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year! Did you know? From Chinese music recitals and lectures to small group discussions with visiting Chinese scholars and Chinese-style dinner parties, there are plenty of opportunities to continue your learning outside the classroom! Did you know? PLU’s Kreidler Global Residence Hall gives Chinese Studies students the option to live in the Chinese language wing, and focus on global awareness, language immersion, and cultural engagement. Students practice their language with other community
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Global Classrooms Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / November 26, 2019 Image: PLU has long been a leader in global education, becoming the first U.S. college to have students and professors studying on all seven continents at the same time. November 26, 2019 By Emily McCannAdmissionIn January 2006, a group of PLU students — bundled up in warm coats, gloves, hats and sturdy boots — stepped carefully from the boat on which they'd been traveling onto the rocky and icy shores of Antarctica. This
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he’s passionate about educating people and giving people the opportunities that come with education. “It looks appealing and it speaks to me in so many ways,” Akuien said. He hopes to return to Sudan as an educator. He hopes to make his country great. “If you know where you’ve gone, you know where you’re going and you know where you’ve got to go.” His earliest memories are of being carried by a cousin with a group of refugees through thousands of miles of harsh wilderness and a homeland ravaged by
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: Visibility and Empathy. Part of the 2015 SOAC Focus Series: Perspective, this panel explores the nature of conflict, communication and the arts. When individuals, groups and communities clash, there is a sense that one’s perspective is not being heard and seen. The work of conflict practitioners is to create and facilitate processes that allow each group to see the other. The process of making others visible and of helping participants take perspective can involve an array of expression – storytelling
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intimacy and inspires collaboration. Sponsored by the Center for Gender Equity. Fall Forum on Sexual Assault and Violence Sept. 27 | 3:45 – 5 p.m. | AUC Regency Room The PLU community continues open dialogues on sexual assault and violence on campus in an effort to expand community understanding and advocacy, while also increasing the safety and care of our community. Sponsored by the Title IX Working Group. Guest Speaker: Representative David Sawyer Sept. 28 | 1:45 p.m. | Xavier 201 Rep. David Sawyer
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white community—need to hear and understand stories about the experience of racism long before we can sit down and think effectively about what to do about it.I started one such race chat with a story from a conference I attended last winter. I was sitting with a small group of college presidents, discussing these issues, when one woman told the story about being at a weekend workshop for college presidents. Her seatmate was a black male college president, and they complained to each other that
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recommend we focus on the “Net Tuition Revenue Per Student” (NTRPS) rather than the discount rate. Our NTRPS is steadily rising and that’s a solid indicator of the market’s perception of our quality and value. Nationally, the NTRPS has been flat for private colleges, so our rising figure is all the more notable. Our sticker price is right in the middle of our peer group in the Pacific Northwest, which is probably about where it should be. I pay attention to the discount rate, but I only worry about
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to a successful IPO in 2004. Earlier, Gibbs was executive vice president at The Weber Group (later Weber Shandwick Worldwide), where she managed six offices and participated in managing key enterprise accounts including Adobe and Gateway Computer. Gibbs has also served as vice president of corporate communications at Nike, where she was chief communications strategist and spokesperson on a wide range of issues including regulatory concerns, production sourcing and labor practices, mergers and
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,” she said. The turning point came when Simmons entered treatment and a re-entry program while incarcerated. She discovered her faith and gained access to a wealth of volunteers, including PLU alumna Liz (Arne) Lusk. Lusk and a group of Lutheran women sponsored inmates who were on work release. Simmons received transportation, clothes and other resources from Lusk during that time. Lusk even took Simmons and her son bowling during one of the two days per week she was permitted to leave the
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. “That was definitely my rock bottom,” she said. The turning point came when Simmons entered treatment and a re-entry program while incarcerated. She discovered her faith and gained access to a wealth of volunteers, including PLU alumna Liz (Arne) Lusk. Lusk and a group of Lutheran women sponsored inmates who were on work release. Simmons received transportation, clothes and other resources from Lusk during that time. Lusk even took Simmons and her son bowling during one of the two days per week she
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