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  • , celebrate the energies and initiatives of the LGBTQ2A+ community at PLU and have an all around good time. Queer Student Retreats are hosted annual in the fall and spring.Queer ConnectionsThis is our initial LGBTQIA+ community event as we start the school year! Join us for good conversation, community building and learn more about how to get involved! Queer Connections is open to all students, staff, and faculty who identify as LGBTQIA+. We have some awesome queer/rainbow Lute swag to give out to all our

  • the greater Seattle-Tacoma area, an emerging hub that connects European trade and the Pacific Rim. Extensive programming of co-curricular opportunities to support and nurture students’ academic interest in foreign languages and cultures and pressing global issues. Immersion weekends in some programs offer an annual opportunity for faculty and students to interact in a language immersion context in an activity-filled weekend. Certification and endorsements from the School of Education and

  • Fiction Rona Jaffee Foundation Fellowship Independent Publisher Book Award The American Poet Prize Story Quarterly Annual The George Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship Individual Fellowship from 4Culture Second place, Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Magazine Merit Awards Finalist, Washington State Book Award in Poetry Finalist, Northwest Book Awards Winner of Foreword Magazine‘s Book of the Year Prize in Poetry Gulf Stream Poetry Prize

  • fall semester of 2012, taught by Avila and Smith. The course leveraged the skills of art students to help market and express efforts of sustainability on campus. “It was design for social change,” Avila said. For art students, that meant finding ways to best communicate and illustrate the ins and outs of sustainability. During the course, the students worked toward promoting an annual challenge at PLU – unPLUg. The event challenges different residence halls to cut the amount of energy they consume

  • Chapel’s annual, and very popular, Blessing of the Animals service each spring)—all welcoming people from any faith or no faith: •    Students can apply to become Campus Ministry Stewards, to assist with planning and implementing programs and worship; •    The University Congregation Council organizes fellowship and service-oriented events, helps with worship and makes decisions on behalf of the congregation; •    The student-run University Congregation offers opportunities for students to work as

  • school system that didn’t encourage her to pursue higher education. She didn’t know the questions to ask regarding that pursuit. “It informs the research I do,” she said. Maria Chávez, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of politics and government. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) Now, Chavez’s past struggles and successes will inform her talk at the annual Pave the Way Conference, where she will serve as one of three featured speakers. She will present to hundreds of educators, policymakers, and

  • and ethnic studies teacher Jesse Hagopian. The annual award is given to SPS student leaders who demonstrate “exceptional leadership in struggles against racism — especially with an understanding of the intersections with sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, class exploitation and other forms of oppression — within their school or community.” As a high school senior on the Washington State National Association and Advancement of Colored People Youth Council, Chan carried her message far

  • Prague and Vienna for a week. Upon my return to the States, I started working part time at MJH in a new capacity in the Education department. I assist with organizing the Shoah Teaching Alternatives in Jewish Education program for teachers at Jewish schools, planning workshops for Jewish day school students, and helping to plan for the annual Interfaith Living Museum program, which brings together fifth graders from Jewish and Muslim day schools to create an exhibition based on their family religious

  • nice, but the skills I gathered here will help me in my future career in Global Education, development, and leadership. To think, if I hadn’t received scholarships to come to PLU, these passions would not be reality. This would not have been possible without the generous donations of all of you, so I want to thank you all again for finding value in this institution and for giving students the chance to achieve their goals. Thank you.” Top

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