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  • Short Term Study Away J-Term J-Term programs are led by a PLU faculty member, cover a wide range of subjects, and range in location from the Tacoma Hill Top to Tanzania. The chance to participate in these international and domestic study programs lets you immerse yourself in a country, culture or discipline that you never imagined – and get credit for it, too. Alternative Spring Break PLU offers one-week Alternative Spring Break courses both within the US and internationally including

  • responsibility of the student group. To avoid incurring such costs, student groups are encouraged to cancel in a timely manner and record the cancellation number assigned when the room is released. Reimbursement is limited to the rate for a single room unless the room is to be shared with another club/organization member. Any additional charges incurred that are personal in nature, must be deducted when completing the Travel Expense Voucher.

  • Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) The Faculty Executive Committee shall consist of the chair, vice-chair, and faculty secretary, the elected representative to the Board of Regents, and the chairs of the faculty standing committees. Advisory members shall consist of the president and the provost.  Consistent with the Bylaws, Article IV, Section 4.B.7-8, advisory members shall have the same rights and privileges as any other member of the committee except the right to make motions and to vote

  • Civilizations by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, served as Senior Advisor at the World Economic Forum and was a member of the Steering Committee of the Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders. As CEO of Soliya from 2008-2014, Mr. Idriss led a campaign involving public and private sector leaders to establish the field of “virtual exchange” which culminated in the establishment of the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative announced by U.S. President Obama in February 2015. Idriss is a member of the World

  • service included chair of the physics department (three-and-one-half years), a member of the Faculty Affairs Committee (five years), a member of the PLU Budget Advisory Committee (six years), parliamentarian to the chair of the Faculty Assembly (two years), elected faculty representative to the Board of Regents, and special assistant to the provost for budget modeling. He has also served as Treasurer of PLU’s chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. In 2016, in recognition of his years of service

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  • books of essays include A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.  He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.  Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities.  He is a longtime

  • perspective as a Sámi—that is, as a member of the Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia—this is a problem. This arrangement has some very negative impacts on Indigenous peoples and other groups who don’t share the cultural framework that the university privileges. The philosophies and intellectual traditions of non-privileged peoples are seen as simplistic, primitive, or limited, and the “truth” about these groups is then defined by scholars trained in the western academic tradition. One cultural

  • Emphasis or Expertise Holocaust Studies Nazi Germany European Women's History Responsibilities Oversees the Powell-Heller Family Conference each year; organizes the Lemkin Lecturer; oversees the Mayer Summer Scholars program for undergraduates doing research; mentors students engaged in Lemkin essay contests; works to build the Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor at PLU, currently as director of the program as well as faculty member; brings scholars and survivors together for presentations on campus

  • Expertise Holocaust Studies Nazi Germany European Women's History Responsibilities Oversees the Powell-Heller Family Conference each year; organizes the Lemkin Lecturer; oversees the Mayer Summer Scholars program for undergraduates doing research; mentors students engaged in Lemkin essay contests; works to build the Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor at PLU, currently as director of the program as well as faculty member; brings scholars and survivors together for presentations on campus. Books Anti

  • Officer. Prior to joining Milgard, Gessel gained extensive experience in financial leadership in consumer–packaged goods as Vice President, CFO of Nalley’s Fine Foods, Assistant Vice President of Seafirst Corporation/Bank of America, and as a member of the corporate finance team and leadership development program at Ford Motor Company. Gessel holds a Master of Science in Industrial Administration (MSIA) from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Brigham Young University