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TACOMA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)—Since its founding in 1990, Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has empowered women and their allies to become advocates for gender equity and social justice. Along the way, through education, counseling, mentoring and even celebration, its staff, volunteers and community have…
the Feminist Student Union “The Women’s Center encouraged me to come into my identity as a feminist and taught me the importance of challenging sexist ideas that perpetuate a system of gender-based violence and hierarchy in our society.” Mycal Ford ’12 Former Women’s Center intern “The Women’s Center was truly my entrance into active student engagement, and what a way to enter! Through the Women’s Center I found a remarkable community of support, the courage to express my opinions, a safe space to
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PLU offers a number of direct transfer degree opportunities from community colleges, that provide automatic junior status upon enrolling at the university.
WHAT'S A PLU EDUCATION LIKE?Hear it from those who know best, our students and alumni. "At PLU, the classes are small, and you get to know your classmates and your professors, so you have access to the support you need. You will be challenged and have to work hard, but PLU prioritizes access to student wellbeing services, accommodations, but also and importantly, inclusivity, and identity." Dannie Class of '22 "PLU graduates are difference makers who engage the world in all its complexity with open
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Last October, a new club emerged on campus: the Student Neurodiversity Club. Although small, this club is having a growing impact on the PLU community. When attending a recent SNC meeting in the first floor Stuen lounge, I was greeted by a cheerful collective of…
this club because she wanted to learn more and create a space for those of us who are neurodivergent. The [OAA] recommended that I be the president for the club and it kinda went from there. What makes this club different from other clubs on campus? It’s not just centered around an interest, it’s also centered around an identity and a thing that we all have in common, which is our disabilities. So it’s something we can all relate to each other with and understand. It becomes a space where we can
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At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every…
Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Read Previous BOEING Engineering Internship Program Summer 2022 Read Next Entry-Level Materials, Process & Physics Engineer at Boeing LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental
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Boeing Materials & Manufacturing Technology is seeking an Entry Level Materials, Process & Physics Engineer (Chemical/Contamination) to support Auburn WA. https://jobs.boeing.com/job/auburn/entry-level-materials-process-and-physics-engineer-chemical-contamination/185/21580511472 Start your Boeing career in materials technology in Materials & Manufacturing Technology – Chemical Technology where you will have an opportunity to work on…
decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Read Previous Engineering Entry-Level Positions at Boeing Read Next Pierce County Internship Program LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science
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See what our seniors have accomplished.
Karma Design.Website Class of 2006 Portfolios Rebecca Stewart '06BFA in Graphic Design Rebecca Stewart-Johnson runs a freelance creative design business serving clients in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in graphic design – print, identity, brand – as well as photography, illustration, packaging, event planning + consulting. Class of 1998 Portfolios Jeremy Mangan '98BFA in Painting Mangan’s honors include a Fulbright Fellowship, a Jacob Javits Fellowship, the Artist Trust Fellowship, the
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Former Rieke Scholar Shayna Doi 09’uses critical reflection, perspective taking, community and care everyday. Diversity Center values underscore her life, relationships, and work. “I don’t know who I would be if I didn’t have that opportunity.” Shayna joined the Diversity Center via Hawai’i Club after…
Center with nurturing her identity. Conversations with former Diversity Center director Angie Hambrick and the annual Students of Color Retreat cultivated this. “I was so blown away. I didn’t know that I needed a space to vocalize. I was so focused on assimilating to the culture that was at PLU. I’m fine, I fit in fine. I don’t have issues with me being a certain color or whatever. When I went to the Students of Color Retreat, it totally shifted the way I thought.” Becoming a Rieke Scholar in her
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Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024).
enormous, centuries-old trees. I imagined myself at age 30, 40, 50: my identity composed of what I’d received from other people. A deep sense of liberation and relief washed over me: I was no longer solely responsible for the person I became. And I would never be truly alone, because I would carry those bits of other people within me. I discovered my vocation as a writer in that moment, though it would take me another eighteen years realize it. I remember that man’s words each time I enter a writing
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8th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUM Migration: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Mobility
especially vulnerable to trafficking—whether at home, in transit, or upon reaching their destination.” (https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2015/243375.htm). The border between USA and Mexico. Unprecedented migrant and refugee crises throughout the globe, moreover, including our own southern border, are rekindling debates about cultural autonomy, national identity, boundaries, and security. Similarly, the movement of non-human life forms, including diseases, raises questions regarding global commons
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During a ceremony of remembrance in Red Square, the Norwegian Flag is raised for the victims of the terror attacks this summer. (Photo by John Froschauer) PLU professor remembers Norway’s peaceful response to attacks of terror By Katie Scaff ’13 The dignity and resolve of…
extremists affects us all.” The attacks made Norwegians ask who they are and what they wanted to become, according to Berguson. In the days after the attacks they chose to focus on their identity rather than fear and revenge. It was a time for self-reflection. “I had to suspend my working cultural codes,” Berguson said. She was taken aback when complete strangers would strike up small talk with her. “These short conversations were not part of any experiences I had ever had before,” said Berguson. “In the
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