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. Everything from selecting a college to filling out applications, from choosing electives to choosing a meal plan can be a bigger challenge for first-generation students who have no one at home to offer advice based on personal experience. And once they clear the big hurdles — gaining admission, securing scholarships and loans — first-in-the-family students may find themselves on campus struggling with the feeling that they don’t really belong there. Kate Luther ’02, who chairs the PLU Department of
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as a birthright. Everything from selecting a college to filling out applications, from choosing electives to choosing a meal plan can be a bigger challenge for first-generation students who have no one at home to offer advice based on personal experience. And once they clear the big hurdles — gaining admission, securing scholarships and loans — first-in-the-family students may find themselves on campus struggling with the feeling that they don’t really belong there. Kate Luther ’02, who chairs
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. Visiting students virtually, Brad Goode, Drew Zaremba, Patty Darling, Greg Yasinitsky, and faculty Kate Olson shared their insights. They imparted many pieces of wisdom, including these quotes: Kate Olson What degree you have doesn’t compare to everything you can do… A piece of paper shouldn’t limit what opportunities are available to you. Greg Yasinitsky Listen to inspiring music every day. Listen deeply and widely! Sing along with the record because that is how you know that you really know it! Drew
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, and a volunteer work party to get the plot’s first official growing season started. The Garden Club has been working throughout the year to prepare the new site for planting. Many months and man-hours later, the site has 22 garden beds and the soil is ready for planting. This year marks the third growing season for the community garden. First established in 1997 by student Brian Norman, the community garden didn’t live past his graduation a year later. In April 2006, Becky Mares ’07 and Kate
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for the Washington Association of School Administrators and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction — the state’s top education office — before landing at the ESD in 2016. “I was hired to develop the communications department at the ESD,” she says. “It was an awesome opportunity.” She started as a one-woman department, then began building her team. One of her first employees was another Lute, Kate Hall ’17. Another Lute was scheduled to join Jaudon’s team after graduation. “PLU has
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Experience, and International Honors will continue to reside under the Office of the Provost. Changes were made to this article on January 11, 2024, to update the name of the College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social Sciences to the new name, College of Liberal Studies. Read Previous Summer Internship: Economics major finds family environment with global company Read Next Kate Hall ’17 builds connections, serves community at ESD 113 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the
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The drones in this exhibit promote the PLU Life Under Drones Symposium which explores the implications of drone technology in a rapidly changing society. Exhibit supported: The 2019 Life Under Drones Symposium and the Department of Communication Curators: Holly Senn, Librarian, and Professor Kate Hoyt Books in Support of the 2019 Common Read The 2019 Common Reading book is Octavia Butler’s Kindred A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. The books in this exhibit related
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Backstage with Violinist Svend Rønning Posted by: Kate Williams / February 23, 2018 February 23, 2018 By Tacoma Youth Chorus, December 2017 This week we sat down with Dr. Rønning to talk about everything from Rick Steves to Rachmaninoff. Read on! How did you first get started playing the violin? What drew you to the instrument? My mother tells me that she noticed that I loved to sing from a very early age. So, when I was five years old, she enrolled me at the Suzuki Institute in Seattle. I
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University Jazz Ensemble while teaching classes in jazz composition, arranging and functional jazz piano. Jazz students at PLU will take her masterclass with a focus on band, composition and arranging for jazz. www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/faculty/patty_darling Read Previous Faculty Feature: Dr. Jeffrey Bell-Hanson, Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Activities Read Next Introducing New Music Faculty Kate Olson LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from
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wanted to attend. At the beginning of February, Kate Schneider, PLU Director of Employer Relations, emailed me saying I was one of the students selected to go to Amazon. PLU students got a great view of Seattle’s Lake Union from the top of one of Amazon’s buildings. (Photo: Amanda Brasgalla ’15) I was really excited, and shortly after, we were contacted by an Amazon recruiter who shared additional information and prepared us for the event. On the morning of Feb. 23, we left campus bright and early
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