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how many different ways that this can touch people economically.” Mulder attributes the success of the PLU course to the diverse group of students enrolled. “We have so many students coming from so many different disciplines and that’s a point of celebration for us,” he said. “Education, philosophy, environmental science and it’s a great chance to celebrate the diversity and thought that comes into the MBA program. And that’s who PLU is.” And Miller is pretty happy with the results. “At PLU, the
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learners come to class as “practice students” — Park helped that day’s teacher with the lesson. Students learned, all in Korean, how to make kimbap — a sort of Korean sushi roll. “She’s really been a leader in the program,” Yaden said.LEARN MORE AND APPLYVisit plu.edu/languages/startalk-teacher-program to learn more about the program or contact Bridget Yaden at byaden@plu.edu. Read Previous For PLU’s Mary Moller, Nurse of the Year award was a career in the making Read Next PLU’s Diversity Center
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; jQuery.browser.version = 0; if(navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE ([0-9]+)\./)) { jQuery.browser.msie = true; jQuery.browser.version = RegExp.$1; } })(); You do not have javascript enabled. You can complete this form by following this link: https://plu.formstack.com/forms/msk_article_request_info Another purposeful element of the program’s design is diversity and inclusion — preparing graduates for work with people from all backgrounds and with a range of abilities. “If we have an individual with cerebral palsy or even
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—so my family was happy.” Making the decision to attend PLU was easy. The difficult part came when it was time to leave her close-knit family. Gutierrez found Western Washington a major change from where she grew up in Central Washington. “It was hard with the change of literal environment,” she said. “It’s rainy over here, there’s more population, more diversity. It’s a real city.” Gutierrez enjoyed her new school and making new friends but she admits she was homesick for her community back in
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Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Words Can Hurt Featured / September 2, 2014 The Word-Choice Campaign Everyone is Talking About By Sandy Deneau Dunham RESOLUTE Editor I t seems fitting that PLU’s My Language/My Choice campaign grew into something giant—it’s evolved so exponentially and organically over the years, there really was no other way to go. Originally spurred with a $500 Diversity Center grant from The Pride Foundation, the campaign
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better able we are to improve society. Diversity in profession and education benefits everyone.” Chávez said her speech at the conference focused on the findings of her most recent book project, which is due out in 2019. The book, titled Latino Professional Success in America: Public Policies, People, and Perseverance, explores how first-generation Latinos became professionals, their experiences as professionals amid the country’s institutional racism, and the policies and programs this group
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and offer courses that match the program’s interdisciplinary learning outcomes. https://www.plu.edu/innovation-studies/learning-outcomes/ Grant Details Three stipends of $2,500 each will be provided to faculty from any discipline during the Summer term. Consider how creativity and innovation work to advance your field, contribute to the common good, and advance mission-oriented objectives such as vocation, sustainability, justice, diversity, and inclusion. The most recent recipient of this grant
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McKenney, PLU’s chair of geosciences. Wallace said welcoming invites students to come to campus. Belonging means checking up on students after they’re invited to come to campus. “PLU could do a little bit more outreach,” Wallace said. “PLU could have staff and faculty check up on students a little bit more often.” Belonging is about all students from all walks of life feeling ownership over their spaces on campus, said Angie Hambrick, PLU’s assistant vice president for diversity, justice and
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to experience new cultures. Qualifying photos for this category may reflect the diversity of the people, cultures and artifacts of your host communities.1st Place Jerdil Castillo “The Woman of Pottery!” You see one of the co-owners of Union De Artesanías De Cerámica. This is the sister of owner Francisca Martinez Aragón. These sisters have spent their whole life’s work on this amazing pottery. I took this photo while in the intensive Spanish study class of Oaxaca 2022. Our group on this day was
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engage with indigenous communities, stories and worldviews at the regional, national, hemispheric and global levels. Most human diversity is found in indigenous contexts. One example: 5,000 of the world’s 6,000 languages are indigenous. The NAIS Program at PLU uses that diversity to structure curriculum and classroom learning practices. The idea is not to present indigenous peoples as museum-like objects, but to engage with them as living, vibrant communities. More info about NAIS This spring, she
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