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.         Amy Pfrimmer, international soprano, French song specialist. Pfrimmer is the 2019 Winner of the American Prize Chicago Oratorio Award, has performed internationally, and released three records. amypfrimmer.net       William Burden, international star tenor. Burden has performed in operas and in concert all across the United States and Europe. He is include on multiple recordings and enjoys performing in new works. Profile Read Previous Harpsichord Donated to PLU Music Program Read Next Outdoor

April 22, 2013 Sacred sites and coal mounds As part of Earth Week, PLU’s GREAN Club will host two guests from the Lummi Nation to talk about their struggle against one of the country’s largest coordinated industrial developments. The land along the northern border of the Lummi Nation’s land, located west of Bellingham, is one of several proposed building sites for massive coal export terminals in the region. For months, individuals like Jewell James, a long-time leader of the Native American

Professor Hunnicutt on her new role. *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous New American Colleges and Universities Summer Institute to be held at PLU – Call for proposals Read Next Rick Barot’s poem “The Galleons” is published in The New Yorker magazine… LATEST POSTS Intersections: Called and Empowered (and Assessed) April 29, 2022 Intersections: Called to Place November 10, 2021 Intersections: Learning Love of Neighbor May 3, 2021 Intersections: The Tradition’s Wisdom in a Time of Pandemics

the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. A scholar in jazz and popular music, he has written numerous published articles and books, including a chapter for The Cambridge History of American Music and the third edition of his history text American Popular Music, published by McGraw-Hill. He has free-lanced for over thirty years in the Memphis, Cincinnati, and Dallas/Fort Worth areas. He has performed with jazz artists such as Bobby Shew, Marvin Stamm, Marc Johnson, Ed Soph, and

students all semester long. VOCES8 celebrates diverse musical expression and has premiered commissions internationally with their classical recordings reaching the top of the charts. They are very involved in music education through their charity, the VOCES8 Foundation. www.voces8.com Lawrence BrownleeMr. Brownlee is an American opera singer, known for bel canto techniques. An award-wining tenor, Mr. Brownlee has performed in operas, recitals, and concerts globally in the world’s finest venues

experiences, a Tanzanian housewife works hard all day just to feed and clothe her children. “I know there is something wrong here, and the hardest part is trying to answer the question, ‘So what do I do about it?’” she said. Before traveling to Africa, Webb heard that the pace was slower and things weren’t structured like American students are used to. This lack of organization and efficiency has led to tears of frustration among the American and European students, she said, but it’s also offered a unique

Hewins ’86, superintendent of Franklin Pierce Schools located in PLU’s backyard, is WASA’s Superintendent of the Year for 2018. As a result, Hewins is a candidate for the national award through the American Association of School Administrators. The award will be announced in February at the AASA national conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Hewins has deep ties to PLU. He earned a master’s degree from the university and currently serves on the presidential selection committee, which is tasked with

take their own peer reviews and writing process more seriously.A History of American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press) will be marketed as a textbook. And so, in Fall 2013, I provided an online draft of the text for my Pragmatism and American Philosophy class. It provided important background information for the figures we studied and the texts we read. The students provided valuable feedback on how the book read and what they got out of it. They, of

Encouraging Biliteracy Through Online Learning Posted by: dupontak / May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 By Camilla SumnerDr. Bridget Yaden, professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies at Pacific Lutheran University, served as the President of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) for the very eventful year of 2020.ACTFL is a national organization of language teachers, with a membership of more than 13,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate

victim to predatory lending schemes. Harmon now oversees shelters, affordable housing programs and funding as the housing assistance bureau chief for Arlington County in Virginia. Affordable housing work is “a passion that found me,” Harmon says. “It showed me tangible ways I could help make a real difference in people’s lives. Safe, decent and stable housing is the American Dream.” “Becoming a housing advocate, working for our most vulnerable, puts you on the front lines to fight for policy and