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Heller and her husband, Harry Heller; Kurt Mayer and his family; many donors from PLU; the Tacoma Jewish community; and surrounding businesses and community members, raised money to build the endowed Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and the yearly Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference. In 2014, her support helped PLU as it initiated a new minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the first offered in the Pacific Northwest. Growth continues as PLU alumni and Conference participants carry
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magicA Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers A short tale on robots returning to humanity after leaving for the wild. Read if you love… solar punkLegends & Lattes by Travis Baldree This is a story about an ex-soldier opening a coffee shop in a high fantasy setting. Read if you love…queer fiction, found family, or D&D. Yellowface by RF KuangYellowface explores issues of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation as a white author claims to be their Asian-American rival. Read if you love
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FAQ's - Faculty Advisory Committee and Rank and TenureThe Rank and Tenure and Faculty Affairs Committees have partnered to create this FAQ sheet, as well as a list of Best Practices for Obtaining Course Feedback.). There will be a transition period as we all get used to this new system and form, and instructors may notice changes in the response rate and/or comments that students provide.Who else will have access to my course results? Approximately two weeks after the evaluation period ends
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February 28, 2011 Actors practiced the art of Bunraku puppetry to express Paula Vogle’s play, “The Long Christmas Ride Home.” Pictured here are David Ellis ’11 and Abigal Pishaw ’12, who play the parents in the play. (Photo by John Froschauer) Actors and puppets take audience through a bittersweet, Christmas car ride By Barbara Clements Most of us have this childhood memory – sometimes cherished, sometimes tucked away under lock and key – of the family road trip. The miseries of sitting in the
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Services & RequestsListed below are some of the services and support provided via the Help Desk. Use the tabs at the top to access: Topics – Topical listing of services; click the Topic to expand it A-Z – Services listed alphabetically Search – Enter one or more keywords Need help with your question or problem? You can Make a Service Request online. You’ll need your PLU ePass username and password to log in. If you’re having trouble with your ePass, phone 253-535-7525 or email helpdesk@plu.edu
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her community through the PLU Diversity Center. “The dCenter is like a family, and all of the Rieke Scholars are very close,” she said. It is a great place for students of color and students who are the first in their families to attend college. It is good to feel seen.” She enjoys the rich discussions about diversity, justice and sustainability she is able to have with fellow Lutes. “I would like to think I am pretty educated, but I don’t know everything,” she said. “I have learned how to be a
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Education major gives back to Parkland community Posted by: vcraker / March 28, 2022 March 28, 2022 When Kaila Harris ’24 received her PLU acceptance letter, it was a special moment for her and her family. Upon its arrival, Harris read the letter, which included the contents of her financial aid package, aloud to her parents. “When I finished, my dad stood up, gave me one of the tightest hugs I’ve had from him in my life, told me he was proud of me and cried,” said Harris. “It was one of two
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How First Gens thrive Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / November 28, 2018 Image: First in the family group photo made up of staff, faculty, and students at PLU, Friday, April 27, 2018. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 28, 2018 By Nicole GonzalesResidential LifeI am proud to be a first-generation college graduate, or what Pacific Lutheran University calls “first in the family” — someone whose parents didn’t graduate from four-year, degree-granting institutions in the U.S.Navigating college
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visual and literary culture of Austen’s era in the choice to associate Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) with animals. When Anne first introduces her family, she is carrying a pet rabbit who will be by her bed, on her lap, and in her arms, when she breaks the fourth wall. In her first conversation with Lady Russell (Nikki Amuka-Bird), the camera frames Anne next to a stylized bird (possibly a white heron) from the wallpaper background. In the poignant swim scene at Lyme, one of many beautiful
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mothers and fulfilling the expectations of women within society. One of the most important events in the society is the girls’ coming of age ceremony, which takes place when the girls have completed their training and have successfully entered womanhood. This means that the girls are eligible for marriage and motherhood. According to Boone, this ceremony signifies the liminal change in which the Mende girls “give up their old life and begin a new one.” One of the most prominent aspects of the ceremony
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