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  • exploded,” said Woods. They held the sale over Labor Day weekend on Saturday, Sept, 3 and Sunday, Sept, 4, and raised more than $1,200 for Isabel. “It was a real catalyst to help achieve the goal. I’m sure the animal can’t come too soon for the need,” said Rick Eastman, Woods’s father and associate director of Student Involvement & Leadership. “This will offer some stability and certainly some protection.” Woods, who first got to meet Isabel and her mom when they stopped by the sale on Saturday, said

  • -percent clean electricity bill in the nation, toxic pollution clean-up reform, and a suite of clean water, orca, and Puget Sound protection bills. × × Can you share a bit more about that clean electricity bill? It sounds really exciting. I’m particularly proud of the 100-percent clean electricity bill because it was passed by a coalition of labor, business, communities of color, and environmental advocates and sets the standard for the strongest 100-percent clean electricity bill in the nation both in

  • and six other partners. The idea started one night in 2012, with three little words over cocktails: “Let’s do this.” And they did. “Nightside distillery is the definition of a microdistillery,” Bunk said. “We want the customers who come into this distillery to be part of our family.” Raymond Bunk '06 Serving that extended family has been a labor of love. Bunk says he spent a lot of time poring over research on the distilling process: learning about the different methods and techniques for

  • Collection’s new home at PLU January 18, 2018 Faculty Faculty 2470 SOAC faculty taking their skills beyond Tacoma January 18, 2018 Faculty 2130 Preparation, organization, punctuality and respect is how Barry Johnson leads his singing, teaching and directing in the PLU music department January 18, 2018 Faculty 1970 Marathon runner and musician- an interview with new music faculty member Lark Powers January 18, 2018 News News 2440 PLU’s Dance minor program celebrates 40 years January 18, 2018 News 2350 2017

  • . “Those things are important, because you should be in that conversation, but they should not be the only conversations you have.” Young describes part of the problem lies in the tenure and promotion system at most universities, but PLU is an exception to the rule. PLU’s focus on service encourages faculty to engage in the public sphere as experts in their field. “What they’re trying to do is…elevate service as a legitimate third pillar of tenure and promotion,” Young says. “So that teaching is

  • to make specific recommendations to the president prior to approval by the Board of Regents. To recommend to the faculty ideas or techniques that make it possible to obtain objective information or data whereby the effectiveness of teaching may more adequately be determined, thereby enabling the committee to fulfill its advisory function as fully as possible. To recommend to the faculty matters related to tenure or promotion that the faculty may decide to recommend to the president for

  • department – instrumental and choral – a legacy celebrated at his retirement when he conducted Choir of the West, University Chorale, University Symphony Orchestra and his first love, University Wind Ensemble at the Commencement Concert that year.” “Gordon mentored so many at PLU during his time as faculty. My first office was next door to Gordon and, as a sprat straight out of graduate school, Gordon helped me navigate my first experiences with college teaching. Gordon taught generations of music

  • Philosophy Group”. Our Languages and Literatures department has expanded its offerings and its commitment to our region with the expansion of curriculum to include Southern Lushootseed, the indigenous language of local indigenous peoples. Finally, three of our faculty conducted a diverse range of great work while on sabbatical last year, each advancing scholarship, teaching, and personal vocation in exciting new directions.Prism is produced by Humanities students: the interviews and stories here were

  • Intersections: Called and Empowered (and Assessed) Posted by: abryant / April 29, 2022 April 29, 2022 Cover art If we were all eyes, could we see each other? by Vickie R. Phipps Intersections, Number 54, Fall 2021Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education. It

  • work, both scholarship and teaching, and the greater camaraderie that emerges from sustained, collaborative engagement with important intellectual work. Process: For part of their work the seminars will have a common structure, but each seminar’s participants will also have considerable discretion about the particular topics and readings that they will collectively pursue. Faculty will come to the seminar with statements of their journeys to and within academic life, and of their current