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November 5, 2012 Nominate distinguished staff and administrators We’re approaching the time of year when the university gives special recognition to several staff and administrators who have made outstanding performance contributions. Please nominate these “outstanding performers” for the annual Distinguished Staff/Administrator Award. Complete program guidelines and nomination forms are available on the Human Resources website at https://www.plu.edu/human-resources or by calling Human
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instilled in him the values of respect and care for each student, regardless of their background. “Every student deserves an equal opportunity and to have the same rights that everyone else does. Students can be supported in school and be afforded the best opportunities for their teachers to learn how they learn,” Knapp said. For Knapp, student teaching is a symbiotic relationship. Teachers ought to learn about their students as much as they teach them. Building rapport is essential in a classroom
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school instilled in him the values of respect and care for each student, regardless of their background. “Every student deserves an equal opportunity and to have the same rights that everyone else does. Students can be supported in school and be afforded the best opportunities for their teachers to learn how they learn,” Knapp said. For Knapp, student teaching is a symbiotic relationship. Teachers ought to learn about their students as much as they teach them. Building rapport is essential in a
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Women’s and Gender Studies & Holocaust and Genocide Studies at PLU, in addition to her History major. She was well-prepared for graduate school elective courses like “Human Rights and Nation States,” and “Sex, Society, and Politics in Post-1945 Europe.” As Carli puts it, in those classes and her year-long required historical literature survey and required research seminar,” I was able to utilize and build upon the intellectual base I formed at PLU and was challenged by fresh perspectives, a new peer
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Wang Center Photo & Video Contest Winners 2022 Posted by: Holly Senn / March 30, 2022 March 30, 2022 During the 2021-2022 academic year, 149 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. Due to the worldwide pandemic, 46 students returned home early in spring of 2020 and
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Professor of Hispanic Studies • Hal DeLaRosby, Director of Academic Advising • Taylor Griffin, student • Loana Kaja, student • Jenny James, Assistant Professor of English • Teru Toyokawa, Associate Professor of Psychology The PLU presenters’ topics—and the personal motivation behind them—are as varied as their fields. Davidson, for example, will discuss “We are Here to Participate: The Latino Civil Rights Narrative-in-the-Making in Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a
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Music and Medicine: Elizabeth Larios ’21 returns to Namibia to research infections and teach marimba Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 2, 2022 Image: Fulbright-recipient Elizabeth Larios ’21 (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) November 2, 2022 By Anneli HaralsonResoLute Guest WriterElizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain.Returning home that day, she
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United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney. Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for Excellence, and it
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the reason that Ellie Dieringer ’23, a global studies and Hispanic and Latino studies double major, decided to pursue research in this area. Throughout her time at PLU, she focused her global lens on Latin America — specifically Argentina and Uruguay. “Part of what drew me to the research I’m doing is the relationships between institutions and the stories they decide to tell,” she explains. During her freshman year at PLU, Dieringer headed to Uruguay for a month-long study abroad trip. While
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put on the tough guise, they are denying part of who they are as a human being. “We need a healthier, more fun version of manhood for boys,” he said. To create this version, the mainstream message must change and show a broader definition of masculinity. Additionally, men “must make the tough guise uninhabitable” by speaking out against the current portrayal of masculinity as violent and controlling when they see it in the culture, Jhally explained. “We have to find the courage to speak to our
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