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  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 13, 2017)- Hop on my pink tour bus and let me tell you about the craziest days I experienced this past January — or the days we called the Choir of the West Southwest Tour (for hashtag purposes, #COWthwesternTour). Over 11 days,…

    probably the most fulfilling trip I’ve ever taken."- Kiana Norman-Slack '17 A number of us were determined to hit every single ride, while others just floated around and people-watched. I vowed to do two things and succeeded: get on my all-time favorite ride, Indiana Jones, and finally try a Dole Whip Float. I left the park that night feeling very content…and hoarse. We stayed in some pretty nice hotels for most of the trip, but homestays were an important part of our tour. I had never done a homestay

  • By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career…

    is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. It also has over 540,000 employees after the recent merger with Whole Foods, making it the second-largest employer in the United States. The company started as an online bookstore in 1994 and later broadened its offerings to include video and audio content, electronics, apparel, furniture, and many of its own brands and products (Kindle, Fire Tablet, Fire TV, Echo, AmazonBasics, Stone & Beam). Amazon

  • Intensive Caring – PLU nurses take their skills to cardiac patients at their homes By Barbara Clements Leo Rivas, a Pacific Lutheran University nursing student, had stopped by for a chat with his client, Trevor Modeste, 54, who lives in a tidy rambler tucked between…

    time, both hope they can talk about sports. This report was prepared by Content Development Director Barbara Clements. Comments? Questions? Call her at 253-535-7427. Photography by Gilbert W. Arias. Read Previous New Holocaust Chair at PLU Read Next Lost Boy of Sudan COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 14, 2020) — Jessica Anderson ’07 is hunkering down at home in Montana with husband Chris, kids Bryer and Jase, and Jethro the dog while working for an EdTech company supporting educators across the country as they transition to distance learning. As…

    relevant for the masses. “My job in some ways has shifted a lot, but in other ways not at all. I am still working with my team to provide professional development for our instructional coaches, yet the content of that professional development has shifted to focusing exclusively on distance and virtual learning,” Anderson said. “This shift isn’t outside of our wheelhouse. We’ve been providing virtual professional development for many years in blended and personalized learning and student-centered

  • On Exhibit: Common Reading Book 2021, The Best We Could Do The 2021-2022 academic year Common Reading book is the critically acclaimed graphic novel,  The Best We Could Do  by Thi Bui. In this timely and breathtaking memoir, Bui explores her experiences as a daughter…

    , the library has online films and journal articles and links to other content. Below is the virtual exhibit with links to resources.   Website Critical Refugee Studies Collective. (n.d.) Critical Research, Teaching, and Public Initiatives on Refugees. https://criticalrefugeestudies.com/ Refugees have long been the objects of inquiry for fields such as sociology, history, and political science. Refugees are also often featured in the media serving as objects of suffering or agents of terrorism. The

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 6, 2017)- When George and Helen Long reached out to Pacific Lutheran University 10 years ago, all they knew was that they wanted to support the sciences. “George sort of felt like he owed his success and his career to PLU,” said…

    writing content for the nonprofit’s website. Her beat was technological solutions and global education. She wrote pieces about artificial intelligence as a solution to poverty, and the education of refugees to name a few. This sort of research-based, nonfiction writing is Hurtt’s comfort zone. In her junior year she switched majors from biology to English literature, making one of the biggest jumps between academic disciplines. But her experience in analytical writing was one of the reasons she

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — Tolu Taiwo and Angie Hambrick know all about wearing natural hair in predominantly white spaces. “Hair is a really important piece of our culture and who we are, and it’s an interesting piece to navigate when you’re also at…

    but also wanting to be in touch with their roots.” "For a lot (of the women), it was a personal health choice. Both thinking about the strength of hair but also wanting to be in touch with their roots."- Tolu Taiwo After the first journal they submitted to didn’t accept the article, Hambrick and Taiwo spent time fine-tuning the content, orienting the paper more toward higher education and student affairs. They then submitted it to the Association for the Study of Higher Education and National

  • Originally published in 1991 Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t…

    unreasonable belief would seem to yield unreasonable commitment. But, one might object, doesn’t then unconditional commitment require unconditional belief? MacIntyre, for example, contends that “part of the content of Christian belief is that a decisive adherence has to be given to God. So that to hold Christian belief as a hypothesis would be to render it no longer Christian belief” (p.181). As they say, it all depends on what you mean by “unconditional”; but it also depends on what is invoked in

  • In the movie Jerry Maguire , the lead character is an incredibly successful and charismatic sports agent. Jerry has a crisis of conscience one night, after the young son of one of his injured players curses him out. Jerry realizes he’s come to value his…

    contributed to that jump, but I’d like to think that having greater visibility across our primary recruiting region has certainly been one of them. The other thing we look at how is how our web site performs, where our traffic comes from, and how visitors engage with our content. Our web site is often the front door for students and their families who are just beginning to explore college options. Again, there are lots of things that contribute to these year-over-year increases, most notably a new web

  • Two PLU professors were recently invited to teach a summer intensive course at Sichuan University, a 70,000-student public university in Chengdu, China. PLU and Sichuan have a decades-long relationship that dates back to the 1980s. PLU faculty visits took place in 2023, and in summer…

    . Sometimes they would ask me about a word, and I would try to describe it in a different way. A lot of them had translator apps so they could look up words. Yaden: Students there were less comfortable, less experienced with group work. I did a lot of metacognition with them to talk about this difference. Students in China were content to listen to me talk for three hours — if I were to do that. But I didn’t – I wanted to de-center myself as the teacher and center students so that they would engage, talk