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principal can nurture a beginning teacher, or support an experienced master teacher. “Teacher mentoring is a huge part of their role,” Grady-Hahn said. Cohorts for the principal program form in June each year. A summer of intensive class work is followed by weekly classes, along with an internship, during the school year. “The summer classes prepare you for what you’re going to face when school starts,” Lantz said. “Weekly classes during the year follow up and continue to take you deeper.” To be

see other people with the same background as myself,” Dolan said. “I really would like to bring that voice to this program and just in general in my life and kind of advocate for people from low-income backgrounds and who come from a low-income community.” During Dolan’s other summer programs and study away experiences, he realized how much class was a barrier for low-income students. The public policy institute is fully subsidized — with students’ tuition, boarding, food and transportation

Cornell-Maier: a business class, a graphic design course, writing for the Innovation blog Halvorson started that’s dedicated to highlighting student questions, offering helpful advice and identifying pathways into the minor. “You get a lot of questions when you say you’re an Innovative Studies minor, because few students know what it is,” Cornell-Maier said. “They’re curious and innovation is a buzzword right now.” As a member of the minor’s inaugural cohort, Cornell-Maier spends some time every week

New federal grant boosts PLU doctoral nursing students serving in underserved WA areas Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / September 3, 2019 Image: Graduate Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Nursing Kathy Richardson instructs a PLU nursing class on suturing. September 3, 2019 By StaffMarketing and CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 3, 2019) — A new $2.8 million federal grant will help increase the number of PLU Doctor of Nursing Practice students who can serve rural and underserved

were on a Zoom conference call and we promoted it to students, had students register and then join us for the conversation. All of our services are now virtual. Students and alumni can schedule appointments with career and internship advisors via phone, email, or virtual using Google Hangouts and Zoom. PLU: How is Alumni & Student Connections supporting seniors about to graduate into a COVID-19-impacted job market? Andrew: This graduating year has presented unique challenges for the Class of 2020

accounting, so I always had the intention of coming back and doing the finances,” she said. “When I went to PLU, I got my degree in business and that’s what I really use today.” Aside from managing the store’s finances and staff, Donwen takes a hands-on approach to the look and feel of the store.  “I took a marketing class, and a lot of our marketing was focused on colors, your target audience, and how you display your items. Well, I do that every day. I love it,” she said. “I stand there in the store

have a choice. Rather than telling them to do X-Y-Z, I want to give them opportunities to learn and grow, and I think that’s beneficial, not just on the football field but off the field as well. For many college student-athletes, they may not have much autonomy in their daily life, for example, they may be told for when to work out, when they go to class, etc., so I think giving the team opportunities to name a drill, name a play, choose a drill, can be motivating and fulfilling for each of

, so I have had a lot of people in my life who acted as nursing role models for me who were able to show me what great work nurses do. You spent your first-year taking classes remotely because of COVID-19. What was it like to finally be back in the classroom as a teaching assistant for Professor of Biology Michelle Crites? It was important for me to be a TA because it was like I was taking the class again, but I got the in-person experience. For Anatomy & Physiology, it was a completely different

, small, ongoing class sagas and editorials and letters to the editor that provide insight into what mattered to the community. That’s the type of thing that personally always gets me excited, but I’m always up for telling anyone who asks about some of the oddities in our collection, which, fun fact, includes an oxygen mask.In today’s world with the internet, why are libraries still relevant and needed? There are a couple of different angles I could approach this from — libraries as space, the