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Lifelong Parkland/Spanaway resident Kirsten Kreis leads Pierce County Navigator Program at PLU PLU and the Parkland community are familiar to Kirsten Kreis . Her roots run deep in Parkland, from learning to swim in the PLU pool, to completing her high school assignments in the Mortvedt Library, to walking across the stage in Olson Auditorium at her… December 6, 2023 Alumni, Internships, CareerStudent Life, Resources, Community
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, but as teachers and citizens as well. “A lot of writers that we invite tend to be teachers themselves,” Barot says, “They’re in academia, and so they understand that when they’re invited to come to a learning community like ours, they’re not just representing their art and their writing, they‘re also engaged in teaching and mentoring.” Barot hopes that inviting these writers to campus will ensure that students who are working to become writers have people they can look to as examples of how
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Buddhism specifically.” Sørensen further shared how all the religions “mingle and intertwine within different cultures and different countries… in a way making their own melting pot.” Stepping into the muddy, complicated history of Hawaiʻi can be off-putting at first, but it is the only way to gain the incredible experience that respecting and learning about another culture can bring. As Dr. Hammerstrom says, this course is about making “choices that support local people and the land.”After the arrival
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course with a professor. “It was really nice (staying together with PLU students) because you get to come back with those people and they still are my best friends,” Lindberg said. Once she arrived in Oxford, Lindberg realized she had more downtime compared to her time at PLU. She met a few women on the Regent’s Park rowing team and asked to join the squad. A week after learning that team was full, she received an email from the men’s team captain inviting her to join their boat. Sitting in the
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– “Effects of different video lecture types on sustained attention, emotion, cognitive load, and learning performance.” Louis Deslauriers, Ellen Schelew, Carl Wieman – “Improved Learning in a Large-Enrollment Physics Class.” Timothy Slater – “First Steps Toward Increasing Student Engagement During Lecture.” H. Korving, M. Hernández, E. De Groot – “Look at me and pay attention! A study on the relation between visibility and attention in weblectures.” Ming-Zher Poh, Nicholas C. Swenson, Rosalind W. Picard
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about their impact in their communities and in the larger sense, which is incredible. I would also say they’re really interested in learning. It’s not just about end goals for them. I dealt with students at other institutions where some classes are just boxes they need to check off, just to earn their bachelor’s degree. I don’t get that same sense at all from PLU students. They’re really focused on learning and really show their interest in the subject. I’m really impressed by that. Read Previous
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Excellence Award in Teaching recognizes a member of our faculty who embodies a commitment to excellence in their ability to communicate knowledge and inspire students. This year, the award is presented to Dr. Emily Davidson, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies. A colleague wrote “Dr. Davidson represents the best of PLU in her efforts to foster an environment of care, inclusion, thoughtful inquiry, and a love of learning. In particular, her work with first-generation and Latinx students
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this mean for the future of business, relationships, communication, sports, and learning? Are games just an excuse to be social? With 16 years in the industry including years at Microsoft and running a development company in China, Jason will provide a background on understanding where the industry has come from and where it might be going. Jason Robar, General Manager, The Amazing Society Location: University Center, Room 133 A-2) “HgH & Anabolic Steroids Bigger, Faster Stronger: Glamorized
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of higher education solely in terms of presenting their disciplines with rigorous faithfulness dismiss lists such as mine in the name of disciplinary integrity or academic freedom. Both responses, however, are off the mark. Both responses miss the profoundly human drama that real learning entails, a drama of dignity, courage, risk, fear, loss, accomplishment, and sometimes surprising gifts.To forget or to ignore that human drama eviscerates the teaching of the liberal arts. Such forgetfulness
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this mean for the future of business, relationships, communication, sports, and learning? Are games just an excuse to be social? With 16 years in the industry including years at Microsoft and running a development company in China, Jason will provide a background on understanding where the industry has come from and where it might be going. Jason Robar, General Manager, The Amazing Society Location: University Center, Room 133 A-2) “HgH & Anabolic Steroids Bigger, Faster Stronger: Glamorized
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