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systems and relationships where everyone can thrive and offers a network of advocacy resources, including a (very comfy) community gathering space, facilitating identity programs and communities, hosting a variety of events and celebrations and providing students vital leadership opportunities. 9. Take care of your emotional/spiritual self Taking care of your mental health means taking care of your emotional health, too. And for some people, an important part of mental and emotional health includes

like crazy. Every new building is green. We’re building new solar panel systems and rain gardens, and our student-run community garden provides nearly two tons of produce for area food banks. There are even paid student fellowships for students who want to find new ways to make PLU even more green. Rachel Wattley-Williams ’14 appreciates the connections she has made on campus, both with her fellow students and with the professors in her small classes #4 We’re Lutheran – and proud of it. But it

nations in my home state. So, I knew it would also be an opportunity to learn a lot more about these marginalized communities.”  Chell worked as a health systems coordinator providing a variety of support to the program.  “A few of my favorite projects were putting together a curriculum on how settler colonialism impacts social determinants of health,” she says.  “We spoke with leaders in the community and pulled together academic articles that will be used for the fellowship, but also will hopefully

shaped her into someone who can easily relate to others in challenging situations,” said Laura Fitzwater Gonzales, a PLU sociology professor. “April also confronts the racist and elitist systems and organizations within which she has to operate. Her ideas challenge the norms of whiteness and elitism and push us forward in new and different ways.”The transition into college life wasn’t easy. Reyes says it was difficult navigating her new world of academia. “It was a culture shock for me,” she said

woman.”” “She was an activist-author who never shied away from difficult subjects, but instead, embraced them in all their complexity. Lorde was a critic of second-wave feminism, helmed by white, middle-class women, and wrote that gender oppression was not inseparable from other oppressive systems like racism, classism and homophobia. She has made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing.” – from https

, said Jennifer Warwick, Victim Advocate and Voices Against Violence Project Administrator for the PLU Women’s Center, first-year students, especially, face challenges learning to navigate a new social life away from family or known support systems. “PLU has many ways in which it equips students to manage high-risk situations, such as educating incoming students about campus norms and expectations around alcohol and sexual consent, while also focusing sexual-assault prevention efforts on addressing

go. If they have more interest in the really small things, like molecular work, or virology, or microbiology, they can take classes on that. If they want to go bigger with the systems, in terms of ecology and organisms, they can do that too, and everything in between. I found it really amazing that students were able to create their own focus in that way.I also had a really good experience talking with students. I had lunch with three students during my interview here, and all of them were double

with undocumented student identities a lot, but it also intersects with so many of our other students on campus,” said Nicole Juliano, Assistant Director of the Diversity Center and task force member. The task force has also created financial support systems to help cover the cost of DACA renewal, and has set aside two Rieke Fellowships in the Diversity Center. “With things like this (the Rieke Fellowship) we are embedding in university culture that this is something we want to make sure doesn’t go

U.S.Interested in becoming PLU's next Fulbright?Check out your options for either the Fulbright Study/Research grant or the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) opportunity. While in the field, Fulbright recipients share the experiences of their host country’s people, working, living and learning alongside them in a cultural exchange through interaction. This type of engagement allows for both hands-on education and also an appreciation for different worldviews, belief systems and philosophies in an

really small things, like molecular work, or virology, or microbiology, they can take classes on that. If they want to go bigger with the systems, in terms of ecology and organisms, they can do that too, and everything in between. I found it really amazing that students were able to create their own focus in that way. I also had a really good experience talking with students. I had lunch with three students during my interview here, and all of them were double majoring. At my undergrad institution