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sports in high school. Although his former high school teachers and university classes profoundly impacted him, supporting students in their element on the field made him fall in love with special education. Later, valuable lessons in the classroom and on the football field propelled him toward his goal of becoming a teacher. Originally attending PLU with aspirations to play football, Knapp shifted focus away from sports in his senior year to delve deeper into his future profession. Knapp grew up

with team meetings, practices and weight room, transitioning from high school classes to collegiate course loads can be challenging. But PLU football coach Brant McAdams believes it doesn’t have to be that way.That’s why McAdams had nearly his entire 2018 freshman class (28 of a possible 30 first-years) enrolled in the university’s Fall PLUS 100 course. The concept behind PLUS 100 is a simple but valuable one: a class designed to prepare college freshmen for success, both academic and personal

said. “In doing it here, I know it can work in the real world.” Jake Taylor’s college career began a bit differently – he started at another four-year college, and decided that wasn’t the best place for him. So, he took the long road, taking classes at North Seattle and Tacoma community colleges before arriving on the PLU campus. The trip has given him a wealth of experience from which to compare notes.  For Taylor, his previous experiences didn’t allow him to get what he wanted out of the

. “After a few years of playing (jazz) everything fell into place,” McEntire said recently. He said he draws inspiration from professors, as well as classes, and has found a mentor in sax professor Robert Miller, who he met during his freshman and sophomore years. “I view him as a contemporary helping me along my path,” McEntire said. “He was, and still is, a mentor. Instead of just helping me with techniques and giving me tips to play better, he taught me about how one can view jazz as a parallel to

fold,” Anderson said. – Technology in the classroom will continue to grow. While PLU will never be a fully online university, and at least in the short term, shy away from fully online classes, it must meet the expectations of a student body that expects PLU to have cutting-edge technology “if we expect to compete for the next generation of the best and the brightest.” – New Masters’s programs need to be considered as well as possible Doctoral programs. A global focus to a PLU education must be

. (SPOILER ALERT) “When she dies at the end, you feel that hurt and grief that everyone else is feeling. I cry everyday.” After wiping away his tears, Marzano washes off his makeup and heads back to campus, where the vocal performance major has a full schedule between classes and leading PLUtonic, PLU’s men’s a cappella group that won the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella quarterfinals competition in February. The Tacoma-native admits it’s not easy to manage so many commitments, but he

.” Her mentor agreed. “In terms of my 25 years in academia, she’s in the top tier of student performance,” Grahe said. “I could see her at a Tier 1 research-focused school where she teaches maybe two classes a year, and the rest of the time does research. I could see her running a nursing ward as an administrator someday, or running a school where other people are learning how to be a teacher. She’s brilliant to start with. Wherever she goes, I think she’ll be successful.” Read Previous Shoebox

are now able to compare their measurements with results from past classes. What has that revealed over time? Over the years, our research has shown the impacts of water runoff from an increasingly paved watershed, such that rainwater is directed to the stream over impermeable, polluted surfaces rather than infiltrating into the soil. Our number of samples and sample locations is limited due to the constraints of our class timeslot and semester schedule, but even this sparse dataset reveals the