-time teaching and supporting work at Pacific Lutheran University and for their direct work on environmental issues. Alice, a long-time supporter of education at PLU, was a teacher for nearly 35 years, mostly in South
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Amy Young Professor of Communication she/her/hers Phone: 253-536-5165 Email: youngam@plu.edu Professional Biography Personal Additional Titles/Roles Vice-chair of Faculty Education Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of Texas, 2007 M.A., Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2003 B.A., Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Public Relations Books Teacher, Scholar, Mother: (Re)Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy (Lexington Books 2015) Prophets
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of endowment transparency, green buildings and investment priorities, the university rated a B. Tonn said if the Neeb Center had received its gold LEED rating by the time the study was completed, PLU most likely would have received an A in green buildings as well. Content Development Director Barbara Clements compiled this report. Reach her for comments or ideas at 253-535-7427 or clemenba@plu.edu Read Previous Rising Star Read Next PLU alum learns that being a teacher is a mixture of tough and
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— Northwest Leadership Foundation, a faith-based leadership and scholarship program. Coria-Islas was born and raised in Vallecitos de Zaragoza, Guerrero, Mexico, and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way. “PLU is an institution that allowed me to fulfill my dream of obtaining a tertiary school education, despite my legal status,” he said. All three first impressions of PLU are as unique as the individuals themselves, but each story contains a common theme: hospitality. It’s the seed
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a full scholarship through Act Six — Northwest Leadership Foundation, a faith-based leadership and scholarship program. Coria-Islas was born and raised in Vallecitos de Zaragoza, Guerrero, Mexico, and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way. “PLU is an institution that allowed me to fulfill my dream of obtaining a tertiary school education, despite my legal status,” he said. All three first impressions of PLU are as unique as the individuals themselves, but each story contains
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