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Pacific Northwest and Mexico, so to go and experience a new place is … just a delight.” Kaja Gjelde-Bennett Kaja Gjelde-Bennett ‘17, mentored through the grant application process by Storfjell and Call, chose to pursue her Fulbright opportunity after graduating from PLU. She enrolled at the prestigious Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies in the hopes of realizing her professional dream — advancing efforts for indigenous language

tours were fantastic! The German program was so open and friendly! The study away opportunities were endless! Even with all of that I won’t say I knew at first-sight that I wanted to go to PLU, but the more I though about it the more I wanted to come here, and I sure am glad I did! My PLU experience: As a first-year it took me about five seconds to make my first, and now one of my best friends here at PLU. I lived in the German wing (in Hong Hall) my first year which was the best decision I have

more, says Boyd. “The housing market didn’t keep up with demand, and public policy didn’t respond adequately,” she explains. During college, Boyd grew “immensely curious about how people became homeless and disappointed by our culture’s willingness to tolerate it.” While majoring in philosophy she solidified her ethic of service and began getting involved. Boyd’s career started in direct services, continued in policy and law, and she now serves as the chief executive officer at Bellwether Housing

organization’s commitment to research and education. In addition to having 88 neighborhood branches and the largest circulation in the country, NYPL is the world’s largest public research library and works extensively with New York City Public Schools. “It’s actually three different types of library all rolled into one,” Bannon says. “There’s nothing like it.” NYPL is a world-class collecting institution, but its access philosophy is different from many peer organizations with similar collections. “It’s

Undergraduate Programs, visited Sichuan University. “The basic philosophy is to introduce their students to the best knowledge and best minds all over the world,” said Paul Manfredi, chair of PLU’s Chinese Studies program. PLU is also working to establish a future exchange that would bring Sichuan faculty to the PLU campus. The PLU professors taught in their areas of expertise, in English, to Chinese students. We asked Auman and Yaden to share some of their experiences — and tell us what they learned.Q&A

the size of the Pantheon in Italy, with intense curiosity at the variety of the world in Tanzania. As a Humanities major, you will spend your life in this building. Eventually, you will have stories from each classroom. For example, when you came to love philosophy in 220, when your professor told a joke that caused you to blush crimson in 219, when you bared small parts of your soul in 211A. You will notice when a flyer is taken down or put up on a bulletin board, and you will know exactly where

intellectual rigor as it was about religion. With his fellow reformer, Philip Melanchton, Luther established the German pattern of secondary and tertiary education upon which the American system was modeled in the later nineteenth century. Professor Luther’s Reform of both faith and education came about as a result of his asking troubling questions, for which he got into trouble. Luther and Melanchthon have shown us that colleges and universities are, and must remain, places to ask troubling questions, to

the liberal arts—A basic understanding of history, language, art, religion, culture, ethics, philosophy and science is a foundation for all more specialized knowledge, c.f., PLU’s ROTC program. Learning and research within community—Nobody pursues an education alone. We were meant to collaborate with each other. It’s built into our DNA. Even an online course assumes there’s someone on the other end helping to lead and guide us while we study in front of our laptop. The intrinsic value of the whole

: That makes a lot of sense. I think it depends on what this question is asking. It’s innovative because of the ways in which we have been taught to think in the systems we’ve built. And the systems are very cleverly hidden by white supremacy. Jen: Exactly. Here’s a great example: A philosophy faculty member gave a talk years ago on whether faucets are racist. He was looking at these automatic faucets that don’t pick up darker skin tones*. So a touchless faucet is an innovation, right? But it’s

words.” That’s part of the package at James Sales. Learning should be fun, all the educators agree. It’s not just dry instruction to meet standards. That is part of it, but so much more goes into educating the whole student. They take that concept – “educating the whole student” – very seriously here. After all, they are all there for the same reason: “the kids.” That philosophy is one of engaging students, and that also means fun. It doesn’t seem commonplace for a teacher at James Sales to remain