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Course in the Humanities Read Next Entrepreneur Justin Foster ’02 on making meaningful relationships with faculty 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 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in

of security and community building experience, including 10 on college campuses, to his new role at PLU,” said PLU Vice President for Student Life Joanna Royce-Davis. “He has an established track record of partnering with students, staff and faculty members; building collaborative relationships with off-campus partners and neighbors; and leading a campus safety department that emphasizes care for the community.”An unarmed and unsworn department, PLU’s Department of Campus Safety provides 24/7/365

Privilege Conference (WPC) and The Privilege Institute (TPI), which engages people in research, education, action, and leadership through workshops, conferences, publications, and strategic partnerships and relationships. The author of a new book titled “The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys,” Moore’s talk at the People’s Gathering will address the question “America is Changing: Are You Ready?” People’s Gathering participants will be challenged to examine and explore issues related to bias

the reason that Ellie Dieringer ’23, a global studies and Hispanic and Latino studies double major, decided to pursue research in this area. Throughout her time at PLU, she focused her global lens on Latin America — specifically Argentina and Uruguay. “Part of what drew me to the research I’m doing is the relationships between institutions and the stories they decide to tell,” she explains. During her freshman year at PLU, Dieringer headed to Uruguay for a month-long study abroad trip. While

On Exhibit: Stalking Awareness Month 2022 Posted by: Holly Senn / December 21, 2021 December 21, 2021 January is Stalking Awareness Month. The PLU Center for Gender Equity is choosing to uplift stalking awareness in this library exhibit because it often falls to the wayside in discussions of domestic violence, healthy relationships, and romantic gestures. Across media and society throughout the decades, stalking behaviors have frequently been mischaracterized as romantic, not a big deal, sweet

disabilities. You can partner with OAA, faculty, and staff to establish reasonable accommodations and services (at no cost) to receive equitable access to academic and co-curricular opportunities. 8. Build meaningful relationships PLU has had long-standing values of diversity, justice and sustainability (DJS) – we even have an entire center dedicated to living out those values! The Center for Diversity, Justice & Sustainability is committed to working with students, faculty and staff to create equitable

,” Wilkens said. “Really, it seems the only way to live.” Wilkens told the crowd getting to know each other is such an important part in understanding one another.  Children don’t inherently dream of growing up as mass murders, as people who commit genocide. There is innocents their and with that hope, Wilkens said. “You just realize it isn’t them and us,” he said. “It’s just us.” “It’s about relationships,” Wilkens said. “It’s not like relationships is the silver bullet. It’s the only bullet.” Read

degree from PLU on the GI bill, and soon after, found herself starting up the Columbia Gia Dinh Clinic in Vietnam. Her team found they had a shell of a building, a couple of computers and one bathroom when they arrived in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, in 1998. Holt said she had to learn the way things were done in Vietnam very quickly. Ambulances were old VW buses, and family members were responsible for getting the patient into the hospital. Medical supplies were cheaper to pick up literally

improv group, Muh Grog Zoo, will perform. From PLU to the Broadway Center to TEDxTacoma, it’s all come together for Utley like, well, a carefully crafted script—complete with a couple of fateful plot turns. At PLU, Utley studied Theater and spent a good deal of time with the Music program. “My education in the undergrad program and the things that I was involved with … made me realize that music and theater and the arts aren’t just a hobby; they aren’t just something you do for fun to entertain

, this exposure to research whets their appetite for more, and they find graduate work to be a fulfilling challenge.” “Just a couple of weeks ago, we brought back a panel of recent alumni currently in their first post-graduate employment in investment banking, consulting, government agency and health-sector jobs,” says Peterson. “All of them spoke highly of their Capstone experience and how helpful it had been in preparing them for and securing their first job.” Travis and Peterson say that PLU