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April 11, 2012 PLU receives grant from Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Council The Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Council awarded PLU a $1,200 to help fund the habitat restoration efforts in the Fred L. Tobiason Outdoor Learning Center. In the past three years, more than $20,000 has been secured for the restoration project, in addition to the $1,200 from this grant. The grant from the Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Council will be used entirely for native plants to extend the habitat

Colleges Hate It Heather My response: Thanks, Heather. I share the opinion of most college presidents that this proposed rating system is as bad an idea as all the other rating systems that have been tried so far (US News, Washington Monthly, Princeton Review, etc). I love to look at rankings, but I am always aware that they are wildly subjective and deeply flawed. What makes the US Dept of Education’s proposed ranking system especially worrisome is the proposal to tie Federal support for students to

for them to enter graduate programs that build on their quality undergraduate foundations.” The agreement will streamline the process for PLU alumni applying for admission to Puget Sound’s Master in Public Health and Master of Education in counseling programs. Likewise, the agreement will streamline the process for Puget Sound alumni applying to PLU’s Master in Business Administration, Master of Science in Marketing Analytics, and Master of Science in Kinesiology programs. “For more than 100 years

and begin a journey as possibly the only marriage and family therapist in his country. It was in his own search for counseling that led Abbas to his passion. When he couldn’t find exactly what he was looking for he began thinking maybe there are people like him – searching for counseling that wasn’t there. “I’d been thinking about it more and more,” he said. In Saudi Arabia, there are psychiatrists and psychologists, but marriage and family therapists aren’t widely available. Then in 2005 while on