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field in which you expect to study. (Schools/employers may have even more specific requirements.) In an academic setting, choose a professor from whom you earned a good grade in one or more classes, that you have impressed by your academic performance, creativity, work ethic, and sparkling personality. A seminar or upper-level class should give the instructor the opportunity to know you and to write a detailed, substantive letter addressing qualities such as professionalism, leadership potential
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a tough job with the PLU nurses he works with. Shaping Health CarePLU’s first doctoral program trains nurse practitioners for lives of leadership. “They are all bright,” Larsen said. “They are eager, they are willing, they’re gung-ho. I’ve never had a student who was questionable. I’m sure it has to do with the incredibly competitive selection process.” The nurses in training bring that passion to partner providers in surrounding communities, where they often help underserved patients in areas
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communications. This strategy aims to raise the visibility of PLU and inspire connection with prospective students and their families, current students, alumni, donors, influencers/thought leaders, and community members. Smith joined Student Involvement & Leadership at PLU in 2005. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art from the University of Puget Sound and a MBA from PLU. Smith most recently served as the Executive Director of Content Development at PLU and was directly responsible for curating
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work, especially on this issue and especially in this state that I love, is what I wanted to do,” he says. Austin’s leadership at Transportation Choices landed him on the radar of the national transportation advocacy community. In 2012, he was recruited to serve as the Executive Director of a national nonprofit called Americans for Transit. The opportunity meant moving from one Washington to the other, a transition Austin had always hoped might be possible. “D.C. is its own realm, much different
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writer and photographer witnessed some PLU graduates in action and documented a slice of their lives of leadership, care and inquiry. Thu Nguyen '05 Political officer at U.S. Department of State I serve as a foreign service officer, what you’d call a diplomat in the old days. I’ve served three overseas tours in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Myanmar with tours in Washington, D.C., in between. I’m now working on the Vietnam desk, which means I cover U.S.-Vietnamese relations. In the past nine years, I’ve done
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year. WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR DONORS PLU Nursing New Clinical Learning and Simulation Center View the dedication ceremony program Tour the Clinical Learning and Simulation Center The Changing nursing landscape The landscape for nurses and nursing education has radically changed. Washington state faces drastic nursing shortages, with only 5 states forecast to fare worse. There is a growing demand for bachelor and graduate degree prepared nurses fluent in both technology and leadership needed to
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inquiry and leadership,” languages taught at the university also needed to enable students and scholars to engage in an ongoing critical examination of, and dialogue with, the original texts from the past that have shaped and influenced our –and others’– present. Without this, the university only produces what Luther called “unlettered preachers of the faith”: well-intentioned and well-versed purveyors of ideas that they have accepted but have no means to investigate or to transcend. Luther’s insight
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special education Why PLU? Thinking back four years ago, I decided to come to PLU for the small campus, ability to relate to professors, and the opportunity to study abroad. I knew I was looking for a place where global education was relevant and with the opportunity to student teach in Namibia, as well as multiple avenues for student leadership, I knew this was the place for me. My PLU experience: My experience at PLU has been a series of stories to make up a chapter book teaching me life lessons
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three workshops during the 1978-79 academic year, together with educational, architectural and industrial consultants. Released time for a faculty committee and project chair (William Giddings) was provided; the architectural firm (Broome, Oringdulph, O’Toole, Rudolf and Associates of Portland, OR) ultimately to design the building was selected. Following the extensive final report of the planning project, a successful grant application yielded $1.5 million from the Murdock Trust to spearhead the
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participate win something (i.e., there is chance and a prize). Nonprofits like PLU are not allowed to hold promotional games of chance under Washington law. This is because the Legislature specifically and only allows such promotions by businesses as part of promoting their business (RCW 9.46.0356). This kind of promotion is not available to nonprofits. A 2011 attorney general’s concluded that nonprofit, charitable organizations may not conduct promotional games of chance. Educational nonprofits are
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