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emphasizes, above all, listening and dialogue. – Carmiña Palerm Carmiña Palerm’s is an assistant professor of Spanish at PLU. PART TWO Pacific Lutheran University encourages its students to become global citizens, priding itself on offering a global education with programs on all seven continents. In its most honorable presentation, this international perspective inspires students to think beyond themselves as Americans, to look at how the American way of life impacts other cultures and countries. In its
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PLU’s office of Campus Ministry. After a bunch of discussions, Alazadi and others around campus of various faiths created the Reflection Room, a place for students of all faiths – or those with no professed faith – to reflect and think. Brenda Ihssen, visiting assistant professor of religious history and historical theology, added that these clubs are evidence “that there is an open dialogue between the academic study of religion and the interest–and investment–that individuals have in their faith
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to explore their potential, and connect classroom learning with real-life application, complex dialogue, and meaning-making. Providing leadership opportunities where students explore potential, are given the tools to try, sometimes fail and learn it’s okay to fall, then to get back up again. And sometimes succeed, and learn new passions and ways they are capable and competent, and can build a bridge to the future they imagine, or newly imagine. And by connecting students to each other, affinity
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Muslim, and a Jew in interfaith dialogue, because that’s not usually who we have engaging with Campus Ministry. Often students are connecting with us and saying things like I don’t know, but I’m curious; I find the sacred in nature; or I feel connected to something bigger than me, but I don’t know how to think about that. So they’re not affiliated with a specific religion, but it’s not as though they aren’t religious or spiritual. It’s my understanding that many of our students who are religious stay
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inquiry and leadership,” languages taught at the university also needed to enable students and scholars to engage in an ongoing critical examination of, and dialogue with, the original texts from the past that have shaped and influenced our –and others’– present. Without this, the university only produces what Luther called “unlettered preachers of the faith”: well-intentioned and well-versed purveyors of ideas that they have accepted but have no means to investigate or to transcend. Luther’s insight
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Gordon Associate professor in the School of Arts and Sciences at Ednicott College Jim Anderson Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University Ēriks Ešenvalds Composer Judy Sweet and Sharon Taylor Sports leaders Fiery Jade — Cai Yan World Premier Opera The Gamers Indie-Film Sensation Steinar Bryn Dialogue Expert Jess X. Chen Poet Jennifer Harvey Ph.D. and Professor of Religion Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education Women and the Holocaust Brian Bannon CEO of the
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evolve as I learn more about myself and the world around me. PLU is home to so many wonderful people who also identify as feminists and many others who are open to dialogue and challenge my way of thinking, and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to grow and learn within this community. Why was/is the group needed? Andrew Harron ‘09: The Feminist Student Union was about getting people involved in feminist issues on a deeper level. Many people were introduced to feminism through campus events
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constitute and make pragmatically meaningful either professional or liberal arts education. In the remaining paragraphs, I would like to offer a few initial reflections as kindling for the dialogue that I believe to be vital to the integrity of our institution and to our identity. These bits of wood will undoubtedly reveal their sources, which is deeply rooted in the humanities.My hunch is that understanding the foundations of liberal arts and professional orientations in the classroom calls us to
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the Provost. Shortly thereafter, one should contact the Office of Advancement and talk with the grants representative. In cases where the proposal has a large, programmatic reach of the grant is broad, and/or if matching funds from PLU will be requested, it is especially important to begin conversations with the department chair, dean, and the Offices of Advancement, Provost, and Finance and Administration early in the process of developing the proposal. To aid in that dialogue, applicants should
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. There is a step-by-step document located on the BUSO/Purchase Card page. Works: Why do I have to enter comments twice?While in the transaction, you can add a comment. When you are finished and want to sign-out, the system will require you to enter a comment. A few options are: Enter your comments within the transaction. When the required box shows up, enter a couple of letters (i.e. na, ok). Wait until the required box shows up, then enter comments. Use the extra comment box as a ‘dialogue’ (i.e
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