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  • For the past four years Pacific Lutheran University student workers and volunteers have made the Parkland Literacy Center a beacon of community and learning support. Operated by PLU and located in the Anderson University Center, the center provides free one-on-one and small group tutoring for…

    PLC and the service of our student tutors demonstrates PLU’s mission of care and how our students are living it out,” says Yaden.Camp Songs: PLU music majors produce free music camp for Parkland students It’s a warm summer morning and the scent of scrambled eggs drifts from the kitchen into an adjoining room where more than a dozen campers busily make beaded jewelry… Read Previous Beyond pedagogy: from Tacoma to Namibia, a partnership reframing teacher development practices Read Next Breana Downs

  • Professor of Theatre | Theatre & Dance | smithtt@plu.edu | 253-535-7323 | Tom Smith is a playwright, director and improviser.  His plays are published by Samuel French, Playscripts, and YouthPLAYS, among others.  Monologues from his plays appear in five collections of works, and his short plays have been produced internationally.  His work has been enjoyed by audiences in cities across the U.S., including Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.  Tom is also the author of The Other Blocking: Teaching and Performing Improvisation(Kendall Hunt) and articles and reviews for Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, The Players Journal, and several resource books.  Tom graduated from Whitman College with a BA in Dramatic Arts and Secondary Education certification, and earned his MFA in Directing from University of Missouri-Kansas City.  He is a proud member of the Dramatist’s Guild and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. .

    ) Pacific Lutheran University Pivotal Pedagogy summer program, Setting Instructional & Pedagogical Goals for Fall 2020, Tacoma, WA (June 2020) Washington Thespian Teacher In-Service Day, Rehearsal Scheduling, Blocking and Collaboration with Choreographers, Seattle, WA (October 2019) Washington Thespian Teacher In-Service Day, Improv, Seattle, WA (October 2019) Pacific Lutheran University PLUTO institute, Engaging Online Learners, Tacoma, WA (July 2018) Association of Theatre in Higher Education, The

  • Capstone Title: “Leaving it Open”

    societyThursday, May 20 | 5:30-7:30pmAmanda SchendzielosCady BigelowMelissa EscobedoHannah McCannAmanda Schendzielos5:30-6:00pm Capstone Title: Pride and Pedagogy: Performativity and Play in the High-School Classroom ePortfolio: https://aschendzielos.pludhlab.org/ Abstract: In this project, I pair Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and the card game Marrying Mr. Darcy to develop a feminist and queer theory reading of the norms of gendered and class systems. By putting into conversation a literary analysis of

  • This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here  on the Provost…

    the faculty governance and committee system will be working with the Provost’s Office on how that affects individual departments/programs. We also need to acknowledge and better understand how pedagogy, external standards, our commitment to General Education, and other factors affect the individual and collaborative capacity of programs. *Note: All comments are moderated In light of a reduced enrollment, how do we identify low-performing programs and eliminate them? What does that mean for

  • Organist off the Grid By Kari Plog ’11 Students and faculty often see Paul Tegels pedaling up and down the hills of Pacific Lutheran University’s campus, rain or shine. Tegels rides his bicycle every day, his common form of transportation, to and from his home…

    through this process before, he said this was the first time Parkland Light & Water had ever done this. Solar panels on the roof of Paul Tegels’ house. “They were very responsive and very open,” Burkhartzmeyer said. Tegels was eager to invest in the project, and was surprised at the difficulty of carrying out his idea.“I had no idea I needed special permission,” Tegels said. “It was a learning process for me and for Parkland Light & Water.” According to an article in Ruralite, a publication

  • Dear Campus Community: This morning, the White House announced a plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months. I want to affirm to you that PLU remains firmly committed to the well being of ALL of our students, regardless…

    law to connect students to legal clinics, resources, and consultation opportunities that may be of assistance to them as they navigate questions related to immigration status and implications. PLU continues to invest in additional training to ensure we have capacity to provide responsive mental health and health resources to our students who may be dealing with anxiety and uncertainty. Finally, PLU does not tolerate acts of discrimination or harassment against members of its community based on

  • Lizbett Benge ’11 describes her educational journey as “a long and winding road.” It began with her immersion into foster care and deeply influenced her time at PLU, where she grappled with a set of life experiences few of her peers could understand. Benge felt…

    of motherhood written by Benge as part of her master’s thesis project,  “Voices Made (M)other,” into Spanish to grow its audience.  What shape future works will take remains to be seen. But Benge seems ready for anything. Thanks to years of hard work and the support of PLU faculty, she has what she describes as “the solid grounding needed to create socially engaged, critical responsive art and scholarship that the world needs.”  “We all come to these things for different reasons,” Benge said

  • Beautiful mutants: a PLU biology class harvests for the future About two years ago, PLU professor Neva Laurie-Berry partnered with a world-class plant research center. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Mo., sends Laurie-Berry’s BIOL 358 Plant Physiology class millet seeds with…

    Foundation and other funding sources support the project. “Although millet is a culturally and nutritionally important food in Asia and Africa, it’s not commonly grown in western agriculture, so there’s not a lot of research,” Laurie-Berry says. A similar process of genetic experimentation refined rice production around 50 years ago. “After we figure out which genes control yield, the center will cross-breed those traits into disease-resistant varieties adapted for growth in India or Africa,” she says

  • PLU maintains an open door with a world superpower, empowering students to learn about politics and culture off the beaten path in a distinct region of the country.

    Chengdu Gateway do when they arrive on Wang’s side of the globe — explore the surroundings of their temporary home. The program includes intensive study tours, during which students visit Buddhist temples, monuments, rural farms and other culturally significant sites. “The study tour at the beginning exposes you to what China is before you actually have to sit down and start studying,” said Devon Johnson ’17, a mathematics major who studied in Chengdu in fall 2015. “It helps get all your excitement

  • BA in Environmental Studies with minors in Global Studies and Women's and Gender Studies PCV in Senegal (2016-2018) Lucas Gillespie ’16 served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal (2016-2018).

    Technology Volunteer, is common to many RPCVs. It was the opportunity to be invited into and become immersed in a culture drastically different than the one she knew in the US. The area in which she and her husband lived was very undeveloped and they lived without electricity and running water for their 2 years of service. She described this as one of the most interesting, challenging and fulfilling experiences of her life, and it reinforced a desire to serve culturally diverse and underserved