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cultural values that are different from their own, and learn to recognize when they are acting/reacting on the assumption that their values are “right.” (In other words, to recognize when they are being ethnocentric.) These anthropological learning objectives are congruent with PLU’s Wild Hope Project, in that they give students the chance to discover the kind of “big enough questions” that will continue to have an impact in the student’s life beyond the classroom, today and in the future. Both courses

globally focused university.” Sobania noted the focus on global scholarship began more than 30 years ago, when PLU became one of the first universities to establish a Global Studies Program in 1977. Now, more than 40 percent of the students participate in at least one study-abroad program before they graduate. This compares to the national average of 3 percent, and puts PLU among the top comprehensive masters-level universities in the country with the percentage of students studying abroad. When

animals seriously is pervasive, and not always subtle. To study nonhuman animals in ways that try to accord them value and dignity is still likely to strike most academics as quaintly marginal, even risible, an easily dismissed sentimentality. Shortly after returning from Mexico, for example, I participated in a conference on animals and representation. Attended mostly by professors in the humanities and in cultural studies, the conference drove home to me the difference between my experience of

– ETA in Ibagué, Colombia Hylander – from Seattle – double majored in Hispanic studies and global studies. She has accepted a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Ibagué, Colombia, where she will be teaching part-time as an ETA at Universidad de Ibagué and doing part-time research in the community about U.S.–Colombia free trade policies. “To me, receiving a Fulbright grant means that I will help foster cross-cultural understanding between Colombians that I will meet and myself as a

of their main revenue source, Tulip Town staff sold bulbs and organic flour from a farm stand in their parking lot. They also developed a shipping program, allowing them to sell to remote customers for the first time.Less orthodox was a new program called “What’s at Stake” that allowed customers to honor loved ones by placing memory markers in the tulip fields. These are displayed on the company web site and were a much bigger hit than anticipated. “We thought there would be about 300 people that

shorter January Term and summer programs. A diverse array of international and domestic options await, with internships, research, language immersion and cultural exploration as foundational elements that vary from program to program. “Study away in and of itself is a huge confidence booster for most students at a time of personal growth, independence, maturity,” Grover said. “It really put students out of the classroom, changes their perspective on the topic that they’re learning just by being

Women’s Center requests that the PLU community provide feedback on four suggested names: Gender Equity Center Gender Justice Center Center for Women and Gender Equity Center for Gender, Sexuality and Justice The selection of the new name, which will take into account polling results, will be announced at the annual Celebration of Inspirational Women on March 17 at 5:15 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. “We want to move from identity-based work to mission-based work,” Smith said of the center’s

Innovation and Resilience Posted by: halvormj / May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I took a deep dive on disruptive innovation with some faculty in the PLU School of Business, who are also mentors in our Innovation Studies program

and forms of joyful expression.UPCOMING EVENTS Crow Ho Ho  Dec. 16 | 7:30 | Black Box Theatre (Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts) PLU’s student improv group, the Clay Crows, presents an evening of holiday themed improvised performance. Nordic Fest Dinner Dec. 19 | 5 p.m. | Scandinavian Cultural Center This year’s theme is “A Child’s Christmas Wish.” Evening will Celebrate Nordic Children’s Literature and traditional Scandinavian holiday food including glogg (warm, spiced win

“All Tradition is Change”: Redefining Community in the SCC Posted by: dupontak / May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 By Caitlin Klütz '21English Writing Major2020 has been no stranger to change. Change in communities, ways of life, understanding, normality, mindset: change seems to be the common theme of 2020.With the significant changes that PLU has had to make during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Jason Schroder, Director of the Scandinavian Cultural Center, spoke about how his position has changed