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fiscal sustainability and resource optimization. Though it wasn’t lost on him that tropes from the banking world had seemingly followed him to PLU. “In higher education, there was a lot of ‘We’ve always done it that way,’ ‘It will take too long,’ and ‘That’s not feasible’ ” he remembers. “We had to stop thinking that way. We needed to start thinking in the innovative ways we challenge our students to think in —  to ask big, challenging questions and listen for unexpected answers.”OCTOBER 2017: PLU

themselves. His idea that the unexamined life is not worthy living is referenced often. But what did examining life get him? Executed! Maybe the unexamined life is not worth living, but at least you get to live. Original thinkers have often faced persecution, exile and execution. Thinking can be dangerous. Putting your thoughts out into the public arena where they can be acted on can be deadly, for yourself or for others. Ideas about individuality and democracy obviously changed the world, but many died

intellectually sophisticated work, for how much effort she put into everything she accomplished, because of her true love for learning, and for the ways in which her commitment to critical thinking and social justice has shaped her research and her activism to this day.” Prior to the COVID-19 stay-at-home order, Smith had approached Benge with an offer to use partial grant funding to organize a series of arts-based workshops. Benge and Urdangarain were in talks to translate a theater piece about experiences

devices used across the campus network. Although most of his work goes unseen to the average Lute, Greg’s work affects every student and employee every day that they work, attend class or spend time anywhere on campus. Greg’s technical aptitude, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills are all essential to this University. In the Fall of 2020, Greg was instrumental in a project that allowed the I&TS team to improve PLU’s cybersecurity infrastructure and sell three-fourths of our IP

working in small groups, or large organizations, such as nonprofits, universities, and government organizations. How does Social Innovation work? At Pacific Lutheran University, we begin by investigating political, social, environmental, and economic challenges, and then we apply attributes like critical thinking, economic analysis, and sustainable business design to imagine solutions to the problems. Social innovations are often complex–they take on big issues like human rights abuses, stigmas in

what you can build from it, or what patterns you can find and connections you can make. When did you decide on environmental studies? My Writing 101 course was “Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.” The purpose of the class was to learn scientific technical writing, but I was surprised at how arbitrary taxonomy is. That got me interested in animal studies and a critical lens of the sciences, which is why I added environmental studies. The first thing I noticed on the bus from the airport [in Oxford

, faculty seminar on Lutheran Higher Education, and fellows program. Our Meant to Live events connect alumni and current students. This year, our student interns produced an amazing video series and podcast which are worth checking out! Vocation is such a complex, rich, and important concept and we hope that the Wild Hope Institute will help us to reach every student who wants to engage with it. Real work around vocation requires time, trusting relationships and mentoring, critical questioning, reading