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Administration (MBA) program, a highlight is the required (and included) 10-day International Experience. Mulder describes it as “an opportunity to use the world as a classroom and meet with industry executives to learn about business best practices all over the world.” In the past decade alone, business students have traveled to places like Chile, South Korea, Singapore and China. In the years ahead, faculty members are planning learning programs in Peru and Germany. As this tradition of global learning

. The Namibian alumni, who currently work in all sectors of Namibia, from forensic science to foreign relations, will lead a panel discussion after the film about the impact education had on them and what it means for their democracy today. Student filmmakers Princess Reese and Andrea Capere will also be present for a question-and-answer session about the making of the film. Admission to the event is open to all. Namibia Nine is sponsored by the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education

Austin Beierman ‘18 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Victoria SchultzAustin Beierman, class of 2018, Reike Scholar, and newly appointed Director of Accessibility and Accommodations, continues to live the Diversity Center’s mission of care and equity.As a high school junior, Austin joined a PLU volleyball camp sponsored by College Bound, a non-profit that helped with college access programming. Austin explained that he and his friends would eat in the UC and then play

live musicians and vocalists into their dance set to a song from the musical “Spring Awakening” A ballet work choreographed by Elizabeth Long and set to the music of Aaron Copland Maurice Eckstein, whose lyrical, ritualistic dance was accompanied by the sounds of Ella Andell Senior Jenna Calhoun, who used the music of Imogen Heap as the background for her abstract modern work Rebecca Sharp, whose jazz work featured “Guess Who” and “American Woman” The performance was sponsored by the School of Arts

values; Freedom for expression and protection of learning; A liberating foundation in the liberal arts; Learning and research within community; The intrinsic value of the whole creation; Discerning one’s vocations in the world; and Service to the advancement of life, health and wholeness. Flowing from the creation of Core Elements, in July PLU and the ELCA Office for Colleges and Universities sponsored the first-ever conference on introducing faculty and staff to the intellectually robust and world

Library. The photo exhibition, created and sponsored by the Munich-based White Rose Foundation (Weiße Rose Stiftung), chronicles the brief yet intense history of the White Rose resistance movement against the Nazi regime. The exhibit is currently on tour across the United States and comes to PLU during the university’s renowned Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, March 12-14. According to exhibit organizers, The White Rose was a small, nonviolent resistance group formed in 1942 by

collaborated for many years through the Northwest News Network, and through other fundraising and community events. “We believe that in KUOW’s capable hands, this important asset will continue to serve and celebrate the greater Puget Sound community, as well as national and international audiences,” said PLU President Thomas W. Krise. “This is a natural union between two university-sponsored public radio stations that, for many years, have shared a common mission to inform, educate and entertain our region

, activists and professors from the University of Washington, Georgetown University and Middlebury College. The conference will also include a variety of panels, workshops and debates led by professionals, hands-on practitioners, and PLU professors and alumni exploring multiple themes of connection and community. Additionally, experiential sessions will be offered that include a debate sponsored in collaboration with College Debates and Discourse Alliance and ASPLU, a talk and guided meditation by

together have sharpened and focused our mission as a Lutheran university. Together we have achieved our goals to cultivate academic excellence, to enhance our global perspective, to build an engaged community and to nurture life as vocation in the fullest sense. “Our community has turned these dreams into the reality of fiscal strength, balanced budgets, and enrollment stability while ensuring broad access to our programs for all,” he said. “These real and lasting accomplishments belong to the entire

her start in the organization. “Moving was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It made me grow up,” said the Oregon City native. During her time at NASA, Wold has held various positions within the company. From 1987-1991, she worked in the Human Resources department, maintaining a range of responsibilities from improving the efficiency of hiring practices to organizing new employee programs. She also gave occasional tours of the NASA facilities. “I am a master at walking backwards in