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?” The trip to Tennessee will be a homecoming of sorts for at least one Lute musician: Former Co-Director of University of Tennessee’s “Pride of the Southland” marching band, Powell will be conducting the Wind Ensemble. Powell, also a Professor of Music, is well-known in Tennessee, having taught conducting courses and music-education methods at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In addition to co-directing the marching band while at UT, he also served as Assistant Director of Bands and was

Rethinking Assessment at a Distance Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 18, 2020 March 18, 2020 By Dana Shreaves, Instructional Designer Considering how to assess students at a distance may seem daunting. Many faculty have always relied on specific assessment practices and believe in-person assessment is the best way to assess student learning. However, the principles underlying good assessment practices are relevant to both online and face-to-face activities. Assessment at a distance may

strengths as we address significant changes – changes not of our own making – in the educational landscape that lies before us. Said differently, the great long-range question is how do we wisely and strategically navigate a path that will ensure that our mission and program remains compelling, relevant, effective and, yes, affordable in the years ahead? To do so will require that we face change boldly and with confidence as we prepare to serve a new cohort of students, incorporate technology, become

Ghostbusters through the lens of religious dialogues. The way we interpret Ghostbusters is that each of the main Ghostbusters is sort of a category of these archetypes.” Henrik Hamer Rojahn is a PLU senior, majoring in English Writing. He completed this article as part of his work in English 425: Nonfiction Writing Capstone. Read Previous New Faculty Profile: Adam Arnold Read Next A Conversation with Dr. Moneyang and Dr. Ortigas LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman

You Ask, We Answer: PLU is too close to home…or is it? Posted by: shortea / March 13, 2023 March 13, 2023 I have grown up in Parkland, WA my entire life. I went to Brookdale Elementary, Keithley Middle School, and then Washington High School. The last thing I wanted to do was to attend PLU, as it had been right there in my backyard and right next to those three schools.So when I went to college, I decided to go far from home. I didn’t want to stay somewhere I had already been. But to my

Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture Posted by: halvormj / July 31, 2019 July 31, 2019 On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University Center. Professor Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard, where he teaches the history of the

October 28, 2013 Medal of Freedom honoree and PLU alumnus returns for Nov. 21 lecture Alumnus Dr. William H. Foege, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for leading the fight to successfully eradicate smallpox, returns to PLU on Nov. 21 for a free public lecture and book-signing. The event will take place in the Phillips Center at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Foege, an epidemiologist, worked on the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. Presenting Dr. Foege with the nation’s highest

LUTES ANSWER: What does it mean to innovate wherever you are? Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 What does it mean to innovate wherever you are? “To innovate everywhere means to think ahead and find new ways to answer new and old questions. It’s finding new ways to make even the mundane fun. Wherever I am I look for the next step, the step that revolutionizes and transforms where I am and who I am. ” –Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23 History Major General Manager, Lute Air Radio “It’s

Program is a resource for faculty and staff. On Wednesday, Campus Ministry will host an informal community gathering at 12 p.m. on the second floor of Karen Hille Phillips Center. Members of the PLU community are invited to share thoughts, feelings, stories, music, or simply to gather with others in remembering and celebrating Rae Linda. Please join us to celebrate Rae Linda’s life and honor her memory on Monday, Sept 25, 6-7pm (followed by an open reception) in Mary Baker Russell Music Center’s

University-Chicago. In addition to teaching classes in the graduate and undergraduate theology programs, she also teaches in the Women’s Studies Program, the Institute of Pastoral Studies and the Catholic Studies Program. “I’ll be talking about the ways that beauty has been understood as a way to find God, how traditional ways of seeing beauty have objectified women and made beauty something ‘above’ the world, and how women’s practices of beauty – in the past and present – suggest ways of linking beauty