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the Civil War. His argument focused on the profitability and viability of slavery on the eve of the Civil War. Despite the rising prices of slaves and the profitability to slaveholders, and to some degree, non-slaveholders and northern and European consumers, Coclanis argued that the economy was too dependent on slave labor. “Slavery hindered the long-term development of the southern economy,” Coclanis said. “The South, in a relative sense, had been rendered into an economic backwater.” With the

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

March 25, 2013 A path of discovery By Katie Scaff ’13 For Austin Goble ’09, volunteering after graduation was anything but a gap year. Goble wasn’t ready to jump right into the workforce, so after graduating in December 2009 Goble spent a year volunteering with Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC), and then a year with AmeriCorps. “For me a year of service was intentional,” said Goble, “an intentional path of self-discovery.” Goble met a recruiter from LVC at a career development fair before

of the Olinguito carnivore as well as Caenolestes sangay, says, “The Andes are still terra incognita; several plants and animals remain to be described and studied in detail.” The co-authors of the article, including Ojala-Barbour and Pinto, have more projects coming unveiling the mammalian richness of the Sangay National Park. The cloud forests in the Andes Mountains are very sensitive environments. These forests are under extensive human pressures, particularly farming and development. For

, an independent online news site devoted to covering aid, development, global health, poverty and the humanitarian community, purposefully combats our urge to simply skip over humanitarian journalism. Instead, says founder Tom Paulson ’80, it is “geared toward making people really care about poverty.” “When I was in college, we didn’t even know this stuff was going on,” Paulson says. In his quest to keep humanitarian stories interesting, evermore relevant and impossible to skip over, Paulson says

the few experts in the field of adult development and aging. Schaie spoke at PLU in 2012, when he presented on the Seattle Longitudinal Study, one of the most extensive psychological studies of how people develop through adulthood. Previous Psychology Colloquium speakers during the 2014-15 academic year have included Philip Watkins of Eastern Washington University and Kalim Gonzales of Guangdong University in Guangzhou, China. Read Previous The Choir of the West: PLU’s Premier Choral Ensemble

for Education Abroad as established by the Forum on Education Abroad, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, membership association recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as the Standards Development Organization (SDO) for the field of education abroad.The Forum provides training and resources to education abroad professionals and its Standards of Good Practice are recognized as the definitive means by which the quality of education abroad programs may be judged. For PLU

analytics, creative corporate brand development, and digital and social marketing.“Moving the program online allows students outside of the PLU commute range to benefit from world-class faculty who seek to prepare our MSMA students for rewarding careers in a rapidly growing professional field,” Mark Mulder, dean of the School of Business. “So whether a student lives in Portland, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, or Bozeman, Montana, the online program allows us to offer a unique learning opportunity.” This is the

international experience (trips to Germany and Peru in spring 2022, for example), projects in the community, the availability of evening classes and more. AACSB-accredited schools undergo an intense peer-reviewed evaluation process and must demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching, research, curricula development and student learning. Once initial accreditation is achieved, each institution participates in a five-year continuous improvement review that is designed to ensure it maintains the