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makes our story especially important is that we were the first university in Maryland to welcome students of all races and backgrounds,” Hrabowski says of UMBC. “We are a place for all students to participate equally in higher education, preparing them for meaningful lives and careers that work to solve the most pressing problems facing humanity.” He touts the university’s unique story of learning how to help all students — including those who are underrepresented in higher education — be the best
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PLU Students thrive in internships through pandemic Posted by: bennetrr / August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21Marketing & CommunicationsAcross the world, we've seen a change in our daily routines as we seek to socially distance and help flatten the curve of the current pandemic. Nearly every part of daily life has been affected from how we learn, to how we work.What does this mean for college students preparing for a professional life that is growing more and more uncertain
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Save the date: Documentary ‘Namibia Nine’ to premiere in February Posted by: Todd / December 9, 2014 December 9, 2014 After a year and a half of planning, production and travel, Namibia Nine will premiere on February 28 at 6:30 p.m., to coincide with Black History Month celebrations, in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash.The film, created by a team of PLU filmmakers, explores the impact that access to education can make in the
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PLU selected to host 2018 U.S. Senate debate Posted by: Todd / September 17, 2018 Image: Washington state senator candidates face off in a debate hosted by the Washington Debate Coalition in Gonzaga University’s Hemmingson Center Ballroom on October 16th, 2016. (Photo by Edward Bell) September 17, 2018 By Marketing and Communications September 2018 – Pacific Lutheran University has been selected to host a 2018 U.S. Senate Debate on October 8 by the Washington State Debate Coalition. PLU was
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cultural values that are different from their own, and learn to recognize when they are acting/reacting on the assumption that their values are “right.” (In other words, to recognize when they are being ethnocentric.) These anthropological learning objectives are congruent with PLU’s Wild Hope Project, in that they give students the chance to discover the kind of “big enough questions” that will continue to have an impact in the student’s life beyond the classroom, today and in the future. Both courses
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February 23, 2014 PLU Nursing Students Top in Exam Pass Rates PLU Nursing student Haley Urdahl ’15 works in the Ramstad lab. (Photo: John Froschauer / PLU) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications The results are in for the 2013 NCLEX-RN exams, and for the second year in a row, Pacific Lutheran University Nursing students have achieved the highest pass rate among all baccalaureate and higher-degree nursing programs in the state. The interactive, computer-based NCLEX-RN test, or the
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relevant quantitative and qualitative marketing-research skills,” said Mari Peterson, director of the MSMR program. PLU’s MSMR program has been developed as a highly engaging, hands-on, full-time 10-month program, offered from September to June. PLU Marketing Research Professor Susan Harmon said the program will adhere to PLU’s distinct ethical and moral philosophies through coursework and community involvement. Each term, students will progress through courses that will broaden their capabilities and
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July 13, 2014 PLU Awarded PSE Foundation Grant to Update Campus Emergency-Notification System PLU Marketing & Communications Pacific Lutheran University has received a $15,000 grant from the Puget Sound Energy Foundation to increase the university’s capacity to respond to the campus community and the public during emergencies and natural disasters. As a result, PLU is implementing a new Emergency Notification System this summer: the Metis Secure MS-5100 Indoor Emergency Help Station. For less
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titled “Learning from Standing Rock” on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 5 p.m. PLU and South Puget Sound community members will gather in Red Square to listen to indigenous leaders share what they’ve learned from the recent events at Standing Rock, as well as local environmental conflicts.“The ‘NODAPL’ protection efforts at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota have captured the attention of the entire world,” said Darren Moore, a computer purchasing and services coordinator at PLU and a co
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Willie Stewart ’69 talks breaking barriers as Tacoma’s first black principal in 1970 Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / January 20, 2020 Image: Willie Stewart ’69, winner of the 2019 Tacoma Peace Prize, sits down to discuss breaking barriers in 1970 as Tacoma’s first black high school principal. January 20, 2020 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 17, 2020) — In 2019, Willie Stewart '69 received the Greater Tacoma Peace Prize for his community work and racial
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