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  • Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…

    Studies program. The 20-credit minor is designed as a companion program to strengthen each major on campus and make it outward facing. Innovation Studies is currently among the fastest-growing programs at PLU, with students enrolling with core interests in Business, Art & Design, Computer Science, History, Economics, Communication, and more. Mariken Lund (right) and her friends model ELSK the Studio products at a photo shoot Innovation Studies seems to fit a new generation of students that is eager to

  • U.S. News names PLU top private university in PNW for masters nursing programs Posted by: mhines / May 10, 2023 Image: PLU’s Doctor of Nursing Practice was also highly ranked among Pacific Northewest programs and ranked second among PNW DNP programs and #109 in the nation. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) May 10, 2023 By MacKenzie HinesPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPLU’s Master of Science in Nursing program was ranked first in the Pacific Northwest among private universities and second among all PNW

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 10, 2016)- Typically, summer allows college students to take advantage of free time that’s hard to come by during the academic year. But for many Lutes, summer is a time to work hard and continue their vocational endeavors. Students travel, work internships…

    college and become an officer,” Mejia said. “It’s something that I’ve always wanted to do, for a long time.” A requirement of the national ROTC program is to spend a summer between your junior and senior years at the Cadet Leadership Course (CLC). Cadets from ROTC programs around the country travel to Fort Knox to learn necessary skills to plan missions and events for younger students at their universities. It is a mentorship chain that starts with the seniors. “The seniors are mentoring the juniors

  • Locals embrace Lutes as they meet living legends, learn about vibrant events such as Carnival and Panorama, and develop valuable racial consciousness within a multicultural society that celebrates

    ,” she said. “It’s not segregated at all. Everybody knows everybody. There’s tolerance of everybody’s difference. And they’re proud of it.” That attitude inspired Temple-Thurston to start the study away program, which she coordinated for most of the 25 years she taught at PLU. It’s one of the oldest semester-long Gateways, programs rooted in long-term partnerships between the university and regions around the world. While people in the United States often experience acute segregation, apprehension to

  • TACOMA, WASH. (August 10, 2015)- Each summer PLU students fan out across the globe — working, researching, studying or just plain relaxing. Many students leverage the summer months as an opportunity to add depth to their resumes by completing internships at local and corporate businesses,…

    this summer: I’m spending 30 hours per week working as the Summer Camp Intern, reporting to the Director of Soccer Programs. I spend on average two hours a week as a Grassroots Marketing Team Member, reporting to the Promotions and Experiential Marketing Coordinator. And lastly, for another two hours a week, depending on the event schedule, I’m serving as Assistant to the Coordinator of THE NINETY, reporting to the Clubhouse and Loyalty Coordinator. Wow, that’s a lot! Can you share a bit about what

  • | Xavier 201 Event is open to ARC certificate recipients only. Sponsoring Department: Department of Education Questions: nmendez@plu.edu Education MAE Ceremony | Friday, May 19, 20234:00-7:00 pm | Xavier 201 Event is open to MAE graduating students only. Sponsoring Department: Department of Education Questions: nmendez@plu.edu Principal Ceremony | Friday, May 19, 20235:00-7:00 pm | Regency Room, Anderson University Center Event is open to Principal certificate recipients only. Sponsoring Department

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 20, 2016)- It’s the season for awards, banquets, recognition and a whole lot of celebrating for Pacific Lutheran University students as they approach Commencement 2016. The ceremony will mark the culmination of several years of hard work, community involvement and the pursuit…

    resources,” said Adams, this year’s student speaker for Commencement. He’s served as a resident assistant, including resident assistant positions with the Social Action and Leadership and First in the Family communities. He says he’s proud to have worked with Residential Life to provide resources and programs that focus on “empowering residents to handle adversities and develop skills to navigate the university campus.” Adams also has served as the youth engagement coordinator at PLU’s Center for

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures  will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…

    before each screening and a Q&A afterward, both conducted by faculty members of different programs in languages and literatures. For the Uruguayan documentary, the filmmaker Pablo Martínez Pessi will join us to introduce the film and lead the Q&A.About The Festival The Tournées Film Festival is a program of the FACE Foundation (French American Cultural Exchange in Education and the Arts), in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French cinema to American

  • -long Master’s in Education program, they will be teaching in a public school for the entire school year. In this video, Mary Jo Larsen, the Assistant Dean of Education, talks about how the MAE program helps students be successful in the field of teaching. What Makes an Excellent Teacher?You want to teach. We offer three pathways to becoming a teacher, MAE – Teacher Certification, MAE – Alternative Routes, and MAE – Non-Certification for International Students. All three programs prepare you with a

  • Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.

    . David Corner Corner is the founder and director of The Gathering Project, a humanitarian organization he created in 1997 after traveling to Ghana as part of a mission program there. The Gathering Project has shipped thousands of tons of goods around the world, as well as provided support for programs in North America and the Tacoma area. The Rev. David T. Alger Alger served nearly 30 years as executive director of Associated Ministries. His ecumenical work helped bring faith groups together to build